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This resolution, which was moved by Mr. Lee, and seconded by Mr. Gear, gave rise to numerous remarks from different speakers, all tending to show that the meter did not give a sufficient security to the consumer, because, as explained by a scien tiEc gentlemen present, if it were only atmospheric air which passed through it, it would still show a consump. tion of gas. Several very pointed allusions were also made to the approach of at. Thomas's Day, and to the necessity of having. representatives in the Common Council who would support the wishes of the citizens on this subject. A resolution was then passe3, determining to present a requisition to the Lord Mayor, to convene a ward meet ing on the question; and thanks having been voted to the chairman the meeting broke up. On Monday, the Remembrancer having brought up the Bill, the clauses wero discussed seriatim, and the whole of them approved of without alteration, nothing being changed except a few words in the preamble. The whole having been gone through, the committee adjourned till yesterday, when, despite some opposition, the Bill passed. THE CHARTER HOUSE. THZ FOUNDER'S DAY. Yesterday being the anniversary of the foundation of the excellent institution of the Charter House by Thomas Sutton, was celebrated with the usual ceremo nies, the attendance being as numerous and distinguished as on any previous occasion. At two o'clock the venerable brothers had the usual banquet in the upper hall, the repast including good old English fare. Divine service was performed at four o'clock, the sermon being preached by the Archbishop of Canter bury. His Grace dwelt forcibly upon the ad vantage 3 accruing from a system of education, such as that imparted in the Charter House, and exhorted the young men so to conduct themselves during their probationary course, that when they launched into the world they might become ornaments of so ciety. At the conclusion of the service, the company retired to the great hall, where Mr. Charles Green wood Floyd, the senior scholar, delivered a Latin ora tion. The youthful orator commenced by referring to the state of Europe during the past year, as contrasted with the tranquillity of England. With reference to the domestic affairs of the Charter House, he mentioned the deaths of the late Archbishop of Canterbury, Lord Mel bourne, and the Earl of Harrowby, congratulating the new governors who had succeeded them, namely, the present Archbishop of Canterbury, the Bishop of Lima daff, and Lord Denman. The orator proceeded to 'recite the names of those who, having been students in the in stitution, had gained honours in the Universities of Ox ford and Cambridge during the past year, alluding par ticularly to Mr. W. H. Stone, just elected to a scitoh,r ship at Balliol College, Oxford; Mr. R. Elwyn, elected to the. Craven scholarship in Trinity College, Cambridge ; and Mr. H. W. Fisher, student of Christ Church, Oxford, who obtained a first class in Literis Humanioribus. Mr. Floyd passed the following graceful compliment on Sir Robert Peel, who had placed him on the foundation:— " Verum übi tot et tautas res commernoro, übi tot no: mina illustria coram vobis recenseo, unum tamen, ut opinor, vcs non me pree:erire Bleeds, cujus propter splen didas mentis et ingi nii facultates, virtutemque ejus et morum probitatem, non Britannicum modo Senatum, sed etiara tot= orbem turraruni Tama pervagata est. Llum igitur et patroeinii jure et necessitudine conjunctum fa rniiiari, auctorem mini video beneficiorurn eorum quibus intra has cedes frui potuerim. Admonet me quot et quanta sint ea ipsa beneficia ex Fundatore Sutton() in nos omnes delata." The oration, which was couched in elege.nt Latin, was delivered with much energy, and was greeted with loud applause. The usual festival in celebration of the anniversary took place at six o'clock, the banquet being held in the ancient hell of the institution, built about the reign of Henry VIII., its principal decoration being the portrait of the founder, by a contemperary painter. The Master (the Venerable Archdeacon Hale), as on all such occasions, presided at the banquetting board, supported on the right by his Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury and Sir Robert Peel, Bart., and on the left by Lord Denman, the Right Hon. Fox Mamie, M.P., and among the 120 gentlemen congregated to do honour to the memory of the founder were the following officers of the foundation :—The Rev. Folliott Baugh, M.A., preacher; the Rev. Augustus P. Saunders, M.A., head master ; the Rev. Oliver Walford ALA second master; assista n t s, the .Rev. W.. H—Philloit, M.A., " the Rev. F. Poynder, and the- R Rev. Ch ar l es. i t. Tycis . LY. C. G. Curtis, B.A. the Mr. Archibald Knightr' M.A., reader and librarian; ey i Mr. John Miles, Dr. Bab ingtons Mr. P. 0. Sic, W. Horsley, Mr. Charles CrattY, &C. The hall Y Was r. lighted, and the usrsePp.l"tunoticislYcharacter. In . the gbaanlicieryuetwwantaotiroanemd oaamt of the cloth, m band, On the removal The MASTER gave auccessivel the Queen"—" Th e Q ueen 1 Church and Albert Prince of Wales, and the rest oreat of•Putiin R ce Alhert, anily;" and the toast of the day, F1 °3411 which Albert was drunk with three times three. (eter nin, The toasts which followed were the Governors or t h e Charterhouse—the Master and Officers of the Hospital —the Masters of the School—the Preacher of the Day— the Stewards of the Current Year—the Stewards of the next Year—and the Orator of the Day. The Orator, Mr. C. G. FLOYD, as customary, delivered grace previous to the dinner. The Right Honourable Sir Robert Peel, Bart., and the Archbishop of - Canterbury addressed the company after the banquet, as did also the Venerable Archdeacon Bale, the master of the hospital. About half-past nine o'clock, the party broke up, the majority of the company adjourning to the residence of the Master, whose respected lady gave a ball to conclude the festivities of the Founder's Day. NM'? DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE.—The 4th volume of the new edition of this valuable diary is just published, and one more volume will complete the work. It is seldom that an individual will allow 113 to read his soul or trace his actions to their motives. When there fore it is possible to unlock the secret depositories of thought, and reveal the hidden springs of action, the pri vilege must be considered as eminently valuable, and the more so, when we are permitted to investigate the mo tives of such men as Samuel . Pepys, who enjoyed high offices, and fulfilled their duties with distinguished ability, and who exerted considerable influence over the affairs - df the period. His diary is valuable as depicting to us 'fnany of the most important characters of the times. Its author has bequeathed us the records of his heart, the very reflections of his energetic mind; and his quaint but: happy narrative clears up numerous disputed points, throws light into many of the dark corners of history, and lays bare the hidden substratum of events which gave birth to, and supported, the visible progress of the nation. We owe Pepys a debt of gratitude for the rare and Curiou s i n f ormat i on he has bequeathed to as in this "t_uansing and interesting work.— Taira Magazine. SUPPLY OF GAS TO THE .31E TROPOLIS. A meeting of the ward of Farringdon Without was held last evening at Anderton's Hotel, Fleet-street, to take the necessary steps for securing to the city of London a supply of gas at 4s. per 1,000 feet. Mr. BUCKMASTER, having been called to the chair, observed that the object of the meeting was the breaking down of a monopoly. Mr. CARPENTER, in moving the first resolution, " That the present charge of gas to the citizens of London is exorbitant and unjust," observed, that he un derstood that they had mat that evening not to enter into details of the gas question, but to resolve to take the necessary steps to get rid of the evil under which they were suffering. They hoped to do that through the medium of the Corporation. But they all knew how difficult it was to make the Corporation move in the right direction. The Corporation had determined to apply to Parliament for leave to purchase the pipes of the present gas company, and a committee of the Common Council had been appointed to watch the Bill. If supported by the citizens at large, such a course might be productive of good; but that a change from the present system was requisite could not be de nied. He was credibly informed, that although the present company had reduced the price of the gas from to 65., the consumers, in paint of fact, paid as much before—(Cries of " More")—owing to the inferiority of the gas, which obliged the consumer to burn a larger quantity, in order to produce the same amount of light. It was well known that the present quality of the gas was much inferior, particularly in the city of London, to what it was two years ago. So that, by the reduction in prices from 7s. to 6s. per thousand cubic feet, the citizens had only gained a loss. In comparing the price they paid with that paid in other towns, they mnst not omit from their comp ar i son t h e qua li t y f the gas. For instance, the price of gas in Liverpool was 4s. 53., and in London 65. ; but t a k e i n t o account t h e su perior quality of the Liverpool gas, and it would be worth 14s. as corn pared with the London gas at 6s. In all the large towns i gas was supplied of a better quality, and at a lower rate, than in London. In Manchester it was supplied by the corporation at ss. 6d., which yielded a profit of 15 per cent., which profit was applied to the general purposes of the corporation. It had been said that the cost of coal was greater in London than elsewhere. If so, they ought, no doubt, to take that fact into their consideration. But was it so ? Coal in London cost I6s. 3d. a ton, and the gas was 6s. and upwards. Well, coal in Stockport cost 19a. 4d , and yet their gas was supplied at 4s. 3d. In Cheltenham it cost 245., and yet the gas there was only about 4s. The Imperial Gas Company consumed annually 51,000 tons of coal; which produced 31,900 chaldrons of coke, and that at 145., gave a product of 22,300/. But as to the enormous profits of these gas companies there was no speculation or doubt. Accord ing to their own returns, he found the annual profits of the Imperial Company were 58,0001, of the Chartered Gas Company, 62,000/, of the London Gas Company 57,000/, of the City Gas Company (which was said to be reduced almost .to a state of poverty) 62,9001., that being the amount of surplus profits. Mr. LEE having seconded the resolution, it passed unanimously. Mr. RADLEY moved the next resolution, to. the effect that the meeting call upon the Corporation to exercise the powers they possessed to bring about an immediate reduction in the price of gas by the admission of com peting companies. The speaker addressed some re marks to the meeting on the subject of his intent for purifying gas made from the oil of bones and other offal, and which he undertook to show could be supplied at a much cheaper rate than coal gas, while it would ma terially aid the sanitary movement, by consuming that which now went to swell dungheaps and poison sewers. Mr. KIRK seconded the resolution, which passed nem. con., as did the next, "namely, that a competent public officer should be appointed by the Corporation o London to inspect matters and see that the gas is o good quality, and that no injustice is done to the con. sumer." P•-4 - I)trZt ambition This case, which had occupied the attention of the Court since Thursday last, was brought to a conclusion this day. The evidence for the defence having been closed, Mr. Cociesiunrs addressed the jury in reply, on behalf of the Crown. Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN then summed up. He stated that this was a proceeding to repeal letters patent granted by the Crown in 1843 to Mr. Julius Smith, on the ground that the Crown had been deceived. It was alleged that the inventi on was that of a foreigner, who communicated it to Mr. Smith. If a party claimed as his invention anything that was not really new, although connected with that which ws.s new, the whole patent would be vo id . A patent privilege was good for one art or invention which was a combina tion of several known arts or inventions, and it might be a valid p atent, though the thing used was well known, if the novelty consisted of dispensing with any one part of t h e previous machine. The patent in ques tion was one granted for certain improvements in ma chinery for the sawing of timber. Mr. Smith divided his improvement s i nto two parts—the one was for an improved mode of sawing in curves, and the other for bevelling timber. On the part of the prosecution it was asserted that the Crown had been deceived, as the in vention was really not new, that it was not useful, neither was it communicated by a foreigner in the manner sug gested at the time the petition was signed. In 1841 Mr. Smith petitioned for a patent. In June, 1843, he took out letters patent for these alleged improvements, and described the nature of these improvements in his specification—that the saw was mounted in an interior frame, supported within a saw gate, and enabled to slide laterally, and to guide the saw with a fork lever. The bevelling was continued by three processes, viz., the sawing process, the process for turning the log, and that which determined the angles to be given to the bevelling. The Learned Judge having recapitulated the evidence, left the questions at issue to the jury. Having retired for the purpose of consultation, the jury returned, after an absence of about an hour and a half, to their box, when they gave such answers to a series of questi ons put to them as induced his Lordship to enter a verdict fur the Crown on some of the counts, and for the defendants on tha others, with liberty to the Crown to move to alter the verdict if it thought proper. Thus has ended a case that had occupied the attention of the Court for an unprecedented length of time. In the course of the proceedings the most beautiful models were produced, which were described and explained by some of the most scientific engineers of the day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION HOUSE. A trade: man who transacts business in Leadenhall market brought to the Lord Mayor a forged note, pur porting to be a Bank of England note for 101., which he had taken in the course of business from a person who had all the appearance of a respectable dealer. He con • siderad that as the forgery was one of the first of a new and ably-executed impression, it would be serviceable to put the community on their guard by a descriptio❑ of the fabricated instrument. He had been informed at the Bink that it was the second forgery from the plate which had been presented. The LORD MAron examined the note, and observed that it was executed with remarkable skill. It had the singularity of being dated from London, all former for geries having been dated from branch banks in the country. The paper, however, is rather darker than that of which the genuine notes are made, and the water mark had been evidently put in after the manufacture of the paper had been completed. The imitation of the genuine note is quite extraordinary in all other respects. GUILDIPAEL. George Wilson, residing at No. 67, George-street, Pimlico, was charged before Alderman ilumphery with stealing two coats. Mr. — Thomas Jacobs, salesman to Mr. William Mar tin, of Nos. 156 and 157, Fleet-street, tailor, said that on Monday night, 'about six o'clock, the prisoner entered his employer's shop, and informed him that he wanted an outfit. He proceeded to show him some coats, and at last two were picked out, which the prisoner fitted on one over the other. He then requested to be shown some pieces of cloth, as he wanted half a dozen pair of tiousers. While on the ladder getting the cloth, the prisoner ran out of the shop with both coats on his back, darted under some horses' heads, and ran down Bonverie street, where witness caught him. After several attempts to escape, an officer was met with, and he was given into custody. In defence, the prisoner said he was trying the coats on, when he observed a friend on the opposite side of the street, and wishing particularly to speak to him he ran out, but was followed so closely by Mr. Jacobs, that he could not attract the attention of his friend. In fact, he was seized beforo he could get near him. Alderman Flumprmar asked if he was known ? Chambers, the gaoler, said that he had been in cus tody before for stealing a coat at the Guildhall Coffee house. Alderman HUMPHERY committed him for trial, and the depositions being made out, he was conveyed to Newgate. BOW-STREET. Mr. Archer, a solicitor, applied to Mr. Jardine, on be half of a local society for the prevention of burials in towns, for a summons against a grave•diggsr employed at the burial-ground in Cross -court, Drury-lane, to auswer the charge of disinterring bodies, and thereby causing a great nuisance in the neighbourhood. A person named John Muggridge, residing at 14, Cross -court, whose back window opened upon the burial-ground in question, deposed to having seen the grave-digger and another man dig up coifing, hammer them to pieces, and apparently throw the bodies into another hole, with tfuantities of lime to effect their de struction. Other nbominaticrns of the same kind were mentioned by the witness, who communicated the circumstance to Mr. Walker, surgeon, and the police ; but as the mat ter will be fully investigated when the defendant appears t the summons, we deter our report. The application was readily granted by Mr. Jardine, with the view of having the matter taken up and properly investigated. AIAR LB ORO UGH-STREET. Charles Roland, an e ld er l y man, f i lling the office of clerk to th e Swiss Protestant Church at the West-end, was brought up for final examination, charged with having abused the person of Frances Ann Keast, a girl about twelve years of age. The prisoner was on terms of disgraceful intimacy with the mother of the girl, v. ho had been separated from her husband for some years ; and, according to the girl's evidence, the prisoner had been in the habit of indecently assaulting her for some time past. She complained in vain to her mother, and at last having met with her father, she communicated to him the prisoner's conduct to,vards her, and a warrant was immediately obtained against the prisoner. Mr. French, a surgeon, sent a certificate, which cor roborated, to a certain extent, the statement of the girl. Mr. BINGHAM, eficr hearing the prisoner give a general denial of the charge, fully committed him for trial. Janes Jones, spectacle maker, No. 11, Moor-street, was charged with having criminally assaulted Catherine Grady, a girl about twelve years of age. The complainant said she was in the service of the prisoner, and the assault in question occurred during the absence of the prisoner's wife. The statement of the would lead to the inference that a capital offence had been committed. The girl said she told the prisoner's wife what had happened as soon as she came home, and - she communicated the same circumstances without delay to her friends. The prisoner was fully committed. WOR S 7 RE E T. William Roberts, au inmate of the Bethnal-green Union Workhouse, was brought up before Mr. Llammill, at the instance of the parish authorities, charged with an assault of an aggravated character upon a young mar riti:d.:itioemastan named Jane Weldon, also an inmate of the establishment. My. 11431mns. asked in what manner the parish an said e e entirelyibnetended to deal with the case ?—Mr. Fairfield Ras instructed by the board of guardians to lMr. a s des the hands of the magistrate. a serious deseriptisoaid that the offence was one of such to consider whethern, u t a hat the guardians ought certainly cute the charge before Would not undertake to prose afojrur Zni,woCieneddieht to or m s h aiff o n u oa l rt d di t tn l e ei r nm e t o ah r ne e opportunity of coming to order it to s t an d over s o matter. SOUTHWARK. money transmitted from John Sielivan and Mary Cronin were charged with , o intw order iia lu g r g er ty. after hearing some contradictory that in order to sift the case to the bottom I Sl r e e T i l a h li r e n if m f a o A r l :B: s a s T t r " R t ° h:o T l e , E, he should r s e a m id a , nd the prisoners.—Remanded accordingly. HIGH TIDE IN TYE THAMEs.—Yesterday after. noon the river Thames continued to flow for a consider able time after the period fixed for high water, a n d at haif.past three the low grounds on either bank were completely under water, the Bishop's-walk, Church. street, and Fore -street, Lambeth, and the approach to Lambeth P a l ace , being iinpassaCle, except by boats, a number of which were employed to ferry the inhabitants to and from their dwillings. The basements of the houses in Fore -street were completely flooded, and con siderable damage and loss occasioned. The tide over flooded the Hungerford and Adelphi-wharfs, and washed over the Temple-gardens embankment. At all the steam-boat piers the passengers had to clamber over p:ankii. The Essex, Woolwich, Wandsworth, and Bat tersea marshes were placed under water. Much damage is reported to havo been sustained on the south bank of , the river, though no lo3s of life. HER MAJESTY'S AND PRINCE ALBERT'S ETCHINGS AND DRAWINGS.-(THIS DAY). THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT v. STRANGE, JUDGE, AND OTHERS. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Mr. SMITH then went on to contend that the answers of Mr. Strange completely exculpated him from blame; for he had sworn that the basis of his engagement with Mr. Judge was that her Majesty's consent should be obtained to the publication of the etchings. His Hoisona—ls it explained why none of the house hold of Prince Albert were consulted before the publi cation of the catalogue ? Mr. SMITH—No, it does not, but the catalogue was never published. Mr. White, the attorney on the other side, when he came to Paternoster-row, could not obtain a copy. In fact, the catalogue, with the exception of 11 copies sent to the Palace and to the members of the Royal Family,:was as unpublished as any work, the proof sheets only of which had been sent out. Perhaps the de fendants acted in ignorance of the matter, thinking, no doubt, that the publication, without any formal application, would be more acceptable to the feelings of the Queen and her Consort. The election of Prince Albert to the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge was an example of the kind. The Prince did not give his con sent to be pat in nomination; yet Professor Whewell and others, some of whom occupied high positions on the bench, did put him in nomination, and he was elected. If the decision of his Honour was adverse to the defendants, on the same principle sought to be established here, all criticisms might be subject to injunction —nay, more, the recently published illustrations of the cattle exhibited at the cattle show might be stopped by injunction. But, after all, the matter resolved itself into one of costs. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—The costs, and something more—to be indemnified from loss; that was the tenor of the correpondenco which, though written without prejudice, was nevertheless set forth in the answers. Mr. SMITH said the defendant was prepared to give up all the copies, and not to similarly offend for the future, on the payment of the legal costs to which he had been put. [le had made this offer but it was de clined; the costs of the prosecution alone were offered to be paid. Now, Mr. Strange believing conscientiously that he bad not acted improperly, but as a fair trader and as a man of honour, and not wishing to sneak out of this matter except in the most honourable manner, refused to accede to this proposal, because he would thereby admit that he was guilty of the offence imputed to him, of which he was altogether innocent. [The whole of the voluminous correspondence was here read by Mr. Smith, and bore out the statement in his address. J His Hoetorra, at their conclusion, said he doubted much whether he should have permitted the public time to have been occupied by the reading of those letters, which appeared to him to have been written with a view to a comprcmise; the act, however, was one of all the counsel. Mr. SMITH said be had read the letters to show that Mr. Strange did not wish to be considered as acting submissively in this matter, but with an earnest desire to be relieved from the proscution honourably. He thought the Queen and Prince Albert should congratu late themselves, that instead of finding a bad subject they had found a most loyal one. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he appeared for Prince Albert in support of the injunction, and that he wished to submit the case to his Honour on the same principles as those which would guide the cause of the humblest individual. He submitted that he was entitled to hold the injunction. Mr. Strange and Mr. Judge entered into the speculation as the property of others, as their joint experiment for their joint profit. Tho case was like that of a private gentleman who sent en engraving to a printer to have proofs struck oil; and who bad had some of the engravings pur loined —by the sale of which the value of the pro perty or the engraving mi g ht b e materially in jured.::eCourts of equity were constantly dealing with literary property of this kind about to be interfered with in a similar manner. He admitted that the dis tinction in this case was very fine, but surely when it was obvious that the sale of the work would be immense —that it :would have found its way into almost every assembly, and into every house —that great profits would have been: realised—it could not be contended that there was no property in the matter. He submitted that he had already established the existence of property in this case.. About a 100 years ago the Earl of Arundel brought home from abroad the valuable marbles which now decorated the University of Oxford, and which threw much light upon chronology. Could it be contended that if they were pirated no injury would result to the value of the property ? The Court could as much interfere in such a case as in cases of pi racy of valuable chemical experiments shown at a lecture, the compilation of a book from the catalogue of a private literary gentleman, who had allowed a person to inspect it, or in the piracy of trade marks. Such cases had occurred. His HONOUR inquired if the Learned Solicitor-Ge neral could furnish bim with the name of the case to which Lord Eldon had so often alluded —the case of a person of strong memory going to see a new play, and afterwards producing it. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD believed it was the case of " Miller v. Elliston." 1 l The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said in the case of Macklin v. Richardson it was held that going to a play and ob taining the words by the aid of short-hand was a viola tion of copyright. In this way the defendant had ob tained the language of a popular farce, A-la-Mode, in which Mr. Macklin had obtained much success. The learned Solicitor-Gcneral cited cases in which medical lectures, published in the same way, had been held to be violations of copyright. He applied the same law to this case. The printer at Windsor, or rather his pressman, had no right to part with the etchings. His HONOUR inquired if this version was recognised on both sides? Mr. WARREN said the mode in which the etchings were obtained was set forth in the bill, but Mr. Strange knew nothing of the way in which they were obtained. His HONOUR —Does it appear in the answers that Mr. Strange asked Mr. Judge how he obtained the etchings? Mr. WARREN—No, Sir, it does not. The SOLICITOR -GENERAL referred to the judgment of Mr. Justice Willmot in the case of Bridgenorth v. Green, which had reference to obtaining, by sur reptitious means, a portion of the revenues of an estate. In that case his Lordship said that restitution must ensue, since the defendant had obtained the property by unfair means—the source was polluted. A similar re sult must follow in this case. The statement that Mr. Strange did not know how Judge obtained the etchings could not be believed. He knew that it was untrue when he put the statement down. Mr. Strange said he entered into the arrangement with Mr. Judge "pro vided it is not offensive to her Majesty or Ptiuce Albert." He must have known that Mr. Judge aas not a likely person to be particularly favoured by the Court, or to have ready access to the private apartments of her Majesty. If the defendant and Mr. Judge really wished to obtain the consent of the Queen and Prince Albert to the publication of the etchings, why did they not seek it before the appear ance of the paragraph in the Berkshire paper? The catalogues were doubtless sent to the various members of the Royal Family in the belief that they would be thrown into the waste-paper baskets, and not receiving a reply, that they might be enabled to sayjhat they had obtained the consent of the Royal Family to the publi cation of the catalogue, or that the Queen and Prince Albert might be induced to avoid the unpleasantness of having their etchings exhibited to the public by a pecu niary consideration. His HONOUR said no man in his senses could believe that Mr. Strange did not inquire of Judge the whole particulars of how he obtained the;etchings. The Learned SOLICITOR-GENERAL concluded a most ab:e rpeech by expressing his conviction that the Court would retain the injunction, and also stating that it was the desire of her Majesty and Prince Albert that his Honour would only give to them the same measure of justice that he would award to the lowest of her subjects. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD followed on the same side, and had nut concluded when the Court rose. The arguments will be resumed to-morrow at' the sitting of the Court. FRANCE. Count Mole has addressed the following letter to ;he Mouiteur " M. le Redacteur,—Not having been able to attend the sitting of the National Assembly on Saturday last, I have recourse to your columns to declare that I should have voted with the minority on the decrees relative to the organic laws. Notwithstanding my great respect for the decisions of the National Assembly, I am con vinced that it is mistaken in this circumstance as to the nature and bearing of its mandate. Ido not think that it has the right to delay putting the whole Constitution into execution by prolonging its own existence beyond the term fixed by those who elected it. I consider, in fine, that the majority of the laws com prised under the vague and and arbitrary denomination of ' organic' do not merit more than many others, and that these laws would be more naturally the work of the ext cutive and legislative powers which the Constitution has created than of a Constituent Assembly, the spocial and high mission of which has been now accomplished." At the sitting of the National Assembly yesterday, M. Ducos presented the report on the project of Decree for proclaiming the President of the Republic. The three first articles were read by the President, and adopted without discussion. They were as fol lows : " Art. 1. The minutes of the election of President of the e Republic, addressed from the departments to the shalt ascertain47tharticleOctoberßefore eho that they are entire, and immediately successive examination of all the returns, the Committee the operation shall be termi natedtional Assembly, which shall present its report to the Na " Art. 4. In case ll thhe h r a e l ot ;pronounce e u B p 6 o d n e i p t a w rt i m th e o n u ts t and an the _adjourning. candidates at least should have given one even absolutesupposing i t 3i m ajori l t l y of all the 2,000,000 of votes of Algeria should have voted aggainstt htL,thteheelectomrs suffrages expressed, THE SUN, LONDON WEDNESDAY EVENING, _DEC_EIVIBER 13, 1848: LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dec. 12. NELSON V. CROSS. The plaintiff is a commission agent, and the defendant an extensive manufacturer in Rochdale. The action was brought to recover 281. 7s. sd. commission, at the rate of 11 per cent. upon a sale of goods, amounting to 1,8911., which he had effected. Evidence was adduced to show that the plaintiff had acted in various matters as the agent of the defendant, and had received commission upon the sales he had effected, and that, in accordance with his duty, he had effected the sale of the goods in question to Messrs. Beaumont and May, of Cheapside. On the part of the defendant it was contended, that he was in town at the time the transaction was made, and that the order was obtained by him, and not by the plaintiff It appeared, however, that the plaintiff was present at the interview that took place, and that he advised the defendant with respect to the transaction. The jury found a verdict for the plaintiff for the full amount claimed. (Sittings at Nisi Prins at Westminster, before Mr. Jus tice WIGHTMAN, and a Special Jury.) THE QUEEN V. SMITH AND OTHERS. mittee, without waiting the receipt of the returns from Algeria, shall present its rep , ,rt to the Assembly." This article was the occasion of a long discussion. M. Fleury Didier and M. Bureau de Puzy contended that the exclusion of Algeria, proposed by the Com mittee, was a violation of the Constitution, whilst others invoked the plea of necessity, and maintained that it was indispensable at this period of the year, for the be nefit of trade and manufactures, to put a speedy period to the unsettled state of the Government. The three following articles were afterwards adopted without discussion : " Art. 5. It one of the candidates has obtained more than the moiety of the suffrages expressed, and at least 2,000,000 of votes—if the conditions required by the 44th Article of the Constitution have been accomplished —the National Assembly prcclaims him President of the Republic. He is immediately called upon to take the oath required by the 48th Article of the Constitution. " Art. 6. The President of the National Assembly, in the name of the Assembly, acknowledges the taking of the oath to the Constitution, and the President of the Republic enters immediately on the discharge of his functions. " Art. 7. In case none of the candidates should have obtained the necessary majority, the National Assembly shall proceed immediately to elect one of the five candi dates highest on the list. Immediately atter the result of the ballot is ascertained, the President makes it known and proclaims the President of the Republic, who takes the oath of office from the tribune." The Bth Article was as follows :—" In case the Pre sident should refuse to take the oath his election shall be immediately declared null and void." M. St. Gauden thought that a delay should be assigned to the President to take the oath. M. Discos observed that the President should be in vited by the Assembly to accomplish that formality, and that it it be refused the Assembly could annul the elec tion. The article was afterwards put from the chair, and adopted. The Assembly next voted the following and last " Art. 9. The Palace of the Palais National is appro priated to the residence of the President." The 30 members of the Special Committee appointed to count the votes were :—Messrs. Arnaud, Trouchard, Carnot, Mole, Vaulabelle. Sarrans, Buchez, Waldeck Rousseau, Pleignard. Baune, Lichtenberger, Baroche, Charton, Ferdinand Bar rot, Conti, Feuillade de Chauvin, Duces, Ber.umont de la Somme, Astoin, Richard, Nachet, Abbal, Pellitier, Durand Savoyat, Charlemagne, Ceyras, Woirhaye, Chaffour, Laissac, and Sauteyra. The Minister of Finance next deposited on the table the budget of 1849, and the Assembly adjourned. SUPPLY OF Flsrt.—At present there are in our market a variety of fine fish, such as co d, h a dd oc k s, turbot, halibut, brill, plaice, soles, herrings, &c., in greater quantities than used to be at this season of the year. This extra supply may be attributable to the weather being favourable, so as to enable the boats to get well out to sea, together with the trawl net that several of the boats have been fitted out with latterly; and the discovery of a large shoal of plaice a little east ward of Pittenweem. We understand Mr. Dempster is in expectation that Government will aid him in facili tating the improvements he has effected upon the com mon trawl net:—Caledonian Mercur6,. THE CHOLERA.—On Thursday the new cases in Edinburgh were 10, on Friday 10, on Saturday 6, yes terday 4. The deaths reported on Thursday were 4, Friday 6, Saturday 5, yesterday 6. Remaining in Edin burgh, 154; in Leith, 8. On Thursday, one death oc curred at Silverknows, Cramond parish, and a case which has since proved fatal was reported from Dud dingaton, the same day; but we have heard of no new cases in any other country district for several days. In Glasgow on Wednesday there were three new cases, on Thursday 5, Friday 2, S a t ur d ay 2, seven deaths being reported during that interval. The epidemic continues to manifest itself with great virulence in Dumfries, there having been 23 cases on Wednesday, and 14 on Thursday. Since the first appearance of the disease there have been in Dumfries and Afaxwelltown, up t') Thursday, 289 cases and 87 deaths.—Caledonian Mercury. THE FISHING.—WICK 7 DEC. B.—Our fishermen only got to sea one day last week, when some of them made a very successful fishing, so much so that one curer got upwards of 3,000 fine haddocks out of a few boats. The poor fishermen, however, will soon be hard enough pinched, if better weather do not speedily visit us.—John o' Groat Journal. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. WHITEHALL, DEC. 9, 1848. The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to he passed under the Great Seal, granting the dignity of a Knight of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland unto James William Colvile, Esq., Puisne Jus tice of the Supreme Court of Judicature at Calcutta. FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 11. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Don Jose Magill, as Vice Consul at Belfast for the Mexican Re public. DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 12. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Henry Barkly, Esq., to be Governor and Commander-in-Chief in and over the colony of British Guiana and its dependencies. Her Majesty has been pleased to appoint William Frederick Desbarres, Esq., to be Puisne Judge, and Alexander MacDougall, Esq., to be her Majesty's So licitor-General for the province of Nova Scotia. NEW WRIT FOR THE BOROUGH OF LISKEARD. In pursuance of the directions of an Act, passd in the twenty-fourth year of the reign of his late Majesty King George the Third, intituled " An Act to repeal so much of two Acts, made in the tenth and fifteenth years of the reign of his present Majesty, as authorises the Speaker of the House of Commons to issue his warrant to the Clerk of the Crown for making out writs for the election of Members to serve in Parliament, in the mea ner therein mentioned, and for substituting other provi sions for the like purposes:" Ido hereby give notice, that the death of the Right Honourable Charles Buller, late a Member serving in this present Parliament for the borough of Liskeard, hath been certified to me in writing, under the hands of two Members serving in this present Parliament, and that I shall issue my warrant to the Clerk ofthe Crown to make out a new writ for the electing of aMember toserve in the present Parliament for the said borough, at the end of fourteen days after the insertion of this notice in the London Gazette. Given under my hand the 9th day of December, 1848, CITARLES SiIAW LEFEVRE, Speaker. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Dorsetshire. Queen's Own Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry—John Edward Bridge, Gent., to be Cornet, vice J. C. Hansel, promoted, Dec. 8. BANKRUPTCIES SUPERSEDED. John Walton, baker, Coventry. John Heslop, wine and spirit merchant, Ripon. BANKRUPTS. John do Levante, clothier, Wood-street, Cheapside, to surrender, Dec. 20, at half-past one, and Jan. 23, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Wollen, Bucklersbury. William Keys, linen and woollen draper, Robert's place, Commercial-road East, Dec. 20, at one, and Jan. 23, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee; Sole and Turner, Alderman_ bury. William Trapp, mason and victualler, Warminster, Wiltshire, Dec. 23, at half-past eleven, and January 12, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Guildhall-chambers ; Holt, Chatham-place, Blackfriars. Thomas Page, silk manufacturer, White Lion- street. Spitalfields, Dee. 18, at one, and Jan. 29, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street; Hudson, Bucklersbury. John Taft, carpenter, Warwick-road, Paddinzton, Dec. 18, end Jan. 29, at twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street, City; Mason, South- square , G ray ' s-inn. John Parish, brick maker, Sible Hedingham, Essex, Dec. 23, at eleven, and Jan. 20, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook court, Basinghall-street; Thompson, Southampton -buildings, Chaneery-lane. Andrew Hewlett, builder, Abbott's Ann, Southamp ton. Dec. 20, at two, and Jan. 23, at one , at the C ourt of Bankruptcy. Groo m , official assignee, Abchurch lune, Lombard -street; May, Queen-square, Bloomsbury; Lamb, Andover. John Wilde'', victualler, Snenton, Nottinghamshire, Dec. 22 and Jan. 12, at ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee, Nottingham ; Lees, Nottingham. Joseph Stevens, jun., glass manufacturer, Coalbourn isltrtiwe twelve, e,and Court. brook, Oldswinford,a.tSttahffeorßds:lhrmirein,oDheacm. 28,D a ; Jan. 30, offiatitaeln'assiee Birmingham Collis, Cl owes, and Uhthoff, e Stourbrid gn ge. , John Harve", builder, Weston-super-Mare, Somerset shire, Dec. 28 and Jan. 23, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol; King Bristol; Jones, Blaxland, an d C o., Crosby -square. John Marshall, Reuben Marshall, and James Mar shall, fancy manufacturers, Rastrick, Yorkshire, Jan. 8. and 22, at twelve, at the Leeds District Court. Hope' official assignee, Leeds; Sudlows, Torr, and Janaway, Bedford-row; Higham, B r i g h ouse; Bond and Barwick , Leeds. Edward Davies, flannel manufacturer, Newtown, Montgomeryshire, D ec . 18, and Jan. IR, at eleven, at, the Liverpool District C our t. Morgan, official assignee, Liverpool; Liverpool; Gregory an d C o . , B edford-row; Jones, New.: twan; Rogerson and Co., Liverpool. Thomas Richardson, common brewer, North Shields, Dec. 21, at half-p a st t en , an d J an. 24, at one, at the Newcastle upon-Tyne Di str i ct C ourt. Wakley, official l e and n iC P ew ea u r e s Y e, assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne ; Lietcl North Shields s, ; M and aples, P earse, map Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basingball-street. G. Clay, Queen-street, Che.pside, woollen-warehouse man, Jan. 3, at twelve. In the Country. J. Thompson, Tamworth, bookseller, Jan. 17, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham —J, Clarke, R. Mitchell, J. Phillips, and T. Smith, Leicester, bankers, Jan. 26, at eleven, at the Court, Nottingham—R. W. Godwin, Lin coln, ship and boat builder, Jan. 17, at half -past ten, at the Town-hall, Kingston-upon -Hull —S. Dethick and T. IL Kay, Newton heath, near Manchester, common brewers, Jan. 9, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. C. Howe, Plymouth, draper, Bid., on any Tuesday or a la treadmill, with just sufficient power to enable the vessel easily to overrun the tide, to shift her berth, awl to take up the most advantageous positio n t o assa il an t , nemy. Tler barricades should be made as substantial as possible, and if stuffed with flax, they might be ren dered nearly bomb-proof. A wherry thaptd stern and double rudder would obviate the necessity of turning, and if pressed by a heavy ship she could seek shelter in shoal water, and cut up her antagonist with her guns, which it would be well to have of Monk's long .56- pounders. In determined hands, and with an adequate number of small-arm men to repel attempts at boarding by boats, batteries like these would be of yeoman service in the time of need. The shot of such shifty-sneaking craft would be more infinitely telling than the uncertain plunging fire of an e l evate d i mmovable fort, and would stick to the haunches of any vessels foolhardy enough to attempt a coup de main. Their cost would be compara tively triffieg, their organization so simple, and their services so effectual, that we look upon them as the fit test and easiest defence for a remote and infant colony. —New Zealand Paper. TROOPS FOR HONG-KONG.—By latest intelligence received from Hong-Kong, the authorities were informed that the sickness among the troops there prevailed to such an extent, that there were not men enough conva lescent to perform garrison duty. In consequence of this report, the 75th Regiment, 1,200 strong, has been placed under orders to hold itself in readiness to em bark at short notice for that colony. It is probable, as it would be more economical, and certainly more comfortable for the troops, that her Majesty's ship Belleisle will be commissioned to convey the 75th to Hong-Kong. A FARMER ATTACKED BY A RAM.—A S Mr. Wil liam Underwood, farmer and grazier, of Lutterworth, was lately walking through one of his fields, a large ram of the Wiltshire breed ran up to him and knocked him down; after which it walked off; but as soon as the ob ject of its attack was again upon its legs, it returned in the most furious manner to renew the attack. Having a gun in his hand, Mr. Underwood began to beat the ram about the head with the butt•end, but this made little impression upon the invincible skull of his horned antagonist, which again brought its master to the ground. Mr. Underwood began to think his life was in danger, as no one was near to rescue him; bat after several un successful attempts to escape from his perilous situation, he thought of an expedient which succeeded in effecting his escape. Though in a state of great exhaustion, he managed to get a handkerchief out of his pocket, and, holding the ram by the horns, he partially blindfolded the animal, and by this means evaded its observation and got away. His fleecy combatant, however, seemed to have some notion of fair play, as it never attacked its victim when he was down; had it done so, in all proba bility Mr. Underwood would hare lost his life.—Norfolk News. At the Court of Review, Jan. 2. T. Massey, Burslem Staffordshire, gro c er an d t ea dealer—W. Warden, Birmingham, corn agent and corn dealer—E. Sommers, Motcomb-street, Belgrave-square, baker—E. Tibbey, Frith. street, Soho, diamond mer chant—H. Hastings, Cheltenham, butcher—J. A. G. Smith, Manchester, auctioneer. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. W. Carr and J. Musson, Fen-court, Fenchurch street, ship and Custom. house agents—J. Chiesman and J. Nelson, Leeds, auctioneers and appraisers —W. Budd and J. W. Grose, Devonport, drapers and mercers—J. C. Birkenshaw, H. Birkenshaw, T. Gibson, and R. E. Huntley, Netherton, Northumberland, coal owners— T. Barneby and G. W. Bentley, Worcester, attorneys and solicitors—G. Jackson, R. Wilkinson, and R. Mal comson, Clonmel, Tipperary, and Manchester—J. 11. Brooke and R. E. Creasey, Boston, Lincolnshire, dealers in gutta percha—J. Ireland and W. Ireland, Manchester, dyers and bleachers—A. Cowperthwaite and A. Kenny, Manchester, joiners and builders—W. C. Bodley, J. Goldsworthy, and W. Mutable, Exeter, ironfounclers—W. Froggatt, W. Bramley, and 11. Bramley, Shadwell, confectioners and bakers—J. Rus sell and R. Russell, Great Winchester -street, Old Broad street, leatbersellers—G. Mitchell and J. Whitaker, Halifax, Yorkshire, tobacconists and tea dealers—R. Grove and J. C. Chambers, Ipsley, Worcestershire, fish hook and needle manufacturers—J. Burgess and J. Cooper, Crosby-row, Walworth, tailors—E. F. Jones and F. Russell, Little Tower-street, City, tea and coffee dealers—G. Tett and J. Kerslake, jun.. Osmington, Dor setshire, fanners—J. Harper and N. Harper, Cfay Coton, Northamptonshire, and Wibcroft, Warwickshire, cattle salesmen—P. Bishop and C. Cheshire, Birmingham, bayonet manufacturers—W. Dawber, R. Dawber, E. Howitt, and W, Harrison, Lincoln, millers. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. George West, Burg-in-the-Marsh, Lincolnshire grocer. Epiphras Seage, Exeter, whitemitb. Jacob Barker, Liverpool, butcher. Joseph Davies; Liverpool, commission and patent agent. John Lillyvvhite, New Windsor, Berkshire, baker. William Sanderson, Calverley, Yorkshire, cloth maker. Thomas Harvey, York-street, Ramsgate, poulterer. William Terry, Eagle-hill, Ramsgate, livery stable keeper. Richard Deveson, Bankside, Margate, booking office keeper. Isaac Line, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, wood turner. Mary Jevons, Tipton. Staffordshire. Thomas Arnphlett, Walsall,Staffordshire, carpenter. Rowland Davies, Talyllyn, Merionethshire, carpenter and joiner. Meshach Simkiss, Walsall, Staffordshire, miner. James Hardman, Walsall, Staffordshire, harness bit maker. Henry Brew, West Bromwich, Staffordshire, manager of a grocery and provision warehouse. Timothy Loft, the elder, Beverley, Yorkshire, owner and master of a vessel. Mendel Mendheim, Hound's-gate, Nottinghamshire, to bacco dealer, James Barton, Eastwood, Nottinghamshire, butcher. James Taylor, Nottingham, licensed victualler. Robert Sugden, Bradford, Yorkshire, woolsorter. John Monk, the younger, Petersfield, Southampton, poulterer. Stephen George Smelt, Beverley, Yorkshire, shoemaker. Frederick Forman Gibbs, Bidston, Chester, commission agent. Joseph Whitfield, Pudsey, Calverley, clothmaker. James Stocks, Bradford, Yorkshire, and William Holds worth, Manniugham, linendrapers. William Spooner, King-street, Margate, cook. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. J. Hastie, Glasgow, brass and ironfounder, to meet within Whyte's Temperance Hotel, Glasgow, Dec. 16 and Jan. 6, at twelve. J. Hamilton, Neilston, Renfrewahire, coach driver, to meet within Mrs. Walker's Inn, Barrhead, Dec. 19 and Jan. 9, at one. W. Calderwood, Kilmarnock, bottler, to meet within th© George Hotel, Kilmarnock, Dec. 16 and Jan. 13, at twelve. 11. M'Askill, Broadford, Isle of Skye, cattle dealer, to meet withi❑ Portree Inn, Portree, Dec.l9 and Jan. 9, at twelve. G. Buxton, Leith, baker, to meet within the New Ship Hotel, Shore, Leith, Dec. 18 and Jan. 8, at two. J. Mitchell, Glasgow, engineer, to meet within the Waverley Tavern, Glasgow, Dec. 18 and Jan. 8, at one. Friday, between the hours of ten and three, at the office of Mr. Ilernaman, Exeter. J. H. Hill, Plymouth, veterinary surgeon, lOid., on any Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter. W. Medland, St. Austell, Cornwall, common brewer, 6id., on any Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter. S. B. Serjeant, Callington, Cornwall, attorney at law, 2s. 3d., on any Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter. E. C. Holland, Honiton, Devonshire, surgeon and apothecary, ls. 6d., on any Tuesday between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Hirtzel,' Exeter. J. Bevan, liridestowe, Devonshire, tanner, isaddler, and harness maker, 4s. 2kd., on any Tuesday between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Hirt gel, Exeter. R. Martin, , Plymouth,!ale and porter merchant, 2s. 2d., on any Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter. Mary Heatherington, Lyme Regis, Dorsetahire, inn keeper, Is. 10d., on any Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter. E. Cato, Hartlepool, Durham, innkeeper, 2s. ld., on Saturday, Dee. 9, or any following Saturday, between the hours of ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. T. Hutchinson, Blackfriars-road, and Old Gravel-lane, Wapping, sugar refiner and capillaire manufacturer, ss. 9d., on Wednesday, Dee. 13. or any subsequent Wednesday, between the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-Court, Basinghall street. T. Capron, Lawrance-lane, Cheapside, merchant, 6d., on Wednesday, Dec. 13, or any subsequent Wednesday, between the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Follett, S am b roo k C ourt, Basinghall-street. F. Adamson, Bond-court, Wallbrook, merchant, 3s. 4d., on Wednesdays, between the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook -court, Ba singhall-street. W. F. Powell, Monmouth, clerk, 3s. 2d., on Wednes days, between the hours of eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Hutton, Bristol. H. W. Damsel!, Bisley, Gloucestershire, grocer and draper, Sd., on Wednesdays, between the hours of eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Hutton, Bristol. T. Bevan, Brecon, corn dealer and grocer, 2s. 11d., on Wednesdays, between the hours of eleven and, one, at the office of Mr. Hutton, Bristol. J. Gainer, Stonehouse, Gloucestershire, dyer, 6td., on Wednesdays, between the hours of eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Hutton, Bristol. J. Pugh, Monmouth, tailor and draper, 25., on Wed nesdays, between the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Hutton, Bristol. W. Swain, Cheltenham, builder, plumber, and glazier, 9fd. ' on Wednesday s , b e t ween t h e hours of ton and two, at the office of Mr. Hutton, Bristol. J. B. Gregory, Birmingham, straw plait dealer, Bid., on Thursdays, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Birmingham. A. Beattie, Alverstoke, Southampton, coal merchant and rope maker, ls. sd., on Wednesdays, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Basinghall-street. W. Thomas, Catherine-street, Strand, publisher and advertisement agent, Is. 44-d., on Wednesdays, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whit more, Basinghall-street. T. Sternberg, Northampton, wine merchant, 3s. 61(1., on Wednesdays, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Whitmore, Basinghall• street. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall street. C. Pottinger, Banbury, Oxfordshire, tailor and draper, Jan. 5, at eleven—G. Gillingham, Church-street,' Chet sea, veterinary surgeon and farrier, Jan. 5, at twelve— H. M. Bowden, Lime-street,- Leadenball-street, City, dealer and chapman, Jan 2, - at one—R. J. Popplewell, Southampton, out fitter, Jan. 3, at half-past eleven—R. G. Clode, Windsor, corn and . coal merchant, Jan. 8, at twelve—J, Goodman, Alpha -cottage, Caledonian-road, Islington, cattle dealer, Jan. 9, at one. In the Country. S. L. Gaskell, Congleton, Cheshire, clock and watch maker, Jan. 4, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. B. Murphy and H. Mosley, Derby, carvers, Jan. 12, at eleven, at the Court, Nottingham —R. Lister, Belper, Derbyshire, draper and grocer, Jan. 3, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester—Betty Crankshaw, and J. Crank shaw, Higher Booths, Lancashire, cotton spinners and cotton maeufacturers, Jan. 4, at eleven, at the Cour Manchester. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. - - [A. portion of the following, by Electric Telegraph appeared in our Third Edition of last night.] LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET, DEC. 12. The sales of the day are 6,000 bales. 1,000 on spe culation. Market firm. LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET, DEC. 12. The arrivals are large, notwithstanding which there has been a fair business doing here to-day in the leading articles of the trade. Wheat, both free and bonded, is firm, and Id and 2d dearer since Tuesday. Flour is in fair request at an advance of 6d and is per barrel, and is per sack. Oats and oatmeal are in limited demand at late prices. Indian corn from is to 2s dearer, and consequently a somewhat checked de mand. In other articles no change. MANCHESTER GOODS MARKET, DEC. 12. The general tone of the market to-day was very firm. A good business is doing, and in many descriptions of cloth batter prices have been obtained. In yarns for the home market there has been an advance of one-eighth per pound, and fur the kinds suitable for the Continent there has been much more inquiry. IPSWICH, - DEC. 12. Our market was well attended by farmers to-day. Good qualities of Wheat are in fair request, and prices are firm; some quantity comes to hand in poor con dition. It was with difficulty Making Barley of fine quality reach e d th e pr i ces of this day week; other quali ties are lower. Beans are rather cheaper. Oats and Peas at our last quotations. Malt in a dull state. Flour steady. PER QUARTER. PER QUARTER. Wheat 4ls to 53s Beans 2Bs to 33s Barley Oats Rye.. ....... .... 28s to 31s Flour, per sack 4ls to 45,1 ♦VERAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 9. Wheat 1,953 quarters at 48s 10d. Barley Oats Beans 129 ~ 30s 7d. Peas..... 97 /7 35s lid. From Broomielaw .. . 16,730 11 ,3 7 1 ton& From Port . Dundas and Kirkin tilloch ... 16,111 3,643 --- -- Decrease in 1848 32,841 15,214 ... 17,627 tons. CORK, DEC. •11.—Flour —First quality, 16s to 176; second ditto, 15s to 16a Od ; household, Ils to 14s ; third ditto, 9s to lOs per owt. Oatmeal, 12s to 12s 6d per cwt. Indian corn, 8/ Os to 81 10s; Indian meal, 9/ 5s to 9/ lOs per ton. Bran, 4153 to 51 5 s per ton. Hay— Farmers', 33s to 455;04 average, 43s ; retailers', 46s to 47s per ton; old hay, 45s to 60s per ton. Straw—Far mers', 12s to 255; average, 20s; retailers', 00s to oos per ton. Whisky, at the Distillery, 25 over proof, GA 3d per 4mperial gallon. Bread, 6fd to 8d per 41bs- Fresh butler, 10d to lld per lb. Beef, 3d to 6d; mut ton, 3fd to 5d ; veal, 3fd to 4fd; pork, sfd to 7d ; bacon, 64d to 9d; sausages, 5d per lb. Coals—New port, 17s; Lydney, 18s. Culm 16s per ton. P o tatoes, white, 12d; Minions, 14d. Hides—Mark e t ditto, 1 1 ° to 17s; salted ditto, 12s to 17s per cwt ; market skins, 2d to 2id; calf ditto, 2d to 24d; veal skins, 3d to 30 per lb. Tar—Archangel, 18s per bl. Timber—Quebec red pine, 31 15s; yellow ditto, 34 deal, 17/ to 20/ per hundred ; Bangor Queens, 31 2s 6d per ton. Scotch herrings, 19s to 20s per barrel; Norway ditto, —s. New foundland dry cod fish, 11/ to 121 lOs per ton. Tallow, 47g. Wool, 103 to 12s per stone. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS LIVERPOOL, DEC. 12. STOCK EXC,HANGE.—The share market to-day ha s been quiet, and w i t h out any change to report in yesterday's prices. The sales are—London, Leeds, and Dewsbury, 38% -- Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (late Greet Grimsby and Sheffield), 9T st —Midland Stock, Erewssll Valley, 10 5 , 8 dis.—North Staffordshire, 9 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. I, 10 3 , , , dig. BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 12. STOCK EXCH GE. The sales are—London and North- Western, 118 !,,I—Birmingliam. Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley, 10 i i dis.—North Staffordshire, 6 5 -6—North Bri tish, 6jii. ORK, Due. . STOCK EXCHANGE.— Y The business ll transacted to-day was as follows :—Great Northern, 6% c.—York and North Mid land, 4 9—Ditto, Preference, Bt, NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, DEC. 12. STOCK EXCH A N GE ,—Th e sales ara—Newcastle and Car lisle (scrip), 97—Ditt o ( red), 5 dis—North British, Thirds, 3 %—York, Newcastle, and Barwick (Extension), No. 1, 11,A. GLASGOW, DEC. 11. STOCK EXCITANGE.—The sales are—Edinburgh and Bath gate, 7 3 3.—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 7 7—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 4—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, 45 to, Halves, No. 1, 428. Ditto, No. 2, - IN.—Glasgow and Greeneck, Preference, 6 . V3—Great Northern, 61. 16s.—Scot tish Central, 25:34. ACCIDENT WHILST SHOOTING. —The Hon. R. H. Clive, M. P., is entertaining a party of distinguished guests, including his nephew, the Earl of Powis, and other relations, at Hewelt Grange. At a shooting party on Thursday several men were employed to beat the covers to put up the game, and one gentleman, in dis charging his gun at a pheasant, accidentally lodged portion of the charge in three of the beaters. Two were slightly injured. but one of them received a number of shots in the neck, and was conveyed home, where sur gical assistance was speedily rendered him, and he is in a fair way of recovery.— W orcesterJournal ill MLA% At Leeds, on th e Bth inst., the wife of the Rev. W. Sin clair, of a daughter. On the Sth inst., at Branham, Yoi kshire, Mrs. J. Man stead, of a daughter. On the 9th inst., the wife of Charles G. P. Windsor, Esq., of Woodbury-vale, Green-lanes, of a son. At _Hampstead, on the 9th inst., the wife of R. Beacheroft, Esq., of a daughter. On the 10th inst., at Montague -square, the Lady Wode house, of a son. At Sydenham, on the 10th inst., Mrs. Frederic Barnes, of a son. On the 9th inst., at Milner-square, the wife of T. C. Ren shaw, Esq., of a son. On the 6th i ns t., at St MAIZRIED. . Stephen's Church, Hull, William T. Dibb, Esq. of Hull, t o C aro li ne S arah, third daughter of Lieutenant W. Knocker, R.N., of Spring-street, Hull. On the 7th inst., at St. Peter's, Pimlico, Robert Tower, Esq., son of the late Rev. Charles Tower, of Shentield-place, Essex, to Clara, youngest daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Verner, and niece of the Dowager Marchioness of Donegal. On the 9th inst., at Chertsey, Surrey, David, eldest son of Mr. David Nicholson, Wandsworth, to Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Mr. J• Waterer, Chertsey. On the 9th inst., Mr. T. J. Warrick, of Lorn-road, Brix ton, to Ann Kay, youngest daughter of the late Mr. James Shillito, of Upper Thames -street, London. .0141, Suddenly, on the 10th inst., at the house of his son-in-law, W. C. Beasley, Esq., Victoria-square, Pimlico, Edmund Tur ner, Esq , M.P., aged 57. He was a magistrate and deputy lieutenant for the county of Cornwall, and had represented Truro, his native town, since 1837. On the 11 th inst., at Northwi c k-t errace, General S i r Hector Maclean, K.C.8., 11. E.1.C.5., aged 93. On the sth inst., at Bay .house, near Gosport, the Dowager Lady Ashburton. On the 6th inst., at Dover, Ann Mary Brydges, aged 49, daughter of the late Sir Egerton Brydges. On the Sth inst., John Hayward, Esq., second son of R. m Hayward, Esq., cf West Chinnock, near C re wkerne' Soerset. On the Bth inst., at Bath, aged 90, Sarah, only surviving sister of the late Rev. Canon Gould. On the 9th inst., at Dover, Harriett Comber Munn, widow Reg of theN. late Li eutenant -Col o n e l H enry Munn, of the 27th . I. Madras. On the 9th inst., at Muswell-hiley, aged 75, Mail' widow of th e l ate Mr. R. Painter, l, of llorns Cambridge. On the f , th inst., Mr. Thomas Eastland, aged 68, of St• Alban s, Herts. On the 10 t h i nst., at Norwood-place, Kensington, al- IL Lawrence. Oa the loth inst., at Middleton Rectory, Oxon, Sarah Alicia, the wile of the Rev. R. Pretyman, aged 53. London: Print e d an d P u b lished by MURDO YOUNG, (f No. 112, St ran d, Printer, at The Office, No. 3123' Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the coantY ° Middlesex, Wednesday, December 13, 1848. LEEDS CLOTH HALL, DEC. 12. Very little business doing in the halls, the merchante buying- very sparingly. Business in the warehouses very alight, and of no importance. LEEDS CORN MARKET, DEC. 12. The supplies of wheat were moderate, but burr% were by no means eager purchasers, and it was imP°B - to establish any advance upon Friday's rates Barley st ea dy. O ats and shelling as before. Beans an d ' other articles unchanged. NEWCASTLE CORN MARKET, DEc. 12. Little or no business doing, and we may quote prices the same as on Saturday last. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, DEc, 12. The maiket is dull to-day, with a large supply. Pric es of sheep about the same as last week. NEWCASTLE HAY MARKET, DEC. 12. There was a large supply to-day. The market for white dull, and prices lower. HULL, DEC. 12. Messrs. Taylor and Bright 's circular states that althoug- h the actual business of the past week has been limited , the general tone of the trade tended towards firmnesst the impression prevailing that prices had seen the loweA which feeling alone, from its generality, helped to check the downward tendency we had to report last week. The only improvement, however, that we can so far note, i s that sales have been made at prices not obtain able last Tuesday; demand is more active, but Big attempt to get more money checks business. Toe long prevalence of westerly winds keeps back sr: rivals, but with the first change we may look for goo choice in all kinds of grain. We had at to-day's war ket a good supply of wheat from the farmers: they sr pected, and asked, more money, but the dull report fr°° 2 London checked the spirit which might have been ex pected in the trade; more looking after foreign, but e" prices holders will not take--bonded finds more favour than free. We cannot report any improvement in bar ley; malting is still difficult of sale, and grinding i s offered on lower terms. In beans and peas no alteration; of the former our chief supply is new foreign, mnstlzong of condition, and much remains difficult of sale. Grind; ing peas are superseded by cheaper feed, and the sale of boiling is limited owing to the mild weather. I n eats we have nothing doing. Indian corn goes off at late prices, say 31s to 325. Arrivals of linseed are still intv derato, and being mostly for crusher's account little comes on the market, which consequently remains !iron —some fine East Indian feeding quality now on sale' Cakes are unaltered in value with a very fair sale for both English and foreign. No transactions in either rapeseed or cakes to influence our quotations. Bona more inquired for, but not many of good quality at pre' sent offering. The following are the present prices of grain : s. s. Linseed cakes, English, Per Wheat, red 110. new do 46 —4B Do. f ore i gn, do 7l to 81 5 ns Do. white 5O —52 Rape cakes, do. - B7s Do. new do 4B —52 Bones, do 85s Od to 8756 0 Do. Dantzic ..... 54 —5B Guano 4/ to 9I 5 5 Do. Lower Baltic & FOREIGN GRAIN IN BOND. Hamburgh . 46 —5O The free prices less current Barley, malting 2B —3O duty. Do. grinding......., 25 27 Wheat, Dantzic& Konigsberg Oats.... l6 22 Do. Lower Baltic&Hamburgh Danish l6 18 Do. Archangel & Petersburgh Do. Friesland lB —2l Barley, Saal and Magdeburg Do. Russian Beans 3O 36 Oats, Russian ..................... Do. foreign 2B 34 Do. Danish and Pomeranian.. Peas ...... 32 36 Do. Friesland, brew ........... Linseed, crushing 34 38 40 Do. do. feed ...................... Do. feeding Rapeseed, per 10 qrs . 23 1 to 25/ Peas ........ .... ...................... HULL AVERAGE P RICES OF BRITISH GRAIN . OF . • TIO WEEK ENDING DECEMBER 3. Wheat. Barley. I Oats. 669 Qrs at 47s Id 201 at 30s lid 182 at 175 Id Rye. Beans. Peas. 0 Qrs at Os Od 50 at 32s Od I oat Os Od TRENTON, DEC. 9.—Prices at the Tubs—Whest• 7s Od to 8s Od; ditto new, 5s 6d to 6s Od; barley, 4s Od ; t°, 4s 3d malting ditto, 4 s 6d to 5s Od ; new oats, 3s Oa to 34 6d; old oats, 3s 6d to 4s Od; beans, 7s 6d to Ss Od; old ditto, 4s Sd to 5s Od ; white peas, 8s Od to 9s Od, coloured ditto, Os ad to Os Od per bushel. DALKEITH MEAL MARKET, DEC. 11.—There were 13 8 bags of oatmeal and 23 of barleymeal at this day's nor; ket; sal es rea d y. O atmeal 6d per bag up; barleyniew 3d per bag up; there was no peasemeal, flour, or pot bar ley in market. Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First Second Third imperial •.• 28s 6d 28s Od 27s Od Barleymeal, per .ditto ... 22s 3d 22s Od Od Peasemeal ••• —s Od —s Od Flour ... —s Od —s Od —s Od Pot barley ... ..• —s Od —s Od GLASGOW PIG IRON MARKET, DEC. 9.—There bag been but a limited business for the past two days ; prices keep firm at our last quotations. We observe from - 611 :: Gilbert's circular the shipments for last month are much reduced, as compared with last year. Note of the tex ports of pig ir on i n N ovem b er, 1848, as compared 1847 : ITALY --- The Concordia publishes the following letter, ad. dressed by th e Abbe Gi o b ert i to t h e ed i tor of thx journal : " I do not know for what reason I have been charged with giving advice and uttering expressions which never escaped my lips. I consider it my duty to declare that none of the demonstrations which took place some days since were suggested by me, and so far from approving cries, susceptible of receiving an unfavourable interpre tation, I formally condemned them." The inane journal contains the following, dated Milan : " Marshal Radetzlcy has ordered the Municipal Coun cil of our city to cut down all the trees which adorn the public promenade round the castle. The Council entreated him not to insist on an order, the execu tion of which would impoverish the city already 140 much distressed by military exactions. The Marshal returned the following reply to the Municipal Council:—‘ As I am in the habit of never suffer ing resistance to my orders, and whereas the city con tinues in a state of siege, I enjoin the Municipal Council to remove all the trees surrounding the castle, to which I have already directed its notice, before the 15th inst. In that interval all the trees must be felled and carried away at the expense of the Council. The Council shall be liable to a fine of 5,000 livres for every day's delay. (Signed) " RADETZKY." The Nazionale of the sth instant quotes a letter from Modena, of the 27th ult., stating that several Austrian battalions, pro✓ided with artillery, had marched towards the frontier of the Pontifical do minions. It was also rumoured that Bologna was to be occupied by an Austrian force. THE FORTIFICATION OF AUCK LAND, NEW ZEALAND. The construction of fortifications in defence of the harbour being under present consideration of the autho rities, we trust we shall be held excused for venturing a few suggestions on a matter fraught with such important consequences to the pablic safety. The absolute nakedness of every British possession in these seas—the impunity with which they can be as sailed—the facility with which they could be laid under contriubtion—have all been dwelt upon and reiterated usque ad nauseam. A time of peace, when works of defence should have been quietly and skilfully organized —when means and munitions should have been unosten tatiously provided—has been suffered to pass by ; and noW, when a period of turbulence, if not of war, appears to impend, attention is compelled where it was before, in vain, solicited. If, as we have been given to understand, the works to be thrown up, for the protection of the harbour of Aucke land, are to be limited to land batteries alone, we would most respectfully point out the grave error of such restrictions ; and to give more cogency to our own arguments, we shall cite the opinions of the mot practical warriors and demonstrate the incontrovertible truth of their opinions by a few of the most daring and dashing iliustratior s of the futility of stationary batte ries when opposed to the moveable and concentrated fire of floating ones. We are far from despising land fortifi cations, or considering their erection as a matter of no moment; quite the reverse —they are excellent in their way, and are invaluable auxiliaries; but as isolated an tagonists to the broadside of a fleet We deem them un equal to the.work—such at least as a British admiral or commodore would cut out for them. It is upon the authority of Lord Nelson we are able to affirm that, " the fire of cannon cnce opened (from a ship) is terrible to a town." The truth of that as sertion has been frequently and fearfully enforced-- not upon weak and powerless towns, but upon re nowned strongholds, bristling with guns and crowded with battlements, esteemed all but impregnable. We have amongst us more than one witness of the powerlessness of the mighty ramparts of Algiers when opposed to the comparatively petty squadron of Lord Exmouth. We have also others who behold St. Jean d'Acre, that fortress which defied the most deter mined efforts of Napolean, smitten to the dust by the thunders of British broadsides. But, as these were ope rations effected by line-of-battle ships, we shall proceed to show what has been achieved by frigates; and from frigates, we surmise, in the event of war, Auckland will require, primarily, to be defended. In July, 1810, Captain Christopher Cole, in the Caroline, 36-gun frigate, having under his command the Piedtnontaise, 38, Captain Charles Foote; garra mita. 18 gun brig-sloop, Captain Richard Kenagh; and a transport-brig, made a dash at Banda Neira. In despite of the manifold difficulties of an intricate and hazardous navigation, and the dangerous approach to a well-manned and strongly fortified coast, Captain Cole effected a landing, and, with 180 men, mastered fortresses deemed impregnable by the Dutch, and en forced the surrender of 700 regular troops and 800 mi litia, garrisoning a line of sea defences mounting 138 cannon, being little short of a gun per captor. Magnificent as this affair was, it was probably ex ceeded by the capture of the Island of Curacoa by Sir C. Brisbane, with " the saucy Arethusa " and three frigates, on Jan. 1, 1807, the chief port of which island, St. Ann, art and nature had done much to render strongly defensible. The entrance to that harbour, according to James, " is only fifty fathoms wide, and was defended by regular fortifications ; the principal of which, Fort Amsterdam, standing on the right of the entrance, mounted 60 pieces, in two tiers. Athwart the harbour, which nowhere exceeds a quarter of a mile in width, were a Dutch 32-gun frigate, a 29- gun ship corvette, and two large armed schooners. There was a chain of forts on Alisselburgh height, and that almost impregnable fortress, Fort Republique, situated upon a high hill at the bottom of the harbour, and almost within grape-shot distance, enfiladed the whole." Notwithstanding these stupendous defences, the four frigates dashed into the harbour, opened their broad sides, boarded the Dutch frigate and corvette, and stormed the town, the whole island submitting to the British in the course of that day. Oue more example of the powers of gallantly-com manded frigates, even against strong land defences, mid amidst perilous waters, may suffice—that example is the triumphant ascent of the Potomac, in 1814, by Captain Sir J. A. Gordon, in the Seahorse, and (the present Admiral Sir Charles Napier) in the Euryalus frigates, accompanied by the Devastation, /Etna, and Meteor bombs. This enterprise was one of consummate difficulty and danger, demanding an extraordinary degree of nerve and ingenuity, as the ships grounded repeatedly under fire, and were continu ally obliged to hoist out and to replace their guns, as well as to tow and to warp, and yet the ascent was suc cessfully achieved and the descent accomplished, in defi ance of clouds of " regular troops, riflemen, artillerists, and militia, who all flocked to the shores of the Potomac to punish the base incendiaries." The American news paper editors; says James, for some days feasted their readers with the anticipated destruction of the British squadron. "It is impossible," they affirm, " the ships can pass such formidable batteries, commanded by our , naval heroes, and manne d b y our invincible semeu.', But the British squadron not only did pass batteries, heroes, and invineibles, but carried 21 sail of prizes along with them, and that in spite of hot shot and cold, and after 23 days of incessant strife with man and the ele' ments. Having adduced, as we conceive, incontestable proofs of what can be accomplished by ships against fortified harbours—and strongly fortified ones too—we would fain be permitted to point to the strongest and most übi quitous means of harbour defence—floating batteries. England has shown the estimation in which she holds the efficiency of such defences by conversion of four line of-battle ships and four large frigates into block ships, arming them with guns of the heaviest calibre, and fur nishing them with auxiliary steam power. Although we possess none of these appliances, the construction of one or more most effective moveable bat teries is by no means beyond our reach. It is perfectly possible to build and equip praams of great strength and force, whose low mouthed, long, and heavy guns could be made. to follow up and play with the most destructive effect upon any intruder. We could suggest such praams to be built in several water-tight compartments, the double vessels of which each should be composed being of great beam, but little depth, and united under one deck. In the absence of steam as a motive agent, a central wheel might be worked An Satu: =Mails reel. 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