The Sun. — London, England, 1848-11-16 00:00:00

CONSTITUTION OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC. The following is the Constitution, as definitively Voted on the 4th inst.:— PREAMBLE. Art. 1. France, in constituting herself into a Republic, proposes to herself as its object to march freely in the path of progress and civilization; to secure a more equit able division of the charges and advantages of society between all citizens; to augment, by the gradual reduc tion of public charges, the sum of the general advan tages, and to cause all to arrive, without fresh commo tions, by the successive and constant action of the institutions and the laws, to a higher degree of morality, intelligence, and comfort. Art. 2. The French Republic is democratic, one and indivisible. Art. 3. It recognises rights and duties anterior and puperior to the positive laws, and independent of them. Art. 4. Its dogma is Liberty, Equality, and Frater laity. It has for basis, labour, family ties, property, and public order. Art. 5. It respects foreign nationalities as it compre hends making its own respected; it undertakes no war from views of conquests, and never employs its forces against the liberty of any nation. Art. 6. Reciprocal duties bind citizens towards the Bepublic, and the Republic towards citizens. Art. 7. The duty of the citizen is to love his country, to serve the Republic, to defend it even at the expense of his life ; to share in the charges of the State in pro portion to his fortune ; to secure to himself and his fa mily by his labour the means of existence, and by care and forethought to create resources for the future ; to concur in promoting the common welfare, by giving fraternal assistance to others, and the general order, by observing the moral and written laws which govern so ciety, families, and individuals. Art. 8. The Republic is bound to protect the citizen in his person, his family, his religion, his property, and his labour, and to place within the reach of each the instruction indispensable for all; it is bound, by a fra ternal assistance, to assure the existence of the necessi tous citizens by procuring them employment within the limits of its resources, or, when there is no family to provide it, giving assistance to those who are unable to work. With a view to the accomplishment of these duties, and to guarantee all these rights, the National Assembly, faithful to the traditions of the great assem blies who have inaugurated the French revolution, de crees as follows the Constitution of the Republic:— CONSTITUTION. CHAPTER L—Or THE SOVEREIGNTY. Art. 1. The sovereignty resides in the universality of French citizens. It is inalienable and imprescriptible. No individual exercise of the people can attribute to ihemselves the of it. CHAPTER li.—RIGHTS OF CIetZENS, GUARANTEED BY THE CONSTITUTION. ' Art 2. No man can be arrested, cr detained in-custody, except according to the prescriptions of the law. Art. 3. The dwelling place of each person inhabiting the Freneh territory is an inviolate asylum; it is not permitted to any one to penetrate within its precincts, except according to the forms and in the cases provided fur by law. Art. 4.. No citizen shall be deprived of his natural judges; no commissions or extraordinary courts can be created on any pretext or denomination whatever. Ar , . 5. The punishment of death is abolished in poli tical matters. Art. 6. Slavery cannot exist in any part of the French territory. Art. 7. Each citizen professes freely his religion, and receives from the 'State for the exercise of his worship an equal protection. The clergymen of the creeds re cognised by:the law have alone aright to receive a salary from the State. Art. 8. Citizens have a right to meat, to assemble peaceably, and without arms, to petition, to express the r thoughts by means of the press, or otherwise. The exercise of these rights has no other limit than the rights or the liberty of others, and public security. The press cannot in any case be subjugated to censorship. Art. 9. Instruction is free; the liberty of instruction is exercised en conditions of capacity and morality de termined by the law, and under the surveillance of the State. This surveillance extends to all establishments of education and instruction, without any exception. Art. 10. Citizens are admissible to all public employ meats, without other motives of preference but their merit, or the rights acquired according to the law. The Constitution recognises no title or distinction of birth, class, or caste. All titles, distinctions of nobility, of class, and of caste, are fur ever abolished. Art. 11. All properties are inviolable; nevertheless the State cln require the sacrifice of property for cause of public utility, legally proved, and on payment of a just and previous indemnity. Art. 12. The confiscation of property can never be re-established. Art. 13. The Constitution guarantees to all citizens the liberty of labour and industry. Society favours and encourages the development of labour by gratuitous pri mary instruction; by professional education, equality of relations between the employer and the workman; insti tutions of credit and provident establishments, voluntary associations, agricultural establishments, and the esta blishment by the State, the deptrtments, and the com munes, of public works proper to employ unoccupied bawls. It furnishes it,sistance to children who may have been abandoned, to the infirm and to the old without re sources, and whom their families cannot succour. Act. 14. The public debt is guaranteed. Every kind of engagement entered into by the State with its credi tors is inviolable. Art. 15. All taxes are established for the common utility ; each citizen contributes to them in proportion to his Alities and his fortune. Art. 16. No tax can be established and levied, except in vnue of a law. Art. 17. Direc• taxes are consented to only for one year, iniiront taxes m sy be consented /o for several years. CRAP sus 11r.- OF THE PUBLIC POWER. Art. 18. All the public powers, of every description, emanate from the people. They cannote be delegated hereditarily. Art. 19. The separation of the powers is the first con dition of a free government. CHAPTER IV.—OF THE LEGISLATIVE POWER. Art. 20. The French people delegates the legislative power to on A3sensbly. Art. 21. The t•Ail number of the representatives of the people shall be seven hundred and fifty, inclu sive of the representatives of Algeria tied the French colonies. . 22. That number will be raised to nine hundred for assemblies called on to revise the Constitution. Art. 23. The election has fur its basis the population. Art. 24. The suffrage is direct and universal. The vote is by b Tot. Art.2s. Are electors, all Frenchmen aged 21 years, and in enj , ,yrnent of their civil and political rights. Art. 26. All Frenchmen who are 25 years of age, and in enjoyment of their civil and political rights, are en titled to be representatives without condition of pro perty, qualtfication, or residence. Art. 27. The electoral law shall determine the calves which may di•prive a French citizen of the right of electing or being elected. It shall designate the citizens who exercised or having exercised functions in a depart ment of territorial district cannot be el, eta d within it. Arc. 28. Evsry public functionary with a salary is in com')atible with the election as a representative of the people. No Member of the National Assembly can, dur;ng the Legislature, be named or promoted to salaried public funct'ons, the holders of which are chosen at will by the executive power. The exceptions to the two preceding psragraphs shall be determined by the elec toral erjanic law. Art. 29. The provisions of the preceding article are not upplieaQa to assemblies elected for the revision of the Constitution. . Art. 30. The election of representatives shall be by departments and by ballot. The e'ectors shall vote at the chief town of the= cantos - ; nevertheless, by reason of local circumstances, the canton may be divided into several circumscriptions in manner and on conditions to be decided by the electoral law. Art. 31. The National Assembly is elected for three years, and is renewed integrally. Forty-five days at latest before the end of the Legislature, a law fixes the 'Period fqr,the new elections. If no law is made within the delay fixed by tbe . preceding paragraph, the electors assemble let full right on the thirtieth day preceding the end of the Legisl a t ure . Th e new A ssem bl y i s convo k e d as full right on .the morrow of the day on which the mandate of the preceding Assembly terminates. Art. 32. It is permanent. Nevertheless,riuring the proro ) it may ad journ to a day t o b e f i xed by its gation a commis s i on , composed itself the members of the bureau, and twenty-five repres a : b ri s t o a l tives, named by the Assembly by an and byabsolute majerity, has the Tight of convoking it in case of urgency. The President of the Republic has also the right e tocouvoke the upon the As sembly. The National Assembly determinescy place of its sittings. It fixes the importance the military forces established far its safety, and disposes of of them. l ---- Art. 33. The representative are always re eli gib le. Art. 34. The Members of the National Asse the representatives, not of the depart m ent which ele cts ele are cts them, but of all France. Art. 35. They cannot accept any imperative mandate. Art. 36. The representatives of the people are inviolate. They cannot be impeached nor arrested, nor brought to trial at any time for opinions they may have expressed in the National Assembly. Art. 37. They cannot be arrested in any criminal xnat:er unless when taken in flagrante delicto, nor pro secuted, until after the Assembly has permitted their prosecution. In case of arrest in flagrante delicto, reference shall be immediately made to the Assembly, which shall authorise or refuse the continuation of a prosecution. This provision applies to the case of ra citizen who, while in custody, is elected a repre sentative. Art. 38. Each representative of the people receives fin indemnity which he cannot renounce. Art. 39. The sittings of the Assembly are public. llevt rtheleas, the Assembly can form itself into a secret committee on the demand of a number of representatives, fixed by the regulation. Kieh representative has the Zight. of p trlismentary initiative, sad may execute it sccer.ling to the forms laid down by the rega'ations. Art. 40. The presence of the moiety plus one of the enerabers of the Assembly is necessary for the validity of the vote of the law. Art. 41. No projec t of law, except in cases of urgency shell be :lefieitively voted until after three discussions, $t ilitervale which cannot be less than five days. ,Art. 42. E=eryt proposition for a declarateee of In-- '', teiley is pri-coled by an exposé des motifs. If the As -444,_ ibl 1.1,i di.v.esed .ere enter tain the proposition of ur g enc y , i "i' l4lo 's 4 leibikeferred to the committees, and fixes the 114 ';,:. • , 44:144b.,t r , .ort on the urgency shall be pre :- : 'ee l laVt .. ii ( Tort, if the Assembly admits the (-1 - 0 - ee" ~, k,:tr• •, " an i fixes the moment of discus -- -- r - v-7 -4 7: .';,,". : '.."at there is no urgency, the project e r 6 ordinary propositions. 464.""rt Or THE EXECUTIVE POWER. 43 " he tench people delegates the Executive Power to a citizen who receives the title of President of I the Republic. Art. 44. The President must be a Frenchman by birth, aged 30 years at the least, and have never lost his quality of Frenchman. Art. 45. The President of the Republic is elected for four years, and is re-eligible only after an interval of four years. Neither can there be elected after him the Vice-President, nor any relations of the President, in blood or alliance, to the sixth degree inclusively. Art. 46. The election takes place in full right on the second Sunday in the month of May. In case, in conse quence of ;death, resignation, or any other cause, the President be elected at any other period, his :powers shall expire on the second Sunday on the month of May in the fourth year which shall follow his election. The President is to be nominated by ballot and by the absolute majority of voters, by the direct suffrage of all the electors of the French departments and Algeria. Art. 47. The minutes of the electoral operations are transmitted immediately to the National Assembly, which decides without delay on the validity of the elec tion, and proclaims the President of the Republic. If no candidate has obtained more than a moiety of the express suffrages, and at least two millions of votes, or if the conditions imposed by Art. 44 are not fulfilled, the National Assembly elects the President of the Republic, by an absolute majority and the ballot, from among the five eligible candidates who have obtained the greater number of votes. Art. 48. Before entering on his functions, the Presi dent of the Republic takes before the National Assembly an oath to the following effect :-In presence of God and before the French people represented by the Na tional Assemly, I swear to remain faithful to the demo cratic Republic, one and indivisible, and to fulfil all the duties which the Constitution imposes on me. Art. 49. He has the right to cause Bills to be presented to the National Assembly by the Ministers. He watches over and assures the execution of the laws. Art. 50. He disposes of the armed force, without hav ing the power of ever commanding it in person. Art. 51. He cannot cede any portion of the territory, nor dissolve nor p rorogue t h e N at i onal Assembly, nor suspend in any manner the empire of the Constitution and of the laws. Art. 52. He presents every year, by a message to the National Assembly, a statement of the general state of the affairs of the Republic. Art. 53. He negotiates and ratifies treaties. No treaty is definitive until it has been approved of by the National Assembly. Art. 54. He watches over the defence of the State, but he cannot undertake any war without the consent of the National' ka - sembly. Art. 55. He has the right to grant pardon, but he cannot exercise this right until after he has taken the advice of the Council of State. Armistices cannot be granted but by a law. The President of the Republic, the Ministers, as well as all other persons condemned by the High Court of Justice, can only be pardoned by the National Assembly. Art. 56. The President of the Republic promulgates the laws in the name of the French people. Art. 57. Laws d'urgence are promulgated within a de lay of three days, and the other laws within a space of one month, from the day on which they shall have been adopted by the National Assembly. Art. 58. Within the delay fixed for the promulgation, the President of the Republic may, by a message ex plaining his motives for doing so, demand a fresh deli beration. The Assembly deliberates ; its resolution becomes definitive, and is transmitted to the President of the Republic. In this case the promulgation takes place within the day fixed for laws d'uryence. Art. 59. In default of promulgation by the President of the Republic within the dela) s fixed by the preceding articles it shall be provided for the President of the Na tional Assembly. Art. 60. The Envoys and Ambassadors of foreign powers are accredited to the President of the Republic, Art. 61. He presides at national solemnities. Art. 62. His residence is furnished at the expense of the Republic, and he receives a salary of 600,0001. per annum. Art. 63. He resides at the place where the National Assembly holds its sittings, and cannot quit the conti nental territory of the Republic without being authorised so to do by a law. Art. 64. The President of the Republic appoints and dismisses the Ministers. He appoints and dismisses, in a Council of Ministers, the diplomatic agents, the com mandants in -chief of the land and sea forces, the prefects, the superior commandant of the National Guards of the Seine, the governors of Algeria and the colonies, the procureurs OA:aux, and other functionaries of a superior order. He appoints and dismisses on the pro position of the competent Minister, and in the regulating conditions determined by the law, the secondary agents of the Government. Art. 65. He has a right to suspend the agents of the executive power elected by the citizens for a term which cannot exceed three months. He cannot dismiss them but with the advice of the Council of State. The law determines the cases in which the agents so dismissed may be declared ineligible to the same functions. This declaration of ineligibility cannot be pronounced but by a judgment. Art. 66. The number of the Ministers and their at tributions are fixed by the Legisl .tive power. Art. 67. The acts of the President of the Republic, other than those by which he appoints or dismisses the Ministers, are of no effect, unless they are countersigned by a Minister. Art. 63. The President of the Republic, the Ministers, the agents and holders of public authority, are responsi ble, each as far as it concerns him, for all the acts of the Government and of the Administraion. Any measure by which the President of the Republic dissolves the National Assembly, prorogues it, or places any obstacle in the way of the exercise of its mandate, is a crime of high treason. By this sole fact, the President is deprived if his functions; the citizens are bound to refuse obedi- E rise to him; the executive power passes by full right to the National Assembly; the Judge of the High Court of Justice immediately assemble, on pain of forfeiture; they convoke the juries in the places which they point out, to proceed to the trial of the President and of his accomplices; they themselves appoint the magistrates charged to fulfil the functions of public prosecutor. A law shall determine the other cases of responsibility, as well as the forms and the conditions of the prosecution. Art. 69. The Ministers have admiision to the National Assembly; they are heard whenever they demand to be, and can require the assistance of the Commissioners named by a decree of the President of the Republic. Art. 70. There is a Vice-President of the Republic, chosen by the National Assembly, on the presentation of three candidates made by the President in one month after his election. The Vice-President takes the same oath as the President. The-Vice-Presidents cannot be cliosen from among the relations and family connexions of the President to the sixth degree inclusively. In case of the President being unable to attend to his duties, he is replaced by the Vice-Presidents. If the President ship becomes vacant by death, the' resignation of the President, or otherwise, the election of a new President shall take place within the month. CHAPTER VI.-OF THE COUNCIL OF STATE. Art. 71. There shall be a Council of State, of which the Vice-President shall be by right the President. Art. 72. The members of this Council are appointed by the National Assem .ly for six yeers. They are re newed the half at a time, within the first two months of each legislature by secret ballot, and by the absolute majority. They are indefinitely re-eligib.e. Art. 73. Such of the members of the C. tiecil of State as shall be chosen from among the members of the Na tional Assembly shall be immediately repl .ced as repre sentatives of the people. Art. 74. The members of the Council of State cannot be dismissed but by the Assembly, and on the proposi tion of the President of the Republic. Art. 75. The Council of State is consulted on the Bills of the Government, which, according to law, are to be submitted to its previous examination, and on the initia tive Parliamentary measures which the Assembly may ley before it. It prepares the regulations of the public administration; it alone makes those regulations, with regard to which the National Assembly has delegated a special authority. It exercises, with regard to the public administrations, all the powers of control and superin tendence which are conferred on it by the law. The law will regulate its other attributions. CHAPTER VII.-OF THE INTERNAL ADMINISTRATION. Art. 76. The division of the territory intd departments, arrondissements, cantons, and communes, is maintained. The present circumscriptions cannot be changed but by a law. Art. 77. There is, 1, in each department an adminis tration composed of a prefect, a council-general, and a council of prefecture; 2. In each arrondissement a sub prefect; 3. In each canton acantonal council; neverthe less, in cities divided into several cantons there shall be but one cantonal council; 4. In each commune an ad ministration composed of a mayor, deputies, and muni cipal council. Art. 78. A law shall determine the composition and the attributions of the councils -general, the cantonal councils, the municipal councils, and the mode of nomi nation of the mayors and deputies. Art. 79. The councils general and the municipal councils are elected by the direct suffrages of all the p p eartcmLllat of the citizens resid en t i n th e department, or in the commune. Each canton ele c t s a mem b er of t h e C ounc i l General. A sia law will sregulateeine,int thehe cmodeity t of r e a l r T s t , i o a n nd in the th to e wdnes having 'more than ' 20,000 • h atntants. Art 80., The councils and the municipal cou g n e c irral, the cant ona l counc il s, President_of th e it e may be dissol ve d b y t h e pu. kir s ie, with the advice of the Council of State. The law will ti the (May within which a re election shall take place. CHAPTER VIII.—OF THE JUDICIAL POIVEn, Art. 81. Justice is rendered gratuitousry in the name o f the French people. The proceeding s are public,un less in cases where publicity would endang er ordee be injurious to the public morality; and in thi s case the tribunal shall declare it by a judgment. Art. 82. The jury shall continue to be applied in cri minal matters. Art. 83. The trial of all political offences and of all offences committed by the press belongs exclusively to the Jury. The organic laws shall determine the cora tit tc ncy in s cast o' insult and defamation against privat e individuals. Art. 84. The Jury alone shall decide on the amount of damages claimed for offences of the press. Art: 85. The justices of the peace and their assistants, the justices of premiere instance and of appeal, the mem bers of the Court of Cassation and of the Court of Ac counts, are appointed by the President of the Republic, according to . an order of candidateship, or according to conditions Which shall he regulated by the organic laws. Art. 86. The nrigistrates filling the functions of public prosecutors are appointed by the President of the Republic. Art. 87. The Judges of premiere instance and of ap peal, the members of the Court of Cessation and of the Court of Accounts are appointed for tits.. They cannot be dismissed or suspended but by a judgment, nor placed on the retired list, except for causes and in the forms determined by the law. THE SUN, LON DON, Art. 88. The Councils of War and of Revision for the land and naval forces, the Maritime Tribunals, the Tri bunals of Commerce, the Prud'homrnes, and other special tribunals, preserve their present organisation and attributions until they shall have been abrogated by a law. Art. 89. Any disagreement as to attributions between the administrative and the judicial authority shall kre settled by a special tribunal, composed of members of the Court of Cessation and of Councillors of State, selected every three years, in equal numbers, by their respective bodies. This tribunal shall be presided over by the Minister of Justice. Art. 90. Appeals on the score of incompetency and excess of power against the decisions of the Court of Accounts shall be carried before the Juridiction de Conflits. Art. 91. A High Court of Justice tries, without ap peal or recourse in cassation, the accusations brought by the National Assembly against the President of the Republic:or against the Ministers. It alio tries all per sons accused of crimes, attempts, or conspiracies against the safety of the State, either at home or abroad, whom the National Assembly shall send before it. Ex • cept in the cases provided for by Art. 68, it cannot take cognisance but in virtue of the decree of the National Assembly, which points out the town in which the Court shall hol , l its sittings. Art. 92. The High Court is composed of five Judges and thirty-six Jurymen. Every year in the first fort night of November the Court of Cassation appoints from amongst its members, by secret ballot and by the abso lute majority, the Judges of the Upper Court, to the number of five, and two supplementary Judges. The five Judges called on to sit shall select their President. The magistrates performing the functions of public pro secutors are appointed by the President of the Republic, in case of the accusation of the President or of the Mi nisters by the National Assembly. The Jurymen, to the number of thirty-six and four supplementary Jury men, are selected from amongst the members of the Councils General of the departments. The representa tives of the people cannot form part of them. Art. 93. When a decree of the National Assembly has ordered the formation of the High Court of Justice, and in the case provided for by Art. 68, on the requisition of the President, or of one of the Judges, the President of the Court of Appeal, and in default of the Court of Appeal the President of the tribunal de premiere instance of the judicial chief town of the department draws by lot, in a public sitting, the name of a member of the Council General. Art. 94. On the day appointed for the trial, if there are less' than 60 jurymen present, that number shall be completed by the supplementary jurymen drawn by lot by the President of the High Court from amongst the members of the Council General of the department in which the court will sit. Art. 95. The absent juryman who shall not have pro duced a reasonable excuse shall be condemned to a fine of from B,ooof. to 10,000 f., and to the deprivation of political rights for not exceeding five years. Art. 96. The accused and the public prosecutor exer cise the right of challenge as in ordinary cases. Art. 97. The verdicts of the jury, declaring that the accused is guilty, cannot be given but by a majority of two-thirds of the number. Art. 98. In all cases of responsibility of the Ministers, the National Assembly may, according to circumstances, send the accused Minister either before the High Court of Justice, or before the ordinary tribunals for civil re• paration. Art. 99. The National Assembly and the President of the Republic may, in all cases, ret'er the examination of the acts of any functionary other than the President of the Republic, to the Council of State, whose report is made public. _ _ Art: 100. The President of the Republic can only be tried by the High Court of Justice. Except in the case provided for by Article 63, he can only have proceed. ings instituted against him on the accusation of the National Assembly, and for crimes and misdemeanors which shall be determined by the law. CHAPTER IX.—OF TELE PUBLIC FORCE. Art. 101. The public force is instituted to defend the State against enemies from without, and to secure the maintenance of order and the execution of the laws at home. It is composed of the National Guard and of the land and sea forces. Art. 102. Every Frenchman, with the exceptions fixed by law, owes military service, and that of the National Guard. The power of any citizen of liberating himself from personal military service shall be regulated by the law of recruitment. Art. 103. The organisation of the National Guard and the constitution of the army, shall be regulated by a law. Art. 104. The public force is essentially obedient. No armed body can deliberate. Art. 105. The public force employed to maintain order at home only acts on the requisition of the consti tuted authoritie=, according to the, rules ,determined by the Legislative Power. Art. 106. A law will determine the cases in which the state of siege may be declared, and will regulate the forms and the effects of that measure. Art. 107. No foreign troops can be introduced on the French territory without the previous consent of the Na tional Assembly. CHAPTER X.—PARTICULAR PROVISIONS. Art. 108. The L-gion of Honour is maintained; its statutes shall be revised and put in harmony with the Constitution. Art. 109. The territory of Algeria and of the colonies is declared French territory, and will be ruled by parti cular laws until a special law places them under the regime of the present Constitution. Art. 110. The Ngtional Assembly confides the deposi of the present Constitution, and of the rights which i consecrates, to the guardianship and patriotism of al Frenchmen. CHAPTER XL-01? THE REVISION OF THE CONSTI. TITTION. Art. 1l l. When, in the last year of a Legislature, the National Assembly shall express a wish that the Constitution should be modified wholly or in part, it shall proceed to that revision in the following man ners:—The wish expressed by the Assembly shall not be converted into a &finite resolution until after three consecutive deliberations, each taken at intervals of one month, and with three-fourths of the votes expressed. The number of voters should be at least 500. The Assembly of revision shall only be named for three months. It shall only occupy itsulf with the revision for which it shall have been convoked, but it may nevertheless, in case of urgency, provide for any legislative necessities. CHAPTER XIL-TEMPORARY PROVISIONS. Art. 112. The existing provisions of the codes, laws, and regulations which aro not contrary to the present Constitution remain in force until they shall have been legally abrogated. _ _ Art. 113. - All the authorities constituted by the ex isting laws remain in exercise until the promulgation of the organic laws which concern them. Art. 114. The law of judicial organization will deter mine the special mode of nomination for the first com p :sition of the new tribunals. Art. 115. After the vote of the Constitution, the Na tional Constituent Assembly shall proceed to draw up the org4nic laws, the enumeration of which shall be di tt mined by a special law. Art. -116. The first election of the President of the Republic shall be proceeded with conformably to the special law passed by.the National Assembly on Oct. 28, 1848. LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS' COURT, Nov. 15. WILSON V. EDEN. This cause, for carrying into effect the trusts unper formed of the will of Mr. Peter Johnson, of York, with seven codicils, proved in 1796, was again resumed, and Mr. Malin), for the defendant, Sir William Eden, who was in part heard yesterday, continued his address, and was followed by Mr. Dumergue, after which Mr. Turner, for the plaintiff, replied. The case depended mainly upon the following proviso in the will of the testator : " Provided always, that if it shall happen that my s a id daughter shall have no issue male of her body living at her death, or no such issue male as shall be entitled by the true meaning of this my will to my real estates hereby limited and settled as aforesaid, then, and in either of these cases, I devise all my real estates (sub ject respectively as aforesaid) to all the daughters, if more than one, of the body of my said daughter wh shall be living at her death, as tenants in common, and their heirs respectively, with cross remainders amongst them, in case of any one or more of them happening to die under the age of twenty-one years and without issue ; and if there be but one such daughter living at her decease, and no issue of any other such daughter then in being, then only to such surviving daughter and her heirs." Lord LANGDALE said it did not appear to him per fectly clear. He thought the sentence must be con sidered as ambiguous, and it seemed to him to be a matter of necessity that the other parts of the will should be looked to. He gave no opinion, excepting that it was the case of an ambiguous will, and he should send it to a court of common law for the opinion of the judges. After some remarks from the Counsel, His LORDSHIP said that he should send the case for the opinion of the Court of Queen's Bench. LEWIS V. BALDWIN. This cause came on upon objection taken for want of parties. Mr. ROUPELL and Mr. GOLDSMID, for the defendants, took the objection, which was opposed by Mr, TURNER and Mr. ANDERSON for the plaintiff. The suit related to the Midland Great Western Rail way Company in Ireland, the railway from Dublin to Mullingar, and from Mullingar to Galway. Lord LANGDALE Said the circumstances were such that he eould not safely decide upon them until the hearing of the cau. e. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 15. (Before the VICE-CHANCELLOR of ENGLAND.) EIMELL v. SIMPSON. Rw lill aitv,hetihsae then e a ga s n e acy a i n l of a ta d n y st L n i na t omed the consequencep Elizabeth laintiffo, Bolton, fSelinaw hic hbym M aria her rs. Bolto n ' s executors invested the sum of SC/. in the Three per Cent. Consols. When the plaintiff attained her ma jority she applied to the executors for the legacy of 501., upon which she also claimed interest at 4 per cent., to be computed from the end of six months from the de cease of the testatrix, amounting in the whole to the sum of 661. In answer to this application, it was stated that the sum of stock paid in to answer the legacy, with the interest upon it, only amounted to 561. 135., and this sum the executors were ready to' pay to the plaintiff. This offer was, however, refused, and the present suit immediately instituted against the executors for the 661. which the plaintiff had claimed. Mr. Bethell and Mr. Rogers appeared for the plaintiff. Mr. STUART and Mr. WALYORD appeared for the exe cutors, and contended that the executors being obliged to invest the legacy on aceotint%oe-lheplaintiff4,mine-. rity, it was precisely the same thing as if it had been invested by the Accountant-General ; expense had like wise been saved, which the payment in and out, under the Legacy Act, would have occasioned. This had ac tuated the executors in doing as they had done, and tho p!aintiff alone, out of many legatees, had complained. Under these circumstances, the case was an exceuOingiy hard one, and of vast importance to executors. The VICE-CHANCELLOR said, that the executors might have freed themselves entirely had they acted under tne Legacy Act and paid the money into court; but not having done so, he considered the plaintiff entitled to a decree. The costs to be paid by the executor. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 15. (Sittings in Banco, before Lord Chief Justice DENMAN, and Justices COLERIDGE, WIGHTMAN, and ERLE.) REGINA V. THE HAMMERSMITH BRIDGE COMPANY. In this case the Hammersmith Suspension-bridge Company had been assessed to the poor-rate of the parish of Hammersmith in the sum of 4751., in respect of the net rateable value of a moiety of the bridge and ap purtenances, situated in that parish. The company ap pe ded against the rate to the quarter-sessions of the county of Middlesex, when the rate was amended by atrikieg out the sum of 4751, and inserting in its place the sum of 360/., subject to the opinion of this Court upon a special case. The case stated, that under the powers vested in them by two Acts of Parliament, the company had constructed a suspension bridge from Ham mersmith, in the county of Middlesex, to Barnes, in the county of Surrey, and had mad e a convenient road- from the north-end of the bridge to Hammersmith, and also a road from the south-end of the bridge to Barnes, and another from the same end of the bridge to the road lead ing from London to Richmond. By the Act of Parliament it was provided that one-half of the bridge should be con sidered as being in the parish of Hammersmith, and the other half in the parish of Barnes. The company were bound to keep the roads which they constructed in re pair, and were authorised to erect gates upon the roads, at which they might take tolls for the roads alone, or they might take the whole toll for the roads and bridge in one sum. In fact, the toll had been taken in one sum at a gate on the Hammersmith side of the bridge. The case also stated, that of the ro a d s ma d e b y t h e company, there were 678 yards in the parish o f H ammersm i th, an d 5,328 yards in the parish of Barnes; and that 720/. was the net rateable value of the bridge and appurtenances, based upon the amount actually received, after making all lawful deductions and allowances, including the cost of maintaining the roads. The sessions decided that the net rateable value should be equally divided between the two parishes; but if this Court should be of opinion that it should be divided in proportion to the quantity of land occupied by the bridge and roads in each parish, the rate was to be reduced from 3601. to 1101. Mr. PASHLEY and Mr. WILLES contended that the decision of the quarter-sessions was right, in dividing the net rateable value into equal moieties, and that, even if the sessions were wrong, the net rateable value could not be divided in proportion to the quantity of land occu pied by the bridge and roads in each parish. This Court had never sanctioned the mileage principle of cal culation. Mr. BODKIN (with whom was Mr. Prentice) contended that the sessions were wrong, and that the mileage prin ciple of calculation ought to be adopted. Lord DENIKAN said, the Court would consider their decision. "! THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 16, COURT OF E.XGWEQUER, Nov. 15. (Sittings at Nisi P7iusaiWeitniinver, before Mr. Baron PLATT and Common Juries.) HORNE V. THORNBOROUGH. This was an action of trespass, whereby the plaintiff sougkt to recover compensation in damages for injury sustained by means of the forcible entry and taking pos session of certain premises, by an assault committed upon the wife of the plaintiff, and by her false imprison ment. The defendant pleaded that he was not guilty by statute. Mr. E. W. Cox conducted the case for the plaintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Chadwick Jones and Mr. Charnock appeared for the defendant. It appeared from the statement of the Learned Co unse l, and supported by the evidence which that Learned Gen tleman called, that the plaintiff was a working jeweller, carrying on his business in Leigh-street, Burton -crescent, whilst the defendant was a wheelwright, possessed of very considerable property. Amongst property which he had become the owner of was the house which was in the occupation of the plaintiff, which occupation he en joyed under a lease of 7, 14, or 21 years, determinable by the usual notice on the part of the tenant so long as the quarterly payments for rent were duly main tained. The defendant made his purchase subject to this lease, of which at the time there were some nine or ten years unexpired. It chanced that in the month of January last the plaintiff was imprudent enough to accept a bill for a friend, which acceptance not having been duly honoured, the plaintiff, as the acceptor, was arrested, and in the end thrown into Whitecross-street Prison. The rent of the house house the plaintiff had regularly paid up to the Christmas. In the month 'of April the plaintiff was still in prison, and at Lady-day a quarter's rent had become due. On the 26th of April the wife of the plaintiff left the house for a short time, and on her return was greatly surprised to learn that the son of the defendant had been there, turned out her son from the shop, taken possession, and then locked the door. The wife very naturally endeavoured to re-obtain an entrance, and, as the upper part of the shop-door was composed of glass, she did not in the end decline break ing it ; but no sooner had sho done so than some boys made their appearance, and the defendant coming up, seized her and tried to push her out of the passage. A scuffle ensued, and a crowd collected round the house. In the end, after some argument, the defendant gave the wife into the custody of a policeman, by whom she was taken to the Clerkenwell Police-court. The magistrate, having heard the na ture of the accusation against her, instantly directed that she should be set free. The defendant admitted to the magistrate that his son had taken possession of the place by his directions, but he was then told that he had acted most illegally in the step he had taken, and had rendered himself liable to an action. He was also informed that he must give up the possession to the plaintiff's wife, but on her returning to the house that intimation had proved of no ava il, see i ng th a t posses sion was still denied to her. The wife thereupon made an appeal to the magistrate, who sent two policemen with her to demand possession. The appearance of the policemen had the desired e ff e ct, a n d the poor woman was once more reinstated in her house. For the ill treatment the wife had re ce i ve d, an d t h e t res p a ss which had been committed, compen sat i on was th e r e fore sought by the present action. On the part of the defendant it was urged that the plaintiff's wife had, in truth, not only abandoned the possession, but had previously removed the goods and stock-in-trade. Finding this to have been the case, and that the door had been found open, the defendant directed his son to take possession, and to lock the door. The jury eventually returned a verdict for the plain tiff, with 251. damages. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 15. (Sittings in Banco.) moss v. SMITH. This action was tried before the Lord Chief Justice, at the last sittings after term, at Guildhall, when a ver dict was found for the defendant. Mr. MARTIN applied for a rule to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial had, on the ground of misdirection, and of the verdict being against the evidence. The plaintiff was the mortgagee of a ship called the Alfred, and the defendants are the directors of the Marine Insurance Company, from whom a policy for 1,0001. had been obtained upon the freight of the vessel, and this action was brought to recover that amount. The insurance was taken out in 1842, and the ship sailed in September in the same year, upon a voy age to Australia, and from thence she went to the co ,st of South America, arriving on the 28th of June, 1844, at a place called Cobya, where she took in a cargo or guano. On the 2d of September she got to Valparaiso, alai took on board a quantity of dollars and whalebone, and set sail for England on the 12th. Between the 12th and the 29th she met with a great deal of bad weather, and sustained considerable damage; and on the 29th she put back, and arrived at Valparaiso on the 19th of Oc tober. Upon being surveyed it was found that 19,000 dollars would be necessary to put her in complete re pair, but as that was more than the value of the ship, she was treated as a total loss, and sold for a small sum. For the defence, it was contended that there was no total loss, that the damage was greatly over-rated, and/ that a much smaller sum would have been enough to put the ship in repair in order to bring her to England. The sum of nol was paid into court. In support of the defence, a German captain was called, who stated that with slight repairs he brought her to England ; that she went back to the West Indies -and returned to this country in good repair on each occasion with a cargo, and that she was now employed as a ship of war by the German Republic. The Learned Counsel said it might be quite true, that with slight repairs, she could be brought to England, b u t s h e w as incapable of bringing the cargo which was on board of her, and therefore ought to be treated as a total loss. The Learned Judge directed the jury, that, if the ship could be repaired at all within a reasonable time, there was no loss of freight. The Learned Counsel held that this direction was wrong, and referred to several authorities in support of his argument. The COURT took time to consider their decision. --- POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUS E. George Whitaker was charged with having committed a violent assault upon a poor young woman. On Tuesday night the girl, who was passing home to the Borough over London -bridge, sat down to rest her self in one of the alcoves, immediately after which two or three young men turned as they went along to look at her, amongst whom was the defendant, who put his hand rudely upon her. She pushed his band aside, and he immediately struck her with the greatest violence with his fist in the face. An honest labourer named Durmain, who resides in David-street, Dover-road, hap pened to see the transaction, and immediately collared the defendant, and called for the police. The defendant resisted such interference, and not only struck the man but knocked his hat over the bridge. The police, how ever, soon separated them, and took the defendant to the station-house. The LORD MAYOR—Defendant, what have you to say in answer to this charge of most cowardly and brutal assault? The Defendant—l saw other young mon go up and look in her face, and I did so, and she gave me a slap in the face, which I returned. The LORD MAYOR then sentenced the defendant to pay the fine of 405., and the money not being forthcom ing sent him to prison for a month. His Lordship con cluded the case by making a present of a new hat to the poor fellow who so benevolently interfered. Rolfe, a plumber, and his Eon, were - charged with having robbed the premises of Messrs. Southill Lind Co:, of Nos. 13, and 14, King-street, Cheapside, warehouse- , men, and were remanded for further examination. GUILDHALL. A waterman, named George Jones, was placed at the bar before Mr. Alderman Gibh, on the charge of rob bing a person who came up from the country to see the Lord Mayor's show, to the aimunt of nearly 20/. Alderman GIBBS said he should s,md the prisoner to the Central Criminal Court. MA RLI3OROUGLI-S TR EE T. Two well-dressed young men, who gave the names of John Williams and Fran(4s Boot (one of the names is fictitious), were brought before Mr. Hardwick charg,d by Margaret Broughton with having stolen her brooch, value four guineas, and damaged her clothes very much. The complainant, who was rather stylishly attired, said, she had been to visit a friend, and was returning home through St. Martin's•lane, about two o'clock in the morning, when the two defend ints came up to her, and one of them insisted on having a kiss. She told them, if they were gentlemen, to behave as such. The de fendants, however, laid hold of her and pulled her about, and before she could free herself from them her " visite" and satin dress were torn. As soon as the defendants had left her she missed her brooch, which, she said, was worth 4 guineas. the immediately ran after the defend ants and accused them of stealing her property. A po lice-constable came up, and she gave both the defendants into custody. Police-sergeant- English said,. he took the two de• fondants into custody on a charge of having assaulted the complainant and stolen her brooch. The complainant was quite sober; the defendants had been drinking. Witness searched the defendants, but no brooch was found--in -their possession. Witness looked about where the scuffle had taken place, but he could not find any brooch. The defendants denied the charge, and witness was certain from their manner that they had ❑ot com mitted an offence of that sort. They had, however, evi dently been rude to the complainant, whose dress was disordered and torn. Mr. Leadley, the chief clerk, put some questions to the complainant in reference to her being out in such a plane at such a time in the morning. The complainant, who at first represented herself as a married woman, admitted that she did not live with her husband, and that she had formerly been " gay." Mr. lannwxcx thought, as the charge of felony was not established, that it would be the best course for the defendant to retire and make some arrangement with the complainant for the damage done to her dress. The defendants preferred to leave the whole affair to the decision of the bench. Mr. HARDWICK then fined them 40i. each for the as sault, and 20s. each for the damage. MARY LEBONE. Henry Cockburn, son of the late General Cockburn, was brought before Mr. Broughton in the custody of Sergeant Bewley, 20 D, charged under the following extraordinary oircuilistatices Hannah Partridge, in the service of Mr. William Cockburn, No.B, Brook-street, Hyde-park, deposed that on the previous afternoon, during the absence of her master, defendant made his way into the house, and soon afterwards she heard a great noise upstairs; she went to see what was the matter, and saw the defendant smash ing pictures and other articles in the apartment with a poker which he had in his hand. The floor was com pletely strewn with the fragments of frames, chimney ornaments, crockery, &c.., and he remarked that he was able to pay for what he had broken. Witness ran down to call upon some..men....W.Oley refused to interfere, alleging that it was no thi ng b u t a "family affair." De fendant, who had shortly before this treated the men with some gin, then called witness up, and told her to see what he had . done, at the same time saying that he had had his revenge ; he alsogave witness a blow, after which he went away. Harriet Spence, sister of the last witness, and who lives in the same louse, said she saw the property which bad been destroyed, and heard defendant exclaim that he would " kill the b-- w--- with whom his brother was living whenever he might chance to meet her." Witness did not sea the assault committed upon Hannah Partridge.. Witness added, that she heard defendant say that he should have been married last week to a lady with 1,0001., if he had not been prevented by the lady under his brother's protection. Mr. W. Cockburn, a clerk in the Ordnance-office, said that on his arrival at home, at a quarter to six, he found the pictures, &c., in the state previously described. The damage was not at all short of 2001. ; his mother, to whom the property was left, intrusted it to his care. Defendant—Your worship, the things were as much mine as my brother's ; and, because I could not get any of them, I broke what I considered to be my share. Mr. W. Cockburn, in answer to the magistrate, said, that the paintings and drawings, which were principally landscapes, were by his father, and that defendant was jealous and envious of witness having them under his care. In letters which the defendant had written a week or two ago he held out a threat to him (witness), as also with regard to the young woman who was living with him. Mr. BROUGHTON—Do you go in fear of personal violence? Witness—l do. By defendant—l know a lady named Field, and having been introduced to her by you I received her as a friend. You showed me a letter setting forth that my young woman had been too intimate with some officers at Maid stone, but the letter was got up on purpose to annoy me. I believe she did receive Ws. from a Lieutenant Gray. Elizabeth Masters, a pretty looking young woman, about twenty yeari of age, said that she had lived with Mr. William Cockburn more than twelve months. She admitted that three weeks ago she went from Gravesend to Maidstone with two officers, and that she went to.the Mitre Tavern in their company; ono of the officers par took too freely of wine in the course of the afternoon, and bft her, and the other was kind enough, at a late hour, to pay for her conveyance back to Mrs. Field's. She certainly acted very imprudently, but asserted in the most emphatic manner that nothing of an improper nature took place. Defendant—Was it not through you that the marriage hrtween me and Mrs. Field was prevented? Witness— Certainly not. Bewley, 20 D, and Bushell, 9 D, gave evidence to the effect that, after witnessing the demolition which had occurred at Mr. W. Cockburn's apartments, they fol lowed the defendant to his home in Queen street, where he barricaded the door, and threatened to " shoot them like b— rats if they dared to enter;" he also declared that he would shoot his brother and the woman who was with him. It was further shown that the defendant was ultimately taken into custody at eleven o'clock the next morning (yesterday) upon a warrant grantad against him for the assault upon the witness Hannah Partridge. The defendant complained of neglect being shown towards him by his family; and, not being in any em ployment at present, he had a right to look to them fur the means of support. Some other psrticulars were gone into, and Mr. BROUGHTON, after expressing himself in terms of severe reprehension as to the unjustifiable nature of the conduct pursued by the defendant, ordered him to find good bail fur his keeping the peace towards his brother and Elizabeth Masters fur six months, himself in 60/., and two sureties in 401. each, with 24 hours' nutice. CLERKEIV W ELL. A poor young woman, with an infant at her breast, attended at this court to solicit the advice and assistance of Mr. Tyrwhitt under the following circumstances:- - The applicant gave her name Boden, and said her parents, who were respectable, were dead, and she was left friendle.-s and destitute. She had been seduced, and the result was the birth of the infant which she held in her arms, in Shoreditch workhouse, about six weeks ago. On Monday last the overs?.c.r of that parish gave her an order of a friendly nature upon her parish, Clerkenwell, in order that she might be admitted with her child into that workhouse. On her arrival there she presented the order to a person named Bennett, who acts in the capa city of clerk to the board, when that functionary took the order from her, and ordered her to go back to Shore ditch, that she might be passed in the usual way. Il e detained the order, and she proceeded back to Shore ditch, where the parties *th.-.n refused to receive her, and told her to go back to Clerkenwell, where they were bound to receive her, as they had kept the order, and that was her legal settlement. She accordingly returned to Clerkenwell, where they then refused to receive or relieve her without an order. She told the gatekeeper that she had given the order to Ben pswn e ahi rt t ohi t vs , he hd and tieotre bsc another,hh andei i d w i a t nh s uaas o n rdds shetes a r h r e ev d ,viwna gtsaos bandiedc b wo e na k , f ti ni condition, about about tto fromha bac i nnki having onehtaot farthing in her possession, and no place to go to for shelter, and hunger and exhaustion urged her to make this complaint to the magistrate and seek his advice and assistance. The unfortunate creature fainted away through weak ness, and the officers supported her into the air, where restoratives were used until she recovered. Mr. TYRWHITT thought it most extraordinary con duct en the part of Bennett, and directed Mr. Nesbitt, the usher of the court, to afford the complainant immediate nourishment and necessary assistance, and afterwards to take her to Clerkenwell workhouse, which he did. He subserently reported to Mr. Tyrwhitt that he took them to the workhouse, where he saw Bennett, who treated the matter with pomposity; and it was with the greatest difficulty, and not until a threat was held out that ho would be reported if he refused to vceive the woman, that he consented to take her and her children into the workhouse. EDINBURGH CHARTIST TRIALS. VERDICT OF THE JURY. On Tuesday the case of Grant, Ranken, and Hamilton was resumed, and witnesses were examined on the pin of the prisoners. Mr. Moncrieff addressed the jury in a speech of nearly two hours and a half in defence of Ranken, and was immediately followed by M r . L ogan on behalf of Grant and Hamilton. The Lord Justice Cle r k having summed up, the jury retired at 20 minutes past nine o'clock to consider their verdict, and returned into court in about three-quarters of an hour. The Foreman intimated the verdict as follows:-- " The jury unanimously find the charge of conspiracy against the three panels as libelled not proven. "The jury unanimously find John Grant not guilty of sedition as libelled. "The jury further unanimously find Robert Hamilton guilty of using language calculated to excite popular dis affection and resistance to lawful authority. " And by a majority of one find Henry Ranken guilty of using similar language." The LORD JUSTCE CLERK said—Be good enough to observe, in regard to that part of the verdict that con tains the speciality, and which finds liamiiton and Ranken guilty of language calculated to excite popular disaffection and resistance to lawful authority, that this is the description of sedition libelled. To make your verdict correct you should determine whether they are guilty or not guilty of sedition to any extent that you please. You may, for example, say they are guilty of sedition in so far as that they used language calcu lated to excite popular disaffection and resistance to lawful authority- J - The Foreman of the Jury—That is quite our moaning, my Lord. 1848. The LORD JUSTICE CLERK—In the choice of the word "calculated," do you mean to leave out the word " intended," or is your verdict meant to embrace bOth? The Foreman of the Jury—We purposely left out the word "intended:" The verdict was then altered, as suggested by the Lord Justice Clerk, and agreed to stand as follows• " That the jury unanimously find Robert Hamilton guilty of sedition, in so far as that-he used language calculated to excite popular disaffection and resistance to lawful authority, anti by a majority of one find Henry Ranken :guilty of sedition in the same terms." The LORD JUSTICE CLERK then thanked the jury for the great attention which they had bestowed in this case, and also for the discrimination which they - had shown in the drawing up of their verdict. After some consultation with the other Judges, his LORDSHIP said that the Diet would be adjourned till Saturday at ten o'clock, when sentence would be passed. Mr. Grant was then dismissed from the bar, and the other panels were conveyed to prison. The Court then adjourned. We understand that it is at present the intention of the counsel for the prisoners to object to the sufficiency of .the above verdict. The trial of Cumming, for contravention of the Go vernment Security Act, sedition, and conspiracy, is to tike place on Wednesday, at ten o'6:wk.- EMIGRATION. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 14.—The Osprey, 768 tons, H. Brown, commander, is expected here on Thursday, to embark passengers for Port Philip. The Stead fast, Commander Thomas Spencer, has all her passen gers ashore, in the emigration depot ; and on inquiry to-day we find that the family that was attacked with 'scarlatina are fast recovering, and all the other pas sengers are in good health. The ship has been fumi gated and cleansed, and there is at present every pro ,bability of her being able to sail on Monday next. • The St. Vincent, 628 tow, Commander John Young, sailed yesterday for Sydney. She took on board eqUal to sixty-two statute adults, from Corn wall and Somerset. There was one family from the •north of Devon. The Diamond, a private passenger ship, arrived this morning, and will sail'for South AUstralia to morrow morning. She will take some passengers from this port. . The Britannia, 500 tons, Matthew Robson, for Port Adelaide and Port Philip, is hourly expected. This is one of the vessels belonging to Messrs. Mar shall and Edridge, and her commander,•on a former occasion, sailed with emigrants to the Australian Colonies, under-the Colonial Land and Emigration Commissiuters. COUNTRY MARKETS. LEEDS, Nov. 14.—Our arrivals are moderate for this day's market. The demand for wheat is quite of a retail character, and prices are' fu!ly ls. per quarter below the rates of Friday. Barley is also is per quarter lower. Oats and shelling steady. Beans as before. AVERAGE PRICES OF GRAIN. Qrs. s. d. f Qrs. S. d. Wheat ... 4.800 54 10 1 Beans 7B 35 10 Barley .... 918 36 9 Peas I Oats 344 23 5 Rye ARRIVALS DURING TUE WEER. Qrs. Qrs. Wheat . 6;354 Beans .. Oats 455 Shelling — Barley Barley 2,765 Rapeseed Malt Linseed Hula, Nov. 14.—The weather has been somewhat more se; tied during the past week, and it is to be hoped farmers are now embracing the opportunity of preparing their land for sowing of seed. It is late, the land is very wet, and this seldom - augurs well for a future crop; still, improved agriculture, and future seasonable weather, can do much towards remedying the apparent evil. Although imports during the past week have been mo derate, they have been fully equal to, it not rather in excess of, the counsumptive wants of the district, and a good deal of the wheat offering hawing come from Ham burgh in steamers, with selling orders, and to many different houses, the quantity has appeared larger than it actually was, and thus gavehuyers the impression of large supplies pressing on the msrket. Sales of wheat have been slow, and effected with difficulty, nothing but dry old grain going off at all freely. The duty on wheat has rises to 6s, and is not generally paid. We recom mend our friends to place their wheat in bond, as we hold an opinion that we shall see good wheat dearer be tween the present time and the opening of the navigation. The show of wheat brought by the farmers to our this day's market was smaller than of late, owing to the work now being attempted in preparation for seed. The trade was very dull and inactive; even the best runs only went off at 2s per quarter decline, while damp samples were unsaleable. Anything but ife in the foreign mar ket, though holders would have given way a shilling or two on late nominal rates, for the transactions have been most limited, and quite in retail. Making barley is not quite so much in demand as last week, owing partly to improved reports as to the making qualities of the English; still there is a fair sale. Grinding continues in good request, and large sales are daily made; 27s to 295, weight 5211 b, is obtained for light up to stale Danish. No oats offering at a market price. Beans, if hard and dry, are held firmly at our quotations. Less demand for boiling peas, owing to the mild weather. Grinding plen tiful, and offering on moderate terms. Arrivals of lin seed are small, and the market is very firm. There is a decided feeling towards improved prices in this article during the winter months. Black Sea is bought freely at 40s; Petersburgh, 48; and Memel and Konigsberg, 34s to 36s per quarter. Linse.el cakes are firmer, and more doing in them; no alteration in f reign. No transaction of moment in rapeseed. The price of rape cakes is low and tempting. NO 'alteration in bones or guano. . _ BASINGSTOKE, Nov. 15.—Corn—The wheat trade very dull, the supply large, and in much better condition; the best white and red old wheats alone found ready purchasers at a reduction of from 58 to 10s per load, best. heavy white (old) sold at 62s per qr, or 151 lOs per load; best red at 141 103 ditto; second rate, 131 to 141 ditto; flour, :468 to 50s per sack of 280Ibs. Barley was lower from Is to 2s per qr, prices from 30s to 35s per qr; malt at from 60s to 63s per qr. Oats—Best Poland and po tato at 25s to 26s per qr; moderate feed, 22s to 23s ditto. Beans—Old pigeon and ticks, 43s to 44s per qr; new ditto, 39s to 40s. Peas declined 2a per qr; best boilers, 428 per qr; grey and maple, 38s to 40s per qr. Rye, 343 per qr. Indian corn, 36s to 40s per qr. New winter tares, 128 per bushel; old ditto, lls ditto; spring tares, 103 to 126 Gd ditto. Hops—There were several growers from Farnham offering hops this day, prices asked 10s p-r cwt above the Weyhill, viz ,6/ per cwt for best, and 51 ditto for second ditto; Alums, 41 to 51 ditto; a few pockets were sold; others sent on for sale at Andover fair, on Friday next KINGSTON FAIa, Nov. 15.—Beasts.—Towards the close of business yesterday several large purchases were made by graziers from the Isle of Wight and others from South Ilants and Sussex. Large Devons and Here fords were disposed of at a great redaction ; some for which 141 to 15/ per head was asked on Monday sold at from la to 11/ditto. The heifers brought to Kingston were, generally speaking, of the first rate quality and size, yet many were not sold, although ruinous prices would have been taken. ILSLEY SHEEP FAIR, Nov. 15.—The sheep for sale were not so numerous as usual. Trade was much brisker than at Appleshaw fair, all of best quality finding ready buyers at an advance of full 3s per head', interior making also from is to 2s each more money ; the pure Downs and Cotswold sheep were of superior quality ; best half bred wethers made from 43s to 45s each ; Southdown ditto, 40s to 423 ditto ; Cotswold 'Pegs, 41s to 43s ditto; Down ditto, 36s to 38x ditto ; finest ewes in lamb, Berks fed Downs, made 38s to 40s each ; half-breds, 40s to 42s ditto ; second-rate sheep of both the above-named kinds were sold at from 4s to 6s per head less money. Lambs of the best quality reached 34s to 36s each ; moderate ditto, 30s to 32s ditto ; second rate ditto, 24s to 26s ditto. Nearly the whole brought found purchasers. Fat Sheep—Primest six- tooth Down Wedders, 4s 8d per stone ; ditto half- breds, 4s 4d ditto. THE PALACE COURT.—The question to be decided by the Palace Court is one of importance, not only to the profession but to the public generally. It is whether the court shall be thrown open to the whole of the profes- sion, or whether its practice, as hitherto, shall ,be con fined to six attorneys and four barristers. The point raised has attracted attention to another subject, ;which will no doubt be considered by the Government—namely, whether the court shall be abolished as militating against the principle of the County Courts Act, or whether its constitution shall be altered in conformity with the new courts. Complaints have been made that the Palace Court has a jurisdiction of twelve miles from the Palace at Westminster, in which actions can be brought for small sums at an expense considerably beyond' the county courts. The business of the court has increased to a great extent since the passing of the County Courts Act, and is likely to increase until an Act of Parliament shall be passed. There are two courts—the Marshalsea and Palace Courts—which are often confounded together. The Marshalsea Court is a very ancient tribunal, coeval with the common law, having reference to persons con nected with the Royal Household; whilst the Palace Court is of somewhat recent creation, being made by letters patent of the 16th Charles 11., and having a jurisdiction of twelve miles against all persons. The pointiraised is likely to be brought before the Court of Queen's Bench. CAMERON'S STEAM COAL Comparr.Yesterday, lan extraordinary meeting of this company was held, at the offices, in Moorgate-street. N. P. C omeron, having taken the chair, a question arose as to the legality of parties who were in arrear of calls being pre sent, or taking any part in the proceedings. The matter was referred to the solicitor of the company, who decided that, by the 26th clause of the Joint Stock Companies' Registration Act, no parties should be present at such meetings, or vote therein, but those who have paid all calls previously made. The chairman having suggested that all parties who were in arrear of calls should retire a stormy discussion arose, and there appearing to be no disposition to retire, the parties in arrear %%fere allowed to remain by the courtesy of the others. It was then stated that the main object of the meeting could not be obtained, as the committee of investigation had not come pleted their report, and requesta further time, in order to do so in a manner satisfactory to themselves. This was resi-ted by the chairman, and s,veral others, and after some consultation between the solicitor of the com pany and Mr. Fry, the solicitor of the committee, a friendly agreement was come to for adjourning the meeting until the 15th of December, previously to which the report of the committee would b laid before the directors, so that they might hays the opportunity of making any replies they should deem necessary. Th e meeting soon after adjourned. ttAILWAY SHARE I'HARKETts. BRISTOL Nov. 15. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market . has been dull to-day, and but few transactions have taken place. The sales are— Great Western, Quartet?, 4V s dis.—Great Western, 171. Shares, 3 dis. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 15. STOCK ExcnkNott.--The share market has been firm to day, and prices steady. A large amount ottusiness has been done at the quotations : —Caledonian, 19 V l —Ditto, Preference, dis.—Great Northern (A Shares), Deferred, 4—Lanca shire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 4% dis.—Ditto, 101. Preference, c. p.—London and North Western, 118% c.—Ditto, Quar ters, % c.—Ditto, Quarters (A and B), 1 p.— Ditto, Quarters (C), 335. 9d. c. p.—Ditto (Huddersfield and Manchester), 21 3, ,4—Midland Stock, 82%—Ditto, New Halves, 9% dis.— North Staffordshire, 6% dis.—Shrewsbury and Chester, 18.1. Preference, 13 t%—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, Thirds. 6 3 4 c. dis.— York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Pur chase), Bs, 9d. C. dis. MANCHESTER, Nov. 15. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Pie"err once, 5-16 dis. —Preston and Wyre, 343¢—Leeds, Fifths, 4% n. dis.—Leeds, Preference, n. p.—North Staffordshire, 6 7-16 n.— South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 6 11-16—East Lancashire, Preference, 634 —West Riding Union, 5% n. dis.—Huddersfield, Thirds, 7 1 4 n.—North Union (A), 202. 1311tM1 NGHAM. Nov. 15. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market was flat to day, with a tendency to a decline of prices. The sales are—South- Eastern and Dover, No. 2. 12—York and North Midland, 52 —North Staffordshire, 674 di3.— Shrewsbury and Birming. ham (A), 7% dis.—Ditto (B), dis.—Ditto, Preference, 2s. 6d. p.—Shropshire Union, 635. 9d. dis. YORK, Nov. 15. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day waa as follows: Great Northern, 6/.Bs. c.—North British, Thirds, 3 3 %—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 7 1 A c . A K it t A E. :VA L .., One half the wend are desolately single, and the other supposing them married, questionably contented. -Diflldence, or sense of right determine the former, and miscalculated hopes em .itter the latter. The solitary ore may shield himself under the plea sf caution and worldly prudence, and the indissoluble, regret an comprosing harry; but the truth lies deeper. Physical incapacity,. end broken health, are the great hindrtnces to domestic happiness and social content. The dowry should net be the only marriage se.:- clement. Honour and just'codensand that health sheildfe 'DS as item in the compact; it alone dignifies the alliance. Blighted hopes sr neglect wound more sorely than poverty or misfortune. Reader, if these surmises concern you, procure Dr. CULVILRWELL'S little MEMOIRS "On Single and Married Life, " pub. in 2 vels., la. oath (by post, in stamps, is. 6d. each). Let no imaginatively refined, er prudish feeling deter you, by their titles, nor be hindered oy misinterpretation of their supposed contents, from obtaining t , ern. They are not Intended certainly for mere idle cariosity, but 4Nr the closet perusal of those more deeply interested, to whom they are offered as antagonistic to the empyrical trash put forth on the above subjects, by unqualified authors, which alone or . ..Tether, are a disgrace to the age. Furthermore, two other title publications claim your attention (same price Is. each, by post Is. 6d.) called " What to Eat, Drink, and Avoid," and " How to be Happy." They are not merely Amphiets, but equal in quantity a library volume, nor are they the mere ephemeral scribblings of the hour, but the study of the author's , ife, who owes his present existence, health, and position to this ob servance of the maxims he would inculcate—to do unto others as he would be done unto—to live atter eatare's laws—and to keep always on the "sunny side of the way." , The above works may be Mad of Therwood, 23, Paternoster-row ;' Carvalhe, 147, Fleet-street • Mann, Cornhill ; Nalson, 457, West Strand ; or direct (by post or other wise) from the author (who may be conferred with personally, now - nines and evenings). 10, Argyll-place Regent-street: and all Illustrated by 26 Anatomical Coloured Engravings ca Steel. ON PHYSICALI) UA L ICATIO GENERATIVE INCAPA CITY, AND IMPEDIMENTS TO MARRIAGE. %le.?, Edition, enlarged to 196 pages. Just published, price Is. 6d., or' by post, direct from the Establishment, 3s. 6d. in postage stamps, PHE SILENT FRIEND, a Medical Work on. 1 the infirmities and decay of the generative system, from ex cessive indulgence, infection, and the inordinate use of mercury, with remarks on Marriage, and the means of obviating certain dis qualifications. Illustrated by 26 Coloured Engravings. By R. and L. PERRY and CO., 19, Berners-stroet, Oxford-street, London. Published by the Authors : said by Strange, 21, Paternoster-row Hannay, 63, and Sanger, 150, Oxford-street ; Starle, 23, Titehborne street, Haymarket; and Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street. PART I. treats of the anatomy andphysiology of the re-productive organs, and is Illustrated by Six Coloured Engravings. PART 11. treats of the consequences resulting from excessiveindul gence, and their lamentable effects on the system, producing mental and bodily weakness, nervous excitement, and generative incapacity. It is illustrated b} Three Explanatory Engravings. treats of the diseaseu resulting from infection, either in the primary or secondary form, and contains explicit directions for their treatment. The consequences of early neglect and of the shim of mercury, are also clearly pointed out. This section is illustrated. by Seventeen Coloured Engravings. PART IV. treats of the Prevention of Disease by a simple ap plicatien, by which the danger of infection is obviated. Its action is simple but sure. It acts with the virtu ebemically, and destroys its power en the system. This important part of the Work should be read by every Young Man entering into life. PART V. is devoted to the consideration of marriage, and its hales. The causes of unproductive union are also considered, and the whole subject critically and philosophically inquired into. Tuelloanien BALM OF SYRIACIIM is exclusively employed in treat-. ng nervous and sexual debility, impotence, &c., I 1 s .and 335. per bottle. The Concentrated Detersive Essence, as anti-syphilitic remedy, for purifying the blood in cases of infection, secondary symp toms, eruptions, and the abuse of mercury, I Is. and 335. per bottle. ferry's Purifying Specific Pills, 2s. ed. 45. 6d., and I Is. par box , a certain ..emetly in gonorrhce,t, elect, strictures. and chronic inflamma. tion of the bladder. Consultation fee, if by letter, 11. Si. Packets with advice tube had at the F-etablishment only, by which the foe, IL, is saved. kttendanee daily at 19, Berners-street, from Eleven til Two. and Five to Eight ; on Sundays from Eleven to Ono. ON NERVOUS DEBILITY AND GENERATIVE DISEASEs. Just published, the Thirty-sixth Thousand, an improved edition, re vised and corrected, 120 pages, price 2s. is a sealed envelope, or. forwar led by the Author, post paid, to any address, secure from observation, for 2s. 6d., in postage stamps, illustrated with nit& morons Anatomical Coloured Engravings. . MANHOOD: the CAUSES of its YREMA.. TURE DECLINE, with Plain Directions for its PERFECT RESTORATION. A Medical Essay on those Diseases of the Generative Organs, emanating from Solitary and Sedentary Habits, indiscriminate Ex cesses, the Effects of Climate and Infection, &c., addressed to the sufferer in Youth, Manhood, and Old Age; with Practical Itemarict on Marriage, the Treatment and Cure of Nervous suit Mental De. b;lity, Impotency, Syphilis, and other Urine-Genital Diseases, by which even the most shattered constitution may be restored, and reach the full period of life allotted to Man. The whole illustrated with numerous Anatomical Engravings on Steel, in colour, explain ing the various functions, secretions, and structures of the repro ductive Organs in health and disease; with instructions for private correspondence, cases, &c. J. L. CITRTIS. Surgeon. 7 Frith-street, Soho-square, London. •• • - - • - . . _ " ' Manhood.' A Itedical Work.—To Use gay and thought less we trust this little wore will serve as a heacois to warn them of the danger attendant upon the too rash indulgence of their pa ;sions, whilst to some it may serve as a monitor in the hour of tempta tion, and, t, the afflicted as a sure guide to health."—Chronicle " • Manhood.' By J. L. Curtis.—Their long expt rlence and re putation in the treatment of these painful diseases Is the patien:;'s guarantee, and well deserves for the work its immense cirulation." —era. " ' Curtis on Manhood' should be in the hands of youth and old age. It is a medical publication, ably written, and developer the treatment of a class of painful maladies which has too long been the prey of the illiterate and the designing."— Matted Service Gazette. The Parent, who beholds his beloved child pining away, and fast approaching to a premature grave, in consequence of some disease, which, for want of careful investigation of its real cause, has been set down to the score of consumption, will, on perusing this week, he astonished to find, that in nine-tenths of the cases of young per sons of both sexes, who perish of what is called pulmonary con sumption, heart disease, talses, &c., the solo and exclusive origin haS been the indulgence in certain destructive habits practised by youth much more frequently than it is at all suspected. N.B. Flours of consultation from Eleven till Two, sad Sic tO Eight •ro the Evening. L 0 V E is the leading feeling of the human breast. More exalted than mere passion, it soars high above every other impulse of nature, and is not only stronger than avarice, but more engrossing even than ambition. No man is exempt front its influence, or Call avoid its sway ; and business, pleasure, philo sophy, and divinity itself become neglected under the enthralling power of LOVE, which, unlike most things, increases in intensity with time, until it receives the sacred consummation of marriage; When union does not take place, however, this passion, this fervour, this golden tide of the manliest feelings becomes a deadly poison in the heart, which now darkens, as it before bright ened, all things upon earth. How is it that men, of most un changeable habits, will change at the very altar, and after a life= tuns spent in the fulfilment of every engagement, snap the very con tract asunder which should be most binding to an honourable mind? It is the effect of conscience. The Lover, by enervation of early habits, or the results of secret disease, knows himself to be disqualified, and dares not enter a state which has been instituted by Divine Law for the fulfilment of important ends. The wretched condition of such a being must subsequently be beyond measure deplorable I Loving and beloved, he entails the most miserable disappointments on the object of his choice, and upon himself a desolation the most horrible, when the simple possession of natural attributes would change the scene, and yield to both a life of unalloyed happiness. The subject is interesting, and deserves the attention of all. Those desirous of investigating it will find the fullest and most satisfactory information in the little work entitled SELF-PRESERVATIO N. illustrated by forty coloured engravings on the anatomy, physiology, and diseases of the reproductive organs ; with practical observe ions on the secret infirmities of youth and maturity, resulting from solitary habits, excesses, o: infection. By SAMUEL LAWERT, Doctor of Medicine, Matriculated Member of the University of Edinburgh, Licentiate of Apothecaries' Mall, London, Honorary Member of the Lot - lion Hospital Medical Society, &c. This treatise is the result of a long course of study in a peculiar and much neglected branch of medical practice, and the author having ob tained the highest medical honours, is a guarantee for his profes sional experience, which has reference almost solely to the treat ment of these diseases. REVIEW OF TRH WORK, La'Mert on the Infirmities of Youth and Maturity.—" There are scenes in the drama of life which are acted with no spectator but Conscience ; and of these the result is ever disastrous. Happy the mortal who meets with a timely mentor to snatch him from the gulf into which such scenes must plunge him I In the book before as such a monitor is to be found, calculated to warn and instruct the erring, without impairing one idea that can vitiate a mind not al ready tutored by the vices of which it treats. It is written in a style of masterly precision and lucidity, blending the profoundest truths of philosophy and physics with the loftiest precepts of morality. It is a production calcalated to confer a vital benefit, physically and morally, spon all who are tempted from the rigid path of abstemiousness and propriety. A father may trust it in the hands of his boy. By un taught innocence the book is not, of course, needed ; but wherever laxity has prevailed, the tender yet awful voice breatking in these pages is likely to prove as strikingly beneficial as the admonitions of a homily blended with the practical advice of a writer on medicine." —United Kingdom Magazine. The work may be had price 2s. 6d., of Kent and Richards, 52, Paternoster-row; Hannay, 63, Oxford-street; Starie, Tlchborne street, Haymarket ; Gordon, 146, Leadenhall-street Mansell, 115, Fleet-street; or, fire by post, for forty-two stamps, from the author's residence, who may be consulted on these disorders personally, or oy letter, daily, from Ten to Two, or from Five icEight. 37, ItEDFORD-SQUARE. L0ND071,7- BIRTHS. At Princess -street, on the 13th inst., the lady of F. J. Wallis, Esq., of her Majesty's Customs, of a son. On the 11th inst., at Brynderwen, near Uske, Monmouth shir ‘, Mrs. Grenfield, of a daughter. On the 11th inst., at Orme-square, Bayswater, the lady of H. P. Voules, Esq., of a daughter. On the 11th inst., at Bursledon, Southampton, the wife of the Rev. G. L. Wilson, of a daughter. On the 12th inst., at the Vicarage, South Raynham, Nor folk, the lady of the Rev. H. Lee, of a daughter. MARRIED. On the 9th inst., at Charlton Kings, Alfred H. Hartland, Esq., of Evesham, to Sarah Hannah, fourth daughter of the late Lieutenant-Colonel Meall, of the Hon. East India Com pany's Bombay Service. On the 14th inst., at the French Chapel, Little George street, Portman-square, William, second son of Nicholas Kirwan. Esq., to Anna Maria, eldest daughter of the late J. Byrne, Esq., of Worcester, and formerly of the 15th (King's) Hussars. DIED At Florence, on the SOth nit., Lieutenant-Colonel the Hon. Gerald de Courcy, the last surviving son of John, 26th Lord Kingsale and grand uncle to the present. On the 10th inst., at Berwick-place, Hatfield Peverel, Essex, Abraham Johnson, Esq., aged 74. On the 11th inst., at Eyusford, Kent, William Henry Fel !owes, Esq., aged 51. On the 12th inst., Frederick Walpole Anson, aged 42, Major of the 18th Native Infantry, Bengal. On the 12th inst., at Whitehill-house, Berkhampstead, G. Barton, Esq., aged 43. On the 13th inst., at Beccles, Suffolk, W. H. Crowfoot, Esq., aired 68. On the 13th inst., Mrs. Kearsley, of Alfred-place, Bedford square, aged 74. London: Printed and Published by MURD(.I YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun ()Mee, No. 112, Strand, iu the Precinct of the Savor. in the aunty of Middlesex, Thursday, November 16,1848.