The Sun. — London, England, 1835-04-11 00:00:00

The election is always for a year. The sheriffs often have the care of the gaol, and the custody of the prisoners con fined there. They have the ordinary emoluments attached to the same office in counties ; besides which, in some towns they receive salaries. They usually perform the duties of the office by deputy. 40. The bailiffs are usually chosen annually, and similar varieties occur in the mode of their election as in the elec tion of sheriffs. In those boroughs in which they are found among the chief officers subordinate to the head of the cor poration, they perform the duties of sheriffs. They seem to have been originally receivers and managers for the Crown, or other lord of the borough, and not to have had any duties in connexion with the corporate body until after the property of the soil became vested in the corporation, when the bailiffs also became corporate officers. In Bed ford and Southampton they are returning officers jointly with the mayor, and were so formerly at Cambridge. They often have the custody of the gaol. In many places the office has become entirely nominal ; in others the original duties of it have ceased, and have been superseded by those of treasurer, &c. The office is sometimes filled by one person, more often by two ; at Berwick-upon-Tweed it is vested jointly in five persons, the mayor and four bailiffs ; and bailable process must be signed by three of them. Their emoluments arise from the same sources as those of the sheriffs. In some towns they receive a salary, and in some, as at Bath, they are remunerated by being allowed to take the profits of part of the corporate property. 41. In many boroughs the mayor or other head of the corporation is coroner ex officio ; in others, the bailiff or town-clerk. When a separate officer is appointed, the election is generally in the common council. In York, he is elected by the freeholders : his duties and emoluments are those of a county coroner. In most places he is not required to be either of the legal or medical profession, and is often an inferior tradesman. 42. The town-clerk is appointed to hold his office during good behaviour ; most frequently by the common council, and sometimes out of their own body'; in a few places he is named by the recorder, and occasionally he is either no minated or approved by the Crown. In some towns, as at Ipswich, be is annually elected by the freemen from them selves. In most towns he must be a freeman ;in others, as at Bath, that qualification is not required. At Bristol the town-clerk must be a barrister of three years' standing ; but his duties there are those usually per formed by a recorder, and the ordinary duties of the town clerk's office are performed by his deputy. The town clerk is usually an attorney, and acts as legal adviser, and records the proceedings of the corporation. He is generally required to reside in the borough. He is usually clerk of the peace, clerk to the magistrates, and attorney and solicitor to the corporation. He is often ap pointed to act as deputy to the recorder. The town-clerk is also registrar, and principal officer of the court of record. He is generally paid by a salary, which in most towns is almost nominal ; the real inducement for holding the situa tion is the legal business, for which he is paid according to the usual scale of professional charges, or the introduction to private practice through his connexion with the members of the corporation. In some towns the duties of the town cl erk are separated from those of attorney and solicitor to the corporation and clerk to the magistrates. 43. The chamberlain or treasurer of the corporation is usually chosen by the common council, and in a great ma jority of instances is a member of it. His duties are to re ceive the revenues, to make the necessary payments to the order of the competent authorities, to keep the accounts, and generally superintend the property of the corporation. In some instances the mayor acts as treasurer, and in that case, as hi every other in which the chamberlain is a mem ber of the common council, he commonly belongs to the body by whom his accounts are audited. In some large towns, as Bath, Bristol and London; the chamberlain is never a member of the body by whom the accounts are audited. In the two former places the election is by the common council :in London by such liverymen-of the com panies as are freemen in. the city. The chamberlain is sometimes paid by a poundage on the income collected by him, mare frequently by a salary, and by the pro& of balances left in his bands. In corpora tions where his receipts are considerable he is often required to give security. The chamberlains of London and Bristol are each a corporation sole for certain purposes. The cham berlain of London decides disputes between masters and ap prentices, and Las power to order the imprisonment of the pprentice, or to cancel the indentures. The chamberlain of Bristol has tie sarae powers, but they do not appear to be exercised. 14. In inost cori7or'tiens a power exists of fining those who refuse to serve the corporate t , ) which they are elected ; the principal offices are generally so mu,:h de sired, that no recourse is had to compulsory means to fill them ; in some towns, as Maidstone, it seems that there would be great difficuli- c i in keeping the corporation properly supplied without some means of compulsion. Such fines have been occasionally made a source of considerable mno lument. At Leeds, the whole revenue of the corporation has aerued from this source. It is generally understood, that the members of the select or ruling body are exempted from serving the inferior offices of the corporation, and in some corporations of definite number, as at _ Andover, a power is exercised of compelling the inhabitants at large to fill the inferior offices, though they are now considered to form no part of the corporation. Fees are payable in al most every case to the corporation and its officers on ad mission to the freedom ; to which must be added, in places where guilds Exist, the fees payable to them and their offi cers for admission into the company. MAGISTRATES. 45. In almost all the principal boroughs there are muni cipal magistrates whose authority as justices of the peace extends over the whole borough. They are often chosen by the common council, and almost always are members of it ; where there are aldermen, they are usually takea from that class. The mayor is always the chief magistrate within the borough, when the borough justices are named in the charter ; in a few cases, as at Lan caster, Preston, and Liverpool, he isalso ex-officio a magistrate of the county. The recorder is in most cases one of the justices. When the mayor is a magistrate, most of magisterial business falls on him : in many corporations his magisterial authority continues for a year, or a longer time, beyond the time of his mayoralty, either by the express words of the charter, or by a custo mary election. In many of the large cities and boroughs all the alder men are magistrates ; in others only those are so who have passed the chair, as in Liverpool, Norwich, and Lynn ; in Norwich, the aldermen who have not passed the chair are magistrates in their own wards. In other towns, as Ports mouth, a certain number of aldermen only are annually elected to that office, which ceases with the year, unless they are re-elected. In Doncaster three aldermen are chosen to be magistrates as long as they continue aldermen. In many towns, as Carlisle and Kendal, the senior alder men only are magistrates. In Ripon, the two aldermen who were last mayors are magistrates ; in Richmond, the last mayor only is so constituted. Their jurisdiction is sometimes'concurrent with that of the county magistrates, more commonly exclusive ; and even when the county magistrates have a concurrent ju risdiction, it is rarely exercised by the latter within the borough. CRIMINAL COURTS. 46. The majority of corporations in England and Wales exercise a criminal jurisdiction within the limits of the bo rough ; in some no traces of any such powers can now be found ; in others, it has long been disused ; in others, it is but partially exercised. Many send all serious cases to the county sessions or assizes. Some of those which formerly exercised jurisdiction over capital offences have now abandoned it ; others, as Salisbury, Southampton, and Chichester, still try capital offences ; but when capital punishment is expected to follow conviction, an arrange ment is made to prevent a trial before the corporate authorities solely. Several corporations, as Berwick-upon- Tweed, Bristol, Canterbury, Exeter, Rochester, still exer cise their chartered privilege of trying and executing crimi nals for capital offences. In a few cases, the criminal juris diction given by charter includes that of a court of admi ralty ; at Bristol, felonies committed on a part of the Bristol Channel are triable at the ordinary court of gaol delivery, not as a court of admiralty, but as committed within the body of the county. At Marlborough, where the justices are nominated by the mayor, felons were tried until 1824, when it was discovered that the corporation did not possess any such jurisdiction. 47. The ordinary criminal courts are those of gaol de livery, and of general and quarter sessions. The courts of gaol delivery are found in very few places ; where they exist, they are sometimes held under the charters without any commission issuing from the Crown. In London, Ox ford, and some other places, they are never held without such a commission. Where no commission issues, the cor porate magistrates are the sole judges. The time of holding these courts is sometimes discretionary with the corporate magistrates, sometimes regulated by the charter, as at Exe ter, where they must be held four times a year, and are in practice opened at the same time as the quarter sessions. The borough sessions seldom differ as to the times and manner of holding them from the county quarter sessions. In all the corporate courts some magistrates are specially named, without whose presence the court cannot be held ; these are usually the mayor or recorder, sometimes both. Where the presence of the recorder is not necessary for holding the courts, he sometimes does not attend ; the whole business is often conducted before him. At Bristol, the recorder tries the prisoners at the gaol delivery, but does not attend the quarter sessions ; the prisoners at the quarter sessions are tried before the mayor and aldermen, hut virtually by the town-clerk, who is necessarily a bar rister. 48. The juries are generally summed from the inhabi tants at large, without strict reverence to any qualification ; sometimes from the freemeii alone. In the latter case, the number out of whom they are chosen is often inconveniently small. At Pontefract the petty jury is always chosen from the freemen, the whole number being only 26. The mem bers of the ruling body sometimes claim an exemption from serving on any of the borough juries ; in other cases the grand jury is summoned exclusively from them. In Lincoln none are qualified to serve on the grand jury but those who have served the office of chamberlain, the nomination to which is in the mayor. At Scarborough freemen never serve on the borough juries. In corporate counties the lists are commonly made out by the sheriffs in the usual manner ; in other boroughs they are commonly struck in. the office of the town-clerk. In some towns, as Liverpool, one of the judges of the court has the power of striking the jury ; the mayor in several towns, as at Bristol, nominates the foreman of the grand jury, and very frequently settles the whole list after it comes from the town-clerk's office. At Bristol, in consequence of the want of attention to the local customs in the framers of an act of Parliament, a dis trict, now estimated to contain 5,000 inhabitants, never furnishes any jurymen either to Bristol or the adjoining county of Somerset. 49. In many boroughs no fund is provided for the pay ment of the expenses of prosecutions ; in some they are paid out of the county-rate, in others out of a borough-rate, in the nature of a county-rate ; in others out of the poor-rate. In many of the principal towns, as Liverpool, Bristol, Berwick-upon-Tweed, Hull, Leeds, Newcastle, and York, the criminal courts are attended by barristers ; but in most of the smaller places the business is conducted solely by attornies. . CIVIL COURTS. 50. In a large majority of the boroughs in England and Wales there are local civil courts with a jurisdiction co extensive with the limits of the borough. These in general have their origin in particular charters, but occasionally they exist by prescription. They vary considerably with regard to the nature of the actions which they may enter tain. In some, actions real, personal, and mixed may be brought, and in general they have cognizance of all per sonal actions. The amount for which such actions can be brought is often unlimited (subject to the power of re moval); while in several of the courts it is restrained to the recovery of debts under a given sum. Those courts whose powers are most limited are confined to suits where the debt or damage does not exceed 40s. In practice suits for any other cause of action than debts are seldom instituted in these courts, unless in some of the larger boroughs, where the ordinary kinds of action which occur at assizes are tried. 51. The borough courts, or, as they are usually denomi nated, the courts of record, in their general constitution re semble the superior courts of common law. When created by charter, the proceedings arc according to the course and. practice of some one of the superior courts at 'Westminster. They seldom possess any printed or written rules regulat ing their proceedings, and their practice, therefore, is very ill defined. In some instances rules have been prepared and published, after being submitted to the approbation of the judges of assize. Suits are generally commenced, in case of serviceable process, by summons, and of bail able process by capias. With regard to the times of the return of process, and. consequently to the period of obtain ing judgment, the practice varies. In many courts precepts in the nature of writs are returnable, and the other steps in the cause are taken weekly ; in others, only every fortnight or three weeks. In contested cases, judgment can be ob tained in but few of the courts under six weeks, generally in a longer period. In some boroughs (as at Bridgewater) the courts have adopted the shaft and improved forms of pleading promulgated 'by the courts of common law. In some courts, the process is by distringas, or attachment of the defendant's goods, and venditioni exponas, in eases where the debt exceeds 40s. This is generally founded on affidavit of the debt ; but at Berwick-upon-Tweed, it is sues without affidavit, if the demand is under 15/. At Lancaster the same process issues without. affidavit, when the demand is under 40s. At Preston burgesses are'exempt from this process. In several local courts, as at London, Bristol, and Exeter, there is the custom of foreign attach ment, by which a plaintiff may attach the goods of his debtor in the hands of a third party within the borough, and cause them to be applied in satisfaction of his debt in default of appearance. This custom is extensively used in the - places where it exists. In Lancaster the goods of non freemen only can be attached. 52. The presiding officer in these courts is generally the mayor, and hence they are not unfrequently termed the Mayor's Court. Sometimes the bailiffs preside with the mayor, in other instances the recorder, and occasionally some or the aldermen are judges. In other cases, the re corder, though a magistrate of the borough, is not a judge of the cnnrt of record. The town-clerh in many boroughs practically j , v7a-e. The . officers of these courts in general are, the town-clerk ani the bailiffs or serjeants at-mace. The town-clerk usually perroms all the duties of the court, except' those whiCh belong to the alike of sheriff. He issues the writs, files and enrols the proceed ings, grants rules, taxes the costs, and signs the judgments. The bailiffs or sergeants at mace perform in these courts the duties which in actions brought in the superior courts of common law devolve upon the sheriffs of counties. To them writs are directed, and by them they are served and returned, and they are in general answerable, like sheriffs of counties, for any is regularity in the service. It must be understood, however, that the character of the officers de scribed by these names varies in different boroughs ; but in every court there is a functionary of this description who performs these duties. .In some boroughs, as in ,Liverpool, the bailiffs are judges cf the court, and the office of sheriff is performed by the sergeant at mace ; in others the bailiffs are the officers for the execution of process. At Berwick upon-Tweed, the bailiffs are judges, and empanel the juries. Where the civil courts have fallen into disuse, the sergeatits at mace have been converted into mere attendants upon the mayor. _ _ _ 53. In many boroughs, before an attorney is allowed to practise in the court of record, he is compelled to enter himself as an attorney of that court ; in others, every person admitted an attorney of any of your Majesty's superior courts is permitted to practise without any further qualifi cation. At Chichester, persons who are not attornies practise through the four sergeants at mace, the only no minal attornies. In many instances the number admitted is limited. In a few of the larger boroughs barristers prac tise ; in the other borough courts the attornies act both as advocates and as attornies. M. It is only in the civil courts of the larger boroughs that the attendance of a jury is frequently required. In other places the suit seldom proceeds to issue, but is gene rally settled in its earlie s t s t ages . Frequently, not more than two or three actions are brought to trial in the course of a year, although more than 100 writs may have been sued out. The juries summoned to sit on the trial of civil causes are almost invariably shosen in the same manner as the juries in criminal cases. GAOLS. 55. In nearly all the boroughs possessing criminal juris diction, there are gaols under the superintendence of the corporation or municipal magistrates. Sometimes the ex penses of the gaols aro defrayed by the corporation, some times out of a borough-rate, sometimes out of the poor-rate. In many boroughs the same gaol is used indiscriminately for criminals, and for the prisoners committed by the court of record. The poor debtors occasionally receive a small al lowance from the corporation whilst in confinement. In boroughs where the municipal magistrates commit to the county gaol, the borough gaols are only used as places of temporary confinement. Sometimes prisoners are commit ted at once to the county gaol to undergo the punishment adjudged to them. Debtors, taken under process from the court of record of the borough, must remain in the borough gaol. POLICE. 56. In a very great number of towns there are no watch men nor police-officers of any kind, except the constables, who are unsalaried officers. They are sometimes appointed at a court leet, more frequently by the corporate authori ties. The police, and the powers conferred by local acts for paving, lighting, and watching the town, are seldom exclusively in the jurisdiction of the corporation ; some times they are shared by the corporate authorities and commissioners, sometimes are vested in commissioners alone. Many of the corporate functionaries are often named in these acts as commissioners er officio. In several large towns more than one of these boards has been introduced. In many places, where powers to watch and light have been obtained, they are not put in execution. Some boroughs have adopted the provisions of 11 George IV., c. 27, for enabling parishes to levy rates for lighting and watching. Where there are fairs and markets within the circuit of the corporate towns, the municipal corporation in most cases has the superintendence and management of them, as incident both to their property and to their general muni cipal authority. Many of these have courts of piepoudre, disused in the greater number of instances, but in others still available for the purposes for which they were originally instituted. An anomalous case occurs at Bristol of the connexion of the piepoudre court with one of the courts of record, so that actions commenced in one can be continued in the other. The Cinque Ports possess by charter a sin gular power, now disused, of appointing bailiffs, who, jointly with the bailiff of Yarmouth, in Norfolk, are entitled to exercise jurisdiction at the fair of Yarmouth, similar to that of a court of piepoudre. MANAGEMENT OF POOR. 57. The management of the poor in some towns is vested in the corporation, in others, as at Bristol and Exeter, it is vested in a distinct corporate body, of which some of the members of the municipal corporation form a part. At Hull the recorder and members of the common council are exempted from being chosen members of the corporation of guardians of the poor. At St. he's, the management of the poor is altogether in the hands of the THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY, APRIL 11, 1835. aldermen, who are the ancient select vestry ; at Norwich, it has been taken from the corporation. EXTENT OF LOCAL JURISDICTION. 58. The boundaries of the jurisdiction exercised by the several municipal Corporations in England and Wales are generally known with tolerable accuracy. Occasionally doubts and disputes occur with regard to small parcels, frequently arising from a confusion between corporate and parochial boundaries. The corporations in some places make periodical perambulations of a district not contermi nous with that in which they claim authority ; occasionally, as at Lancaster, this is connected with a vague tradition of former authority or property : sometimes no explanation can be given, unless it resolves itself into a case of con fusion of the acts of the corporation with those of a paro chial vestry or leet jury. In those corporations which have abandoned or lost their power of municipal govern ment much difficulty often occurs in ascertaining the limits of the municipal privileges, which in such cases are usually of little value. 59. In some cases, as at Grantham and Brecon, the corporate boundary is not continuous, but includes outlying parcels of ground. Several remarkable instances of this occur in the Cinque Ports ; one of the most striking is at Hastings, where the corporate magistrates have authority, among other places, over two detached precincts distant from Hastings 40 and 50 miles respectively. The town of Ramsgate is subject to the jurisdiction of the corporation of Sandwich, as is also the corporate town of Deal, which adjoins Sandwich. 60. In most important towns the suburbs have extended themselves far beyond the limits of the corporate authority. The population of the city and county of Bristol is 59,000; the suburbs beyond the city contain an additional popula tion of 45,000. The population of the city of Rochester is only 9,891 ; the district immediately adjoining it, includ• ing the town of Chatham, comprises nearly 22,000 per sons. The city of Carlisle contains 8,356 persons ; the suburbs are of as great extent, and contain a population of 10,713. At Hull the municipal borough contains 15,996 ; the county of the town, including the borough, 32,958 ; the suburbs, which are beyond the jurisdiction of the borough magistrates, contain 20,000 more. 61:Frequently there are precincts locally situate within the limits of the corporate authority, but exempted from its jurisdiction. Such are found at York, Lincoln, Nor wich, Winchester, and Chichester. These have usually originated in ecclesiastical privileges, or have been the site of the castle of the lord of the borough. In the city of Canterbury there are not less ) than fifteen such precincts, though some are in dispute between the counties of Kent and Canterbury. By the Act 2d William IV., c. 45, for amending the re presentation of the people of England and Wales (com monly called the Reform Act) the right of voting for Mem bers of Parliamertt was extended to the inhabitants of all such precincts, but that Act did not affect their exemption from the corporate jurisdiction. 62. Many corporations exercise authority over the adja cent waters to a considerable distance beyond their land boundary. • The liberties and jurisdiction of Rochester on the Med way extend to Sheerness, a distance of 20 miles. Bristol has jurisdiction as far as the Holmes in the Bristol Channel, 25 miles from the town. Neweastle-upon-Tyne has juris diction on 10 miles of the river below the town, and 7 above it. The jurisdiction of Ipswich extends over a considerable part of the harbour of Harwich. into the shop, aimed a kick a posteriori, and concluded by spitting again at her. This was the assault complained of. A host of female gossips from Cross-street attended to give evidence, but all that Mrs. Burton, the principal wit ness was able to prove was, that " she seed Mrs. Lyons's head go," but whether the act described by the complainant took place or no she was unable to state. A second witness heard the defendant call the zom plainant " a stinking, squinting, she nigger," meaning thereby an insinuation relative to the complainant having come of " Indian abstraction." The defendant, in reply to the charge, retorted on Mrs. Palmer, by saying that she had scandalised her to her hus band, and it was out of revenge that she had allowed her tongue certain freedom concerning the complainant. Mr. CONANT thought the parties had better settle their differences among themselves, and after some time the com plainant consented to have the warrant discharged, upon re ceiving the amende honorable from the defendant. PROPERTY. 63. Many of the corporations have considerable revenues derived from various sources ; from lands, leases of tithes, and other property ; from tolls of markets and fairs ; from duties or tolls imposed on the import or export of goods and merchandise, usually called town dues ; from other duties, as from quay dues, anchorage, &c. ; and from fees payable on the admission of officers and burgesses, as well as from fines impose:l on persons refusing to perform the duties of corporate offices. 64. In many of the corporations the revenues are suffi cient for the maintenance of all necessary municipal insti tutions. In many, though amply sufficient for supporting the various purpnies for which municipalities were insti tuted,- they are but partially applied to them. In most, how ever, the revenues would be inadequate to these purposes, though they should be entirely expended upon them. In several boroughs a rate is levied on the inhabitants, in the nature of a county-rate. There are many instances among the boroughs returning members to Parliament in which the revenues are inadequate to the wants of the municipality, and in which the deficiency has been supplied, either from the funds of the patron, or by the members for the borough. In some, before the passing of the Reform Act, the members for the borough or the patron paid all the municipal expenses. Since that epoch these contributions have ceased, and such corporations have no longer the means of maintaining muni cipal institutions of any kind. .65. Extensive commons often belong to the freemen of corporate towns, the benefits of which are shared by them 1.-larious modes. 'Sometimes, as at Lancaster and Bath, the whole is farmed - out, and the profits are divided among all or a certain una-.1 or of them ; more frequently they themselves exercise, under resi..:ction, the rights of common of pasturage. At Berwick-upon't wc,::!, where the affairs are administered by the whole body of burgesses, t!:97, value of the lands of which the profits are taken by the free,acn is near 6,0001. per annum. Some corporations hold their estates charged with -the duty of repairing bridges and other works in their neigh bourhood. Others have the control of funds appropriated to specific objects connected with the welfare of the town. In numerous cases they are the trustees of property vested in them for charitable purposes. 66. The revenues of the corporations are variously em ployed : a great part is usually absorbed in the salaries of their officers, and entertainments of the common council and their friends. The costs of prosecutions at the borough sessions, and of suppeiting the gaols, form part of the ex penditure in some places. It is not often that much of the corporate property is expended on police or public improve ments. 67. The debt of many corporations is extremely heavy. In some, the payment of the interest absorbs a very large proportion of the revenue ; others are absolutely insolvent. 68. The facts with respect to the amount and manage ment of the corporate property, the expenditure and the debts, have been in many places elicited with difficulty, and only imperfectly, dwilig to the irregular manner in which the accounts have been kept. In some places no accounts are kept, in others they are kept in a very imperfect man ner ; in very few is• there any regular and efficient audit, and in still fewer any publication of the accounts. PATRONAGE. 69. The corporations frequently possess patronage, both ecclesiastical and lay. They p resen t t o li v i ngs , a ppoint lecturers, masters of schools and hospitals, and have the power of selecting the objects of various charities. This patronage is sometimes exercised by the governing bodies, sometimes by particular officers. 70. Having thus given a general view of the ordinary constitution of the municipal corporations in England and Wales, we proceed to execute that part of your Majesty's commission directing us to certify to your Majesty the de fects we have found in their constitution. We humbly re present that we have considered that the terms of the said commission do not authorize us to recommend specific mea sures for the improvement of the corporate system. We have, therefore, refrained from pointing out even the most obvious remedies for the imperfections we have observed, unless so far as the suggestion of the remedy, in some cases, is unavoidably implied in the statement of the evil. (To be continued.) POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. A person of the name of Snow, a tailor, residing in White Horse-yard, Drury-lane, was brought before Mr. HALLS, charged with the murder of his wife. The deceased, who has been labouring under illness for some time, was discovered last night with a severe and deep wound in her throat lying in her bedroom. As soon as the discovery was made, Mr. Cosgrove, the parish surgeon of St. Clement's, was sent for, who rendered all possible assist ance to the poor woman, but without effect, as she died in the course of the night. In consequence of some suspicious circumstances having occurred, Wright, one of the parish constables of St. Clement's, apprehended the prisoner. The prisoner, in his defence, left his wife in bed yester terday morning, and did not return until the evening, when he found the door fastened. After repeated knocking he burst the door open, and discovered his wife with her throat cut, on which he gave the alarm. Mr. HALLS observed that as a Coroner's inquest would be held on the body he should order the accused to be de tained until the result of the investigation was known. The accused was then conveyed to the station-house. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Mrs. Abi Palmer, a straw-bonnet-maker, in Cross-street, brought Mrs. Mary Lyons, her neighbour, before Mr. CONANT and Mr. HALL, for having assaulted her.. The complainant, a coffee-complexioned little woman, with a remarkable squint, began by stating that, ever since the defendant ceased to be her - lodger, she had gone about relating matters of scan-mag concerning her character. As she was taking a mouthful air at the street-door on Wed nesday evening the defendant, with arms akimbo, came up to her, and accused her, in the face of the whole neigh bourhood, with having, on more than one occasion, invited her husband to a tete-a-tete dish of tea in her back par lour, and that on the last occasion she contrived to render the visit so " pleasant," that naughty Mr. L. prolonged his stay to three days. She, moreover, muttered sundry threats, and following up her hostile demonstration, she spit through the keyhole of the door, just as it was shut upon her. After this had occurred the defendant came QUEEN-SQUARE. Yesterday a young man named Samuel Webster, who has undergone two examinations at this office, was placed at the bar before Messrs. Gregorie and Burrell, charged with bigamy. The prisoner does not appear to be more than twenty five years of age. Mr. Thiselton, the parish-clerk of St. Pancras, produced the register of marriages, by which it appeared that on the 20th of June, 1833, an entry had been made of the mar riage of the prisoner to Ann Thorburn, but the witness had no recollection whatever of the parties. John Smith, a gate-keeper at the private road near St. Pancras Church, in the summer of 1833, was called upon by a party who were proceeding to the church to witness a marriage. He attended at the church, but he could not identify the parties. Elizabeth Smith, of Shouldham-street, deposed that in October last, the prisoner called upon her mother, request ing her to attend at the church of St. Mary, Bryanston square, where he intended to marry a Miss Thorburn. Witness was present in place of her mother, and the mar riage was regularly solemnized. In answer to questions proposed by the solicitor for the prosecution, she could not positively swear to the hand writing of the prisoner. _ _ Mr. John Thorburn, the father of the second wife, pro duced a letter he had received from the prisoner immedi ately after the second marriage ; but Mr. GREGORIE observed, that before such letter could be received in evidence, he must connect the prisoner with it, which had not yet been done. Mr. Blunt then brought forward several other witnesses, but neither of them could establish the fact as to the hand writing of the prisoner ; and The MAGISTRATES, considering that be had already been twice remanded, in order to give the prosecutrix time to procure sufficient evidence, wished the case to be taken to the Grand Jury, which is now sitting. Mr. Blunt, however, applied for another postponement. Mr. GREGORIE had no doubt whatever as to the offence having been committed, although, at present, there was not sufficient evidence to substantiate it. He would, therefore, consent to hear the case once more, and the prisoner was remanded accordingly. A fashionably-dressed man, who gave his name John Smith, and stated that he resided in Kensington-place, Holywell-street, Westminster, was charged by John Grey, one of the constables of St. James's ?ark, with wantonly breaking off branches from the shrubs near the Duke of York's column. Grey watched Mr. Smith, who had an umbrella in his hand, and observed him attempt to strike off some of the branches of a tree which proved to be rather too stout for the umbrella. He then went to another, and broke off the pieces he produced. Mr. Smith, in answer to the charge, went out that morning to procure a switch for one of his children, and that he did -not think there was any _harm in procuring one from the Park. Mr. WHITE observed that such an argument might do very well for a child, but he should have expected a man of his appearance would have known better. He was then fined in the amount of damage done, and left the office apparently anything but satisfied with' the result of his morning excursion in search of a plaything for his child. UNION-HALL. Yesterday a respectable-looking man named Neal was brought up in custody, charged with stealing a watch, a quantity of flannel, some pieces of calico, and a few other trifling articles, the property of a person named Bond, an inmate of the King's Bench Prison. An inventory of the alleged stolen property having been laid before the Magis trate (Mr. Jeremy), he was informed that the complainant was not in attendance to substantiate the charge, and in fact the prisoner's wife had absconded from him, and was then living with Bond in the above prison. The prisoner declared that the charge of felony alleged against him by Bond was trumped up for the purpose of having him taken into custody, and brought to this office, in order that he might be arrested at the suit of a person named Ainsworth. Bond had given intimation that he (the prisoner) was in custody on a charge of felony at this c•ST. and"the Marshatsea officers were now in attendance to arrest T•im the moment he was out of custody. The prisoner added C.:at Mrs. Bond would prove that the pro perty he was charged v.:th stealing was in her own pos session, and that so far from Eu.. 4 having any, grounds for making such a charge against him, tub.: i , erson owed him upwards of 2001. Mrs. Bond was called in, and she stated that her I.'!F -band abandoned her, and that some of the articles which the prisoner was charged with stealing she found in a box belonging to her husband at the time he left her. She added that she was convinced her husband had no grounds for making such an accusation against the prisoner, whose wife had aandoned him, and was then living under the protection of her (witness's) husband. Mr. Jeremy said that it was a very gross proceeding on the part of Bond, if he bad had an innocent man brought up in custody on a charge of felony, merely with a view to have him convicted on a civil process. The MAGISTRATE then directed that if a Marshalsea officer were in attendance, be might be called forward, in order to ascertain whether it was Bond's suggestion he at tended to arrest the prisoner. Robert Coker, a Mai shalsea officer, stated that Bond sent over a message to him that morning from the King's Bench prison, to the effect that Neal was in custody at Union Hall, on a charge of felony, and that if witness at tended there, he would have an . opportunity of arresting him before he left the office, on the writ which lay out against him. Another Marshalsea officer confirmed the above state merit, and, addressing the Magistrate with a writ in his hand, s a id, " I h ope your Worship wont let Mr. Neal go ; I have come over here to grab' him, and here is the writ I hold against him." The accused shrunk from contact with the Marshalsea officers, and Inspector Hack stood between the parties, so that the writ could not be executed on the spot. ' Mr. fEnEMY, on hearing the Marshalsea officers, said that there was no doubt the charge of felony against the prisoner was without the slightest foundation, and trumped up for the purpose of bringing him to the office, that he might be arrested. If Bond had really a charge of felony against the accused, or grounds for such an accusation, he could easily have sent a verbal request that he might be re manded, but this he did not do, and no sooner had he given him into custody on a most serious charge than he imme diately sent over to acquaint the officers of the fact of his being at that office. This very circumstance plainly showed that Bond, when he gave the charge, must have known that the accused would have been discharged, and that then the officers could have arrested him upon the writ. The accused said that Bond had acted in the manner described to prevent him from following up some proceed ings relative to his (the accused's) wife, who was then liv ing with Bond. Mr. JEREMY said that the accused was discharged, and added that it was a gross case of conspiracy to get posses sion of his person, and that such schemes would never re cognised at that, office ; and that the accused had ample grounds for an action for false imprisonment against Bond. The accused here left the office without the writ having been served upon him, taking advantage of the time occu pied by the Marshalsea officers in giving their evidence, which, at the request of the Magistrate, was taken down in writing. THE FUNDS.-C . BRITISI dOSINCT PRICES. FUNDS. India Stock c, 5 8 Ditto Bonds 20 pm. South Sea Stock I , 3% Ditto Old Annuities Ditto New Annuities Ex. Bills, 10 , 0/.... Ditto SXI! 39 pm, Ditto 5(10! O9 pm Bank Stock for Opg. 221 India Stock for Act. Consols for Act. Bank Stook 3 per Cent. Red. 9l 3 per Cent Cons WI (3 '31 4 per Cent.' Sifi., 314 per Cent. Red 91% New 314 per Cent 100 .1 per Cent. Assented • Dissented Long Annuities to expire 11.11 1860 16%, Oct. 1850 Jan. 1860 kOREIO/ 9-2 5 Austrian, 5 per cent — Belgian, 5 per cent 10 3 14 Brazilian Bonds Buenos Ayres, 6 per cent 4O Chilian, 6 per cent 57 Columbian, 6 per cent. Ditto, 18'24 47 Danish . 77% Greet: Bonds, 18 . 25, 5 per cent. Mexican, 5 per cent , 182 b 35% Ditto, 1825, 6 per 'sent 46% Peruvian, 6 per cent. • rums. Portuguese Bonds, 5 per cent. Ditto, Now Ditto 93 Prussian:. 5 per cent. — Russian Bonds, 5 per cent. Ditto, Metallic — Spanish, 5 per cent Ditto, 159.3 — French, 5 per cent Exchange —f —c. French, 3 per cent —f. —.-, Dutch, :2i per cent 5 6 1,4 Ditto, 5 per cent. The Norfolk Chronicle of to-day contains a long account of the elections of the Common Council ; which elec tions, it remarks, " is a confirming fact of the ascendancy of Conservative principles in Norfolk." The report is headed thus :—" THE CLEANSING WEEK." Westminster has had a cleansing week as well as Norfolk. COURT CIRCULAR. The King gave audiences yesterday to Earl Grey, the Mar quis of Lansdowne, Viscount Melbourne, the Earl of Wilton, and Baron d'Ompteda, the Hanoverian Minister. The Queen, attended by Lady Clinton and Miss Hudson (the Lady and Maid of Honour in Waiting), visited the Duchess of Kent yesterday at Kensington Palace. Her Ma jesty afterwards went to the new Palace in St. James's Park, and walked in the gardens. The Duchess of Gloucester and the Princess Sophia visited their Majesties yesterday. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria were pre sent at the performances at the King's Theatre on Thursday evening. Signors Tamburini, Lablache, Ivanhoff, and Ma demoiselle Grisi made their first appearance this season in La Gazia Ladra. The Duke of Cumberland honoured the entertainment given by the Lord Mayor and the Lady Mayoress on Thursday evening at the Mansion-house with his presence. The Duchess of Kent and the Princess Victoria walked and drove in Hyde Park yesterday. The Duchess of Gloucester visited the Princess Augusta yesterday at St. James's. The Landgravine of Hesse Homburg honoured Lady Caw dor with her company on Thursday evening. The Lords of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council resumed the appeal " Tufnell v. Constable," from the Prero gative t Court of Canterbury. Their Lordships met at ten, and broke up at four o'clock. THE LADY MAYORESS'S GRAND BALL. On Thursday night the Lady Mayoress gave a grand dress ball at the Mansion-house. It was one of the most splendid entertainments ever given within the walls of the residence of the Chief Magistrate. Most of his Majesty's Ministers, all the Foreign Ambassadors, with the exceptiou of those from the Austrian and Portuguese Courts, who, from respect to the memory of their lately deceased Sovereigns, declined to ap pear in public, and a great number of the nobility were pre sent. The Duke of Wellington was absent, in consequence of a severe cold. The company, which began to arrive at ten o'clock, were received by the Lady Mayoress in the yellow drawing-room. Amongst her Ladyship's guests were the fol lowing distinguished persons :—His Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, the Duke of Richmond, the Duke of Lein ster, Marquis and Marchioness of Downshire, Marquis Cam den' Marquis and Marchioness and Dowager of Salisbury, Earl and Countess of Mayo, and Lady Georgiana Fane, Earl and Countess of Brownlow and Lady Sophia Cust, Earl and Countess Kinnoul, Lord Prudhoe, Lord Castlereagh, the Commander-in-Chief, Lord Arthur Hill, Earl Brecknock, Earl and Countess of Jersey, Viscount Strangford, Earl Ros lyn, Lord and Lady Somerset, and Lady Emily Begot, Lady and the Hon. Miss Fitzroy Somerset, Lady Charles Somer set, Lord and Lady Wharucliffe, Lord Viscount Villiers, Lord and Lady Heytesbury, Lord Abinger, Lord Tullamore, Coun tess and Ladies Ashburnham, Earl of Sandwich, Earl of Hills borough, Dowager Lady 'Floyd, Countess of Salis, Lord William Pawlett, Lord Canterbury and family, Lord Francis Egerton and Lady, Lord Hotham, Lady Rolle, Sir Robert and Lady Peel, Sir Henry and Lady Emily Hardinge, Admi ral Sir J. and Lady and the Hon. Miss Beresford, the Hon. E. Petre and family, Mr. Secretary Goulburn, the Hon. Mr. Grimstone, Sir Edward and Lady Cust, Sir Edward, Lady, and Miss Kerrison, the Hon. C. E. Law, Mrs. and Miss Law, the Hon. Miss Law, Admiral and Lady Rodd, Major- General Stevenson, ajor-General Sir J. Macdonald, Lady Elizabeth and r. Repton, Mr. and Lady Charlotte Egerton, Sir William Geary, Lady Clifford and Miss Loutheby, Lady Stormont, Sir George and Lady Seymour, Lady Elizabeth and Ladies Palk, and the Hon. Miss Hope Johnstone, Mrs. Pelham Sir Walter Jones, Sir Edward and Lady Antrobus, Sir John and Lady and Miss Barrow, Mr. and Lady Mary Ross, Sir John Rae Reid, the Attorney-Ge neral and Lady Pollock, Right Hon. J. and Mrs. Planta ' Col. Dalrymple and Lady, Sir Thomas and Miss Cochrane, Hon. Mr. C. Wybn and family, Sir William and Lady Pringle, Hon. Captain Fitzmorris, Col; Coleville, and a great number of military officers,, whose names we could not learn. The Egyptian Hall was magnificently decorated and lighted up for the dance. Banners were numerously hung round, and the effect produced by the splendid dresses of the ladies and of the military guests of the Lady Mayoress, was indescribably grand. Soon after ten o'clock, dancing commenced to Weip pert's band, and continued with great spirit till one, when the company retired to supper, which Was elegantly laid out in the Ball-room. Champagne, Burgundy, Claret, and other delicious wines, abounded at this brilliant scene of festivity. Soon after supper dancing was resumed, and kept up till three o'clock. Sir George Smart conducted the musical department, and was powerfully assisted by Moscheles, Braham, Mr. and Mrs. Bishop, Mr. Seguin, and several of Members of the Royal Academy. The saloon through which the company entered to the yel low drawing-room was on each side adorned with exotics and beautiful plants of native growth, and the blue drawing-rooms and corridors leading to the State bed-room, were lighted up and decorated in a most gorgeous manner. The long parlour was laid out for refreshments of all kinds, and the Venetian parlour was appropriated to cards. Soon after three o'clock the company took leave of their hostess. We observed amongst the company the following Ambassa dors and Foreign Ministers, their ladies and suites the Ambas sadors of Russia and France; the Ministers of Sardinia, the Two Sicilies, Prussia, Wirtemburg, Hanover, Belgium, Den mark, Brazil, Greece, Spain ; Ministers Plenipotentiary of Buenos Ayres, Mexico, Saxony, Turkey, Bavaria ; Charges d'Affaires, United States, Sweden. There were upwards of seven hundred guests at this very grand entertainment. We observed very few Members of the Corporation. THE ARMY. GENERAL ORDER. HORSE GUARDS, MARCH 30, 1835. At a General Court-martial, held at Edinburgh Castle, on the 2d day of March, 1835, and continued by adjournments to the 10th of the same month, Assistant Surgeon George Ferguson, of the 71st Regiment, was arraigned upon the un dermentioned charges, viz. : _ " Ist. For that he, the said Assistant Surgeon George Ferguson, of the 71st Regiment, at Bermudas, on or about the ith of December, 1833, bei.:g et the mess-table of the said 71st Regiment, together with Ensign Thomas Bewes Strangways, and other officers of the same regiment, did di rect a servant to take a certain dish near Ensign StrangwaL-1 off the table, and carry it to him, Assistant Surgeon Ferguson, that he might help himself, instead of requesting 'Ensign Strangways to help him, thereby intending to insult him, he the said Assistant Surgeon Ferguson more clearly detnonstrat ing his intention as aforesaid, by soon afterwards, in "Ensign Strangways absence, apologising to the said officers for his conduct to the said Ensign Strangways. " 2d. For conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, for that he, the said Assistant Surgeon Ferguson, at the place aforesaid, on or about the 4th of February, 1834, being at the Mess Table as aforesaid, and requested by Ensign Strang ways to help him to a dish near the said Assistant Surgeon Ferguson, he refused to do so, sending the dish by a servant to Ensign Strangways, thereby intending to insult him. " 3d. For conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, and subversive of good order and military discipline, for that he, the said Ensign Strangways, on or about the sth of Feb ruary, 1834, at the place aforesaid, baying reported to the commanding-officer the aforesaid conduct of the said Assistant- Surgeon Ferguson, he, the said Assistant-Surgeon Ferguson, with a view of preventing due inquiry into the same by com petent authority, did, on the 7th of February, endeavour to excite the said Ensign Strangways to engage with him in a duel, by then and there repeatedly calling him a coward, shak ing a whip over his head, and telling him to consider himself horsewhipped. " 4th. For conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman, for that'he, the said Assistant-Surgeon Ferguson, with the like intent to annoy and i i nsult the said Ensign Strangways, did, at the place aforesaid, between the Bth of February, 1834, and the 23d of August following, repeatedly, and from time to time in the hearing of the said Ensign Strangways, use epithets and utter language concerning him, of a low, vulgar, disgraceful, and degrading nature, he, Ensign Strangways, being, during the time aforesaid, under arrest." Upon which charges the COURT came to the following de cision : " The Court having maturely weighed and considered the evidence in support of the charges against the prisoner, As sistant-Surgeon George Ferguson, of the 71st Regiment, his defence, and the evidence adduced in support of it, is of opi nion, that he, tie prisoner, is guilty of the three first charges preferred against him, in breach of the Articles of War ; but it having appeared in evidence that the prisoner has suffered punishment by reprimand and arrest at Bermuda, by competent authority, on these three charges, the Court do hot feel them selves warranted in awarding further punishment for the same. " The Court find the prisoner, Assistant- Surgeon George Ferguson, guilty of the fourth charge preferred against him, which being in breach of the Articles of War, do sentence him, the prisoner, Assistant- Surgeon George Ferguson, of the 71st. Regiment, to be Cashiered. " The Court having passed Judgment on the prisoner, As sistant-Surgeon George Ferguson, of the 71st Regiment, is induced, from the very high character given him by various officers under whom he has served, who have all borne testi mony to his professional zeal and irreproachable conduct in various situations of high trust and responsibility, as well as to his uniformly gentlemanly behaviour, previous to th e p resen t proceedings, to recommend him to his Majesty's clemency. " The Court cannot close its proceedings without express ing its regret, that the apology made by the prisoner to the officers of the 71st Regiment, in the mess-room, at Bermuda, was not ordered to be extended to the prosecutor, the party actually insulted ; and further, that the prosecutor, a young and inexperienced officer, did not receive that support, coun tenance, and advice from his Commanding Officer, when re ferred to, which might, in the opinion of this Court, have obviated the necessity for these proceedings. " The Court is likewise of opinion, that so far as it has had opportunity of judging the conduct of the prosecutor, under the very trying circumstances in which he was placed, has been perfectly correct." His Majesty has been pleased to approve and confirm the finding and sentence of the Court; but, in consideration of the earnest recommendation of the Court, his Majesty has been further pleased to extend his,most gracious pardon to the prisoner, and to sanction his being employed in some other corps. " The General Commanding in Chief directs, that the fore going charges preferred against Assistant- Surgeon George Ferguson, of the 71st Regiment, together with the finding and sentence of the Court, and his Majesty's pleasure thereon, be entered in the General Order Book, and read at the boa of every Regiment in his Majesty's service. By command of the Right Hon. General Lord Hill, Co' manding in Chief, JOHN MACDONALD, Adjutant-General ELECTION COMMITTEES. CITY OF DUBLIN. The Committee met at twelve o'clock yesterday, from whit hour until three o'clock they were in consultation as to t course which they should pursue, in reference to the Wit. objections which had been handed in to them by the respel l "' parties. The CHAIRMAN then informed the Learned Counsel that the Committee had come to the resolution, first, that in re? pect to the first question, namely, that no voter who ha d 1,e3 , more than one half year's municipal taxes in arrear at the tin 3 of the election was entitled to vote ; next, that on questies 2,3, 4,5, 6 and 7, which related to whether certain tilles were or were not municipal, they resolved not to decide the. 01..;, next, upon question eight, they decided that 101. householder' although not assessed had a right to vote. Questions nine an ten they would not now decide upon. With respect to too eleventh question—which was, whether an agreement besi tween landlord and tenant for the former to pay the man' ; 1 , 43 taxes debarred the latter from the right of voting--1, agreed to hear Counsel upon it at the proper time. I, respect to the twelfth question they decided that being u Pl o the registry was conclusive of the individual's rigbt„,e vote, unless objected to at the time of registration. thirteenth question was not now to be decided. Upon of fourteenth the Committee were of opinion that the pretlrhe payment of municipal taxes must not lie with the voter. fifteenth question was not now to be decided. Upon the teenth they decided that they would not allow recrimillatly:t evidence to be received. The seventeenth question was the now to be considered. Upon the eighteenth question Committee were , of opinion that the amended list sho ud r ; sent to the Commissioners to take evidence upon it. spect to the nineteenth question, they decided that no inn, should be entered into respecting a vote, unless it had 0 57 actually polled or tendered. Upon the twentieth questiog which related to the obstructions given by poll clerks, age. e &c., they decided that the Commissioners were not ton ec!r ed evidence. The twenty-first question was not to be ,' I now. Upon questions twenty-two and twenty-three, 0 0 7 4 were to be heard. The twenty-fourth question was not av to be decided. - The CHAIRMAN, in conclusion, said that the Commitee ready to hear Mr. Harrison upon the eleventh question. 5 , Mr. HARRISON said he was not prepared to argue the clu e tion then. Before he did so, he should like to have the reVe lution of the Committee. He really did not understand w exact situation in which he was placed. Mr. THESSIGER said both himself and his Learned Friendn were in a most difficult position, owing to the several decisi Lori! of the Committee. It was originally proposed that th e ous questions in the list were to be argued by Counsel, bat h a t the. Committee had decided without hearing Counsel, so to he really felt that his office was gone. ed f or Mr. HARRISON said that ho never felt himself so situat ed the last thirty-five years. re- Upon the motion of an Hon. MEMBER, the Committee tired. Upon their return, The CHAIRMAN said that they had agreed to wait a° next day, to have the eleventh question argued by Co unse h ; With respect to the observations which had been made bit of petitioners' Counsel, he had only to say, that the first object, the Committee was to do justice to all parties ; and all th ;0 decisions, however they might vary, were made with a vio l ' that object. The Committee then separated until 11 o'clock this day' SPORTING INTELLIGENCE. BETTING IN THE COUNTRY. CHESTER TRADE CUP, P. P. 5 to 2 agst Lord Westminster's Abbas Mirza 7 to 2 agst Mr. Mostyn's Birdlime 9 to 1 agst Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Lambkin 9 to 1 agst Mr. G. Cook's Red Rover 11 to 1 agst Sir J. Gerard's Manchester 11 to 1 agst Mr. Wheeldon's Giovanni 14 to 1 agst Mr. Beardsworth's Lucinda 15 to 1 agst Mr. Fuller's Nell Gwynne 16 to 1 agst Mr. F. R. Price's Buccaneer 16 to 1 agst Sir T. Stanley's Young Tarragon 18 to 1 agst any other LIVERPOOL JULY TRADE CUP (ACCEPT OR NOT.) 12 to 1 agst General Chasse, (taken) 12 to 1 agst The Chancellor (taken) CROXTON PARK RACES. BELVOIR CASTLE, APRIL 9.—This celebrated meeting /7.:c1 attended on Wednesday by one of the most fashionab le . B oo crowded assemblages that has been witnessed for many se a " e, past, to which the delightful weather not a little contli btite r, The cortege from Belvoir Castle amounted to nearly amongst whom his Excellency Namick Pacha and his P r ',?; man were the " observed of all observers." They were e I ,'" o f tume, and mounted on steeds of extreme beauty. The Dus e rg i Rutland was constant in attendance on these distinguishede of a interesting visitors, who seemed to enter into the intere., the scene with much animation. ex' At two o'clock a profuse entertainment was served in as p of tensive marquee to an extensive circle. The Dragonlaeile, the Turkish Ambassador sat at the head of the principal. to the which was beautifully decorated with flowers, &c. DUNI% n d, repast, and between the heats, the Leicestershire military '"„ it - e s in their state uniforms of white and scarlet, played eige ri t from favourite operas in a charming style. It was half-Y - o r e seven ere the last race had terminated. On this occasion th Aor were present the Duke of Rutland, the Turkish Arnbassa%, and his Dragoman; the Princes Leichtenstein, Schwartiocrds berg, and Trautmansdorf ; the Due de Richelieu • L, i ; s Charles, Robert, John, and George Manners ; Lady ' Au i e j - il z el Manners, the Hon. Augustus and Mrs. Villiers, Sir David And Lady Baird, the Marquis and Marchioness of Londonderry, irs. Earl and Countess of Chesterfield, the Hon. Colonel arlcl,„, N es by Anson, Lord Rokeby, Lord and Lady Willoughby D D r , r nr , and the Hon. Miss Drummond, Sir Montague and Lady f giana Choimondeley, Sir William Welby, the Marci e : - :er Granby, Lord and Lady Grantley, Mr. and Mrs. Fl e lliss Norton (of Elton), Colonel and Mrs. Wildman and t he Prisig, Lord Macdonald, General and Mrs. Grosvenor, tor, Hon. Charles and Lady Emmeline Wortley, Lord Fe res ti vo Mr. Lyne Stevens, Sir H. Johnson, Mrs. Longdon and tha Misses Longdon, Lady Eleanor Lowther, Colonel Cl i ,l o . Mr. and Mrs. Evans Hartopp, Mr. and Mrs. Dixon, c Ar Tumour (of Stoke, Rochford) Mr. Errington, Mr. ' - )j a fit il i re, Miss Laurence ; Meisrs. Lyne Stevens, Gilmour, "`"e i nt- Dixon, and all the leading members of the three Hunts of Belvoir, and Melton Mowbray. ran Ake,- the second heat of the Farmers' Plate had bee - r e for an exquisitely chased silver cup, surmounted by the Pe i a of a fox, and bearing a suitable inscription, together purse of one hundred sovereigns, was publicly presented to an d Thomas Goosey, as a token of respect from the Noblereenbich Gentlemen of the Belvoir Hunt for the superior style in he has hunted those hounds for a period of twenty-one Y e ll.. Mr. Willerton, of Swineshead, was deputed to address bort Goosey on the occasion, to,which that Gentleman made a 9 but very emphatic reply. e a to The dinner circle at the Castle last evening arnoun i t t he forty, including most of the principal guests who attencl eu or races. The party will not finally break up until the cornin e otr y ment of Easter week, and from the late fine rains the c°,lii‘e is in such unusually fine condition that hunting will in a ll lihood be continued for at least ten days to come. HOLDERNESS HUNT RACES—THvB O4 4;set The Dringhoe Stakes of 7 sovs. each, 13St. each, for maiden 0 not thorough bred, once round and a distancb. 9 sub s ' i Mr. J. Hall's The Minor (Mr. Jackson) ............•••• Mr. E. Reynold's The Clown 3 M. W. Wainman's Pantaloon Three others started. talle g " The Gold Cup Stakes of 10 sovs. each, once round and a --t s 11 subs. Mr. H. Hudson's Fouster aged 12 (Mr. Jackson) ..•••• Mr. G. Thompson's The Farrier, aged 12 ." 3 Mr. W. Ramsden's Diana Mr. Althorp's Brutina, and Mr. E. Reynard's The . I °'" also started. B a ntsit Match 25 sovs. each, once round. Mr. Wainraan's (owner) beat Mr. Reynard's The Clown. Vale s The Farmers' Cup was won in two heats by Mr. Knagg' s " sad the Swindler (Mr. Witty) beating Mr. Segard's the Quaker, two others. • NORTHAMPTON STEEPLE CHASE., 00 The Northampton St ee pl e Ch ace was won by Mr. Coope d Pony beating Mr. Iven' s Lib er ty, M r . B ar i ng ' s Paddy', Lamb's Vivian, Mr. S. Tibbitt' s E n t er p r i se , Mr. S. IP Leirathan and Mr. Nicholson's Clothes Horse. HUNTING APPOINTMENTS. o w Mr. Withins's Hounds meet on Monday at Rushton ; We d° at Saxton ; Thursday, at Beneford. half- - "r -t Mr. Portman's Hounds, Monday, at Lydnich Bridge, rod' 10 ; the Holderness Hounds meet on Tuesday, at Wow: bridge, 11. The Herefordshire Hounds on Tuesday, at RotherwaY Lord Fitzwilliam's Fitzwilliam's Hounds, Monday, at Cony Western road - Thursday, at Blathernyche Park, 10. The Hon. G. Pelham's Hounds, Saturday, at lineage A - Hainton, 11. ------- - = - MEETINGS FOR THE ENSUING WEE S ' 0. MONDAY Royal Geographical Society 1. 0 . if Zoological Society, Scientific Business p• 8, „ 7. 3 1. Royal Medical and Chirurgical Society i p• 8 ' ; . 11. TUESDAY Medico-Botanical Society Institution of Civil Engineers I' 3 , Eight, m , Society of Arts, Evening Illustrations Eigh t ' r '3l- WEDNESD. Society of Art s iP. 7 ' r. —dtheneunt. rir .r. 1 0 . THEWEST ERN P HILANTHROPIC INSTITu` t a t —Last night, th e A c ti ng C omm itt ee o f t hi s Society loc os , the British Coffee-house, Cockspur-street, Charing-cr ao Mr. Rock was in the Chair. He regretted to state t0_,..; meeting, the claims upon the society were not decreasTe.. and that most of them were of a nature which required ill i e diate relief; and he lamented the funds did not increasu_d the same proportion ; arising from the death of subscribers, ,11,0 a failure in other sources, upon which the society leaned. e r , j t had a petition for relief in his hand, from a gentleman of g r eat theatrical talent, who by sickness had been reduced to g r ,bie want. His object in applying to the society, was to e - t he him to purchase c l o th es , t h at he miht once more assuniecio. station he had fall en f rom , an d possessing this outward asioi, ante, it would, aided by bis talents, enable him to accoVP s. This gentleman had once received seven pounds a-we ek f s ° , r ue theatrical engagement at Drury-lane, and from sick" e _.bie was now reduced to li v e with a wife and family in bw; . ,, c e s lodgings, for which he paid fourpence a-night. 9th er te re of distress were brougLt before them, and ordered . t° lieved, and an appeal made to the public. • Iper tt Assen Ja tti e ipn tr 3 t. )115A3p riFs to.. .1 . Rank c flissei PktCl 10, 1859 Austrian Fr,nds :gealitantcna A:1 vc:ecnryeaolunßt; , J an ' 5 , 1%0 ' n • 5 , 1859 Brazilian Bonds Ditto Bonlin•tChilhan : ...,Ditto Account.: EtO.ACCOIIIItI3OIIdB Columbian ' on Ditto Account usnish Bond bitto AccountB Greet; lltt Dit Ilittctrilo.2BolivainstAAl‘4l3lefil3nl:cre 1114:: :: : 61 011:111:U:n /W an U n • 81 ' c "PPer C4tn . " t orsion Mexican (iss Greenv Per PRICES Lent, Ccnsols 3,,htto Reduced ° C( 'nt. Stock: New, 1850 Ba. per Cent. Deben 1104' 1 8 ! eek . ........ (Ira_ ..Ccanalanal Stock:.: uo Stock , tited. 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