The Sun. — London, England, 1848-11-08 00:00:00

'1.11.1T of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. 'IMF:S.—We admire the complacent tone in eh some people can talk of a gigantic railway •eopoly. It has been pointed out in these columns, 1 appears to be fully realised on all sides, that the • :estion really at issue is whether all the railway • npauies ill the island shall be amalgamated, retain ' •s, at the same time, their present comparative_ in pendence of the State. The process of fusion once :emu will Not stop till the whole i 3 absorbed. Every -lima in the wheel competes with its fellow. The endon and South-Western has a dangerous rival in tne London, Brighton, and South Coast. The railways te' Kent and Sussex will find it their interest to be under one direction. The London and North- Western and the Eastern Counties are in active com petition. We have omitted unfinished lines in still closer and more obnoxious junta-position ; nor is it necessary to pursue the spread of amalgamation into the entangled we of the Midland and Northern Companies. Could we suppose the Legislature sit ting down quietly to record and sanction the amal gamation of three great companies on their present terms, it will soon be asked to perform the same ceremony for the rest. Company after company will pronounce for the junta. Ten thousand miles of rail will form one mighty line. The internal co:nmunications of this empire will be the private property of a mercantile association, and under the management of three or four active principals. Her Majesty will still be the Queen of her "highway," but some other less responsible personages will be kings of the rail. Now, no specious reasoning, no gratuitous supposition, or illusory promises shall ever persuade us that this would be a safe and tolerable event. It is according to all precedent, to all princi ple, to all analogy, and to the plainest common sense, that the State should take care that the means of com munication are available, cheap, and good. The State, of course, cannot overcome all the difficulties inherent in the material and form. We readily admit, too, that it is hound to fulfil all such engagements as it could properly contract, and to reward within reasonable limits the genius and spirit of private adventure. But we will not hear it said that railways are merely private speculations, or that in so vital a subject we may safely trust the prudence and generosity of an irresponsible board. A board of directors dominating over all the lines in the island will, in the first place, be able to secure their monopoly, or at least to struggle hard for it, by the enormous patronage at their disposal, by the interested support of share holders representing many millions of capital, and by many less describable means of influence with members of the Legislature. Having secured their monopoly, the board will be able to work it to the utmost advantage. Every degree of profit will be considered to justify the expectation of a higher. It will at least be thought reasonable that the Parlia mentary 10 per cent. should be gained on the whole union. We do not believe that the interest of the public will be found identical with the interest of the shareholders, or that lower fares will frequently leave the net profit undiminished. We cannot trust such visionary hopes. The public will not have:the utmost possible use of the railway. Nay, it is hardly pre tended that they will, as it is still urged with great zeal that railways are merely private property—which we deny. It is true that railway legislation has fallen into the ordinary form of private Acts. We need not isquire why it has done so, and why twenty years since that was the most customary and natural form of procedure. Before three-fourths of the present authorised total of railways was ever introduced into Parliament, we warmly contended for a more cretinct recognition of the State's own rights and duties in the affair. Unfortunately routine and precedent prevailed. Private Bill waethe form at hand. It was, indeed, found absolutely necessary to alter the standing orders, but substantially the forma lities of railway legislation have been the same as those which have been employed for the most private, most personal, must local and trivial applications of legislative power. The great arterial lines connecting the metropolis with the provinces, the north with the south, and the east with the west, hare been made with the same preliminaries as those which had grown up in " navigations," tram-roads, bridges, harbours, and even such affairs as family settlements. A pro cedure sufficient for superfluous undertakings was applied to our national necessities. If it be asked - why the State consented that the railways of the em pire should be done on a narrow and mercantile system, and why Parliament should be absorbed into the Stock Exchange, we must say that the parties most to blame are the promoters themselves. They now profess great indignation and disgust, as well they may, at the millions thrown away in Parliamentary conflicts; but the truth is, the railway chiefs in that costly campaign preferred to fight it out in that form. They would have it so. The railway world had the option of referring the whole laying out . of the country to a Railway Board; and we should think there is little doubt that a few such men as Lord Dalhousie would have arranged a scheme much more convenient to the public and remunerative to the undertakers than that which chance and passion have accomplished. But this did not then answer the purpose of our railway kings. They preferred the open fight on Committee, the private canvass of the Commons, the transaction with the noble land owner, the distribution of scrip, the profitable amalgamations of lines as yet without existence, and all the accidents and opportunities of a hazardous and complicated game, to the dull certainty of a national scheme, done without battle, heat, or risk. To some of the promoters the procedure adopted has been highly advantageous ; not so to the ma jority. But, we repeat, " the railway world" has to thank itself for the many millions absolutely wasted in the preliminaries of Bills passed, rejected, cr now laid aside by the too successful promoters. We also protest against any inferences that may be drawn from the simply private form of railway legislation. There are two alternatives now before Parliament —a moderate competition, or an increased degree of national control. At present the public has not had much reason to complain. Nay, there are cases in which it could not reasonably complain if rival com panies understood one another better than they do now. But on the whole the present fares and accom modation are as good as may be expected, under the existing traffic. If, however, the present competition' is to be set at rest, and the iron rule of a giant mono poly to take its place, we demand in that case that the rights of the people shall be guarded by the State. We demand that the enactment of the mono poly shall be coupled with ample securities for the public good. It is unnecessary, and indeed ridicu lous, to assume at once that the convenience of share holders and passengers will always entirely coincide. Nor is it necessary to suggest lower maxima of fares that may be insisted on in the event of a great in crease of traffic. What we require, and what the public will also require, is, that if the companies pre sent themselves to Parliament for a further increase and consolidation of their existing power and mono poly, the gain shall not be wholly on one side. There shall be a quid pro quo. There shall be guarantees assainst the abuse of absolute power, or rather against the possible inconvenience of having to arrest its en croachments. CITRONICLE—The acquiescence of the Senate of Cambridge in the measure of reform proposed to it last Tuesday, solves, for the present, all questions bearing reference to the quality of University educa tion. Not so, however, with respect to the method of imparting it. A s th e f ormer systemis retained in its integrity, and a ll th e a lt era ti ons h ave t a k en th e f orm of additions, it remains to be seen whether the old framework will bear the new weight. The changes effected presuppose the continued existence of triple class lists, and emulative examinations, in precisely the same order as at probable, that thpere-i ase s n e e c n r t e . d It is possible, and in deednumber of subjects studied, by increasing tbstrain on the o ld arrange ments, may render prominent certain defects which have been hitherto unnot iced grea o t r er whi c h h ave b een postponed to matters of im portance. We suspect that further immediate t willo th b e egood sense of the University seelessl:tpliekrils necessary s and happily, after a step last week, it is hardly to be supposed that of that the Senate will repudiate amendment of the merely formal portions of its system. There is something peculiar, however, in the nature of the mischiefs of which we anticipate the disclosure—something W hi ch renders it particularly desirable that their existence should be pointed out to the resident executive by persons not immediately connected with the business of University training. They are evils, the effects of which, though marring the promise of many a splen did University career, seldom show themselves till it is closed, and occasihnally not till it has been forgot ten. But they are actual and strongly operative; and, remediable as they are at any moment, it cannot be idle to indicate their character and source. A morning contemporary, in commenting on the Se nate's decision of last Tuesday, has noticed certain results of the old Cambridge system, as proving its vicious constitution. The results are, unfortunately, not to be disputed as matters of fact ; but our con temporary seems to think that they render inevitable ti.e wholesale condemnation of the old educational training. We should be sorry to adopt such a belief, since the old training was not abolished last Tues. dew, b u t expressly, and with honourable mention, preserved; nor is there the slightest probability that it will fall into disuse or disrepute, except in the event of some very unlikely contingencies. Our conviction is,, that the changes just introduced are calculated in themselves to aggravate the evils from which the re sults in question flow; and we are disposed to anti cipate flatus improvement, simply because these evils will hereafter be necessarily more prominent, and because the Senate has given a sufficient gua rantee that h will remedy a prominent defect. Our con!emporary states, as the ground of his charge against the system, which he erroneously supposes to have been abolished, that it has ceased to form minds THE SUN, LONDON, b'ames Sir Robert Peel for altering an opinion, whe ther fiscal or otherwise. The public are not shocked by an incident common to us all, and likely enough to happen to the wisest and the best. The astonish ment felt is at a huge hypocrisy, which, if encouraged and rewarded, must be fatal to all confidence, and in the highest degree injurious to the public interests. Disgrace attaches to the revelation. made by Sir Robert Peel, in 1846, of the instincts which must have been part and parcel of his nature durirg many a long year before, because it was made so late. A greater disgrace will attach to Conservatives if they return to the arch dissimulator at his bidding, with that revelation still staring them in the face, and patent to the whole world. But Conservatives must take Sir Robert, because no one else will take them. They have now, in consequence of an unhappy event no Protectionist leader, and therefore they must receive back the rejected one. Since the head is gone, it is but fair to argue that the cause has de parted likewise. Such is the Peelite's reasoning in the columns of our contemporary :—" When a party has to go about in search of a leader, like Ccelebs in search of a wife, is it not rather fair to infer that there is not much to lead ? When no rational man can be found to conduct an enterprise, is it not an indication that the enterprise is itself irrational. If the country gentlemen have to look in vain for any chief of mo derate reputation, talents, and acquirements, who will undertake to undo the work of that treachery which he denounces . . . has he not good reason to suspect that no treachery has been committed, that no return is possible, and that the corn-laws were only repealed when to retain them longer would have been madness ?" We will answer the hypothesis by sub mitting another. We ask our contemporary whether, when a leader has to go about in search of a party,lit is not fair to infer that there is no ardent desire abroad for his leadership ? When no honourable man can be found to give his adherence to a chief, is it not an indication that the chief himself is grievously at fault ? If the Tamworth gentleman has to look in vain for any Conservative of moderate reputation, talents, and acquirements, who will undertake to do the work of that treachery which he denounces, has the said gen tleman not good reason to suspect that no return is possible, however much it may be desired? The words are our contemporary's with slight alteration. Let him not be deceived ! Let him not deceive his friends ! If the fact is extraordinary that a great principle, by a variety of concurring circumstances, is left without its natural vindicators, it is no less ex traordinary that a once mighty chief suddenly finds himself bereft of all the elements that went to consti tute his greatness. Both circumstances are the legi timate results of the one act of treachery and folly— treachery that, like ambition, has overleaped itself— and folly that has placed the country and its welfare at the mercy of the miserable hands that now rule the destinies of this great empire. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. I. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday, HASLETH AND OTHERS V LYNN, CLERK. Mr. KNOWLES, at the rising of the Court, proceeded to set before it the arguments in this case, which dif fered in little respects from the preceding one. The COURT granted a rule in both cases, with respect to the amendment made by the Learned Judge; but de clined to do so on the alleged misdirection, intimating at the same time that the matter was one which they should be glad to have fully discussed at the proper time. JENKINS V. BROWN AND ANOTHER. Mr. WATSON moved for a rule calling upon the de fendant-to show cause wby there should not be a new trial in this case. The -action was brought to recover the value of three cargoes of corn, which were eold by the defendants under somewhat pe culiar circumstances. The defendants pleaded not possessed. It appeared, • at the request of the plaintiff, Messrs. Calendar, of New Orleans, shipped three car• goes of corn, which were consigned - to Messrs. Brown, of Liverpool. The defendant's bills of exchange for the corn accompanied the invoices. Messrs. Brown placed the bills in the banking-house of Messrs. Dennison, of London. When they became due on the 17th of June the plaintiff offered the money; indeed, he tendered it three times, but owing to the bills hav ing been locked up by mistake, and not being forthcom ing, he could not pay the money. In the meantime Messrs. Brown sold the corn on the ground that Messrs. Calm der owed them money. The question, therefore, was, how far a tender of payment under such circumstances went towards destroying the lien claimed. The case was a novel one, and he could not, therefore, cite any precedents. The COURT took time to consider the matter. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 7. STURGE V. JENRINS. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL moved for a rule to remove this case from the Queen's Bench, in which it had been brought, into this court, and to allow it to stand in its present stage of forwardness. The action was instituted against an officer of the Customs refusing to deliver corn without dm payment of duty. It had been agreed by the parties to reduce it into a special case for argument, and it was thought advisable to bring it before their Lordships, who already had jurisdiction over it. A rule was granted by the Court in accordance with the ordinary practice in such cases; it was i❑ the first instance made absolute. of the order it moulded fifty years ago. He instances the non-success of the distinguished Cambridge men at the bar, and contrasts it with that old uniformity of career through which the senior wranglers and medal lists of former days passed, almost as a matter of course, from the schools of Cambridge to the bench at Westminster. The particular fact alleged is cer tainly, to a great extent, a truth, and typical of the general rule, that Cambridge luminaries of the day are, with some brilliant exceptions, unsuccess ful in the business of life. Their fewer triumphs at the bar do not indeed altogether justify the re proach. The enormous growth of that rude and in- condite mass, the English law, gives daily greater advantages to mere length of training, and less to refinement of analytical or sytbetic power. Without any allusion to the gentlemen specified by our con temporary—the Lushes and Peacocks, of whose an tecedents we know nothing—it may be doubted whether the fairest promise of success is not now-a days with the ambitious attorney's clerk, who brings the technical knowledge of a dozen years to the bar. " You wonder," was the bitter remark of an emi nent Queen's Counsel, " you wonder that X has risen from a country solicitor's back office to the bench ; the real wonder is, that Y has reached it after receiving the education of a gentle man." The disadvantage under which University education thus places University men, could only be compensated by the University's converting itself formally into a school of English law, with functions subordinate to those of a pleader's chambers. Such a sacrifice to the confusion of the Statute Book we trust Oxford and Cambridge know themselves too well to make. At the same time, it will not do to attribute even the diminished forensic success of men trained at college wholly to this cause, though a powerful one. Something, undoubtedly, there is, which proves a let and hindrance to the race which the Universities train their pupils to run. This obstacle is nothing more than the exhaustion which follows the struggle for University honours. Look at the wrangler or medallist after his laurels are won. Pale, etiolated, and worn—enfeebled in body, if not enervated in mind—he brings to the study of a science with little system, nothing but an intellect over-sharpened by familiarity with the most systematic sciences. Even if the spirit be willing— if the aspirant is not repelled by the crude matter of our jurisprudence—the flesh is weak. The candidate for distinction in the most laborious of professions has gone through, before his twenty-second year, the physical wear and tear of an Attorney-General. What wonder that success is either impossible, or gained at the cost of premature debility and death ! Certainly, it is not always so ; but cases are suffi ciently frequent to determine the rule; and both the cause and its remedy are as simple and patent as possible. The University of Cambridge, instead of merely fixing a standard, the attainment of which shall entitle a student to enrolment in a particular class, goes on to classify, in order of merit, the persons who reach the standard. It distinguishes its students not only by the class in which they are worthy to be placed, but, according to their place in that class. It might, of course, arrange the names of all who have passed a certain fixed test, in alphabetical or any other arbitrary order, but it does not ; it enters into the question of their comparative merit. The struggle is thus not to reach a particular class, but a particular place in that class ; not merely to gain a particular mark, but to get further past it than one's neighbour. In this way the contest becomes entirely one of in dividuals. Very frequently A and B are singled out, in the first year of their course, as likely to head either Tripos, and then, during two years and a half, A and B are engaged in personal struggle. No de finite limit to their studies is placed, nor is there any but the natural limit of the sciences studied. It is not wonderful that the most intense emulation is ex cited, and still less wonderful that this emulation should produce its lamentable result, in the mental and bodily prostration of the persons subjected to its in citements. Why the University countenances such a system, it is difficult to imagine. Its clear duty is to fix a certain standard of proficiency to be attained by its alumni ; and this it may place as high as it pleases. But why settle the precedence of the persons who have passed it?—why prejudge their merit when, after all, it must be judged by the fruits of their after-life, without reference to the decision of the University ? True it is that a larger amount of know ledge is secured than would probably be otherwise gained; the extent of the field traversed at Cambridge is enormous. But not the most bigoted believer in the system will venture to deny that it is doubtful whether the cause of knowledge gains on the whole— whether as much is not lost by this exhaustion of minds as is gained by their premature development. Assuredly, whatever be the effect on the few who de vote themselves to science, the consequence to the many who mix in active professions is, generally speaking, inevitable failure. Overstrained faculties and a damaged physique take the place of that nerved and braced energy which ought to follow on the finished educational training. And all this in conse quence of an arrangement which appears to have been originally adopted by accident. HERALD.—It is, perhaps, scarcely necessary for us toi,observe that Conservative union does not mean alliance, defensive and offensiveogainsta mischievous and feeble Government—between the country party on the one hand, and Messrs. Cobden and Bright on the other. That it signifies restoration of peace on the part of Sir Robert Peel and his former followers is equally out of the question. The organ of the Right Hon. Baronet jumps too eagerly to its conclu sion when it supposes that the anxiety honourably evinced by loyal men to forget much and forgive more, in order to rescue " the Throne, the Peerage, and the Church," from the glaring perils with which Whig misgovernment has environed them, includes an equally pressing desire to secure the questionable services of the Right Hon. Baronot, whose political creed is so very peculiar that it is impossible to describe it save by his own familiar name. This wish is father to the thought ; and - the thought is as impudent as the wish is futile. Sir Robert, the man to surround the Peerage and the Church with impregnable defences ! The idea is ludicrous. Every individual is a fair judge of his own necessities, and noble lords and reverend clergymen may answer for themselves. There was a time when the fiction was believed and the man trusted. That time has gone—painful as it may be to the friends of Sir Robert Peel to hear it— never to return. " There is work for virtue and patriotism left on earth," says the ex-Premier's ad vocate, " although to buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest—that is, to distribute the produc tions of the globe according to the wants of its in habitants—is a law of nature, made manifest by science—and recognised by common sense." In other words, there is work for Sir Robert Peel to do, although he did betray his party to Cobden, and sell the West Indies like s l aves i n th e market-place. No doubt there is. And he may legitimately find it with his new associates,—with the men whose unadorned elo quence in a day convinced the sagacious statesman who for years had deceived himself,— with the ardent reformers who look beyond Russell to Peel for final triumph, and whOse affection for the Peerage and the Church is universally appreciated 1 The cant concerning the "distribution of the produc tions of the globe according to the wants of its inha bitants," hardly needs exposure at our hands. Dis- . ... tribution, there is none I It is the want of distribution that throws Manchester workmen out of employ, that plays havoc with our exports, that brings confusion into the national exchequer. We were promised, indeed, the distribution, but it comes not. We were charmed with pictures of reciprocity, and visions of mutual love and self-sacrifice, before the corn•laws were repealed ; but nothing has been realised _ since, save the immediate and natural effects of our own consummate folly. We give to the world, but the world gives not to us. We un lock the Customs, but the foreigner enters not in the spirit of brotherhood. Distribution is all in ___ _ .... .... one direction. We distribute the fortunes of our colonists, and the means of our small tradesmen; but our allies, whose co-operation is so es sential to the successful operation of "the law of nature," content themselves with distributing, as far as their internecine wars will suffer them, our heavy losses amongst themselves. "If there is any ques tion," further adds our contemporary, " upon which honest men and statesmen may change their mind without loss o f c h aracter, i t i s natural to inquire w h ether a point of fiscal and and commercial expedi encynot snehha question." Our readers will un is stood for Sir " honest men" and t derstand that Rwobeerr6a. " virtue" and "patriotism" c'eel in the former paragraph, so office here. The in lit. statesmen" perform a similar and in times like thelpriris: no doubt, is a natural one, should be undertaken in a spirit of stern impartiality, Vice believe that man fiscal tu a h n se. and d nte commerc ial rested may change his opinion upotT'a question, and still retain his honest we u r o e n sty But before P ite re d nt r ? we take back Sir Robert Peel recommendation of his organ, l et this is actually the great offence of the e"uxn w hether And whether it is for this alone that a of honourable men have quitted his side, an d di s avowed his leadership ? Nothing can be more unjust than to suppose that the Right Honourable Ba ronet had not the same privilege to modify hi s commercial views that the humblest man in Parlia ment takes unasked. But we imagine that there is all the difference between changing one's mind upon a point of fiscal expediency, and changing one mind, after five-and-twenty years of public service, upon almost every ques ti on o f th e ti me . Th e painful fact is, that Sir Robert Peel, by his present treatment of every subject that engages his legislative attention, convinces the unprejudiced that he has hitherto affected a sentiment on behalf of interests, for which, in his heart, he never cared a jot ; and that for-an object known to himself, but unworthy, what ever it be, he has professed a creed that had no root in his soul, and linked himself to a party, from which all the while his affections were estranged. Nobody WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 8, 1848. tutor and his friend, who were most anxious to get out of the house, consented, and the latter went to pro cure it. During his absence the female prisoner suddenly pinioned the prosecutor, and calling the male prisoner " Tcln," told him to take the prosecutor's watch, which he immediately set about doing. The prosecutor offered a stout resistance, and retained his hold of the watch as lung as he could, but was overpowered, and it was taken from him with so much violence that the seals and key were broken off t;ie chain by which they were attached to the watch, the male prisoner, during the struggle, biting the prosecutor, in order to make him loose his hold of the propa.ty. The female prisoner then threw the pro secutor down, and held him while her companion escaped with his booty. She then ran out, but was met by a con stable at the door, who had been attracted by the prose cutor's cries of " Murder and police," who insisted upon her accompanying hint into the house, where the prose cutor gave her into custody. The male prisoner was at large until the night of the 2d inst., when he was appre hended by Sergeant Loome, a very intelligent and active officer of the B division. Prosecutor stated that since the prisoners had been in custody his watch had been restored to him, accompa nied with a letter signed " Mary lleak," requesting, in the most earnest terms, that he would not go on with the prosecution. The female prisoner, who denied all knowledge of the letter, contented herself with stating that her companion was not the man who assisted her in the robbery. The male prisoner said that he was not at the house at the time of the robbery; that he knew nothing - about it, and added, "In the same house there's ti cabman named Tom, and why not him as well as me?" The prisoners were committed for trial at the Central Criminal Court. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF TUESDAY. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. R. George, Parker-street, Drury-Line, stage coach maker, Nov. 24, at half-past one—W. Bowles, T. Ogden, G. Wyndham, and J. Barrow, Shaftesbury. bankers, Nov. 24, at half-past twelve—J. Clark and F. E. L. Clark, Pudding-lane, ship brokers, Nov. 29, at twelve— W. E. Gould, Finsbury-place South, carver and gilder, Nov. 28, at eleven—W. Tiley, Reading, common brewer, Nov. 28, at half-past eleven—W. Remington, R. Ste phenson, D. R. Remington, and J. P. Toulmin, Lom bard-street, bankers, Nov. 28, at half-past twelve—J. Hansford, Ventnor, Isle of Wight, upholsterer, Nov. 28, at twelve—J. Notting, Poole, Dorsetshire, currier, Nov. 30, at half past twelve—W. Lock, Henry-street East, Portland-town, plumber, Nov. 30, at twelve—T. Tul lidge. Beaulieu, Hampshire, common brewer, Nov. 28, at half-past two—T. Young, Canterbury, leather seller, Nov. 28, at two—E. W. Jerningham, Henrietta-street, Covent-garden, banker, Nov. 30, at one—R. Turtill, High Holborn, saddler, Dec. 1, at half-past twelve—l. Willis, Lower Grosvenor-street, Hanover-square, music seller, Dec. 1, at half-past twelve—G. Heath and G. Dann, Canterbury, drapers, Nov. 30, at half-past twelve —G. Tattersall, Davies-street, Berkeley-square. saddler, Nov. 30, at twelve--R. K. Aitchison, Great Windmill street, Haymarket. Nov. 30; at eleven—T. Pierson, Warwick -court, Holborn, and Pickering, Yorkshire, money scrivener, Nov. 30, at half-past eleven—R. Wall, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, Dee. 7, at one. In the Country. C. Hall, Hereford, linendraper, Dec. 4, at half-past ten, at the Court, Birmingham—R. W. Bligh, Plymouth, hosier, Nov. 30, at one, at the Court, Exeter—J. Coup land, Liverpool, merchant, Dec. 1, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool —T. Baskerville, Livt rpool, licensed victualler, Nov. 29, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool—J. Dove, Darlington, Durham, tanner, and Sunderland, leather seller, Nov. 30, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle-upon•- Tyne—J. Scott, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, fruiterer—J. Forster, Hartburn, Northumberland, banker, Nov. 30, at twelve, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne—T. Towerson, Todholes, Cumberland, miller, Nov. 30, at ha f-past ten, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-T)ne—G. Ho;nsby, Leabury, Northumberland, builder, Nov. 30, at half-past one, at the Court, Newcastle-upon-Tyne— G. Herbert and T. Wrightson, York, linendrapers, Nov. 30, at eleven, at the Court, Leeds—D. T. Perrott, Bris tol, grocer, Nov. 30, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—T. Plumley, jun., Bristol, grocer, Nov. 30, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—J. Y. Betts, Cardiff, Glamorganshire, grocer, Nov. 30, at eleven, at the Court, • .Bristol —W. Swein, Cheltenham, builder, Nov. 28, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol--J. Deakin, Liverpool, wine merchant, Dec. 5, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool, PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. F. H. Randall, Torquay, Devonshire, builder, 10a., on any Tuesday or Friday after Nov. 13, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Hemmen, Exeter. D. Thompson, Bury, Lancashire, bleacher, lid., on Tuesdays. between the hours of ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. A. King, Oxford, timber merchant and builder, 2s. 6d., on any Wednesday, between, the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook -court, Basinghalhstreet. J. Teasel, Norwich, carpenter and builder, Is , on any Wednesday, between the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook court, Basinghall street. M. Lewis, Oxford-street, linendraper, 3d., on any Wednesday, between the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Follett. Sambrook-court, Basinghall street. E. Field, Stratford-upon-Avon, mercer and draper, 2s. 9d., on any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Christie, Birmingham. J. Phillips, Leicester, banker, 203., on any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Christie, Birmingham. Burnett, Watson, Wanless, Harrison, and. Stokoe, Durham, coal owners and ship owners; 23.; on any Sa turday, between the hours of ten and three, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. E. Pearson, Norwich, modeller and plasterer, Nov. 30, at eleven—R. Gay, Dover, mustard and chicory manu facturer, Nov. 30, at twelve—W. G. Churches, Basing hail street, factor and warehouseman, Ncv. 30, at two— R. H. Morgaa, Mansfield-place, Kentish-town, licensed victualler, Nov. 30, at two—E. Hagen and 11. Hagen, Mill-street, Bermondsey, merchants, Nov. 30, at oLe—J. Clark and F. E. L. Clark, Pudding-lane, ship and in surance brokers. Nov. 29, at twelve—J. S. Gorely, Dover, brickmaker. Nov. 29, at one—J. Hodgkinson, Laurence-lane, Cheapside, warehouseman, Dec. 6, at half- past eleven. _ _ In the Co►►ntry. A. Rowe, Plymouth, grocer, Dec: 6, at eleven, at the Court, Exeter—J. Jackson, Stockport, Cheshire, tailor and draper, N0v.30, at eleven, at the Court, Manchest. r —W. Price, Preston, Lancashire, innkeeper, Dec. 1, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester. At the Court of Review, Nov. 28. S. Waters, Luton, Bedfordshire, baker—J. Morgan, sen., and J. Morgan, jun., Hereford and Glasbury, wool staplers—R. Grimbly, Banbury, Oxfordshire, wine and spirit merchant—J. Rhoades, Mitcham, Surrey, groc,r —W. Williams, Colchester, hat maker—W. Ashley, Liverpool, underwriter—C. Morton, Pentonville-hill, licensed victualler—W. Todd, Whitehaven, ironmonger— R. Marlin, Tavistock, tanner—J. Reid, Hanover court, Long-acre, and Ranelagh-mews, Ranelagh-street, Pim lico, builder—J. Ellis and C. Ellis, Warner-road, Cam berwell, builders—T. S. De Year, Lisle-street, Leices ter-square, currier. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. W. Came and E. C. Carne, Falmouth—L. James and J. Wolrige, Cross-lane, n S d t. W. Custom-houseMary- i at s -Hill, u n:pm., agents—G. Overton Hull, steam engine and boiler manufacturers—F. W. Thomas and J. W. Prior, Upper-street, Islington, and Union-court, Old Broad-street, auctioneers—N. Dickin son and F. Eames, Nottingham, pawnbrokers—A. Rip. ley, C. Thorp, and D. Smith, Apperley-bridge, York shire, dyers (so far as regards D. Smith)—W, Richardson, jun , and J. Roose. Wordsley and Darlas ton, Staffordshire. brass and copper tube manufacturers— W. C. Unsworth and R. M‘Laurin, Leeds, spirit mer chants—J. Gouger and J. G. Meyer, Bow-lane, Cheap side, shirt manufacturers—R. Whitworth and J. Whit worth, Manchester, wholesale grocers— J. Duke and J. Hill, St. Mary-at- Hill, City, corn factors—H. Oatway and J. Sellick, Bristol, rag and rope merchants —J. H. Cuzner and W. Pearce, Bristol, surgical instrument makers—W. Scott and W. C. Mathews, Edgware-road, grocers—W. F. Smith and J. Siddeley, jun., Liverpool, brassfounders and coppersmiths—W. M'Niell, C. W. M'Niell, S. Shepherd, P. T. Harbin, and R. D. Ward, acetic acid manufacturers. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. William Rose, Curolgate, Nottingham, innkeeper. John Payne, Street, Somersetshire, tailor. %Villiam Culph, Kirkdale, Lancashire, blacksmith. George Roberts, Cheltenham, innkeeper. Edward Bowden Spark, Exeter, tailor. John Lowry, Manchester, bootmuker. William Greaves, Leeds, commission agent. Charles Wright, West. Retford, Nottingham, jobber. John William Hayes, Ramsgate, tailor. Richard Stockley, Ramsgate, cabinet maker. George Frederick Webb, Margate, draper. James Lewis, juts., Ashford, Kent, draper's assistant. Nathaniel Shade, Halesworth, Suffolk, boot maker. Joseph Terrington, Brandon, Suffolk, Waterman. John Broomhead, sen., Liverpool, butcher. William Higginson, Liverpool. Thomas Talbot, Gislingham, Suffolk, railway porter. Edward Robinson, Manchester, ale dealer. James Thomas, South Norton, Pembrokeshire, farmer. Thomas James Young, New High-town, Northumber land, clerk. Rev. Henry Andrew Paull, Derby, clerk. William Whitehead, Oldpark, Shropshire, charter master Roger Palmer, Milton Abbott, Devonshire. Robert Morrall, Oldpark, Shropshire, pudler. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. P. Martin, Glasgow, goldsmith, to meet within the Globe Hotel, Glasgow, Nov. 9, and Dec. 1, at twelve. A. Davidson, Glasgow, sewed muslin warehouseman, to meet within the Buck's Head Hotel, Glasgow, Nov. 14, and Dec. 5, at one. D. Anderson, Kirkaldy, &slier, to meet within the National Hotel, Kirkaldy, Nov. 16, and Dee. 8, at twelve. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, Nov. 7. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The sales are—Great Western, Quar tfas, 3 dis.—Midland, 801 4—Ditto, 6 pe r cen t., 11 3. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 7. j 2 STOCK ExcHiNOE.—We have to report an improved state of the share market. A good demand existed for all kinds of stock, the market closing firmly. The sales are— Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire (late C. and 13.), 9 3 A dis.—Caledonian, Preference, I/ dis. — Lancashire and York shire (late Manchester and Birmingham), Fifths 4e. dis. —Ditto, 101. Preference, c. p.—Di tto, Halves (late W. P. and G.), 36 / 4—London and North Western, New Quarters, rq c p.—Ditto, Quarters (A and B), I p.—Ditt o , Q uar t ers (C), 1 3 / 4 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lineolnshire 101. Preference, 9%—Midland Stock, 82 c.—Ditto, New delves • RICKETTS V. NOBLE. This action was tried before the Lord Chief Baron at the last assizes for Surrey, when a verdict was found fur the plaintiff, damages 6/. Mr. Sergeant SHEE moved for a rule to increase damages. The plaintiff is a merchant in London, and the defendant mate of a vessel celled the Indian Chief, who agreed to carry for the plaintiff 150 tierces of beef and other provisions. They arrived in the river, and it was discovered that they were damaged, which the plain tiff alleged arose from the imperfect mode of stowage. The damages were laid at 71/. The CHIEF BARON took time to consider the case. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 7. MELVILLE •. DODGE. This action was tried at the last sittings in London, before Chief Justice Wilde, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff for 447/. Mr. COCKBURN now applied for a rule for a new trial on the ground of misdirection, and that the verdict was against the bulk of evidence. A young man named Chedley entered into the service of the National Pro vincial Bank at Bideford as clerk, and the defen dant was surety for his good behaviour and honesty. Whilst so employed, the young man was sent to a customer of the bank residing ten miles distant from Bideford to fetch some money ; he received the amount for which the ♦erdict was found, and on his way home lost it. Mr. Cockburn contended that the surety was not liable for the loss of the money, on the ground that it was not the proper duty of the youth to fetch money from a customer, and that the bank had no right to im pose such a duty upon him. He also contended that the bulk of the evidence did not justify the jury in find ing a 'verdict for the plaintiff. It appeared that the jury accompanied their verdict.with an expression of opinion that it was not within the regular scope of-the young man's duty in the banking business to be so employed ; and the Learned Counsel now held that he was acting not as the agent of the bank, but as the agent of the customer at the time in question. The COURT did not take the same view of the case. Notwithstanding the jury found that it was not the custom of bankers in that part of the country to send to their customers, the Court was of opinion it was part of the banking business; and the services of the young man. in being so employed, were perfectly legitimate, and were such as his surety would apply to. The Court was of opinion that the clerk received the money and held it as a servant of the bank, and, in that ♦iew of the case, thought there was no ground for a rule. With regard to the evidence there was some difficulty, but although there was nothing affecting the charscter of the young man, the Court thought there was on his part some in advertence and neglect.—Rule refused. COURT OF BAaKI(UPTCY, Nov:7. (Before Mr. Commissioner HoLRoYD.) JAMES WALTER'S lANKRUPTCT.) The bankrupt, who was described as of Now Kent• road, bookseller, came up for the C our t' s d ec i s i on on the question of certificate. The point of the bankrupt's trading having been dis cussed, Mr. Commissioner HoLnoyD gave judgment. He said, looking at the bankrupt' s b a l ance - s h eet, w hi ch com menced in August, 1846, it appeared that his trade trans actions literally amounted to nothing. For a certain time it seemed he had made jast sufficient to cover his expenses. Unfortunately be did not confine himself to the business in which he realized some profit, and for which it appeared he had some talent. Previous to Au gust, 1846, he carried on the business of a stockbroker, and at the time the balance-sheet began he was stated to be possessed of several shares in the South-Eastern Railway Company, amounting in value to about 12,0001. At the same period he was indebted to Davies and Co., of Liverpool, to the extent of 4,0002 The shares, which were lodged with the above-named firm as security, were gradually disposed of by them with the consent of the bankrupt, but still there was a large loss. The bankrupt came to London in March, 1846, nominally as a book seller, but he had no trade creditors, and since then he had been employed on the South-Eastern Railway Com pany. In a transaction of the bankrupt with Messrs. Carden and Whitehead, stockbrokers, in 1848, a con siderable loss was sustained in the purchase of 200 South- Eastern shares, occasioned by the events of February last, which produced a decline in all kinds of railway stock, and the result was that the brokers were creditors to the amount of 1,4001. Taking all the facts into con sideration, hi s H onour said he thought the justice of the c t i a fia s ce wo ul d d be s a ti s fi e d b y suspend i ng the b an k rupt ' s cer - An _r Biz mont h s, from the date of the meet i ng i n gust l ast Protection was granted from month to month. EN BoYD'S BANKRUPTCY. The bankrujp°tnea hadlk manufacturer, also came up for his cert i ficate. named Chrees, traded in connexton with a per sonwas severely who se conduct in pledging property animadverted upon by the Cow t. Although in business for a p eriod under 12 month s , the debts amounted to 5,573/,besides the p roperty which creditors held as se cur i ty for. advances. The asssets available for distributi on were estimat ed at about 1,0001 . Mr. Com m i ss i oner HOLROYD, after sh ort l y reviewing the features of th e - cafte, the redeeming circumstance being the bankrupt's nly moderate perso na l expenditure, of the ordered an adjournmentcertificate for 12 months, without protection, and should he hereafter be incarce rated the Court would only perruit his rel ease a f ter he had undergone six months ' imprisonment.. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov. 4. (Before the CHIEF COMMISSIONER.) IN RE THOMAS WILLIAM MA.VINHE O'KEEFE. This insolvent, a literary and dramatic writer, was opposed by Mr. Hughes on behalf of the assignees, of Mr. Swan, a solicitor, who claimed 1211. as costs in a Chancery suit. The insolvent, upon examination, stated that he had written articles for the Court Journal and other papers. He was now;connected with the Sporting Life in London, a recently-started rival to Bell's Life in London. He had also written twenty-three dramatic pieces, and his income from that source averaged about 60/. or 80/. per annum. He knew Miss Stanley, who was a public character—an actress. He was not married to;her, be cause he was already a married man. The insolvent here complained of the introduction of such matters, which he said were only brought forward to annoy him and bring the lady's name before the public. Examination resumed—Miss Stanley now resided at 58, Conduit-street, Regent-street, where he also had resided. The furniture at that place all belonged to Miss Stanley, and never had belonged to him. His debts amounted to 9501., contracted since 1838. lie brought over the Pyrenean singers to this country from France last year, but had paid them all that was due to them. Mr. HUGHES said, as his oppoj,tion had been princi pally with a view to discover if there was any property belonging to the insolvent, who now swore he had none, he should not press the examination any further. The CHIEF COMMISSIONER asked insolvent if he pro posed to set aside any part of his future earnings for the benefit of his creditors? --Th e insolvent said he was about to publish a new work, the first number of which would appear to-morrow, and if that should succeed he would be most happy to make an offer. .- The CHIEF COMMISSIONER said it would be creditable to the insolvent if, be did so at the next hearing. The 30th inst. was then named for the consideration of the final order. (Before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS.) IN RE GEORGE LINDSAY. This insolvent, a dealer in horses on commission, ap plied t• be discharged. His only debt was 161. 7s. 6d., and he had a good debt of 101. due to him. He had been in prison 16 weeks. Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS asked how the insolvent, with such a small debt, had remained so long in prison? Insolvent said, be had bought a horse for 131., receiv ing a warrantry of soundness, but ending it unsound, returned it, and commenced an action to recover the 131. Before proceeding to trial, however, his attorney re quired to be paid 201. on account of his costs, which he could not do, and, consequently, he was nonsuited in the action. He was now in custody upo❑ an attachment for the costs, and had only been enabled to apply to this court by the kind assistance of the Governor of White cross-street Prison. Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS said it was a most extra ordinary case, and ordered the insolvent to be discharged forthwith. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARYLEBONE. The Baroness St. - Mart, a fashionably attired :lady, who was accompanied by her husband and her mother, the Countess Grabouskii was brought before the sitting magistrate, Mr. Broughton, by Police-s: rgeant Hocka day, lb S, charged, under the following extraordinary circumstances, with having stolen two valuable diamond rings, the property of Sir J. Hare; of 26, Royal Cres• cent, Bath. The prosecutor, on being sworn, said—ln April, 1847, the Baroness, who was then Miss Todhunter, was on a visit to me at my residence in Bath, as was the Baron, to whom she was about to be married, and also the Coun tess, her mother. On the 26th of that mouth I had written some letters, and was going to a party in the evening, at which I was to introduce the . Baron. Prior to my leaving home I opened a portable desk, fro m which I took out a ring and put it on my finger ; the prisoner, the Baroness, asked me to lot k at it, and gave it into her hands. From a small casket I took another ring, which she also asked to look at. I gave it to her, and she put it on her finger, as she did the first. After a few - minutes I said to her, " Give me those again," and she said, " No, I shall keep them." I pressed her very much to return them, but I could not get them from her; and being anxious to save the post I quitted home with my letters, the Baron walk ing with tee to the post-office. This was on the Tues day, and on the next Thursday the Baroness, the Baron, and the Countess left, and I had forgotten all about the rings till they were gone. On the next day (Friday) I came up to London to recover, if possible, the articles which I had missed, and repaired to their residence in Thayer-street, Manchester-square, having been invited to be present at the wedding of the Baroness and Baron which was to take place on the Saturday. Tho Countess pressed me eagerly to stay dinner, and as soon as tut opportunity was afforded me I spoke to the Baroness as she was going up stairs, having called her aside for the purpose, and asked her for the rings; she made no ob servation, but went up. In the course of five minutes she came down and said, "What were you saying to me just now?" To which I remarked, that I had asked her to bring me the rings. She affirmed that she knew nothing whatever respecting them. Some altercation ensued, and the Countess also denied that her daughter the Baroness had the rings in question. Mr. BROUGHTON—Have you seen the rings since? Sir J. Hare—l have not, sir. Mr. BROUGHTON—What do you consider to be the value of them? Sir J. Hare—l should say at least 40 guineas. Eliza Russell, through whose information the Baroness was ultimately apprehended, said—l lived in the service of the Countess three years, and left lkst Saturday week. Mr. BROUGHTON—Have you at any time been em ployed by the Baroness to dispose of rings? Witness— Yes, sir. Last May twelvemonth she gave me two rings which she desired me to pledge for 10/. at Mr. Boyce's, Lisson-grove North. I obtained that amount upon them, and gave the money into the Baroness's own hands. Immediately she received the tickets from me she tore them up. The Baroness—Now tell me, what did you leave my mother, the Countess's, service for? Witness—You thought I had opened your jewel-box and made free with its contents; but I was quite innocent of anything of the sort. Francis Best said, lam assistant to Mr. Boyce. I remember two rings being pledged by a woman, whom I believe to be the last witness, for 101. Mr. BaoutauTors—Have you the rings, or either of them, by you? Witness—No, Sir; they were taken to Debenham and Story's, where they were put up by auc tion, and bought in by Mr. Boyce, by whom they have since been disposed of. Mr. BaououToN—Describe them if you please. Wit ness—One had a large diamond in the centre, set round with smaller ones, and the other had an emerald in the centre, also set round with diamonds. Mr. Fell, the chief clerk (to Sir J. Hare) —Does the description which you hear given by the last witness agree with that of the articles which you have lost? Sir J. Hare—Exactly. Sergeant Hockaday, 15 S, s a id, this afternoon I was with Sir J. Hare, and met the Baroness in a street near this Court, and by the direction of Sir John I took her into custody. Mr. BROUGHTON—Did you tell her what she was charged with? Witness--I did, Sir. She observed that she was innocent, and that the matter had been discussed before. Mr. BRONORTON (to the prisoner)—Now, if you wish to say anything, I am ready to hear you. Prisoner—l have been in the habit of meeting Sir J. Hare, and he has been .a very kind and good friend; while lodging in the Champi Elysees, at Paris, with my mother, we had the use of his carriage, and having learned that I was about to be united to the Baron on our return to London, he said he should act as papa at the wedding, and invited as down to Bath. We went thither, and although he knew I was engaged to the Baron, he made me an offer of marriage himself, at the same time telling me that he should make a much richer husband for me than the one I had fixed on. On the Wednesday or:Thursday he speaks of, we were all in the parlour, when Sir John took a ring from a box, saying. " This is a beautiful ring," and he put it on my finger; he also put upon it another, raying, " This belonged to my dear departed angel." I gave t h em t o my mother to look at, having done which she gave them back to me, and I gave them to t1443..8ar0n, who returned them both to Sir J. Hare. • Mr. BROUGHTON—You have heard what the pawn broker has stated—what do you say .to that? Prisoner—lf he has had the rings,.it was not through me, Sir. Mr. BROUGHTON (to Sir J. Hare)—Now, Sir John, I need scarcely remind you that you are upon your oath ; did you ever make an offer of marriage to this lady, the Baroness ? Sir J. Hare—Never. I can swear it. Mr. BROUGHTON—Did you ran the rings passed to the Countess ? Sir J. Hare—l did not. The Baroness retained possession of them herself. . .. Mr. BROUGHTON—It'II rather a curious circumstance that you should not have demanded the rings back be fore the party left your house. Sir J. Hare—lt does seem rather strange. but it hap pened to escape my recollection. Mr. BROUGHTON (to the prisoner)—Sir John swears that there is no truth as to his having made you an offer. Prisoner —He really did, Sir ; what I have stated ii the fad,. The Countess here stepped forward, and said, Sir John was very attentive to my daughter upon all occa sions, and as she was not in the habit of rising early, he would go to her bedroom door, clap his hands, and say, " Missy, missy, come down to breakfast." Mr. BROUGHTON, after remarking upon the evidence adduced, and giving it as his opinion that he could see no reason for doubting the truth of the statement made by the witness Russell, remanded the Baroness till Tues day next, in ord er to afford time for Mr. Boyce, the pawnbroker, to do all in his power with the view of tracing the rings; he was willing to take bail for her future appearance, the Baron, her husband, in 2001., and another surety in half that amount. The Countess here addressed the prosecutor, saying, "Sir John, with grey hairs, such revenge is unworthy of you." ihe required recognizances were entered into, and the parties quitted the Court. WESTMINSTER. Mary Heak, a woman of the town, and Thomas John son, a well known associate of reputed thieves, were finally examined, charged with ill-treating and robbing Allen Hembrow, a respectable-looking young man, of his silver watch. The circumstances of the case are briefly these : The prosecutor and a friend were inveigled by a woman, on the night of the 30th ult., into an infamous house, in Duck-lane, where they were joined by the female pri soner. The male prisoner shortly afterwards made his appearance, and insisted upon the prosecutor and his friend sending out for some liquor ; and as the female prisoner locked the door, and declared that they should , not leave unless the request was complied with, prose- 97 c. dis.—North Staffordshire, 6 1 / g dis.— Shropshire Union, 3 1 4 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover. No. 4, Thirds, 6 3 ,,i York, Newcastle, and B erw i c k (G. N . E . Purchase), 1 1 4 dis. —York and North Midland, Preference, 1 1 4 dis. MANCHESTER, Nov. 7. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lanca shire, and Cheshire Junction, 311. Shares, 9% c. dis.— North Staffordshire, 6n. dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 6 , !.i dis.—Old Dover, 23%—Leeds, Preference, % c. Sheffield and Lincoln, 14 , 1 1 c. dis.—Caledonian, Preference, dis.—Chester and Holyhead, Preference, 13% c.— Grimsby, 50/. Shares, '30 3 4 —.Newcastle Junction, 415. dis. Nov. 7. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The sales are—Birmingham and Oz. ford Junction, 23/. 13s. 9d.—North Staffordshire, Cl. 36. 9d. dis.—Shropshire Union, 34 dis. YORK, Nov. 6. _ _ STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business transacted to-day was as follows :—Lancashire, Wakefield, I'ontypool, and Goole, 32—Lancashire (West Riding Union), It. ls.—Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, Bs.—North British, Thirds 3 1 ,4—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Pur chase), 6 1 4. . _ GLASGOW, Nov. 6. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Caledonian, Prefer ference, 81s.—Glasgow, Kilmarnock. and Ayr, 50—Ditto, Halves, No. 1,60 s. 6d.—Great Northern, 658.—North British, 14,4—Ditto, Thirds, 725. 6d.—Scottish Central, 234—Scottish Grand Junction, 3s. TrDirt Ebittort QUEEN'S BENCH-(THIS DAY BILL TRANSACTIONS.-SCOTT V. FERRIS. This case was tried at Bristol at the last assizes before Mr. Justice Coleridge, and a verdict was found for the plaintiff, a nephew of Sir Walter Scott, and a lieutenant in the 19111 Lancers. It was an action to recover the possession of bills of exchange for 1,0004 It appeared that a person named Martin, finding that the plaintiff required some money, offered to aid in procuring him some on the st curity of bills. He accordingly accepted two,bilis for 5001., and endorsed them to Martin, for the purpose of getting them discounted. He never, however, procured any consideration for them. Some time after a person named Haslett wrote to the plaintiff and stated that his bills were in bad hands, acd ordered him to en deavour to procure possession of them without delay, as it was not unlikely if they remained longer unsatisfied that an action would be brought upon them, and that half a dozen persons would not unlikely come forward and swear that consideration had been given for them. Acting upon this advice the plaintiff came to London and obtained an interview with the defendant, to whom he bad traced the bills. He said he had given Martin 4001. for them and an I 0 U for 2001. more. He however agreed to give them up on the payment of 1001. in money, and a warrant of attorney for 3001. Subsequently, finding that fraud had been committed, he applied to Mr. Baron Alderson to quash the warrant of attorney; that Learned Baron de clined to do so, but directed a special issue for the trial of the case. Mr. Sergeant BYLES now moved for a rule calling upon the plaintiff to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, and a new trial had, on the ground that several letters were read at the trial which were not matters of evidence, since no proof was given in sup port of them. The COURT considered that the letters ought not to have been read unless the counsel for the plaintiff was in a condition to prove them, and granted a rule upon that point; but reserved its decision upon some other points raised until the proper time. COMMON PLEAS --(THIS DAY RITCHIE V. SMITH. This action was tried at the last sittings at West minster, when a verdict was found for the defendant upon the third issue, which was the material one, ani for the plaintiff upon the others. Mr. Holum, applied to the Court to set aside the ver dict :upon the third issue, and to enter a verdict for the plaintiff for 132/. 17s. 3d., or for arrest of judgment, or for a new trial. The plaintiff is the proprietor of Fen dall's Hotel, Westminster, and he let out the " tap" attached to the hotel to a person of the name of Newman, for 4/. a week, and the defendant was surety for the payment of the rent. Newman made default in his payments; and this action was brought against the defendant, to recover the amount. The main defence at the trial was that the plaintiff, by the agreement which he made with Newman, enabled the latter to carry en the business without a licence, which was contrary to law, and that, therefore, his claim could not be sus tained against the defendant. A number of authorities were cited by the Learned Counsel with the view of ex culpating him from the illegality of the proceeding. The Cum JUSTICE was of opinion that the applica tion could not be granted upon any of the points raised, and that the jury could come to no other conclusion upon the evidents produced be . ore them than in findirg a ver dict in substance for the de!eudant. It was clearly proved that the express object and intent of the plaintiff in making the agreem.nt with Newman for the occupa tion of the premises for the sale of excisable liquors was to enable him to evade the law by selling such spirits without being duly licensed accordi► . g to the statute. The amount or reward which the plaintiff was to receive from Newman was therefore partly compounded of compensation for so eLabling him to con duct the business, and as the restrictions im posed upon persons retailing spirituous liquors in making it necc.sary for them to obtain the sanction of the ma gistrates for the (windy, and the Excise were required, for she protection of the public morals and the public :nick! , he was of opinion that the agreement entered into was illegal, arid that there was sufficient matter disclosed at the tlial to show that the plaintiff had no locus standi in a court of law, and could not enforce the demand. He was, therefore, of 'opinion, that the application of the Learned Counsel could not be allowed. The other Learned Judges concurred in the opinion of heir Chief, and the application was accordingly refused. AUSTRIA. Baron Von Wessemberg has seat the follow ing circular to all the Austrian Ambassadors at the German Courts : " The late events at Vienna have in Germany been partly viewed in a wrong light. In order to form a more correct judgment on the subject, attention ought to be directed to the following.points : " The military operations which at the present mo ment take place under the walls of Vienna have but one object—namely, the suppression of anarchy and the re- establishment of legal order. It has never entered the thoughts of the Emperor or of his Government to retract the guaranteed liberties, or to realise the chimera put forward under the name of reaction by the anarchical party, much less to conquer for one of the Austrian nationalities supremacy over the rest. There is no strife of nationalities—no change of the monarchy into a Sclavortian Austria, as the German press believes or pr e t en d s t o believe, but a combat of order against anarchy, of legal authority, without which no Government can exist, against ter rorism, of preservation agaiost destruction. We cannot but denominate it a confusion of ideas, a mis conception of facts, if another meaning be given to this combat. " The revolution has put on a German dress. The German colours have become the colours of the anarchical party. The liberty, the greatness, and the welfare of Germany, the protection of which the Emperor of Austria considers his special duty, are not to be opposed by force of arms, but the measures of his Majesty's Government and army are solely directed against that faction which uses those colours and those objects for its own pernicious designs. " His Majesty the Emperor and his Government are firmly resolved to carry on this combat with all the.means at their disposal. These means have been more accurately designated by the manifestoes of the 16th and 19th inst. The military measures have already been curried into execution. An army of nearly 60,000 men, commanded by Prince Windisch gratz, who has taken his head-quarters Hetzendorf, is blockading the capital, and I have reason to entertain the hope that the more immediate object of those operations will be shortly attained. " At the same time his Majesty has thought fit to transfer the Diet from Vienna, and to convoke it to meet at Kremtsier on the 15th of November. " Baron VON WESSEMBERG. " 011mutz, Oct. 26, 1848." SCHLESWIG-HOLSTEIN. PROTEST OF THE DANISH COMMISSARY. The undersigned, his Danish Majesty's Commis sary, in c ons id erat i on o f t h e 7 t h A rt. o f t h e Conven tion, for an armistice of the 26th August last, in which it is said that the legislative power in the Duchies Schleswig and Holstein shall be suspended during the armistice, and of the Art. XI. of the said convention, from which it follows that the condition of a final peace shall in no ways be prejudiced, in consideration further of the proclamation of the 22d, last issued by the joint administration on the day of their installation, concerning the laws, regu. lations, and ordinances enacted since the 17th of March last, feels called upon, in the name of his Majesty the King of Denmark, to intimate that, consistent with the spirit of a conscientious observation of the above convention, he considers it his duty expressly and solemnly to pro test against the illegality of the maintenance of any and every law or regulation prejudicial to the further settlement of the questions at issue, which have obtained rigour by the above proclamation; and as such he especially considers the following, viz.- 1. The regulation of the Provisional Uovernment of the 18th of April last, concerning the elections to the German National Assembly, in as far as this regulation might in future be applied to Schleswig. 2. The publication of the Provisional Government of the 23d September last, concerning the inadmis sible use of Danish flags and cockades. 3. The publication of the Provisional Government of the 30th September concerning the protection of the vessels and cr e ws i n foreign countries during the armistice. 4. The decision of the 21st of October concernir g the flags to be used by the merchant vessels. The fundamental law, published on the 15th of September, is also subject to the same protest, parti cularly in regard to the validity of the stipulations concerning the public law and relations, and especially as contained in Articles 1,3, 55, and 120. On the other hand, it is not the intention of the commissary of his Majesty the King of Denmark to oppose any obstacle to the principles of the said fun. darnental law respecting.the civil liberty, in as far as they are consistent N ith -.acquired rights, nor to such regulations of the joint administration for the duch!es as are conducive to the welfare of the country and the inhabitants, or to the maintenance of public order. (Signed) REEDZT, Royal Commissary. To the Joint Administration of the Duchies of Holstein and Schleswig, at Schleswig. The undersigned declare hereby that after the re quest having been made to tbem, they are willing to take upon themselves the joint administration of the duchies of Schleswig and Holstein, as stipulated by the armistice concluded on the 26th of -August last, between his Majesty the King of Denmark and his Majesty the King of Prussia. • - The undersigned, although well aware of the diffi culties of this task, and the weight of the respon sibility it involves, have, however, thought it a duty to comply with this request, trusting to that acknow ledgment and assistance on the side, as well of the duchies and their inhabitants, as of the interested powers, which are an absolutely necessary condition for their acceptance of the offer, and for their suc cessful conduct of an administration under such forms as required by the present relations of the duchies. (Signed) BOYSEN, HEINTZE, AR. MOLTU, PREUSSER, TH. REVEZVTLOW. Kiel, Oct. 9, 1848. IRELAND. THE BISHOPRIC OF DOWN. DUBLIN, TUESDAY.—Dean Tighe, Dean of the Chapel Royal and first chaplain to the Lord Lieu tenant, is mentioned as likely to be appointed to the vacant Bishopric of Down and Connor. THE DINNER TO SIR. C. NAPIER. The committee of the dinner to Sir Charles Napier, the hero of Sinde, which is to be given on the 16th inst., have received the following letter from Lord Hardinge " South Park, Oct. 30. " Lord llardinge presents his compliments to the committee, and, in reply to their letter, regrets that it will not be in his power to be present at the dinner about to be given in Dublin to Sir Charles Napier. He is consoled for his absence, which is unavoidable, by the fact that he has already had the.gratification of witnessing the reception of his distinguished friend in the midst of his comrades of the navy and army in the United Service Club; - and of there expressing his sentiments of admiration for the great ability dis played and eminent services rendered by that gallant officer, and which he is confident will be celebrated by his fellow-countrymen in Ireland in a manner worthy of the illustrious man whom it is intended to honour." CASE OF MR. MARTIN. In the Court of Queen's Bench yesterday, counsel applied in the case of Mr. John Martin (late of the Felon newspaper) versus the Queen in error, that-a writ of habeas corpus do issue that Mr. Martin might be brought before the Court, and further, that thOr Lordships would fix Thursday for the purpose of as signing error. Both applications were granted by the Chief Justice. The point relied upon to- sustain the writ rests solely upon an objection .raised during the trial to the admissibility of a burgess" of the city of Dublin to act as a juror _in a case of felony, inasmuch as that by the charters granted to the Lord Mayor aldermen, and burgesses of Dublin in the reign of Henry V. and other Sovereigns, burgesses, as part of the corporation, were en ti t l e d to the property of persons convicted of felony, and that, consequently, any burgess acting as a juror had a direct interest in the conviction of Mr. Martin. ANOTHER DARING ROBBERY. A Queen's County correspondent of the Freeman writes— "On Sunday, between the hours of 10 and 11 o'clock, as a pensioner named Kearney was proceed ing from Mountmellick to Clonaslee, for the purpose of lodging the second halves of 771. with the staff sergeant there, he was met near Mr. Sabbtier's gate (two miles from MOuntmellick) by two armed men, who knocked him off his horse and ordered him. to deliver the pensioners'. money which he had about him. Kearney, after some resistance, handed the pre cious bundle, which, upon examination, they found to their utter disapp o i ntmen t t o b e b u t half notes ; these they flung back in his face with curses, and proceeded to rifle his pockets, in which they found Bs. 6d. After taking this triflng sum they decamped without offering Kearney any further molestation, 'tiring him in possession of his bundle of -half notes. Lieutenant J. 0.. Lloyd, the stall- officer of the Queen's County, attended at - `Mountmellick on Saturday, for the purpose of paying the pen sioners of that district, and transmitted through the post-office there the first halves of 7'71. for the Clonaslee district;, ,at the same time giving Kearney the corresponding halves, with balance of Bs. 6d with which he was to proceed to the staff -sergeant on the ensuing morning. It is very probable that the men who robbed Kearney were watching Mr. Lloyd', movements on the previous evening at Mountmellick, and expected that, as usual, he would have continued his route to Clonaslee ; but in this, as well as in the robbery, they were disappointed. The orders from the Horse Guards are, that when staff officers appre hend danger in their tour of payment to out-stations, they may call to their assistance a sufficient escort of pensioners and allow them 2s. 6d. a day each. I have just heard there is a clue by which the police expect to efiiict the apprehension of one of the robbers." The Evening Mail contradicts the reported retire ment from Parliamentary life of the Hon. Colonel Westenra, one of the Members for the King's County. [ A DVERTlSEMllNT.j — lndigestion.—NomedicineLas . proved so efficient for the cure of indigestion and diseateis of the stomach as Woradell's Vegetable Restorative Pills, prepared by John Kaye, Esq., of Dalton-hall, near Hud dersfield. All who have used them speak in the highest terms of gratitude and praise as to their wonderful eflt eacy. Mr. Charles Adams, farmer, of Cheddeston, neer Bungay, suffered from indigestion and extreme debility for seven years, during which period he was attended by two medical gentlemen. He was said to be iis-ts consump tion, and no hopes were given of his recosery. He de termined, however, to give the Vegdtable Restorative Pills a fair trial. He experienced great relief from tak ing the first box; and, to his great surprise and comfort, perseverance in the use of them restored him to perfect health. Observe: John Kaye's coat of arms and a fac simile of his signature are on the directions for use wrapped round each box. Price Is. lid., 2s. 9d., or 4s. 6d. per box; to be had of all respectable Chemists and Medicine Venders. [A D YERTIS EMENT.] CONSUMPTION, &C. Thoo cases of G. Amott, Esq., Principal Surveyor of Customs, Major Lynch, Miss Erwood, Sir H. N. W —s, Bart., Miss Haite, Mr. Morley. Captain Lindsey, R.N., &c., are published in the Clinical Report of Cases by Dr. Cronin, on the Use of "Anaspasia," in the treatment of some of the severest forms of disease.-oLthe stomach;-heart, and lungs, and may be had gratuitously between ten and One, daily, at 14, Leicester-place, Leicester-square. DEPTFORD, NOY. 'I.—DEPARTURE PROM TEI EMIGRATION DEPOT FOR SOOTZ A trfITRALIA.--.-Yell• terday the Francis Ridley, of 850 tons burden, received 300 persons on board; destined to settle at Port Philip South Australia. They consisted of 210 adults and 90 children. ••• A LANCASHIRE CANNIBAL. - -Early on Sunday morning last a police-officer of the C division observe d a man, having the appearance of an excavator, busily engaged searching in a field, off Store -street, for some thing which he appeared to have lost. The officer weal up to and questioned the man, who at first seemed re markably taciturn, and indisposed to answer questions, but at last he gathered that the fellow he was addressing had that morning been engaged in an up-and-down fight, Lancashire fashion, and that he was looking for one of his ears, which his antagonist had bit off t Commise• rating the poor wretch, the policemsn assisted him $0 . look for his ear, which, after a while, he found, when the officer strongly advised him to appear at the Borough Court next morning, to apply for a warrant against the brute who had so maimed him. " Noa, nos," rejoined the fellow, coolly depo s iting his stray car in his waistcoat pocket, " aw'A do now't at soart; it war a fair gradely stand-up battle, un aw want Bother law nor warrant."— Manchester Courier. On the sth inst. , at Ashford-lodge, near Crawley, SUMS, the wife of J. Johnstone Esq., of a son. On the sth in s t., at Johnstone, Clapham-park, Kincaid, of a son. On the sth inst., :at Eastfield, Ryde, the- lady of S. W. Clayton, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. On the Ist inst., by the Bev. T. Wilson, incumbent of ' Farnley, T. Julian Adams Esq., to Miss Armitage, oldest daughter of W. Armitage, Esq., of Farnley-hall, Yorkshire. At Eyneabur y, Hants, on the Ist inst., Henry Platt, Esq., of Flitwick, Bedfordshire, to Susan Elizabeth, eldest daugh ter of the late Mr. Somers, of North Audley-street, Grosve• nor-square. On the 4th inst., at St. George-the-Martyr, Bloomsbury, Miss Mary Ann King, niece of the late Mrs. Benda, of Hunter-street, to R. C. Turnbull, Esq., of Lancaster. On the 4th inst., at St. Paul's, Deptford, H. L. Ilearsum, Esq., of the Ordnance-office, Tower, to Elizabeth Ann, eldest ciptieter of Mr. J. Bunnett, of the Upper-road, Deptford. DUO. At Shiraz, in Persia, of inflammatory fever, on August 27th last, most sincerely beloved and deeply regretted by all who knew him, Joseph Louis Tasker, Esq., aged 24, only, son of Joseph Tasker, Esq., of Middleton-hall, Brentwood, Essex, and York-buildings, New-road. On the 31st ult., George Miles, Esq., of Edwardes-street, Kensington, Deputy Commissary-General, aged 71. On the 2d inst., at Brighton, C. W. Nicolay, Esq., of Oz• ford•sq*are, Hyde-park, London, aged 43. On the 2d inst., at Chichester, Mr. W. Miller, Superior Bedell in Law for the University of Oxford, aged 34. On the 4th inst., aged 56, Louisa, the wile of Mr. John Goodera, Elysium-villa, Fulham. On the sth inst., at Cottage-grove, Mile-end, the Rev. If. Castleden, Independent Minister, Woburn, Bedfordshire. On the 6th inst., Elizabeth ; wife of Mr. John Watson, of • Mile. end, aged 68. On the 6th inst., at the Retreat, Battersea, V. Morris, Esq• On the sth inst., at Harewood-square, George J. Siddonaso Esq., aged 68. _ London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Offiee, No. 112. Strand, is the Precinct of the Savoy. 'm the etent3' of bliddlenzi Wednesday, Noyeauber 8, 1848.