The Sun. — London, England, 1848-07-10 00:00:00

Y AND NritV Y. (From the United Service Gazette of Saturday.) DRILLING OF THE COAST GUARD MEN.—At the re quest of Captain Houston Stewart, C. 8., the Comptrol ler-General of the Coast Guard, the Admiralty have ordered small parties of Coast Guard men to be removed on board the Excellent, gunnery ship, at Portsmouth, for a limited time, to perfect themselves in the system of gunnery taught in that establishment. Their Lordships have also ordered the Benbow, 72, at Sheerness, to be appropriated for a similar purpose. COAST GUARD AND COAST DEFENCE.—We understand from the best authority, that not only is it the intention of the Government to establish batteries, and to drill all the men of the Coast Guard Service, but it is in contem plation to enrol the seamen and fishermen of the coast as sea fiencibles, or a coast militia, and to drill them in the use of the musket and at the great gun exercise. With this view the Admiralty are appointing active and experienced officers in the service, having conceded, as an inducement, the advantage of permitting them to count their time served in the Coast Guard as for sea service. The Commandant of the Portsmouth Division of Royal Marines has been directed to permit the Coast Guard in the neighbourhood to exercise at the sea bat teries of the artillery companies, as well as at those of the divisional companies. The reward of 1004 per annum, for distinguished service has been conferred on Major-General H. God win, C. 8., an officer of great merit and distinction. Commencing service with the 90th Foot at Ferrol, he afterwards proceeded to Hanover in 1805, and subse quently was with the Peninsular Army in Portugal, in 1808 and 1809. During the latter period he was present at the memorable passage of the Douro. Marching from Gibralter to Tarifa, in command of two flank com panies, he went there with Lord Lynedoch, and was present at the battle of Barossa, where he was severely wounded. From this time until 1824, Major-General God win had few opportunites of service, but in that year we find him engaged in the Burmese war. From 1824 to 1826 he held six separate commands against the enemy, on one of which he captured the fortified town of Mar taban, and afterwards the fortified position of Tantabain, where he captured 36 pieces of artillery. Subse quently in the action at Sembike, when in command of the advanced guard be carried the front face of the enemy's p ssition. Major-General Thomas Bunbury, K.H., has suc ceeded to the distinguished service reward of 1001 per annum. This gallant officer led the storming party at Forts Frederick and Zelandia, as a volunteer, at the capture of Surinam, inllBo4. He also served in the cam paign of 1814, in Holland, including the attacks on Mexem, and the bombardment of the French fleet at Antwerp. General Bunbury subsequently served in the American war. We regret to find by accounts received by the last West India mail, that that distinguished corps, the 88th, or Connaught Rangers, has suffered severely from fever. THE ENCAMPMENT AT KENSALL MOOR.—The force stationed at the camp, consisting of the 9th Regiment, has been increased by two companies of the 30th; and the number of troops there now amount to about 1,000. Several men have been compelled to go into hospital at the Regent's Barracks, Manchester. RECRUITS FOR THE ROYAL MARINES.—The standard has been raised for recruits for this corps to 5 feet 64- inches for growing lads between the ages of eighteen and twenty years, and 5 feet 7 inches from twenty to twenty-five years of age. NEW STEAM-YESSELS.—The Admiralty have ordered that in future all steam vessels with new machinery, and especially with screw-propeller engines, when tried for the first time out of port, are to be accompanied by another steamer. INCREASED ARMAMENTS. —Orders have been received at Port>mouth to receive, when ready, six guns, to be sen t 1" Malta, by first conveyance, to the Queen, 110, which ship is in future to mount 116 guns. The addi tion is two 325, 42 cwt., Bft. long, on main-deck ; two 325, 45 cwt., 8 ft. 6 in. on quarter-deck ; and two 325, 25 cwt., 6 ft. on her forecastle. The Amphion, auxiliary screw steam-frigate, is also to take on beard at Spithead an additional number of guns, making her armament 34 —via., one 50 cwt. 32-pounder and one 25 cwt. 32- pounder on the forecastle ; one 50 cwt. 32-pounder on the quarter-deck; and one 50 cwt. 32 pounder on the main deck. Beys.—Some new regulations have been issued re cently with respect to the boys of her Majesty's service. The Admiralty hare directed that all boys who have served fur any time, and have good characters, may be entered on board the flag ships, and are to be the first that are drafted for vacancies. Those boys who have been paid off are in future to have the same privil leges granted to them as to seamen, namely—to be granted six weeks' leave, at the expiration of which time, if they do not come back, they are not to have " run" marked against their names ; but boys who are at tached to the flag ship in consequence of not having served their time, are not entitled to six weeks' leave, but leave may be granted them at the discretion of the Captain. All the Supernumerary Boys in the flag ships are to be discharged into the first vacancies that occur in the Squa drons, and no more boys are to be entered until the Supernumeraries are provided for. THE NEW LIGHTS FOR STEAMERS.—We understand, from very good authority, that the Austrians have ex pressed a disposition to adopt, in the Austrian Navy, and in the Austrian Steam-Packet Company's boats, the new system of lights, for the prevention of collisions at sea, introduced by the Admiralty, the plan of which ap peared in our Gazette of last week. All foreign Navies, it is expected, will gladly avail themselves of this excellent arrangement. THE FRENCH SYSTEM.—The Admiralty, adopting the French system, have directed that the Royal Frederick, 110, built at Portsmouth, shall not be launched or cop pered, but she is to be kept on the stocks. She is to be considered as an advanced ship, and her stores and ar mament are to be provided accordingly. THE PACIFIC.—It is a fact to be deplored that the naval force on the South American station is already very deficient, and is about to be still further reduced. At present the squadron consists of the Asia, 84, flag ship; Grampus, 50, Captain H. B. Martin; Constance, 50; Captain Courtenay; Jano, 26, Captain Blake; Calypso, 20, Captain Worth; and Sampson, steam-frigate, Cap tain Henderson. The Grampus is, however, now re ceiving freight to bring home, and the Juno is to follow in August; consequently the station will be left with only four ships to protect British interests in a part of the world wherein they need most protection. In consequence of an apprehended attack by the In.'lians on Belize, the Admiralty have ordered a suffi cient force there for the protection of British interests. REGULAR COMMUNICATION WITH THE COAST 01 .AFRICA. —As the Admiralty have arranged to dispatch a man-of-war to the coast of Africa station on the Ist of every month, taking mails to Madeira and other islands, en route to Sierra Leone and Ascension, so their Lord ships have ordered Commodore Sir C. Hotham, K.C.8., the Commander-in-Chief there, to send one ship of his squadron, on the Ist of every month, with a mail for England. SIERRA LEONE. —The want of a safe and commodious landing-place for boats at Sierra Leone, and also of a wharf with a goad depth of water alongside, is, we un derstand, about to be supplied. Commodore Sir Charles But ham, has taken great interest in the matter, and has employed the Master of his ship to make a survey, which has been ;very ably done, and a drawing for warded, we understand, to the Admiralty. When this is completed, a steam-ship as large as the Penelope will be able to go alongside to coal. THE LATE COMMANDER LEVINGE.—A private letter from an officer on the African station thus notices the death of that most estimable officer, Commander Le vinge :—" Commander Levinge, of the Penelope, to the sincere regret of all on the station, died on the evening of the 24th of April, at the time when a marine named Imre, who had died in the morning, was in the act of being committed to the deep. The Penelope had been to Congo for water, and al though only one night there, contracted in that short space of time four cases of fever, one of which was the commander. The remains of the gallant officer were vtit, - ,i o .ed in a copper coffin and thus brought to A scen - , v iov, at which island he was buried on the 26th ult." GRAND REVIEW OF THE TROOPS AT WOOLWICH. WooLwicrie, JULY 7.—lt was announced in orders, at: A late hour last ni g ht, that the whole of the troo p ; in the garrison would assemble on Woolwich-common shortly after ten o'clock, A.M. to-day, in review order; and at eleven o'clock Field Marshal hi s R oyal Hi g hness Prince Alb ert arrived on the p ara d e ground in front of t he Royal Artillery Barracks, attended by Colonel Wylde, C. 8., and Lieutenant Colonel Seymour. His Royal Highness was received on alighting from . the royal carriage by Field-Marshal the Marquis of Anglesey, Master -General of the Ordnance, Lieutenant-General Sir Thomas is Downman, CB ... and K.C.H. , Commandant of the General garron, -Ci , louel J. E. Jones , Assistant Adjutant- ' 1 1.414 utenant-Colonel Brereton , C. 8., and K. 11., 'Lieuq . enant - Colonel Anderson, Lieutenant -Colonel Waiele, Royal Artillery, Lieutenant-Colonel Eng lish, aoyal Engineers, Brigade Major Cuppage, Cap tain Tyhien, Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster - Ge neral Royal Artillery, and Captain Wingfield, of the riding estabfishinent. The royal standard was hoisted on the flag-stnif, and a royal salute fired from the mortar battery on his Royal Highness entering the garrison. The Duke of Beaufort and General the Marquis of LDn donderry, Colonel of the 2d Life Guards, had arrived a few minutes previous to Prince Albert, and were pre sent to receive his Royal Highness. At ten minutes past eleven, Prince Albert, dressed in the uniform of field-marshal, and a brilliant staff, pro ceeded to the common, where the troops were drawn up in line from south to north; the Royal Horse Artillery under the command of Lieutenant. Colonel Bell; the ,line under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Crut- U nden, formed into . three baCalions, the right under tee command of , Lieutenant-Colonel Palmer, the c eot.ve under Lieutenant-Colonel Evans, the left u nd, Iv Lieute nant-Colonel Furneaux ; the Royal Sappers and \li n ers under the command of Captain Cragie, and the Royal Marines under the command of Lieutenant- Colonel Coryton, the field batteries under the com mand of Colonel .Cleveland. Immediately on ent er i ng the comi-non his Royal Highness was joined by Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington, who had just arrived, in uniform. His Royal Hi g h ness welcomed the Gallant Duke, shook hands with him, and remaibed in conversation with the veteran warrior during the whole time of the review. Major- General Prince Geo r g e of Cambrid geved and . his Serene Hi g hness the Prince of Hesse, Camb ay a few mi :nutes after the Duke of Wellington, in uniform -the Prince of Hesse i n a very handsome Prussian military dress, with helmet cap, thc whole of a fine blue colour ; the Duke of Richmond, in the uniform of a yeomanry corps ; Colonel the Earl of ;ardigan, in the uniform of the 11th (Prince Albert's wn) Hsarsus ; Colonel Campbell, Lieutenant-Colonel L iundas, Lieutenant-Colonel liardinge, Ii.LL, THE sitLit___LONDON), JULY lO Lieutenant-Colonel Pester, Royal Artillery, and Lieut.- Colonel Gordon, Royal Marines. Major Thurlow and Captain Paget attended as Aides-de-Camp to the Master-General. There were numerous carriages 011 the ground, with distinguished parties in them, and general and other officers not in uniform. On his Royal Highness Prince Albert, Prince George of Cambridge, the Duke of Wellington, and the brilliant staff approaching the troops, his Royal Highness Prince Albert was received by the Master-General and the Commandant of the Garrison, the troops presenting arms, and the bands of the various branches of the service playing the National Anthem. Prince Albert, with the whole of the officers, then rode down the line and up the rears, examining particularly the clean and excellent appearance of the men, the fine condition of the horses and the excellence of their ap pointments. Prince Albert and the staff of officers then returned to the flag-staff, and the field batteries having moved forward to the head of the line, the troops marched past at slow and quick time, and the field batteries at a trot, and the Royal Horse Artillery at a trop and afterwards at a full gallop. The field bat teries then commenced firing, and going through their evolutions, which they performed in a highly creditable manner, affording ample evidence of their efficiency. The Royal Horse Artillery next went through their evolutions with great celerity and precision, showing their capabilities for quick movements; and now that they have larger guns, with six instead of four horses each, their more effective firing. The Royal Horse Artillery and the field batteries, at the conclusion, were formed into line near the Royal Military Academy, and fired several rounds from each gun, the royal and distin guished visitors proceeding to the right of the line to witness the practice. His Royal Highness Prince Albert and the staff, on leaving the common, visited the mortar battery, and witnessed several rounds fired from the howitzers and mortars at a flag-staff, distant 600 yards, and the prac doe was very good. Prince Albert, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel Sey mour, entered the royal carriage at the mortar battery, and returned to Buckingham Palace at a quarter past one o'clock, proceeding along the Blackheath-road. The Duke of Wellington proceeded with the officers to the mess-room, the band of the Royal Artillery playing " See the Conquering Hero comes," and atter partaking of an elegant dejeuner, returned to Apsley H ouse. THE CHARTIST TRIALS. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. TRIAL OF LOONEY. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of Saturday). The ATTORNEY-GENERAL briefly replied. Chief Justice WILDE then summed up, and explained the law to the jury. The jury found the prisoner Guilty of all the counts, except that charging him with riot. The verdict was not given until a quarter to five. There was another indictment against the prisoner, but the Attorney-General announced that he should not proceed with it. Charlog, Poutteri, cashier to Messrs. Hunt and Co„ said on Thursday last the prisoner came into their warehouse iu Bond-street, and gave an order for a service of plate, value 9001., which he said was for the officers of the 28th Bengal Native Infantry, and which he proposed to pay for by a bill for 12,500 rupees, drawn in his favour by the mess-officers of the regiment. The bill in question purported to be signed by the pre sident of the mess committee, and witness having had a letter advising him on the subject a few days back, had not the least suspicion that fraud was contemplated. The service of plate was to come to about 9,000 rupees, and the balance (3,500 rupees) was to be handed over to the prisoner. In the course of conversation witness asked the prisoner if he was acquainted with Messrs. Forbes and Co., in the City. The prisoner endeavoured to evade the question, and appeared annoyed at the in quiry. The prisoner, however, turned the matter off, and asked to look at some; turquoise shirt studs and buttons. The prisoner chose a set which came to 101., handed witness the bill now produced for 12,500 rupees, and left the shop, taking the studs and buttons with him. Witness subsequently made inquiries in the City, and then ascertained that the bill was a forgery. Police-comstablo Checkley, C division, took the pri soner into custody at his lodgings, in Tavistock-street, Covent-garden. Witness told the prisoner the nature of the charge against him, and then searched his lodging. He found a large portmanteau filled with new clothes, a large bundle of pawnbrokers' duplicates, and also on the prisoner's person several bills for large amounts in sicca rupees. Witness:also found sixty sovereigns in the prisoner's possession, and a letter which proved that the prisoner had received 134/. from a firm in Fenchurch street, on one of these spurious bills. Witness also found a paper on which was written an oath to this effect, that he (the prisoner) on his Bible swore that he would ab stain from squandering away, lending, or borrowing money, on arty pretence, by whatever means he might get money. A smart groom game forward, and stated that he had been hired by tho prisoner to valet him about a month ago. The prisoner then lived in Trinity-square, in the Borough, and from his appearance and representations witness was induced to believe that he was a gentleman of large fortune, just arrived from India, and about to set up an establishment of a first-rate character. The groom said he had been in the prisoner's service a month, and had as yet received no money. Mr. 13.rsicaLast ordered the groom to be paid his wages out of the money taken from the prisoner. The prisoner was remanded until next Saturday. MARYLEBOIVE. Theodore Piedfort, a foreigner, carrying on the busi ness of hairdresser and perfumer, No. 5, Bury-street, St. James's, was finally examined on a charge of having violated the person of Rose Harris, one of the servants in the establishment of the Countess of Dundonald. Mr. Humphreys attended for the prosecution, and Mr. Lewis for the prisoner. The evidence taken at the previous examination having been read over by Mr. Phillips, the clerk, the com plainant was cross•examined by Mr. Lewis at great length, without his being able to shake her testimony in the slightest degree. Eliaa Manniug, the countess's housekeeper, deposed that the prisoner had dressed her ladyship's hair for upwards of twenty years. On Thursday week he came to her Ladyship's house in Chesterfied- street, Mayfair, at twelve o'clock, and was told to call again at nine o'clock in the evening. Her ladyship thought of returning to Hampstead on that day, but did not do so until Friday night. On complainant making her acquainted with the treatment she had received from the prisoner, witness communicated it to the uncle and aunt of the young wo man, and also to the Countess. Witness had examined the complainant's back, which she said had been hurt by the prisoner pushing her against a table in the par • lour, and found a lump upon her back, which must have been caused by great violence. Policeman Crosby, C 151, who apprehended the pri soner in Albemarle-street, deposed that when he told him the charge on which he was taken, he said, "It must be all a mistake." Mr. Lewis urged that the charge against his client, which was a very serious one, rested solely on the evi dence of one witness, the complainant herself, and asked that the prisoner might be admitted to bail. Mr. LONG, howe,er, refused to accept bail, and the prisoner was committed to Newgate for trial on the ca. pital charge. PRICES Or SHARES. :N BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. 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Si. per cent. 51 per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. 355. per cent. 11. ss. 4d. 11. 2s. 2d. IL 17s. 'CE CI Dividend per Annum. 31. 10s. 6 per cent. 61. per cent, 131.6 d. pr ah. 7s. per share .5 pr ct.& bs. A=ouat of Share. £ 11. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 14s. 69. 51. per cent. 5% per cent. 1/: & bs. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 12 per cent. 12s. 11. sh. & bs. ♦mount of Share. X. s. d. 632 12 8 50 0 0 1100 0 0 70 10 3 Paid. X s. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 4 0 0 20 0 0 Z. s. d. 25 0 0 60 0 0 40 0 0 Price. Stock. )00 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 5 0 0 Stock. Price 115 44 44 41 O. 3G% 154 4}4 162% I - 100 0 0 FROM THE LONDON GAZETT.E OF FRIDAY. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. R. Evans, J. F. Skinner, Z. Langten, and T. Foster, Barge-yard, Bueklersbury, East India merchants, July 28, at eleven—T. Burton, Commercial-road, Lambeth, builder, July 28, at one—R. Weatherhog and R. Weatherhog, Stone, Kent, farmers, July 28, at twelve — J. O'Donnell, Siduey-street, Chelsea, bricklayer, July 28, at eleven. In the Country. A. M. Paterson, J. Walker, J. 13oydell, and C. B. T. Roper, Kingswinford, Staffordshire, iron founders, July 27, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham—J. Harland, Merrick, Yorkshire, banker, July 31, at twelve, at the Court, Leeds—S. Hawley, Ashton, under-Lyne, grocer, July 31, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester—W. Ed mond and T. Edmond, Liverpool, merchants, July 29, at twelve, at the Court, Liverpool—R. Smith and M. Smith, Baxenden, calico printers, July 28, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—M. Smith, Baxenden, calico printer, July 28, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester— R. Smith, Baxenden, calico printer, July 28, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—R. Webster, Preston, linen draper, July 28, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. J. W. Montagu, Pleasant-row, Stepney green, com mander in the royal navy, 5d., July 10, and two subse quent Mondays, between the hours of eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Cannan, Birchin-lane. W. Bullmore, Clerkenwell close, and Bedford-court, Covent-garden, gold wire drawer, 6d., July 10, and two subsequent Mondays, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Cannan, Birchin-lane. R. Brown, Kingston-upon-Hull, bookseller, second dividend of 4d., together with a first dividend of 2s. 6d., payable on new proofs, any Friday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Carrick, Hull. R. Goulding, Gainsborough, cabinet maker, 3s. Bd., any Friday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Carrick, Hull. J. R. Clark, Royston, Yorkshire, grocer, second and final dividend, any Tuesday, between the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Leeds. W. Watts, Doncaster, millwright, second and final dividend, any Tuesday, between the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Leeds. G. Henwood, Leeds, carver and gilder, first and final dividend, any Tuesday, between the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Leeds. C. S. Jackson, Leeds, cloth merchant, second dividend, any Tuesday, between the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Leeds. J. Senior, Kirkheaton, Yorkshire, fancy cloth manu facturer, second and final dividend, any Tuesday, be tween the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Stausfeld, Leeds. W. M'Kay, Manningham, Yorkshire, stuff manufac turer, second and final dividend, any Tuesday, between the hours of ten and two, at the office of Mr. Stansfeld, Leeds. J. S. Welch, St. James's-street, Piccadilly, printseller, 3s. 6d., any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, City. 'l'. Lett, Apsley Guise, Bedfordshire, builder, 2s. 24., any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and two, at office of Mr. Pennell. Guildhall-chambers, City. C. T. Wood, Drury-lane, licensed victualler, 45., any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of ➢ir. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, City. J. Bentley, St. John-street-road, linen and woollen draper, 3s. 6d., any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall chambers, City. Horne and Burgher, Cheapside, booksellers, 3s. ld , any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, City. W. Hosking, Clink•sireet, Southwark, coal merchant, 205., any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Gu►ldhall-chambers, City. J. Walters, Union-street, Southwark, bottle merchant, Is., any Thursday, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall-chambers, City. J. Turner, Newmarket, Suffolk, saddler and harness maker, 7s. 6d., any Thursday.. between the hours. : oC eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Guildhall chambers, City. J. Goodwin, Birmingham, printer, l Id., any Thurs day, between the hours of eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Birmingham. W. J. Joyner, Avely,,Essex, manufacturer of agricul tural machines, ss. 2d., any Wednesday, between the hours of twelve nad three, at the office of Mr. Follett,- Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street. S. Cunningham, Minerva-road, Hackney-road, sawyer, 'id., any Wednesday, between the hours of twelve end three, at the office of Mr. Follett, Sambrook-court, Ba- singhall- street. F. Clark, George-street, Adelphi, jewel case maker, 10d., any Wednesday, between the hours of twelve and three, at the office of Mr. Pennell, Sambrook-court, Ba- singhall-street. P. Gans; Manchester, cotton spinner, twenty-three thirty-seconds of one penny, on Tuesday, July 11, or any subsequent Tuesday, between the hours of eleven and one, at the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. NOTICES OP CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall- street. A. Carrol, jun., Strand, newspaper proprietor, July 28, at twelve—C. Rowcroft, Hampstead, bookseller, July 28, at two—T. C. Knight, Fort-street, Spital square, undertaker, July 28, at two—T. Borkwood, Shadwell-street, Dock -street, ship-chandler, July 28, at one—J. Carter, Swaffham Bulbec, Cambridgeshire, grocer, July 29, at one—F. G. Klingelhoefer, Old Broad street, City, merchant, July 28, at half-past twelve—W. Kerr, New-inn-yard, Tottenham Court-road, cabinet maker, Aug. 2, at twelve—T. Hair, Milei-street, South Lambeth, July 31, at half-past one. In the. Country. J. Worsley, Preston, cotton-spinner, July 28, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester—A. Marsland, Macclesfield, silk-manufacturer, July 28, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—W. Junes, Manchester, stationer, July 29, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester—T. Brown, Limerick end Manchester, draper, July 28, at eleven, at the Court, Manchester—J. Child, Wakefield, grocer, Aug. 4, at ten, at the Court, Leeds—G. Oddy, jun., Bradford, inn keeper, Aug. 4, at eleven, at the Court. Leeds—J. Holmes, Sheffield, cutler, Aug. 5, at ten, at the Council hall, Sheffield—S. Meyer, Burslem, earthenware-manu faiturer, Aug. 8, at eleven, at the Court, Birmingham. At the Court of Review, July 28. W. Mills, Foster-lane, City, glove manufacturer —W. Wright, Holland-road, Brixton, builder—E. Hughes, Liverpool, grocer and provision dealer—J. Gray, jun., Liverpool, metal broker—S. Ashbury, Trentham, Staf fordshire, brick manufacturer —T. Martens, Middles borough, Yorkshire, merchant and shipbroker—Maria Sirdefield, Emscote, Warwickshire, brassfounder—W . Har wood, Bristol, merchant—W. Davis, Abercarne, Monmouthshire, iron and tin plate manufacturer—T. K. Greenbank, Manchester, tobacconist and general commission agent—J. Arnell, Stanhope-street, Hamp stead-road, corn and coal merchant—W. T. Horsey, Manchester, maker up and packer—Hannah Prosser and Ann Prosser, New Bond -street, milliners and dress makers—G. Hawkins, Bristol, victualler—J. Wilson and W. Brooke, merchants and shipowners—P. S. F. Martin, Halsted, Essex, iron manufacturer and lime burner—J. Robinson, Birmingham, cut nail manufac turer—J. Laurie, Liverpool, coal merchant—J. Beckett, Liverpool, ironmonger. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. W. Ames and E. Dennis, Mark-lane—J. Cleaver and W. Taylor, Nottingham, trimming manufacturers— R. Rostron and J. L. Rostron, Stockport, drapers—F. Bellamy and C. Edkins, Somerton, Somersetshire, surgeons —W. Rendell and E. Pearse, Callington, Cornwall, surgeons—F. •W. Coates, J. Ingle, and 0. Wood, Wood-street, Cheapside (so far as regards 0. Wood)—B. Walker and J. Winstanley, Liverpool, cabinet makers—T. Rigby and R. Wright, Liverpool, timber dealers—R. B. Barrow and M. Kelhani, Nottingham, snore neys—S. F. Hooper and F. H. Parker, Little Tower-street, City, tea and colonial brokers—C. B. Carruthers and D. C. Budd, Copthall-court, Throgmorton-street, insurance brokers—J. F. Fixsen, sen., J. F. Fixsen, jun., and F. Bellenger, Queen-street, City, wholesale grocers (so far as regards J. F. Fixsen, jun.)—J. Hepherd, gen., J. Hep herd, jun., J. Stretch, and T. Powell, Watrington, Lan cashire, maltsters (so far as regards J. Stretch)—E. D. Wilmot, H. Hutton, F. Clark, W. Roberts, and C. Daniel, Birmingham and Wolverhampton, factors—J. Winter and J. Burton, Huddersfield, woollen merchants —H. Steele and J. Thompson, Liverpool, timber mer chants—H. S. Conway and E. Howe, Star. court, Bread street, wholesale tea-dealers—H. Hull and T. W. Rust, Leicester, worsted spinners—T. dams, D. Nash, and W. Nash, Strand, seedsmen (so far as regards T. Adams) —J. Chaplin and E. Emson, Sudbury, ironmongers—H. Bishop and W. Wells, Dursley, Gloucestershire, attor neys—A. Riddock and J. Riddock, Liverpool, master porters and general agents—G. Pollard and G. T. Pol lard, Halifax, woollen manufacturers—C. Bartlett and W. Watkins, Arundel, Sussex, millers and bakers—A. Gaukrodger and W. Kaye, Kirkburton, Yorkshire, fancy manufacturers—H. Beasley and J. Wragg, Great Yar mouth—E. Wix and G. Wakeling, Greek-street and Old Compton-street, Soho, leather-sellers—M. J. Keighley, R. Keighley, and C. C. Brochner, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchants and commission agents (so far as regards C. C. Brochner). INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Joseph Loves:, Christow, Devonshire. William Maunder, Exeter, baker. Thomas Preston, Salford, clogger and shoemaker. Henry Smith, Northwich, Cheshire, tailor and draper. John Smith Lostock Graham, Cheshire, tailor. George Somers, Newark, stone and marble mason. William Jenson, Stone, Staffordshire, boot and shoe- maker. Thomas Hall, Dover, victualler. Joseph Goodison, Bradford, Yorkshire. William Inman, Bradford, Yorkshire, beerseller. David Hartley, Great Horton, Yorkshire, hawker of tins. ALLEGED POISON : TM:4- )POW — BURIAL FEES. COLCHESTER, SATURDAY MORNING.—The discovery of a horrible murder by secret poisoning, and the general belief that as many as fourteen or fifteen human beings have fallen victims under a similar diabolical •system, has during the week created the greatest excitement throughout the eastern division of this county-(Essex). For several days past, Mr. Codd, the coroner, has been pursuing a most searching investigation into the whole of the facts, and at ten o'clock last night (Friday) the inquiry terminated in a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against Mary May, for feloniously administeringsrsenic to her brother, the deceased, and thereby causing his death. The subjoined facts, as collected from the coro ner's report, briefly detail the whole particulars con nected with the dreadful affair. In the parish of Wickes, a small village on the high road to Harwich, about six miles from the Manningtree station of the Eastern Union Railway, lived the deceased, William Constable, alias Watts. He had not been married. He maintained himself by hawking trifling things about the country, and for comfort sake lodged in the house of his sister, Mary May, a married woman. He appeared to have prepared his own meals, with the exception of tea, which he was in the habit of taking with his sister. On the Bth ult. he returned to his lodgings in good health and spirits, and had tea with his sister. Shortly afterwards he was attacked with violent retching and burning pains in his throat and stomach. These symptoms continued till the following Sunday, when he died. The moment he was attacked the sister ealled in several neighbours to see him. She assured them that it was almost certain that ke would die, but, strange to remark, no suspicion was excited that anything had been administered to him. On the declaration of the sister that death had resulted from natural decline, the body was interred in the parish churchyard, she officiating as chief mourner. In the coarse of a few days she called on the Rev. G. Wilkins, the incumbent, for the purpose, as she explained, of ob taining a certificate from the reverend gentleman that the deceased was in good health a fortnight before his death, and that he was in his thirty-eighth year (forty-eight was his real age). This he declined doing, and inquired of her what she wanted it for. She replied that she had entered him in a burial club at Harwich a fortnight before his death, and that the society would not pay the money allowed for the interment of the deceased unless they had a certificate of his good health at the time he was entered. He told her that the money did not belong to her. She said that no one else was en titled to it, as she had done it all herself, and nobody else knew anything about it. These and some other auspi cious circumstances, particularly the number of children she had buried, coupled with the suspicious death of her former husband, and the hasty and earnest solicitations she made in this instance to obtain the fees from the burial society, induced the coroner of the district to direct the exhumation of the body. This being done, the stomach and contents were forwarded to Mr. Taylor, the eminent professor of chemistry at Guy's Hospital, for analysation. The inquest was opened at the Waggon public-house at Wickes, and very conclusive evidence was adduced. The secretary of the burial society in question, John Pratt, of Harwich, said it was designated the " New Mourner's Society," and paid 9/. or 101. on the death of a member, the sum depending on the number of mem bers in the club. On the 13th of last May the female. Mary May, accompanied by the schoolmistress of Wickes school, called at the office and inquired if the club was full. Being told that it had some vacancies, she said she wished to enter her brother in the club. He was C healthy man, and she had never known him to have a day's illness in her life, and that he was only thirty-five years of age. The secretary then entered the deceased's name, and she paid the fees, ls. 3d. for entering, and 4d. in advance. On the 6th of June the schoolmistress brought 2s. for the payments due, and he (the secretary) heard no more of the party till the 11th of June (Sun day), when a man brought a note, signed " Mrs. May," stating that Constable hadj ust died from strong inflam mation, and that the schoolmistress had seen him a short time previous. It was shown that the deceased was in good health up to the moment of partaking of the poi soned victuals on the evening of the Bth, and in contra diction, of course, to the instructions the sister had given to the registrar relative to the cause of death, she having stated it to be " decline;" duration of sickness " three mouths." A man named Simpson, who lived in the same house as the deceased, said that two days before his death Mrs. May told him that she had entered her brother in a burial clnb, and counted on getting his burial money (101.), which would set her up in business. She in tended to buy a horse and cart and go about the coun try higgling. Professor Taylor. F.R.S., lecturer on medical juris prudence and chemistry at Guy's, in an elaborate and interesting report on the analysis, stated that arsenic was present in the contents of the stomach ; that the quantity was sufficient to destroy two groWn-up per sons; that it was taken during life in the form of pow' der, and that it caused death. Other circumstantial evidence being adduCed; showing an attempt on the part of Mrs. May to tamper with the principal witnesses, and urging them not to disclose all they knew, The Jury returned a verdict of Wilful Murder spinal the sister, Mary May, and she was accordingly corn' mitted to the county gaol at Chelmsford, for Glint at the next assizes. RAILWAIc SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, JULY 8. STOCK EXCHANGE.—We have to report an inactive market, at prices scarcely so high as those of yesterday. The sale/ are Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction, 31 1 Shares, 7 3 4 dis.—Ditto (late C. and B.), 271. 10s. 'Shares, 1 4 —Lancashire and Yorkshire (late M. and B.), Fifth Shares , dis.—Ditto, 10/. Preference, 6 per cent., ,g Fifths (late West Riding Union), 765. 3d. dis—London 104 North-Western, 125—Ditto, New Quarters, 1% p.—Midland Stock, 104 c.--Ditto, New Halves, 5% dis. ex int.—North Union (A), 202—South-Eastern and Dover. No. 2, 10% &J. —Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 27/ 8 dis. ex int.—York, Newcastle , and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 1% p. ex int. MANCHESTER, Jumt 8. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Birkenhead, Lane** shire, and Cheshire Junction, 31/. Shares, 7% die. East Lancashire, Preference, 3 1 4 p.—Huddersfield and Man: chester (unpaid up), 714 dis.—Manchester, Sheffield, sea Lincolnshire (Grimsby), 201. Shares, 8% dis.—Ditto, Quay ters, dis.—Ditto (Grimsby Dock), 10 3 4 dis.—Nor ll s Staffordshire, 2% dis.—Whitehaven and Furness, 10 c. di* South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 2 13-16 dis. BIRMIN GUAM, JULY 8. STOCK EXCHANGE.—Business was limited to-day, prices in favourite lines remained fi rm. Th ere h as been far, the last few days a decided imp rovement i n the tone of 11)' Share Market. The sales are—Noith Staffordshire. 2% diP, —Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 5 dis.—Ditto (B), dis.- South Staffordshire 3 dis YORK, Jura- 7. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The business transacted to-day Ice as follows : Great Northern. 61. 2s. ex int.—North Brits" Quarters, s%—Ditto Extension, 4s. 6d.—York, Newcastl e and Berwick, 32 —Ditto, No. 2 (late New Berwicks), 1 1 ' —York and North Midland (East and West Riding Extei l ‘ sion), 31%. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, JULT 8. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Newcastle and Cat' lisle, Scrip (red), 4 p.—North British, Thirds, 1/. 18s. di.* North Staffordshire, 2 1 4 dis. GLASGOW, JULY 7. STOCK EXCIIANGK.—The sales are—Aberdeen, 19V: Dundee and Perth, 26—Edinburgh and Glasgow, 89—Edw' burgh and Perth, 15—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Al 75—Ditto, Halves, No 1, ”ii—Ditto, No. 2, 71. 145. Glasgow and Greenock, 15—Great Northern, 6—North W l' tish, Thirds, 53a. GUNPOWDER CONVEYED BT RAILWAY..-4t fl' not be generally known that large quantities of gv; powder are frequently and safely conveyed by railW 1 • as much as 11 tons in one day, and in the course of few months above 100 tons of gunpowder have been M: ried on the London and North-W es t e rn li ne t o Liie e t pool, Manchest er , L ee d s , an d ot h er p l aces . Th e Aar, guns in which the gunpo w d er i s conve y e d are ma de , pressly for the p ur p ose . Th ere are e i ght o f these 0"; gons on the London and North Western RailoW constructed in accordance with the patent of Mr. 1101 0 :, The body of the waggon is for me d w ith s h eet i ron o u outside; the inside is lined with two-inch pl an k, bet've g , i - i which and the iron outside a thickness of f e l t i s careft , "/ placed. These are screwed together from the outside , b ia g that there is nothing but wood inside ; e xce pt o n floor, which is covered with sheet lead. The door t ic close with a double rabbit, so that it is almost airtig be and it is therefore impossible for any fire to get to is powder inside the waggon. The axles are cased 11 'd wood. The comparative absence of the usual noise vibration in the movement of these powder-waggons very remarkable.—Hcrapatles Journal. A Constantinople letter of the 21st ult., states tbi 3,000 houses in the suburbs of Vera had been destroy by fire. The cholera continued to make progresst_d, nittrii.s. On the 4th inst., at Thicket Priory, Yorkshire, Mrs. 17 Jefferson, of a daughter. f 0 On the sth in s t., M rs . J o h n S cr i ven, Sloane-stree t. ° daughter. On the sth inst., at Cambridge-street, Hyde-park , 141* Bainbridge Daniell, of a son. ad * On the 6th inst., at the Philanthropic, St. George's-- the lady of the Rev. S. Turner, of a son. tip On the 6th in s t., a t W e yb rea d Vi carage . th e w if e of Rev. T. K. Thomas, of a daughter. On the 7th inst., in London, the wife of J. Wynne. 94 , late of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, of a son and heir. e i On the 7th i ns t., at Hertford-street, Mayf a i r , the Ri l e Mr. H. Wilde, barrister, of a daugter. fie f At the Hyde Parsonage, Bedfords h hire, the wife of the E. B. Webster, of a daughter. _./ MARRIED. • b 0 On the 6th inst., at Clifton Church, J. Drake PricLedi 'Esq., to Elizabeth, second daughter of the late R. B. Lieutenant R.N. On the 6th inst., at West Hackney Church, F. A. Di tJ second son of the late J. Daviss, Esq., of Upper Hollowiti o 'fj, Augusta Mary Frances, eldest daughter of T. Washing t Esq., of Prospect House, Stoke Newington. On the 6th inst., at Cbeddon Fitzpaine, hear Tauntoth, to Rev. W. D. 'West, M.A., of St. John's College, Oxfoq'' a t• Isabella, only daughter of D. Roberts, Esq., o f the 1 , . ° road, London. RAILWAY RETURNS RAILWAY TIAFFIC.—The following are the Total Receipts of Rail ways for the past week—that is to say, up to the date to which the respective returns are made, together with the receipts of the same week in the previous year : Weak 0,1 Last a. a; ending NAME OF RAILWAY. week. E July - Aberdeen .. •• . • .... ••••.. • • • • •• • • - 2 Amiens and Boulogne . • • - Arbroath and Forfar •••••••• • • • • • • • - - Chester and Birkenhead .•••••• • • • • • • - 758 1 Caledonian. ........... ... ••••• • • • • 4,140 - - Chester and Holyhead. ••..•••• • • • • • • - 1 Cockennouth and Workington.... •• • • 156 Dublin and Drogheda. • • • • • • ••• • • • • • - 1,028 4 Dublin and Kingstown ••••••- • • • • • • • 1,635 1,616 1 Dundee, Perth, and Aberdeen •••• • • • • 986 - 2 East Anglian.... •••••••••• • • • • • • • • • • 848 - 1 Edinburgh and Glasgow .••••• • • • • • • 3 , 125 3,386 1 Edinbnrgh and Northern •••••• • • • • • • 1,394 2 Eastern Counties and North Eastern • • 15,840 14,446 1 East Lancashire June 25 Eastern Union .• .•••• • • • • • •••• • • • • 1,302 1,065 - Glasgow, Garnkirk, and Coatbridge... - July 1 Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr • • .• 2,102 2,652 1 Glasgow and Greenock ••••• • • • • •• •• 1,217 1,380 1 Great Southern and Western •• • • • 2,656 1,742 -- Great Western, &c • • 22,544 1 Kendal and I ,Vindennere......... 199 Lancashire and Yorkshire......- •• . • 10,300 9,408 June 30 Lancaster and Carlisle • ••••• •• • • 2,263 1,460 - Leeds and Thir5k............. •• - July 1 Londonderry and t nniskillen 154 139 2 London and North Western, &c. ..... 45,845 45,156 - London and Blackwall ...... ........ - 1,436 1 London and Brighton ... ••• • . 9,956 9,694 2 London and South Western ......... 10,521 10,198 1 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire 2,554 2,291 2 Maryport and Carlisle • 758 - 1 Midland, Bristol, and Birmingham.. 20,8 4 0 20.647 2 Midland Great Western (Irish) ••• • .. 1,037 - Newmarket - 1 Newcastle and Carlisle ••• • • • .... 2,616 2,615 1 North British .. •••• • • • • 2,013 1,964 June 24 Paris and Rouen ...• • .. 24 Rouen and Havre .. • • 1,684 3,013 July 1 Scottish Central • • ............ • ... . 804 - 2 Shrewsbury and Chester 1 South Eastern and Branches June 30 South Dev0n........ . .............. 1,617 845 July 1 Taff Vale .......................... 1,570 1,457 753 791 2 Whitehaven Junction 198 222 - Wishaw and Coltness ............. - 1 York and Newcastle . .............. 11,869 10,196 I York and North Midland.... ..... 8,275 7,324 LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, July 8. (Sittings at Nisi Prius at Guildhall before Mr. Justice WiLumus and a Special Jury. DAVIDSON V. BORN. This was an action on the case, brought by the plain tiff, a bookseller and publisher, against the defendant, who is in the same line of business, for the infringement of an alleged copyright in the words of the songs, " Said a smile to a tear, ' from the comic opera of False Alarms, or, My Cousin ; " Home, sweet home," from the opera of Clari, or the Maid of Milan ; and " Fill, fill, till the glass runs o'er," from the English version of Der Frey schutz ; and in the right to set music to these songs. The defendant put a great variety of pleas on the record. Mr. Sergeant Channel], Mr. Lush, and Mr. Scotland appeared for the plaintiff ; and Mr. Sergeant Talfourd, Mr. Sergeant Byles, and Mr. Bovill for the defendant. On behalf of the plaintiff, it was shown that before the late Copyright Act came into operation, the words of the two first songs had been published in Cumberland's British Theatre, and of " Fill, fill," &c., in the libretto of Der Freyschutz, and the ownership in these two works was proved by certified copies of entries in the registry of the Stationers' Company to belong to John Cumberland, who had assigned it to the plaintiff. It was also shown that in March, 1846, the defendant had been cautioned, by letter, by the plaintiff, not to infringe his copy wright; and likewise in tke following April, by means of a printed circular, which was left at the defendant's shop. A copy of the work published by the defendant, called the " Musical Gem," which contained the words of the songs in question put to music, was put in, and proved to have been bought from the defendant. Several legal objections were taken to the plaintiff's case, and reserved for the Court in Banco. The defendant's case was, that James Kenney was the author of the words of " Said a smile to a tear," which was published in 1807, and was assigned by him in the following year to Messrs. Longman and Co., without any formal deed or memorandum. Braham composed the music to this song ; and both the music and the words were published with Kenney's tacit as sent. He assigned his right by deed in 1815, and also in 1844, to D'Almaine and Co. John Howard Payne was the author of the words of " Home, sweet home," and Sir Henry Bishop set it to music ; which he adapted from a Sicillian air. The words were first published in 1823, by John Miller, who had purchased Payne's interest ; and who sold his right to them to Chris topher Harris, but on neither occasion was the trans action evidenced by deed or memorandum. This song, with Bishop's music, was published in 1824, by D'Al maine and Co. George Soanne composed the words of "Fill, fill,* &c., in 1824, under the direction of Sir Henry Bishop, who arranged the music of " Der Frey schuts," for Elliston, at that time lessee of Drury-lane Theatre. This song, with the music, was :likewise published by D'Almaine and Co., who, in 1837, ob tained an assignment by deed, in the two last songs from Sir Henry Bishop. Their publication of these three songs, with the music, had never been interfered with, and copies of each had been purchased by the de fendant at various times, who afterwards bound them up together, putting a new title page in the commencement, in which he called his work the " Musical Gem," and had his name entered at the bottom as publisher. Several witnesses, amongst them Sir Henry Bishop and Mr. Braham, stated that the composers of the music of an opera had the right to use the words, and to publish them, with the music, without asking the authors con sent. The plaintiff, in reply, gave evidence of a deed of as signment, in 1834, of all Soane's right to the plaintiff, and a receipt from Harris to Cumberland, for the pur chase•money of the words of " Home, sweet home," and that Cumberland had bought Longman and Co.'s right in " Said a smile to a tear," but without any deed ut me morandum of assignment. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS told the jury that as to the defendant's having printed the words of the songs, or sold them, knowing them to have been unlawfully pirated, there was no evidence, and said the verdict on those points must be for the defendant. The only ques tion of fact left for the jury was to say whether or not the authors had furnished the words of the songs with the implied understanding that the composers of the music were to have the right to publish and sell them with the music. The jury retired, and, after a short time, found the question in the affirmative as to the authorship of " Said a smile to a tear" and " Home, sweet home," and in the negative as to "Fill, fill," a m The effect of this finding, together with the Learned Judge's direction, was substantially a verdict for the de fendant, subject, however, to certain points of law re served in the course of the trial for the coasideration of the full Court. as the men e m pl oye d a t WhOnitee day inch,by la t s h t e Re we l ek, ief Committee, were busy at th e i r labour, they observed a y oun g woman sitting near, whom they, for amusement, thoughtlessly assailed with gibes and common-place jokes. The woman returned th em no answer, nor seemingly paid an y attention to what they were saying, and at length rose to go away, w h en she staggered and fell senseless to the ground. The men who seemed so thoughtless a few minutes before now ran to her assistance, when they found s he had fainted ; water was speedily procured, and she was soon restored to a state of consciousness, when she told them that it was actual starvation that was the cause of the occurrence, and that she was on her way to Gree nock in search of her husband. The words were no sooner out of her mouth than towels, little bags, and pocket handkerchiefs, were quickly unfolded, and their contents (the coarse but homely fare which the workers had brought with them for their own dinners) were pouredinto her lap; nor did their generosity end there, for pockets were soon rummaged for stray coppers, and Is. 6d. was collected for h er b e h oo f. The me n th e n as sisted the poor woman to the water's edge, hailed the first steam-boat that passed, and put her on board; whilst she, with tears in her eyes, was showering blessngs on their heads.—Ediriburgh News. NEW COURT. :Trial of William Henry Bradbury and John Clark, for forgery, in continuation from our Afternoon Edi- tion of Saturday.) Joseph Thornet, a servant out of place, said he put an advertisement in the Times, and in consequence of it a person called upon him in York- street, Westminster road, and, after some conversation, told witness to call upon him in the evening of the next day at the East India Chambers. He accordingly called upon him, and afterwards went with him to the Commercial Rooms in Mincing-lane, where witness received a cheque upon Messrs. Lubbock, and was instructed to take it to the bank and get it cashed. On his way ho was accosted by the prisoner Clark, who asked him where he was going. Witness told him to Lubbock's bank, and Clark said he would show him the way. When witness came out with the money Clark met him again, and asked him if he had (lone his business all right. Witness said yes, and Clark said so have I. He then left witness, and went in the direction of Mincing-lane. Witness delivered the money to the person who sent him. After wards he met witness by appointment at other places, and told him that his brother, with whom he in tended to engage him, had not yet come to town, and that he was to call upon him on the following Monday. Witness, however, never saw him again, and at length went to the banking-house, and gave an account of the whole circumstance. Mr. Hillingburg, from Brussels, proved having taken the prisoners into custody, in consequence of their not ' having regular passports. John Newborn, a young man, said he had been out of a situation, and put an advertisement in the news paper. He received an answer to it; and, in conse quence of that he went to the East India Chambers, where he met the prisoner Bradbury, who engaged him as a servant to a gentleman. He met him again by ap pointment again on the 22d of April, and Bradbury asked him to go and get a cheque cashed at Messrs. Lubbock and Co.'s for 3711. 7s. 4d. If the cashier asked who it was for, he was to say, for Hunt and Company, and if further inquiries were made, to say, Mr. Thompson. Witness brought back the money to Bradbury, at the Custom House, where he had been waiting, and appointed to meet him at four o'clock at Hatcliard 9 s Hotel, Piccadilly. The prisoner Caine there at the appointed time in a cab, and told witness that the gentleman who had engaged him would not be in town till Wednesday. He gave him 10s. and then left. He (witness) took the number of the cab, and, afterwards seeing an advertisement in the papers, he called upon Messrs. Bushe and Mullins, and told them the whole particulars. The cashier of the bank proved the notes, and Mr. Hawes the forgery. Robert Neech, cabman, said he recollected being called off the stand in Leadenhall-street by two persons on the day in question. He believed the prisoners to be the persons, but could not positively swear to their identity. One got out near the Golden-cross, Charing-cross, and he drove the other to Hatcbard's Hotel, and there he saw him meet with the last witness. Mr. Hangburg recalled—Proved that the two pri soners were taken into custody at Brussels, not having proper passports. Mr. Mullins, of the firm of Bushe and Mullins, proved having been present at the examination of the prisoners at Brussels, and also the numbers of the notes found upon them, which correspond with those received from the bank. John Forrester proved taking the prisoners into custody. • ' _ _ This being the case for the prosecution, Mr. BALLANTINE addressed the jury on the part of the prisoners. Mr. Baron PARKE having summed up, The jury found a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoners were sentenced to twenty years' transportation. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Mr. Steers, of the Treasurer's-office of the Custom house, was summoned before the Lord Mayor by Mr. Ed ward Keymer, for that he " on the 11th of June, did unlawfully cut three pieces of the Queen's current gold coin called sovereigns, and one piece of the Queen's current gold coin called a half-sovereign, the same being of due weight and lawful coins, and then being the moneys of the said Edward Keymer, against the sta tute, &c." Mr. Potbury appeared from the office of the Solicitor of Customs for the defendant. The gold was produced and examined by the Lord Mayor. It was weighed in the revenue scales, which were stated to be accurately correct, and it was evidently much deficient in weight, although it had not in the case of any one piece of money the appearance of having had more than reasonable wear. The summons had been granted upon the 2d of William IV. cap. 34. That statute said, " Where any gold or silver shall be tendered to any person, who shall suspect any piece or pieces thereof to be diminished other wise than by reasonable wearing, or to be coun terfeit, it shall be lawful for such person to cut, break, or destroy such piece or pieces ; and if any piece so cut, &c., shall appear to be diminished otherwise than by reason able wearing, or to be counterfeit, the person tendering the same shall bear the loss thereof ; but if the same shall be of due weight, and appear to be lawful coin, the person cutting, breaking, or defacing the same is hereby required to receive the same at the rate it was coined for; and if any dispute shall arise the same shall be decided before a justice of the peace." The palpable fact that all the pieces produced were light prevented the calling of witnesses, but a conversation took place between the Lord Mayor and Mr. Potbury on a subject which has caused a great deal of discussion. The LOUD Mlyoa said it appeared to him that the only question as to the defacing of the coin, to justify such a course upon the part of the revenue authorities, is whether the weight was diminished by reasonable wear. The meaning of the Act he considered to be that if un due means, such as " sweating," bad been resorted to, the party to whom the money was offered was justified in defacing it. He was convinced the spirit of the Act applied to the diminution of the weight by the unfair means he had alluded to—the operation of " sweating " practised by the Jews, and not the deficiency arising in evitably from the wearing produced by use. Mr. Potbury said the defendant, in cutting the coin, had acted in exact conformity to the proclamation which appeared in the Gazelle of October 3, 1843, subsequently to the passing of the Act. That procla mation represented that although under the proclama tion of the 3d of June, 1842, a large amount of gold coin of the realm appeared to be deficient in weight, her Majesty commanded that every subject, particularly the collectors and receivers of the revenue, should strictly conform to the orders and regulations in the Act to cut, break, and deface such pieces of the said gold coin as were found deficient in weight. The LORD MAYOR said he could not help thinking that the cutting and defacing so ordered was vexa ti ous and unfair, an d altogether unne cessary i ncases like the present, in which it appeared to him that no unfair means had been resorted to to diminish the weight. Mr. Potbury said the orders issued were peremptory. The following letter had been addressed from the office of the Receiver-General to the Commissioners of the Customs : " Honoured Sirs,—Her Majesty's proclamation, re-. quiring that from and after the Ist January, all gold coin, not being of a certain weight, should be clipped, and doubts having arisen whether the Receiver General will be justified in clipping, I respectfully request that the Board may give direction to him.—Yours, &c., "J. COT MAN, For the Receiver-General. " December 27, 1843." The answer to that letter was, that the orders and re gulations alluded to should be strictly complied with, and it had been accordingly the practice of the gentlemen employed in the departments of the revenue in which money was received, to clip the gold coin which proved to be deficient, for several years. The LORD MAYOR said it certainly appeared to him to be quite enough to refuse the gold coin deficient in weight, without defacing it. The complainant begged to be allowed to state that he had two of the sovereigns weighed by Messrs. Carter, of Cornhill, who assured him that any deficiency which might be in them might have been produced by the heavy shears with which they had been clipped. Mr. Potbury, in answer to a question from the Lord Mayor, said the revenue having to take a vast number of sovereigns and half-sovereigns, did'not weigh those which were new, but invariably cut all they found to be deficient. If they did not act upon that regulation, they would sanction an illegal currency. It was here observed, that the Commissioners of the Revenue ought not to sanction a practice which did not seem to be recognised by the Bank. Mr. Potbury said it was a mistake to say that the Bank did not, clip coin deficient in weight. It was true, that in banking-houses they were not in the habit of clipping, but at the Bank the order issued in the pro clamation was always strictly obeyed. The LORD MAYOR—WeII, I cannot go further in this. The summons is dismissed. Even if it were proved that the gold was not deficient in weight, the Act does not give me power to inflict a penalty. I cannot, however, dismiss the case without repeating my obiervation, that it seems to me to be unfair and vexatious to deface in this way money, the deficiency of the weight of which dues not appear to be occasioned by any but reasonable wear. Mr. Potbury said the public ought to take the hint from what had taken place,'not to attempt to pay duties in gold coin short of weight. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Drury 'lake, assuming to be a man of fortune, and holding a commission in the Honourable East India Company's service, was brought before Mr. Bingham, charged with having contemplated a fraud on a largo scale on Messrs. Hunt and Roskell, silversmiths, B.md street, and having committed fraud on other parties. The prisoner was also charged with having attempted to utter several forged bills of exchange, purporting to have been drawn by the mess committee of the 28th Regi ment of Bengal Native Infantry. The first charge was for obtaining from Messrs. Hunt and Co. a set of tur voise shirt and waistcoat buttons, value 101., under false and fraudulent pretences. HAMMERSMITH. Thomas Oxley and six other costermongers and general dealers, were summoned before Mr. T. Painter, by the police, for permitting their barrows, &c., to stand longer than necessary for loading or unloading in the public thoroughfare round Kensington•churchyaid, whereby they had incurred penalties not exceeding 40s. or a month's imprisonment. It appeared that the defendants were in the nightly practice, with others, of congregating with baskets, trucks, barrows, &c., on the open space of the high road, to sell fish, fruit, vegetables, haberdashery, &c., forming a complete market, and the summonses were taken out in consequence of the repeated complaints of the shopkeepers of the nuisance occasioned thereby. The defendants pleaded guilty, and said they were compelled to do so for the purpose of obtaining a liveli hood, and keeping themselves and families out of the workhouse. Mr. PAYNTER said there could be - no doubt that it was quite illegal for them to do so ; but he had himself ob served an evening or two before, as well as on other occasions, a crowd of the carriages of the nobility and gentry stopping up the thoroughfare in the high road, in consequence of some fashionable party, and he felt that it would be a great mockery of justice to punish the poor persons then before him for committing an offence which was committed by the rich with impu nity. He should, theref,)re, only inflict on each of the defendants a nominal fine of one penny, without any costs. The poor men appeared much delighted at the justice of the decision of the worthy Magistrate, and very cheerfully paid their pence. THE BEOLEYHALL ESTATE, WORCESTERSHIRE. BIRMINGUAM, SATURDAY. —A case of considerable in terest in the county of Worcester, and, in some degree, involving a claim to property of great extent in the neighbourhood of Redditch, came on for hearing before J. T. Lawrence, Esq., and other county magistrates, at Alcester Lanes-end, to-day. Mr. Whitehouse, a gentle man of considerable landed property; Mr. Woolaston, steward of the Beoley Hall estate, acting under Mr. Oliver, solicitor of London; and four persons, named Porter, Richmond, Carpenter, and Bolton, were charged with riot and assault. Mr. Johnson, solicitor, of Dudley, appeared for the complainant, one Joseph Rogers, who described himself as being " a yeoman," residing et Braidley, in Staffordshire. A brief explanation is necessary to the proper appre ciation of the charge. The Beoley Hall estate, one of the most beautiful properties in the eastern division of Worcestershire, was formerly in the possession of the ancient house of Shel don, and from them descended by purchase to the family ot. Liolmes. Some sixty year:, ago Mr. Holmes, the then possessor, sold the estate, at that time in its entirety, comprising the whole parish of Beoley, and consisting of about 4,506 acres, iu lots to various parties. One pore tion of the estate, consisting of the hall, and about 300 acres of land, fell into the hands of Mr. Whitehouse, oue of the present defendants ; but before the formal con veyance was completed (the sale being duly effected) Mr. Holmes died without a will. The sale was however, ratified by his successors. Within these last few years, claimants to the whole estate of Beoley, now divided into separate purchases, have sprung up in the persons of a family of working colliers, named Staunton, of Braidley, near Dudley, who claim as the legitimate re presentatives of the Hohneses, and who, moreover, affirm that the sales made by Mr. Holmes were not of the free hold, but leasehold, expirable in sixty years from the time the leases were executed. This period they affirm has now elapsed; but it is remarkable that no copy of any one lease has yet been produced. Under these circumstances the Stauntons,, by the in strumentality of Rogers, on Thursday morning last pro ceeded to assert and do acts of ownership. It appears that Mr. Whitehouse does not occupy the hall, but that the premises were in the care of a gardener named Mor ris, and his wife. About ten o'clock on the morning in question, ltogers, and an attendant bailiff. named Hall, who did occasional jobs for him, proceeded to Beoley, and having obtained admission to the hall, they imme diately assumed the right of proprietor ship. Morris, the gardener, and his wife, were requir ed to perform suit and service; the cookery apparel us was in im mediate requisition, and the lordly intruders dealt with everything within their reach as the goods and chattels of their colliery employers, the Stauntons. This glorification was, however, doomed to be of short duration. On Saturday evening Mr. White house, accompanied by Mr. Woolaston, and a nume rous band of trusty retainers, made ttreir appearance, when they found doors and shutters bolted and barred, arid every preparation made to resist a formidable siege. A surrender was demanded, but refus ed; force became necessary, the windows of the drawing- room were broken in, the doors forced, and ultimately the besieged Mr. Rogers and his knight, finding that t'bre enemy had not only effected a breach, but that the besiegers were talk ing in unmistakeable terms of a eonti guous horse pond, thrust the keys of the mansion int o the pockets of a constable (who was present to keep the peace), ex claiming that "he had seen enough ;" and made a pre cipitate escape to avoid the personal indignities in anti cipation. It was for the assault and riot committed on the occasion that the present charge was instituted. Green, the constable, who was called to corroborate the witness, decidedly contrwlicted him. He witnessed neither assault nor riot. The Magistrate gave no opinion as to the legal right to the property, but dismiss ed the charge of riot and assault. The constable immediately gave up the keys of the hall to Mr. Whitehouse, under a protest from Rogers. FEARFUL MUTILATION. --On Monthly last, Samuel Herrod, a small farmer, living at Hucknall-under- Huthwaite, deliberately cut off his left hand, in a fit of insanity, with a hatchet. The poor fellow had suffered from mental aberration fox a short time previous, but had appeared so far recovered as to be allowed to go about the premises withcalt any attendant. Messrs. Cooper and Godfrey, su rgeo:ns_, who were fetched from Mansfield to attend him, found it necessary to perform a second amputation higher u and the patient is at pre sent doing well.—Nottinghu 6a Journal. PRINCE DEmiDoEF AN 11) THE ENGLISH AT FLO RENCE.—This nobleman, w ho was amongst the most distinguished of the foreig n contributors to the relief fund raised at Florence by t lie committee of English at that city last year, for the ltlish and Scotch sufferers by famine, and who, on the occ a .sion of the fete then given, lent his villa, San Donato, :and entertained nearly two thousand visitors, has just I ieen presented by the com mittee with a bust in marbhe, executed at Rome by Gib son, of her Majesty Queen I 'ictoria, accompanied by a latter expressive of their that ks, through Lord Vernon. 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 to 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 BRIDGES Dividend per Annum. It. 165. 4%1. per ct. 51. per cent. 81. per cent. 51. per cent. 3/. p. sh. & be. 51. per cent. 11. 53. 43. 51. per cent. 61. 10s. 11. 6s. lOU pr cnt. Paid. £ i. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 13 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 22 10 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 22 10 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 I , sIPELNIES. Amount of Share. Paid. X s. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 6 6 8 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 2 12 6 All paid. 4 0 0 3 0 0 36 10 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 1 2 10 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 15 0 0 2 0 0 2 10 0 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 0 10 0 9 0 0 4 0 0 DOCKS. Dividend Amount Natne of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ e. d. C Anmercial •. East and West India 6l. pr cent. Stock. 120 East Country Loadon .. •. • • ....... 51. pr cent. Stock. 102 . Ditto 80n d5........ 41. per cent. S .Katharine .. • ..... 4 per cent. Stock. 76 Ditto Bonds • • • ..... 4%1. pr cent. S utthampton • • ...... 21. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 WATER—WORKS . Dividend Amount Name of Company. , per of Paid. Price. Annum. I Share. -- £ s. d. X s. d. Birmingham .—•• • • • • 18s. 25 0 0 5 0 0 E ast London..• •••• • • • 81. [OO 0 0 178 Grand Junction .• .• .• 21. 10s. 41 13 4 81 3/. 100 0 0 75 New Rivr Lndu Brdge 21. 10s. 55 Vauxhall —•• • • • ....• ' 5/. per cnt. 100 0 0 1 West Middlesex .. . i 61.05. pr cnt. , 6 3 12 9 1 1 - 17 GAS-LIGHT AND COKE COMPANIES. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price Annum. Share. X. a. d. X. s. d. British ••••••• • • • • • • • 11. 40 0 0 18 0 0 16 Ditto Provincial.• • • 11. Bs. 20 0 0 19 0 0 22 Bristol • • ••• • • .... 101. per cent. 20 0 0 Brighton ••••.. • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 16 City of London .. •• • • 101. 100 0 0 100 0 0 250 ContinentalConsolidat. 925. pr share 50 0 0 39 5 0 Ditto, New . • ...... 85s. pr share s'o 0 8 37 10 0 Equitable . ...... ..... 151. pr share 50 0 0 50 0 0 36 Imperial ...... .•• . -. 61. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 71 Independent ........• 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 64 50 0 0 SO 0 0 Ditto 50 0 0 50 0 0 Phcenix .•.—•• • • • • • . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 46 0 0 32 itatcliff —• • • ...4 .• 51. and bns. 100 0 0 90 0 0 75 United General ...... 4%1. pr cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 15 Westminster Chartered 31, 50 0 0 55% Ditto, New .. ••• .. 12s. 50 0 0 10 0 0 11 Cte..b7.llLLS. de Names of ri Dividend ) Names of r: Price. ' Divi i nd per Companies. 1 , per Companies. 4 , 1 Price. - W. Annum. en 4 Annum. --- - X X Ashtn& Oldh 97 71. p e 80 Macclesfield . 100 - - !Barnsley •• • • 160 121. 180 Neath ••• • • • 100 181. `trktik&Abrg 150 51. 85 Oxford.. •• • • 100 201. 190 Birmingham 35 41. 80 Peak Forest. 78 , - - Coventry .... 100 251. - Regent's •• • • 33 I 11. 55. 18 14 ',ripe • • ... 100 61. 63 Rochdale ..• • 85 . 41. 54 Ells rre&Chs 133 41. 48 Somrsct Coal 150 71. 10s. 130 t 1: e , ash •.• 100 324 - Do.LkFdSt 121 61. p. c. - , irandJunctnlloo l 51. 77 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 290 GrandSurreylloo - 35 Shrewsbury.. 1251 151, _ urrand - Union 100 11. 10s. 25 Stourbridge.. 1451 201. 285 Irantham .. 150 i 121. - Severn and rCentit &An 39 7s. 6d. 4% Wye Rail.i 126 11. Bs. 26 Le,,ls&Livrp 100 , 341. , 410 Warwick&l „„ Leicester .... 140, 101. I 75 lllrming. ' OO 56. 65 %eicstr &Nth 831 41. 36 Warvriek& I 100 ',oughborogh 142 701. - Napton.. - 46 Monmouthsh 10 0,m 81. 1 - Worcstr & 78 21. 39 dntgemrysh 100 51. - Birming. j MeltnMwbry,loo 101. - Wilts & Brks 67 11. 11 . ..IST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. Annum. Share. ---- X a. d. Z 4. d Bank of Scotland British Linen Company 81. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 195 aledonlan Bank •• • • 7% per sent. 10 0 0 210 0 41. Os City of Glasgow Bank . 61. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 1114 Clydesdale Bank - Commercial Bank .. - 71. per cent. 500 0 0 100 0 0 149 Eastern Bank Edinb.k Glasgow Bank 61. per cent. 50 0 50 0 5% Exehange Bnk of Scot.. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 41% 0 Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 - National Bank ...... •• 6% per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 13Nf North of Scotlandßank 71. percent. 20 0 0 5 0 0 _ l 4 North British Bank •• - 50 0 0 10 0 0 3 .05. 0 80 Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 121 Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 53 0 o 50 0 0 71 Western Bank.. .• • Aberdeen Fire and Life 121. per cent. 12 10 0 _ 0 11 0 B. Accord. Life mid Fire - 20 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 10s Od British Guarantee Ins. - 10 0 0 .'aledonian Fire Incur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 ' 2 0 0 21 Church of Eng;and Ins. - 50 0 0 0 2 0 0 11. Cite of Glasgow Life 6l. per cent. 25 0 12 10 0. 17 4 s ) , ;,linburgh Life Incur. 61. per cent. 10100 0 0 00 0 15 0 ils.od. East of Scotland Life.. - 50 0 0 217 6 - Eng. & Scot, Law Lift 51. per cent. 111 , 4 Ur. Co. of Seetind• • 51 . p er cent. 1 _ 0 0 1 0 0 11. 7-, Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 0 (it ) 1010 0 0 171 Life Assoc. of Scotland 51 . p er cent. 10 10 0 0 o le 0 Si. Od. Mercantile Life .. • • • • - ent 10 0 0 1 0 0 20s. National Fire and Life 51, per c • North British Incur. 0 1 0 0 178.6 d. .. 57 I.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 22 20 0 0 011 0 Sc. Scottish Life and Guar. Gen. Life Si. per cent. 1 0 0 015 0 , 10s. Od North & West of Scot. 61. pelcent. 10 0 Scot. Ma 4. and • 4 5 0 9 14 1 0 0 1 11. is 6541.1; per cent. cet t. 5 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 SsemonttliashmUt,i,liofen .I.n.s.rn..cs.. United Dep. Assurance 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 ;133.0S MISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount ' Name of Company. per of Paid. Price are. -----------.-- - -- - X. s. d. X. s. d. - 100 0 0 30 0 0 - A 3, n u s ic t i r o a_l sl la e n . A l x i : c 3 u i l i t n u t r . l , 11. 4s. 10 0 0 10 0 0 17 Ditto, Half Shares.. - - 210 0 - Canada •••••• • - • • - 61. per cent. 100 0 0 32 10 0 28 Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. - - - City 80nd5.......... 3%1. pr cent. - - 82 Comp.CpPr Mars Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 70 0 0 - (.en. Revers. & Invest. sp. c.& bs, 2/ 100 0 0 100 0 0 - Equitable Reversionry s'. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 95 Gen. Stearn Navigation 11. Bs. 15 0 0 14 0 0 19 London Institution ... Peninslr & Orient.Stm. 81. p er - 0 - 10 cent. 500 50 0 0 51% Reversionary Int. Soc. 3141. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 90 Royal Mall Steam- .• 314/. pr cent. 100 0 0 60 0 0 45% South Australian ..... - 25 0 0 25 0 0 16 Van Dieman's Land., 11. per share. 100 0 0 23 0 0 - Universal Salvage.... - 25 0 0 5 0 0 - BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, JULY The non settlement of the duty question had a depressing in fluence on the market, and the sales of the week are consequently unimportant. -Bristol Mercury. HER MAJESTY'S MARINE EXCURSION. As so many rumours are afloat respecting her Majesty's sum mer movements, we believe we may state, with some degree of confidence, that it is not the Royal intention to visit either Ireland or Scotland this year. Her Ma jesty's cruises will be confined to the Channel and neigh bouring islands. The 25th inst. is the day named for the commencement of the trip.—United Service Gazette. CHILD MURDER AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE IN MANCHESTER. FRIDAY. A woman named Ann Davies, the wife of Joseph Davies, an engine-driver, destroyed her child this morning under the fol lowing distressing circumstances. Mrs. Davies gave birth to the child about a fortnight ago, and on Tuesday last the father, who had been, ill for sonse time, died of consumption. On entering her room this morning the infant was found in bed quite dead, having been drowned, and then again placed in the bed. A rope was found in the kitchen, suspended from a hook, having a noose at the end, and on the floor was found another hook, which had been drawn apparently by her weight. It would seem that the poor woman had been disturbed, and then left the house. A letter was found disposing of her little property. No tidings have yet been heard of her. AN ACT FOR THE RELIEF OF TRUSTEES.—Yes terday a, Bill in the House of Commons, to secure trust funds, and to relieve trustees in Ireland, was printed. It is a similar Bill to the one passed last year with respect to England. Trustees may pay trust money, or transfer stocks and securities in the Courts of Chan cery or Exchequer in Ireland. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. A. Gair, Tain, agent for the British Line❑ Company, to meet within Ellison's Hotel, Tain, July 10 and 31, at one. A. Gordon, Paisley, dyer, to meet within the Saracen's Head Inn, Paisley, July 13 and Aug. 10, at one. H. M. Walker, Edinburgh, printer, to meet within the Ship Hotel, Edinburgh, July 10 and 31, atone. T. Hamilton and A. Adams, Glasgow, manufacturers, to meet within the Black Bull Hotel, Glasgow, July 11 and Aug. 2, at one. A Thompson, Edinburgh, horse dealer, to meet within Ferguson's Ship Hotel, Edinburgh, July 14 and Aug. 7, at two. Sir William and Lady Molesworth entertained at dinner, on Saturday, the Marquis of Lansdowne, the Dowager Countess of Sandwich, Mr. Tbackeray, Lord and Lady Milford, Mr. Charles Dickens, Earl and Coun tess of Lovelace, the Rev. Hugh Millman, lion. C. P. Villiers, Sir A. and Lady Duff Gordon, &o. DIEb. l 8 At Alva-street, Edinburgh, on the sth inst., Mrs. Fraser, relict of the late R. Landreth, Esq., of Gransitper On the 6th inst.. at Charles - street, Berkeley-square, D es wife of Richard Prime, Esq., M.P., of Walberton, bu and daughter of J. Shuttleworth, Esq., of Gawthorpo Lancashire. E 1 On the 6th inst., at Maryiand-p o i n t, Stratford,,,, , 0 F rance s, second daughter of th e l ate G. Kibler, x.43'. Ipswich, aged 32. t l3B On th e eith inst., at Sydeahatn- park, Ann, relict o f late J. Pearsn, Esq. of Greenwich, aed 77. On the inst., at , Hunter-street, Br g unswick-square , 1 , 4 11 17, H. L. Powys, third son of Captain the Hon. R. T. of the Bengal Military Service. r London: Printed and Published by MURDO Yo_, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TA. S un Office, it t f 0 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the ciPlu"' 111.id1lesez, Monday, Ju4 10, 1848. r I I put 2iki Wu Thi and or 1 Any the be req and 52, at e , L e , fro r or t tett