The Sun. — London, England, 1848-12-14 00:00:00

FRANCE. should have given one of the candidates of at all le t a h s e t 2,609,000 of vot es a nd an absolute majority suffrages expre sse d, e ven supposing . thatallthe electors him, the Com mittee, of Algeria should have voted againsthe A without waiting the ofreceipt t th s e se r m et b u l r y., ns , from Algeria, shall present its report to This article was the occasion of a long discu ss i on. IL Fleury Didier and M. Bureaude Puzy contended that the exclusion of Algeria, proposed by th e Com mittee, was a violation of the Constitution, whilst oth ers invoked the plea of necessity, and maintained that it was indispensable at this period of the year, for the be nefit of trade and manufactures, to put a s p ee d y period to the unsettled state of the Government. The threefollowing articles wereafterwards adopted without discussion : .6 Art. 5. If one of the candidates hes obtained more than the moiety of the suffrages expressed, and at least 2,000,000 of votes—if the conditions required by the 44th Article of the Constitution have been accomplished —the National Assembly proclaims him President of the Republic. He is immediately called upon to take the oath required by the 48th Article of the Constitution. " Art. 6. The President of the National Assembly, in the name of the Assembly, acknowledges the taking of the oath to the Constitution, and the President of the 1 Republic enters immediately on the discharge of his ' functions. "Art. 7. In case none of the candidates should have obtained the necessary majority, the National Assembly shall proceed immediately to elect one of the five candi dates highest on the list. Immediately after the result of the ballot is ascertained, the President makes it known and proclaims the President of the Republic, who takes the oath of office from the tribune." The Bth Article was as follows :—" In case the Pre sident should refuse to take the oath his election shall be immediately declared null and void." M. St. Gauden thought that a delay should be assigned to the President to take the oath. M. Ducos observed that the President should be in vited by the Assembly to accomplish that formality, and that if it be refused the Assembly could annul the elec tion. The article was afterwards put from the chair, and adopted. The Assembly next voted the following and last article:-- Art. 9. The Palace of the Palais National is appro priated to the residence of the President." The 30 members of the Special Committee appointed to count the votes were :—Messrs. Arnaud, Trouchard, Cannot, Mole, Vaulabelle. Sarrans, Buchez, Waldeck .Rousseau, Pleignard, Baune, Lichtenberger, Baroche, Charton, Ferdinand Barrot, Conti, Feuillade de Chauvin, Ducos, Beaumont de la Somme, Astoin, Richard, Nachet, Abbal, Pellitier, Durand Savoyat, Charlemagne, Ceyras, Wpirhaye, Chaffour, Laissac, and Sauteyra. The Minister of Finance next deposited on the table the budget of 1849, and the Assembly adjourned. ITALY The Concordia publishes the following letter, ad. dressed by the Abbe Gioberti to the editor of thal journal : " I do not know for what reason I have been charged with giving advice and uttering expressions which never escaped my lips. I consider it my duty to declare that none of the dtimonstrations which took place some days since were suggested by me, and so far from approving ethos, susceptible of receiving an unfavourable interpre tation, I formally condemned them." Whe same journal contains the following, dated Man : *, Marshal Radetzky has ordered the Municipal Coun cil of our city to cut down all the trees which adorn the public promenade round the castle. The Council entreated him not to insist on an order, the execra tion of which would impoverish the city already so much distressed by military exactions. The Marshal returned the following reply to the Municipal Councii:--' As I am in the habit of never suffer ing resistance to my orders, and whereas the city con tinues in a state of siege, I enjoin the Municipal Council to remove all the trees surrounding the castle, to which I have already directed its notice, before the 15th inst. In that interval all the trees Must be felled and carried away at the expense of the Council. The Council shall be liable to a fine of 5,000 livres for every day's delay. (Signed) " RADETZKY.' The Nazionale of the sth instant quotes a letter from Modena, of the 27th ult., stating that several Austrian battalions, provided with artillery, had marched towards the frontier of the Pontifical do minions. It was also rumoured that Bologna was to be occupied by an Austrian force. THE FOJZTIFICATION OF AUCK LAND, NEW ZEALAND. The construction of fortifications in defence of the liarbour being under present consideration of the autho ?Wee, we trust we shall be held excused for venturing a few suggestions on a matter fraught with such important consequences to the public safety. The absolute nakedness of every British possession in these seas—the impunity with which they can be as sailed—the facility with which they could be laid under contriubtiou—have all been,dwelt upon and reiterated usque ad nauseam. A time of peace, when works of defence should have been quietly and skilfully organized —when means and munitions should have been unosten tatiously provided—has been suffered to pass by ; and now, whetr a period of turbulence, if not of war, appears to impend, attention is compelled where it was before, in vain, solicited. If. as we have been given to understand, the works to be thrown up, far the protection of the harbour of Aucks taut], are to be limited to land batteries alone, we woad molt respectfully point out the grave error of restrictions ; and to give more cogency to our own. arguments, we shall cite the opinions of the most practical warriors and demonstrate the incontrovertible trait' of their opinions by a few of the most daring and dashing illustratior a of the futility of stationary batte ries when opposed to the moveable and concentrated fire of floating ones. We are far from despising land fortifi cations, or considering their erection as a matter of no moment; quite the reverse—they are excellent in their way, and are invaluable auxiliaries; but as isolated an tagonists to the broadside of a fleet we deem them un equal to the work—such at least as a British admiral or commodore would cut out for them. It is upon the authority of Lord Nelson we are able to affirm that, " the fire of cannon once op ene d (f rom a ship) is ter r ibl e to town." The truth of that as sertion ttas been frequently and fearfully enforced— not upon weak and powerless .towns, but upon re nowned strongholds, bristlin g with guns and crowded with batslements, esteemencll4 We have amongst us mmerieghtthaanli one witness of the but impregnable. Pnwertzlietsii of the ramparts of Algiers wheat cOo k i e d to the compaarisaytoivoett petty squadron of .Lord Exmouth- We have behold St. Jean d'Acre, that fortress which defiresdwh°most deter-, smittßenutrasthtielhednst by the rained efforts of Napoleon, thanders of British broadsides. rations edected by line-of-battle ships,. We , 11 1 ere ope to show what has been achieved by frigates; proceed frigates, we su r mise, in the event of war, Aucklandrw o rn requireorimarily, to be defended. tuly, 1810, Captain Christopher Cole, in th e Caroline, 3d-gun frigate, having under his command the Pieelmentaise, 38, Captain Charles Foote; Barra catita, 18 gun brig-sloop, Captain Richard Kenagh; and a transport- brig, made a dash at Banda Neira. In despite of the manifold difficulties of an intricate and hazardous navigation, and the dangerous approach to a well-manned and strongly fortified coast, Captain Cole effected a landing, and, with 180 men, mastered fortresses deemed impregnable by the Dutch, and en forced the surrender of 700 regular troops and 800 mi litia, garrisoning a line of sea defences mounting 138 cannon, being little short of a gun per captor. Magnificent us this affair was, it was probably ex ceeded by the capture of the Island of Curaeoa by Sir C. Brisbane, with " the saucy Arethusa " and three frigates, on Jan. 1, 1807, the chief port of which island, St. Ann, art and nature had done much to render strongly defensible. The entrance to that harbour, according to James, " is only fifty fathoms wide, and was defended by regular fortifications ; the principal of which, Fort Amsterdam, standing on the right of the entrance, mounted 60 pieces, in two tiers. Athwart the harbour, which nowhere exceeds a quarter of a mile in width, were a Dutch 32-gun frigate, a 29- gun ship corvette, and two large armed schooners. There *as a chain of forts on IVlisselburgh height, and that almost impregnable fortress, Fort Republique, situated upon a nigh hill at the bottom of the harbour, and almost within grape-shot distance, enfiladed the whole." Nptwithstanding these stupendous defences, the four frigittos dashed into the harbour, opened their broad aides, boarded the Dutch frigate and corvette, and stormed the town, the whole island submitting to the British in the course of that day. Onp more example of the powers of gallantly-com aliadnd Wastes, even against strong laud defences, and Count Mole has addressed the following letter to the Moniteur : " M. le Redacteur,—Not having been able to attend -the sitting of the National Assembly on Saturday last, I have recourse to your columns to declare that I should have voted with the minority on the decrees relative to the organic laws. Notwithstanding my great respect for the decisions of the National Assembly, I am con vinced that it is mistaken in this circumstance as to the nature and bearing of its mandate. I do not think that it has the right to delay putting the whr,le Constitution into execution by prolonging its own e - Aistence beyond the term fixed by those who elected it.' I consider, in fine, that the majority of the laws com prised under the vague and and arbitrary denomination fof organic' do not merit more than many others, and that these laws would be more naturally the work of the executive and legislative powers which the Constitution has created than of a Constituent Assembly, the special and high mission of which has been now accomplished." At the sitting of the National Assembly yesterday, M. Ducos presented the report on the project of Decree for proclaiming the President of the Republic. e three first articles were read by the President, and adopted without discussion. They were as fol lows " Art. 1. The minutes of the election of President of the Republic, addressed from the departments to the President of the National Assembly, agreeably to the 4lth article of the Constitution, and the Decree of the 28th October last, shall be forwarded without delay to the Special Committee charged with counting the votes. "Art. 2. Before breaking the seals, th e Committee shall ascertain that they are entire, and immediately proceed to the successive examination of all the returns, and establish their results. " Art. 3. The moment the operation shall be termi nated the Committee shall present its report to the Na tional Assembly, which shall pronounce upon it without adjourning. " Art. 4. In case the returns of the 86 departments amidst perilous waters, may suffice—that example is the triumphant ascent of the Potomac, in 1814, by Captain Sir J. A. Gordon, in the Seahorse, and (the present Admiral Sir Charles Napier) in the Eurvalus frigates, accompanied by the Devastation, lEtna, and Meteor bombs. This enterprise was one of consummate difficulty and danger, demanding an extraordinary degree of nerve and ingenuity, as the ships grounded repeatedly under fire, and were continu ally obliged to hoist out and to replace their guns, as well as to tow and to warp, and yet the ascent was suc cessfully achieved and the descent accomplished, in defi ance of clouds of " regular troops, riflemen, artillerists, and militia, who all flocked to the shores of the Potomac to punish the base incendiaries." The American news paper editors, says James, for some days feasted their readers with the anticipated destruction of the British squadron. "It is impossible," they affirm, " the ships can pass such formidable batteries, commanded by our naval heroes, and manned by our invincible seamen." But the British squadron not only did pass batteries, heroes, and invincibles, but carried 21 sail of prizes along with them, and that in spite of hot shot and cold, and after 23 days of incessant strife with man and the ele ments. _ _ _ of p w l s e h c e d on c b e y i ve s , h incontestable f p r t r i o fi o e f d s Hav a i t n g c a a n d d b u e c a e c d c , a m s harbours—and strongly fortified ones too—we would fain be permitted to point to the strongest and most übi quitous means of harbour defence—floating batteries. England has shown the estimation in which she holds the efficiency of such defences by conversion of four line of-battle ships and four large frigates into block ships, arming them with guns of the heaviest calibre, and fur nishing them with auxiliary steam power. Although we possess none of these appliances, the construction of one or more most effective moveable bat teries is by no means beyond our reach. It is perfectly possible to build and equip praams of great strength and force, whose low mouthed, long, and heavy guns could be made to follow up and play with the most destructive effect upon any intruder. We could suggest such praams to be built in several water-tight compartments, the double vessels of which each should be composed being of great beam, but little depth, and united under one deck. In the absence of steam as a motive agent, a central wheel might be worked a la treadmill, with just sufficient power to enable the vessel easily to overruu the tide, to shift her berth, and to take up the most advantageous position to assail an enemy. Her barricades should be made as substantial as possible, and if stuffed with flax, they might be ren dered nearly bombproof. A wherry shaped stern and double rudder would obviate the necessity of turning, and if pressed by a heavy ship she could seek shelter in shoal water, and cut up her antagonist with her guns, which it would be well to have of Monk's long 56- pounders. In determined hands, and with an adequate number of small-arm men to repel attempts at boarding by boats, batteries like these would be of yeoman service in the time of need. The shot of such shifty-sneaking craft would be more infinitely telling than the uncertain plunging fire of an elevated immovable fort, and would stick to the haunches of any vessels foolhardy enough to attempt a coup de main. Their cost would be compara tively trifling, their organization se simple, and their services so effectual, that we look upon them as the fit test and easiest defence for a remote and infant colony. —New Zealand Paper. THE SUN, LONDON, SOCIETY OF ARTS. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURTS, Dec. 13. (Before the Vice-Chancellor KNIGHT BRUCE.) HER MAJESTY'S AND PRINCE ALBERT'S ETCHINGS AND DRAWINGS. THE QUEEN AND PRINCE ALBERT v. STRANGE, JUDGE, AND OTHERS. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Mr. SMITH then went on to contend that the answers of Mr. Strange completely exculpated him from blame; for be had sworn that the basis of his engagement with Mr. Judge was that her Majesty's consent should be obtained to the publication of the etchings. His HONOUR—Is it explained why none of the house hold of Prince Albert were consulted before the publi cation of the catalogue ? Mr. SMITH—No, it does not, but the catalogue was never published. Mr. White, the attorney on the other side, when he came to Pa:ernoster-row, could not obtain a copy. In fact, the catalogue, with the exception of 11 copies sent to the Palace and to the members of the Royal Family, was as unpublished as any work, the proof sheets only of which had been sent out. Perhaps the de fendants acted in ignorance of the matter, thinking, no doubt, that the publication, without any formal application, would be more acceptable to the feelings of the Queen and her Consort. The election of Prince Albert to the Chancellorship of the University of Cambridge was an example of the kind. The Prince did not give his con sent to be put in nomination; yet Professor Whewell and others, some of whom occupied high positions on the bench, did put him in nomination, and he was elected. If the decision of his Honour was adverse to the defendants, on the same principle sought to be established here all criticisms might be subject to injunction —nay, more, the recently published illustrations of the cattle exhibited at the cattle show might be stopped by injunction. But, after all, the matter resolved itself into one of costs. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL—The costs, and something more—to be indemnified from loss; that was the tenor of the correpondence which, though written without prejudice, was nevertheless set forth in the answers. Mr. SMITH said the defendant was prepared to give up all the copies, and not to similarly offend for the future, on the payment of the legal costs to which he had been put. He had made this offer, but it was de clined; the costs of the prosecution alone were offered to be paid. Now, Mr. Strange believing conscientiously that he had not acted improperly, but as a fair trader and as a man of honour, and not wishing to sneak out of this matter except in the mast honourable manner, refused to accede to this proposal, because he would thereby admit that he was guilty of the offence imputed to him, of which he was altogether innocent. [ The whole of the voluminous correspondence was here read by Mr. Smith, and bore out the statement in his address. j His HONOUR, at their conclusion, said he doubted much whether he should have permitted the public time to have been occupied by the reading of those letters, which appeared to him to have been written with a view to a comprcmise; the act, however, was one of all the counsel. Mr. SMITH said be had read the letters to show that Mr. Strange did not wish to be considered as acting submissively in this matter, but with an earnest desire to bo relieved from the proscution honourably. He thought the Queen and Prince Albert should congratu late themselves, that instead of finding a bad subject they had found a most loyal one. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL said he appeared for Prince Albert in support of the injunction, and that he wished to submit the case to his Honour on the same principles as those which would guide the cause of the humblest individual. • He submitted that he was entitled to hold the injunction. Mr. Strange and Mr. Judge entered into the speculation as the property of others, as their joint experiment for their joint profit. The case was like that of a private gentleman who sent an engraving to a printer to have proofs struck off, and who had had some of the engravings pur loined—by the sale of which the value of the proe perty or the engraving might be materially in jured. Courts of equity were constantly dealing with literary property of this kind about to be interfered with in a similar manner. He a d m i tte d that the dis tinction in this case w as very fi ne, but surely when it was obvious that the sale of the work would be immense —that it would have found its way into almost every assembly, and into every house—that great profits would have been realised—it could not be contended that there was no property in the matter. He submitted that he had clearly established the existence of property in this case. About a 100 years ago the Earl of Arundel brought home from abroad the valuable marbles which now decorated the University of Oxford, and which threw much light upon chronology. Could it be contended that if they were pirated no injury would result to the value of the property ? The Court could as much interfere in such a case as in cases of pi racy of valuable chemical experiments shown at a lecture, the compilation of a book from the catalogue of a private literary gentleman, who had allowed a person to inspect it, or in the piracy of trade marks. Such cases had occurred. His HONOUR inquired if the Learned Solicitor-Ge neral could furnish him with the name of the case to which Lord Eldon had so often alluded—the case of a person of strong memory going to see a new play, and afterwards producing it. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD believed it was the case of " Miller v. Elliston." The SOLICITOR- GENERAL said in the case of Macklin v. Richardson it was held that going to a play and ob taining the words by the aid of short-hand was a viola tion of copyright. In this way the defendant had ob tained the language of a popular farce, Love a la Mode, in which Mr. Macklin had obtained much success. The learned Solicitor-General cited cases in which medical lectures, published in the same way, had been held to be violations of copyright. He applied the same law to this case. The printer at Windsor, or rather his pressman, had no right to part with the etchings. His HONOUR inquired if this version was recognised on both sides? Mr. WARREN said the mode in which the etchings were obtained was set forth in the bill, but Mr. Strange knew nothing of the way in which they were obtained. His HONOUR—Does it appear in the answers that Mr. Strange asked Mr. Judge how he obtained the etchings? Mr. WARREN—NO, Sir, it does not. The SOLICITOR- GENERAL referred to the judgment of Mr. Justice Willmot in the case of Bridgenorth v. Green, which had reference to obtaining, by sur reptitious means, a portion of the revenues of an estate. In that case his Lordship said that restitution must ensue, since the defendant had obtained the property by unfair means—the source was polluted. A similar re sult must follow in this case. The statement that Mr. Strange did not know how Judge obtained the etchings could not be believed. He knew that it was untrue when he put the statement down. Mr. Strange said he entered into the arrangement with Mr. Judge " pro vided it is not offensive to her Majesty or Prince Albert." He must have known that Mr. Judge was not a likely person to be particularly favoured by the C our t, or to h ave ready access to the private apartments of her Majesty. If the defendant and Mr. Judge really wished to obtain the consent of the Queen and Prince Albert to the publication of the etchings, why did they not seek it before the appear ance of the paragraph in the Berkshire paper? The catalogues were doubtless sent to the various members of the Royal Family in the belief that they would bo thrown into the waste-paper baskets, and not receiving a reply, that they might be enabled to say.that they had obtained the consent of the Royal Family to the publi cation of the catalogue, or that the Queen and Prince Albert might be induced to avoid the unpleasantness of having their etchings exhibited to the public by a pecu niary consideration. His HONOUR said no man in his senses could believe that Mr. Strange did not inquire of Judge the whole particulars of how he obtained the etchings. The Learned SOLICITOR-GENERAL concluded a most able speech by expressing his conviction that the Court would retain th e i n j unct i on, an d also stating that it was the desire of her Majesty and Prince Albert that his Honour would only give to them the same measure of justice that he would award to the lowest of her subjects. Mr. Sergeant TALFOURD followed on the same side, and had not concluded when the Court rose. Last night the fourth ordinary meeting of the mem bers of the Society of Arts was held in the great room at the Society's house, John -street, Adelphi. Mr. Thomas Webster, M.A., F.A.S„ vice-president, in the chair. Mr. J. HOLMES proceeded to read an extremely inte resting lecture upon the present state of electricity as applied to telegraphs. Tracing the application of elec tricity to the purpose of telegraphic communication from its earliest invention in 1746 down to the present day, the lecturer stated that it was not his intention to can vass separately the various plans of electric telegraphs which had from time to time been brought under the at tention of the public. For his present purpose it would be sufficient to divide them into two great classes-1. The mechanical telegraph, in which a system of clock work was set in motion by the agency of electricity ; and 2. The mere theoretical instrument, which depended upon the di rec t act i on o f t h e curren t, either by induction ' upon a suspended magnetic iron bar, or by the decom position of certain chemical solutions, so placed as to form a part of the magnetic circuit. All the early tele graphs recorded between 1746 and 1798, were constructed to work by electricity of a high tension, and the results obtained were far from successful, still, to those early efforts, especially to an invention of Dr. Watson's, they were indebted for the comparative perfection which the instrument had now reached. No advance of great im• portance in this direction was made until the discovery of the voltaic battery in 1800, aided by M. Arago's adaptation of the electro-magnet. In 1837, the inven tion was still further improved, and was rendered of practical utility by the process of Messrs. Wheatstone and Cooke, who then registered their patent. The se chanical telegraph had been hitherto very little employed in this country. The first erected in England was placed by Professor Wheatstone to work the Admiralty signals upon the South-Western Railway, between Gosport and Nine Elms. Out of 2,000 miles of telegraph, the only other railway on which it had been employed was the South Devon, a length of 27 miles, and such was the per fection it had attained, that frequently as many as 2,000 distinct signals were conveyed without the slightest failure or casualty of any description. After much experience and mature consideration of the sub ject, however, he must express his opinion that these telegraphs were not applicable to railway purposes, or where a great deal of attention could not be bestowed on them. The other class of telegraph, which he had de scribed as the more theoretical system, was the one gene rally in use throughout the country. These were first in vented byMr.Alexander, of Edinburgh,with 24 needles and 24 wires. They were now reduced, however, to two needles with two wires, and even to one needle with one wire. This plan was first adopted by Professor Ersted in 1813. Still the whole system was replete with im perfections. For long distances, and in wet weather, the difficulty of working them became immense, and the signals were often perfectly unintelligible, the needles , scarcely vibrating at all. To meet this difficulty, lighter and improved needles and a new helix were invented, which had enabled him to transmit 120 letters in a minute. The power of printing by electric telegraph was now an undisputed fact. Davey made the first great stride in its application to the conveyance of printed messages, in 1838, and in 1847 Mr. Bain suc ceeded in producing a beautiful instrument for the purpose. A perfect printing communication now ex isted between Liverpool, Manchester, and London, and the operations were carried on with tolerable rapidity, but not by any means with the speed of which the instrument might be capable. Frequently 2,000 dis tinct symbolic characters had been conveyed in a minute, but that was not upon any great length of line. 250 letters in a minute had been accomplished be tween Liverpool and Manchester, a distance of thirty miles. The average, however, was about 75 letters in a minute. The lecturer illustrated his subject by a series of extremely well-executed diagrams, which proved of no small assistance to the less scientific portion of his au dience. TROOPS FOR HONG•KONG.—By latest intelligence received from Hong-Kong, the authorities were informed that the sickness among the troops there prevailed to such an extent, that there were not men enough conva. leecent to perform garrison duty. In consequence of this report, the 75th Regiment, 1,200 strong, has been placed under orders to hold itself in readiness to em bark at short notice for that colony. It is probable, as it would be more economical, and certainly more comfortable for the troops, that her Majesty's ship Belleisle will be commissioned to convey the 75th to Hong-Kong. A FARMER ATTACKED BY A RAM.—As Mr. Wil liam Underwood, farmer and grazier, of Lutterworth, was lately walking through one of his fields, a large ram of the Wiltshire breed ran up to him and knocked him down: after which it walked off; but as soon as the ob ject of its attack was again upon its legs, it returned in the most furious manner to renew the attack. Having a gun in his hand, Mr. Underwood began to beat the ram about the head with the butt-end, but this made little impression upon the invincible skull of his horned antagonist, which again brought its master to the ground. Mr. Underwood began to think his life was in danger, as no one was near to rescue him; but after several un successful attempts to escape from his perilous situation, he thought of an expedient which succeeded in effecting his escape. Thoegh in a state of great exhaustion, he managed to get a handkerchief out of his pocket, and, holding the ram by the horns, he partially blindfolded the animal, and by this means evaded its observation and got away. His fleecy combatant, however, seemed to have some notion of fair play, as it never attacked its victim when he was down; had it done so, in all proba bility Mr. Underwood would have lost his life.—Norfolk News. COURT OF QUEEIV'S BENCH, Dec. 13. :Sittings,before Mr. Justice COLERIDGE and a Common Jury.) RUSSELL U. CLUMPTONL SAME V. SAME. Mr. Montague Chambers and Mr. Dowdeswell ap peared for th4laintiff, and Mr. Sergeant Shee and Mr. Hawkins for the defendant. .... This was a case i n_ which two actions were com pounded into one for the purposes of trial. One of these actions was for assault, the plaintiff being an apprentice of the defendant. The defendant pleaded that the plain tiff had misconducted himself, and that he, the defendant, had, as he lawfully might, corrected the plaintiff, his apprentice. The other action was for alleged breach of covenant in turning the apprentice away and refusing to teach the plaintiff his business as a linen and woollen draper. The defendant, as to this action, pleaded that he had not broken the covenant, and had not refused to teach him the business, nor had turned him away. The plaintiff was the son of a person living near Maidstone, and had been apprenticed to the defendant, who carried on an extensive business in the Whitechapel-road, as a linen and woollen draper. The plaintiff sought to es tablish that the defendant had subjected him to disa greeable and severe treatment, putting him under a counter to sleep, thus exposing him to bugs and mag gots, and sometimes venting rage upon him in the shape of a severe beating; on one of these occasions actually striking him with a hammer, which defendant happened to have in his hand. The witnesses who were called to make out this case admitted, on cross-examination, that the food of the apprentice was good, that some of the apprentices slept on a bedstead kept under the counter in the day-time and pulled out at night; but that the master's own son had formerly done the same. As to the beating, thi s was d en i ed; and in the particular case ' water. o u f the blow with th e h ammer, the circumstances seemed tterboefthhese:— uacv_ing been m i schievously employed in injuring a That the plai n tiff was accuse d b y hi s mas -0 f his an kd, and dd struckthatthe i ro d e , f a e s n t d h a e n w t it took nes s t e h s e fo h r am t h m e p e r l a o i n u . t tiff thought, with the hand in which he held the hammer, but the witnesses for the defendant denied this altoge a sort of char. As to the uestion of the defendant turning plain tiff and service ; ta in tiff out of the h ci glass was broken; it appeared that thero had been a quarrel and shatk named fight between the plain . e Chinas, who was in the defendant's unkenco.urse of this scrambling contest some terfered, and struck ' and i that the defendant then in the witnesses said the thedePlaintiff or kicked him (some of him), saying,t .. eonidant pushed and did not kick mined never to dosnoutythin myu shop, you seem deter the plaintiff left the defengdantt' s m_isehief," and after this The defendant Aron _ to . house, and went home. Plluntati 'a father a letter, in SUPPLY OF FISH.—At present there are in our market a var i ety of fine fish, such as cod, haddocks, turbot, halibut, b r ill , plaice, soles, herrings, &c., in Kreuter quantities than used to be at this season of the get well out to Year. T his ext weather being several of th f ra supply may be attributable to the favourable so as to enable the boats to c t o s a e t a, together with the trawl net that and the discove ry o s f h ave l been fitted out with latterly; ward of Pittenweern.a 1;;41e shoal of plaice a little Bast in expectation that Government will ai4 him in facili tating the improvements aelt.:r effected upon the cora-1 moTnltirnawclunoeLt.E—RAC.a_ledoonniaTnhurs .13070:he new cases in on Saturday 6, y es az cur l/ . ea a th n n .. Edinburgh were 10, on Friday terday 4. The deaths reported Friday 6, Saturday 5, yesterday 6. RemairgaYinwt,erdei:4_, burgh, 154; in Leith, 8. On Thursday, nue n g d curred at Silverknows, Cramond parish, an d which has since proved fatal was reported from i t de . dingston, the same day; but we have heard of no new cases in any other country district for several days. In Glasgow on Wednesday there were three new cases, on Thursday 5, Friday 2, Saturday 2, seven deaths being reported during that interval. The epidemic continues to manifest itself with great virulence in Dumfries, there having been 23 cases on Wednesday, and 14 on Thursday. Since the first appearance of the disease there have been in Dumfries and Maxwelltown, up to Thursday, 289 cases and 87 deaths.—Caledonian Mercury. THE' FISHING.--AVICK, DEC. B.—Our fishermen only got to sea one day last week, when some of them made a very successful fishing, so much so that one curer got upwards of 3,000 fine haddocks out of a few boats. The poor fishermen, however, will soon be hard enough pinched, if better weather do not speedily visit us; Jokn o' Groat Journal. which he spoke of the plaintiff's leaving, but did not say that he required the plaintiff to come back; and this evidence was relied on by the plaintiff as making out the allegation that he was turned away. On the other hand, the defendant's attorney, from the moment of his earlist communication with the plaintiff's attorney, told him that the defendant would not surrender the boy as an apprentice. The details of this evidence occupied the Court part of Tuesday and the whole of Wednes day. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE summed up the case to the jury as one of a short and simple kind, although the circumstances detailed in evidence had occupied so much time. He said that the questions were—first, whether any assault had been committed, for if so the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict. The striking with the hammer could not be justified, if it had ever taken place. But the jury would say whether in fact it had taken place; and on that question it was deserving of consideration that the supposed blow had been given in 1845, and that no formal complaint of it, no action for it had been brought till the parties quarrelled upon other matters, and this question about the service being put au end to had arisen. As to the other assaults, the jury would say whether they appeared to have been committed in the way alleged; for it was not to be supposed that a master was at all times to restrain himself from everything hay ing the appearance of chastising an apprentice, although certainly kicking was not the mode in which the master was to correct his apprentice. The jury would say whether the assaults had been committed, and, if so, what were the damages to which the plaintiff was entitled in respect of them. Then, as to the turning out: the jury would consider whether the expressions used more than once, " Get out," or " Get out of the shop," or " Get out of the house," really meant to dismiss the plaintiff from the . service, or were mere words of unmeaning anger. The words appeared, in the first instance, to have been treated by both parties as amounting to a severance of the connexion; but then there was the distinct declara tion of the defendant's attorney on the other side. The jury would consider all these circumstances, and say whether the defendant had wrongfully put an end to the contract, and if so, what was the amount of damages to which, in that respect, the plaintiff was entitled. The experience of the jurors in the relations of master and apprentice would enable them to appreciate the various circumstances of this case in a proper manner; and they would say—first, whether there had been assaults, as al leged; and next, whether there had been a turning out of the service. If they answered both these questions in the negative they must find for the defendant; but if they answered both, or either of theta, in the affirma tive, there must be a verdict for the plaintiff, with such temperate damages as the case seemed to require. The jury retired for half as hour, and returned a general verdict on all the issues for the plaintiff, with 501. damages for the breach of covenant, and 401 damages for the assault. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 13. (Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Guildhall, before Lord Chief Justice WILDE and a Common Jury.) CHILDS V. ABRAHAMS. The plaintiff in this case was a constable of the city of London, and employed by the Trinity House, and the defendant resided at 27, Hanway-street, Oxford street, but of what business did not appear. The action was in 'respass to recover a compensation in damages in respect of the defendant having given the plaintiff into the custody of a policeman upon a charge of felony, and caused him to be taken to a police station. Mr. Sergeant Channel and Mr. Creasy appeared for the plaintiff; the defendant conducted his case in person. The plaintiff's case in effect was, that a person named Cetta, in business in Hatton-garden as a dealer in look ing-glasses, chronometers, barometers, &c., having rea son to suspect that some articles of that description, supplied by him at the premises No. 10, Maiden-lane. in the City, had been obtained by the person ordering them under false pretences, got the plaintiff, in his capa city of constable, to watch the premises on the 24th of August last. The result was, that at about six o'clock in the evening of that day, a person named Venables being seen by the plaintiff to come from the premises, with a looking glass and baro meter, was taken into custody by the plaintiff, and con veyed to the Bow-lane police-station, where, on being sent for, Cetta identified the articles as being part of his property ; and thereupon Venables immediately gave them up to Cetta. It next ap peared that at about four o'clock in the afternoon of the lat of September, the plaintiff, whilst walking along the street, was accosted by the defendant, who was at the time a perfect stranger to him, and in company with Venables. They had no sooner met than the defendant called up a policeman, and said (as the policeman proved) he gave the plaintiff in charge for stealing a barometer and looking-glass. Upon that the policeman, who knew the plaintiff's character, advised the defendant to be cautious, and asked him twice whether or not he would be responsible, and thereupon the plaintiff was taken to the police-station in Bishopsgate-street, about 200 yards off. The charge was not followed up, and the plaintiff was immediately set at liberty. The same witness further proved that immediately afterwards the plaintiff said the defendant should hear more about it, and upon that the defendant turned round to Venables and said, " You gave him into custody;" to which Ve nables replied that he had nothing to do with it, that he (defendant) gave the plaintiff in charge. The defendant called Venables as his witness, and what he stated in effect was, that he was at the time porter to Messrs. Barclay and Bristow, of 10, Maiden-lane; that on the Ist of September he went with the defendant for the purpose of giving the plaintiff into custody, and that he and not the defendant did, without having been cautioned by the policeman, give the plaintiff into cus tody upon the charge of stealing the looking glass and the barometer both in the street and at the station, and that the defendant never urged him to make the charge, and only attended with him professionally. The LORD CRIES' JUSTICE having left to the jury the question of whether or not the defendant was the person who ;gave the plaintiff into custody, and what was the reasonable amount of damages, The jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff—Da mages, 51. JUDGES' CHAMBERS, Dec. 13.. (Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.) MARTIN WALLER V. THE LONDON AND 'WESTMINSTER COAL CLUB COMPANY. William Godfrey Handsford, Henry Vernon, and William Wright, three shareholders in the London and Westminster Coal Club Company, attended on sum mons, to show cause why execution should not issue against them or their goods' 'towards satisfaction of a judgment obtained last term by ' the plaintiff against the company. Waller, who had been a clerk in the Coal Club Com pany's service, brought an action against the company for a quarter's salary, 251., and on the 16th of November judgment by default was entered. On the following day execution was issued by th e pl a i nt iff, b u t th e Sh eri ff of Middlesex having returned the writ of fi. fa., certify ing that the company had neither goods or chattels within his bailiwick, the present proceedings were insti tuted, for the purpose of making the defendants per sonally responsible for the debt and costs, which amount to upwards of 1001. Mr. CHITTY said that the present application for liberty to issue execution against the persons or property and effects of Henry Vernon, King's-road, Bedford row • William Godfrey Hansf or d, J o h n ' s - p l ace, Hornsey road; and William Wright, High-street, Islington, as shareholders in the company, was made under the pro visions of the Joint-Stock Companies Act, sec. 68. The affidavit sworn in the case by the plaintiff, and Randal Hurley, another clerk in the concern, set forth the material facts of judgment having been obtained by de fault against the company, the issuing of execution, the return of the writ unsatisfied, the execution of the deed of settlement by the parties summoned, and the com plete registration and incorporation of the company ac• cording to Act of Parliament. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL thought that the section re lied upon for the present proceedings, referred merely to a judgment obtained by a shareholder, and not by an official of the company. Mr. CHITTY observed that the full Court had ruled otherwise, in the case of the Universal Salvage Company, and so important did they consider the point which was brought before them on appeal from Mr. Justice Wil liams's decision, that they delivered an elaborate written judgment, having first taken time to consider the argu ments advanced. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL could not understand how such a decision was made by the Court, when the words of the section were, " at the suit of said share holder." However, as he had been told that the Court interpreted the section adversely to his impression, and as sitting in Chamber, he was bound by that interpreta tion, he should hold that the statute applied to the pre: sent case. Mr. BARSTOW resisted the application, and submitted that the facts disclosed on the face of the affidavits sworn by the parties summoned, and others, would jus tify the Learned Judge in not sanctioning the summary mode of execution sought by the plaintiff. The plain tiff's salary was not due until the 29th September, yet they found that final judgment was entered upon the 16th November, the action, as the plaintiff swore, having been " lately commenced," and there was no evidence upon whom the writ had been served, with the view of showing that the concoction of the company was not of the purest character. Counsel read the affidavits of Henry Vernon, William Wright, John Maunder, and Thomas Hay White, and he contended that Waller was a party to those proceedings, whereby the defendants had been led to execute the company's deed of settle ment. With regard to the judgment against the com pany having been obtained by collusion and fraud, coun sel contended that, from the extreme haste used in the proceedings, there was a strong case of suspicion, at least, that they had not been straightforward, as it was desirable. Under all these circumstances, he trusted the application would be refused, and that the plaintiff would be left to his remedy by scire facias if he had any. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL inquired on whom the writ in the original action had been served? The plaintiff's solicitor—On one of the directors., Mr. Justice CRESSWELL—Which of them? The plaintiff's solicitor—l now understand it was on the secretary, Mr. Devey. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL—He was only secretary pro tem. Where is the affidavit of service? Mr. BARSTOW directed the Learned Judge's attention to the fact that it was only on the 23d of November the parties summoned had received notice of the plaintiff's intention to fix them with the responsibility of the da mages and costs obtained against the Coal Club Com pany, so that it was quite clear the action had been instituted merely as introductory to the present appli cation. Mr. CHITTY contended that the affidavits relied on by the other side established the case of fraud against the plaintiff. There might have been fraud in the getting up of the company, but with that the plaintiff had no thing to do. The three shareholders now sought to be proceeded against bad signed the deed with their eyes open. Mr. Justice CRESSWELL-Oh, no; not with their eyes - Mr. CHITTY—They should have seen what they were aboat. It the present application were not granted, he doubted whether the plaintiff could have any remedy, as it might turn out that no scire facias would lie. Ali:. Justice CRESSWELL refused the application, ex ercising the discretionary power vested in him, because he felt that sufficient doubt had been raised on the case to warrant him in refusing the order for issue of execu tion against the defendants. SECONDARIES' COURT, Dec. 13. (Before Mr. Secondary JAMES.) TAYLOR V. JENKINS. The plaintiff in this case was an advertising agent, in Nicholas-lane, City ; he sought to recover the sum of 5/ for writing and publishing an article in the London Journal of Commerce. Mr. Cox appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Parry for the defendant. On the part of the plaintiff it was stated that in Oc tober, 1847, the defendant, Mr. Jenkins, was negotiating with a Mr. Colwell for the purchase of a patent ; an agreement was drawn up and executed between them, by which Mr. Jenkins guaranteed to pay the sem of 40,0001. as the entire purchase of the patent, 1,4001 of which was to be paid down as a deposit. The defendant, however, was not able to raise the 1,4001., and consequently the agreement between Mr. Colwell and him was not acted upon. Subsequently the defendant determined to estab lish a company to carry out the patent, and a person named Lloyd was employed to act as secretary. The defendant, in conjunction with Lloyd and Colwell, the patentee, commenced proceedings. An office was taken at 73, King William -street, and advertisements were iuse:ted in the several daily journals, with a view of obtaining men of capital to join the speculation. During the progress of these preliminary proceedings, the plaintiff called at the office in King William.street, to solicit advertisements ; and after some conversation with Lloyd, the secretary, the latter engaged him to write an article, to be inserted in the before-mentioned paper, for which he agreed to pay 51, and to take 51. worth of papers, when the article was inserted. The plaintiff wrote the article, and submitted it to Lloyd for correction, and for the approval of the promoters, after which it was published. John Ballard Lloyd, the secretary to the company, was called on behalf of the plaintiff. He stated that the defendant was the managing director of the company, and it was by his instructions that he (witness) took the offices, and employed the plaintiff to write the article, which was the subject of the present claim. Witness acted throughout the whole affair on the general in structions given by the defendant, " to do whatever was necessary to form a eompany." In cross-examination, the witness admitted that he had been examined before Alderman Johnson, on a charge of writing a threatening letter, and that in consequence of what then transpired Alderman Johnson got up a subscription for him, but he (witness) did not receive a farthing of that subscription. He was told that it was because he would not emigrate. He was not living with his wife, and he could not say that the subscription was withheld because he had de serted his wife. It was Roe, the officer, who told him that it was because he would not emigrate with his wife and children that he would not get it. He did not know where the woman was now, nor did he care. Mr. PARRY then pat i❑ some letters directed to the de fendant, which were admitted by the witness to be in his own handwriting. When these letters were read, it clearly appeared that instead of the defendant being a principal in this company, that he was acting a sort of ❑eutral part, and that the witness, who was the secre tary, was endeavouring to coax him on, by charging him with a want of energy, and blindness to his own inter ' ests, as a certain fortune was to be made by the specu lation. The witness, however, still persisted after these letters were read, that Mr. Jenkins was the managing director, and countenanced the whole proceedings. The manner in which the witness gave his evidence was cen sured by the Court, and in some instances so very con tradictory was it, that Mr. Cox, Course' for the plain tiff, said that if he had nothing to rest his client's case upon but the evidence of Lloyd, that he would with draw from it altogether; be, however, would submit it to the jury on the strength of the defendant's letters to the witness whilst the latter was acting as secretary. Mr. PARRY, in addressing the jury, said that it was altogether a malicious spirit on the part of Lloyd to wards the defendant that induced him to come forward to give evidence against him. The Jury, without waiting to hear the Learned Se condary sum up, returned a verdict for the defendant. The attorneys on both sides refused to pay the Cour fees. The Learned SECONDARY was appealed to on the sub ject: he said that he was not iu the habit of receiving them, it was the officer who was accountable for them, and whose duty it was to receive the fees. All he could say was that it was usual for either party to pay. Nei ther, however, would pay, and they left the court with out doing so. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, Dec. 12. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice MAIILE.) Benjamin Laycock, aged 46, Francis Carmody, 19, Paul Holdsworth, 33, and Martha Holmes, 35, a respectable looking married woman with four children, were in dicted for a robbery with violence, and stealing from Robert Emmett two half-crowns and six shillings, at Bradford, on the Bth of September last. This indictment arose out of Chartism, at Bradford, and Mr. Vincent was in the gallery during the trial, very attentive to the proceedings. Mr. Overend and Mr. Nicholson were for the prose cution. The prisoners were not defended by counsel, but Holmes was assisted in examining the witnessess by an attorney from Ashton. Robert Emmett, the prosecutor, said that on the evening of the Bth of September, he was returning from market at Bradford, where he lived, when the prisoners came up to him, Laycock seized hold of him on the left side, and one Phillips, not in custody, on the right. Holmes came up and said, damn him, he has got plenty of blood money on him, take it from him. Phillips and Laycock said, damn him, we will kill him, he knows us all. They then kicked him and got him down, and one cried, drown him. They then dragged him down the street and threw him irto the beck or goit (a stream about a yard deep.) By that time about 100 persons were present. He, how ever, waded up the beck, got out and run and made a complaint at the police.office. His face was bleeding, his clothes torn, his pockets dragged out, and his money I gone. The witness was cross-examined by the prisoners re spectively. He did not when first at the police-office complain of having been robbed. He had drilled the male prisoners. They were Chartists. He had then given information to the police of the drilling and train ing. While in the beck Phillips tried to drown him, and he kicked, and he and Laycock tore his pockets, in which he had I ls. 4d. He was sometimes called Skipton Dick. He was an engine tender, but at that time was a woolcomber. There had been just before Chartist disturbarces at Bradford. They said he had had plenty of blood -.honey, and they would drown him. When he first saw them,that night they said he was an informer, the informer was coming, and cried out him, kill him. lie had been a soldier, but he had not deserted twice. He had not an R branded on his shoulder. He had never told any one that he had. He had not told them if they would join the Chartists and follow him he would teach them to blow up the Brad ford Court-house at an expense of 3s.—(The prisoners said that he bad done all what he now denied, and that he was the principal promoter of Chartism in Brad ford.) He did not think Carmody had anything to do with the robbery. He had married twelve years ago, but was separated from his wife, and lived with another woman. By the JUDGE—He could not positively say whether his money had been taken by any one, or whether on his pockets being torn out and he knocked about it had fallen into the river. The constable said all the prisoners were persons of good character, except that they were Chartists. Holmes was a very respectable woman, he said, and well con ducted. On being asked whether they had anything to say, Laycock said he lived in a cellar-hole close to the street, and hearing a noise he went out and spoke to the prosecutor. He then left him, and afterwards saw the crowd near the beck. He then saw the prosecutor wade up the beck and get away, but he was not himself near the beck. Carmody said he was at work with his father at the time, and heard some one shout the informer is coming. He went out, but was never near Emmett. Holdsworth said he was never near the place. Holmes said the jury bad heard her character and Emmett's, and they would judge between them. Mr. Justice MAULE summed up. He said, aft er hearing Emmett's answer to his question, the jury w ou ld hardly find the prisoners guilty of robbery, an d he thought the oily question for them was, whether any was guilty of an assault. The jury at once acquitted them of robbery, but found all the prisoners Guilty of an assault. Mr. Justice MAULE, addressing the prisoners, said if they had been convicted of the robbery, they might have been transported, for they must not, on the pretence of being Chartists, rob people; no point of the charter would ever reach that. He hoped th ey were convinced by their re fl ections while in prison, that pursuits, such as Chartists had been engaged in, would not benefit them. Many had got rich, and raised th emse l ves by in dustry and economy, by getting as much as .,u they n ey o c n o e ul b d y , and spending as little as they could help; h joining Chartist societies; and he advised them to follow the example of those who had done themselves good, and give up politics, unless they were determined to listen to those who told them, that because they could not read (none of the prisoners bad had any education) they were wiser than those who had been well educated. It was very flattering to them, but not useful to them, to listen to such persons. The prisoners all declared they bad never been in any such trouble before, and would take care they never would be again ; and Laycock said, if he could get back to his " bairns," the Judge should never see him again. His LORDSHIP then sentenced each of them to be imprisoned with hard labour for two months. Holmes wept bitterly, and begged his Lordship to send her home to her poor children and sick husband. She had never used such language, she assured him. His LORDSHIP said he was sorry for her, but could not reduce the term of imprisonment. She had been out on bail. THE WEST RIDING ELECTION. -- Nothing new has transpired since the nomination on Monday regard. ing the election, but both parties have since been ac tively engaged in preparing for the struggle that is to commence this morning in the several polling districts. Sir Culling Eardley is gradually recovering from his indisposition. THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, 1848.7 THE STATE TRIALS LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY EVENING.—On the opening of the Court this morning, the trial of the several par ties charged with a conspiracy against the Crown and the Government was resumed. The JUDGE (Mr. Justice Erle) having taken his seat upon the bench, the jury were called over, and each having answered to his name, his Lordship proceeded to sum up the evidence. He laid down the law of the case, and showed the jury how they were to apply the evidence adduced in the course of the prosecution. They were to discard from their miads all irrelevant topics which had been introduced in the course of the trial, and give their verdict upon the facts deposed. The jury having retired to consider their verdict, re• mained some time in consultation. At length they re turned into Court, and handed in the following verdict: —" We find all the prisoners, except Delamy, Guilty of all the counts in the indictment." The prisoners' Counsel then raised some legal objec tions, which being replied to by the Aitorney- General, his Lordship overruled. Some mitigating circumstances in favour of Boshill, Murphy, and O'Brien, were then urged by Messrs. Pol lock, James, and Atkinson. His LORDSHIP, after commenting on the enormity of the crime, and the serious and awful consequences which would have resulted had they been successful, sentenced the prisoners as follows--James Smith, O'Donnell, and Hop, to two years' imprisonment in Lancaster Castle, and to find bail themselves in 100/., and two sureties in 25/. each. Boshill and Cuddy to be imprisoned in Kirk dale for twelve months, and to enter into recognizance in the sum of 100/. for their future good behaviour. O'Brien to be confined in Lancaster, and Murphy three months in Kirkdale. On hearing the sentence, the prisoners bowed to their Lordships, shook hands with each other, and left the dock. The trial for the murder of the policeman, Byrne takes place to-morrow. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. T. Casey, A. Marshall, J. Bradshaw, Jno. Croft, and Thos Manager, were summoned under the 42d Geo. 111., cap. 119, before Mr. Henry, for having, on the 4th of September, unlawfully conspired with others, to keep a certain office at No. 12, Haymarket, in which were kept open and exposed, to be played and drawn, certain lot teries nut authorised by law, called " Monster St. Leger Sweeps." A second summons charged them with suffer ing a lottery to be drawn at the above named premises. and the defendants were charged in a third summons as rogues and vagabonds, with keeping an office or place for a game or lottery not authorized by law. Mr. Bodkin attended as counsel, assisted by Mr. Hay ward, from the office of the solicitor to the Treasury, to conduct the prosecution, and Mr. Clarkson appeared for the defendants. The defendants Casey and Marshall were the only persons who appeared to answer the "charges. The warrant officers proved the serving of the sum monses. Mr. Bodkin inquired if the constable had taken any steps to serve the other defendants, at their office in the Haymarket? Blundel, 93 F, warrant officer, replied that he made inquiries there, and was informed by a person who seemed to be a clerk, that they were not there, nor was it their place of abode. Mr. Bodkin said that if the officer was allowed longer time he could have reported the progress he bad made to the Treasury, but he had no objection to proceed against the defendants present, or to postpone the fur ther hearing of the case until the addresses of the others could be ascertained, it being his intention to proceed against the defendants jointly for conspiracy, in order to call upon them to put in bail for an indictable offence. Mr. Clarksen observed, that he had been concerned for a licensed victualler on a former occasion, for trans gressing against the tenour of his license, but the pre sent charges were of a different character, being against lotteries generally. The defendant Casey said, that as he was separately charged, he was anxious the case against him should be proceeded with at once, it being a matter of serious con sideration to him, particularly as he knew nothing what ever of the other parties. The Learned Counsel were about to agree that the case should stand over until Saturday, when The defendant Casey said he could not attend on that day, and he saw no reason why he should be dragged a second time to the court, when no cause was assigned on the other side for such a course. Mr. Clarkson advised him to be silent, unless he felt disposed to conduct his own case. Mr. HENRY also told him that he could grant a war rant to compel his attendance at a future day. After some further conversation, it was agreed that the further heari3g should be postponed till Saturday, at 12 o'clock. The Hon. Mr. Bouverie, the banker, was in court, to give evidence of his being the landlord of the house oc cupied by the defendants. It may be necessary to state that the 2d section of the Act of George 111., entitled " An Act to suppress cer tain games and lotteries not authorized by law," provides that any persons, after the lst of July, 1802, publicly or privately keeping any office or place for any game or lottery called a " little go," or any other lottery what soever not authorized by Act of Parliament, shall forfeit the sum of 5001., to be recovered in the Court of Exche quer at the suit of the Attorney-General, and shall be deemed rogues and vagabonds within the meaning of the 17th George 11., cap. 5, and shall be punishable as rogues and vagabonds accordingly. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Samuel Simons, a Jew dealer, living in Petticoat-lane, was brought before Mr. Hardwick, charged with the following offence:— George Davies said he was in the employ of Messrs. John Bradshaw and Co., of No. 27, Warwick-square, military tailors and gold-lace men. On Thursday morn ing, about eight o'clock, while cleaning the outside of the shop windows, the prisoner came up to him and asked if his master had any old clothes to sell. Witness replied " No," and the prisoner then asked him if there were any lace or sables to sell. Witness told the prisoner he had better ask Mr. Bradshaw. The prisoner then inquired if he could not get some lace and a few sables, without the knowledge of his employers, as, it being the end of the week, a few shillings might be useful to him. The pri soner requested witness to meet him at the Bull and Mouth that evening, but witness said he could not meet him before Monday evening. The prisoner told witness to bring some sables, gold lace, and any sorts of silks he could lay hands on, so as to make up about ten shillings. Witness replied, " Very well," and the prisoner went away. Last Monday morning the pri soner came by the shop, and beckoned witness to come out. Witness shook his head, and the prisoner then held up eight fingers, meaning thereby that witness was to meet him at eight o'clock that evening. Witness went to the Bull and Mouth, Regent•streeCand waited un nearly nine o'clock, but the prisoner did not come. Pre vious to going to the Bull and Mouth witness acquainted his master with all that had passed. The next morning, before eight o'clock, the prisoner came by the shop, opened the door, and came in. Witness said to him, " You were not there last night." The prisoner re plied, " No," and then asked witness if he had anything ready for him. Witness answered "No," but he would try to get out about nine o'clock that evening, and would meet him at the corner of Sackville-street, and bring something." The prisoner said, " Bring lace—bring some sables, and the more the better." As the prisoner was going out, he said, " Sables, sables." At nine o'clock witness went to the corner of Sackville•street,_and waited about twenty minutes, but the prisoner did not come. Yesterday morn ing, about eight o'clock, the prisoner came into the shop, and witness said, " How is it you were not at the appointed place yesterday ?" The prisoner replied he was there, and he then asked witness if he had the things ready for him ? Witness then took out of a drawer three sable skins and gave them to the prisoner. He also gave the prisoner a quill of gold which was on the counter. The prisoner put the things into his bag, and kept on saying, " Sables, sables." Witness replied he could not get any more sables, because the drawers were locked. The prisoner then asked for some old lace. Witness went to the window, and gave him two pieces of gold cord. The prisoner was going out of the shop, but he turned back and said he would meet witness at ten o'clock. Witness replied he could not meet him then. The prisoner answered, " Well, try and see if you can't bring some more sables and lace." The prisoner opened the door and winked his eye, as if he was going to give witness some money, but he did not, and he went off. Inspector Leicester, who was in waiting, immediately followed the prisoner and took him into custody, with the articles given to him by witness in his possession. The prisoner declined to make any defence, and was fully committed. SOUTHWARK. John Richards and William Arkwright, two well dressed men, were brought before Mr. Cottingham on the charge of conspiring to rob Louis Vandal of 201. The complainant stated that he was carpenter on board the barque Geelong, and that on Saturday last, while occupied in viewing the outside of Buckingham Palace, Richards came up and entered into conversation, remarking that the alterations in the building then in progress would entail a great expense to the country. While they were talking the other prisoner joinedthem, and it was proposed they should go to see the Welling ton statue, and on the road thither Arkwright began to talk of having had a brother who recently died at Deme rara, and who he said left him considerable property. lie went on to say that he was then going to a lawyer in Chancery-lane, from whom he was to have a large sum of money, and that his intention was to lend it out at interest in small sums to those who required such assist. ance. Richards, who assumed to be unacquainted with his fellow-prisoner, whispered to complainant that they were lacky in meeting with such an acquaintance, and soon afterwards_Arkwright asked complainant if he stood in need of any cash, adding that if he did he would soon assist him with some. Arkwright then asked complainant if he had been paid his wa-res for his last voyage, and the answer being in the affirmative, he proposed that, if he produced 201. to convince him that he was worth that sum, and bad saved so much wages, he (Arkwright) would give him 501. Complainant said that he had not the money about him then, and it was agreed that they should all meet on the following evening, at seven o'clock, on the south side of London-bridge, in order to settle the business. Complainant, satisfied from what had passed that he had fallen into the hands of two London sharpers," w h o wante d to p l un d er hi m o f his money, gay 'e information to the police. On the previous evening ,he complainant, accompanied by two policemen, Wild and Hunt, repaired to the place of meeting, the two latter watching at some distance. The prisoners were true to their appointment, and the moment they saw complainant, Arkwright inquired if he was prepared to exhibit his 201. The answer being in the affirmative, it was then proposed that they should adjourn to the accordingly White Horse, in Union-street. They pro. The particulars of the case hare alreaay been det3ilett, in this paper. Some further evidence of a corroborative nature wee now gone`into; and any doubt that previously existed sex to tteir complicity was removed by their voluntary state ments and thin._ ial recriminations, which established the fact that each of them had participated to an equal ex tent in the atrocity. Toe depositions of the several witnesses having been completed and read over, the whole of the prisoners were committed to Newgste for trial. LAMBETH. Mary Ann Rigby, Edward Henden, Robel't Storey. and Lydia Storey, were finally examined before Nr. Elliott on a charge of stealing thirty-seven sovereigLis and 6 van-load of furniture, alleged to be the property of Mr. M.'l\Taire, a soap manufacturer, residing near the T•on' don-docks, Ratcliffe. The case had been before the Magistrate on three previous occasions, and there being now no further evi dence to produce, the prisoners were discharged. There being three applicants for the property, Mr. ELLIOTT directed that it should be given up to the Per' son from whom it had been taken. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. WISBEACH, DEC. 9.—The supply of wheat is smaller to-day than last week; of other grain rather increased. All sorts or wheat must be called ls, and for the dry better kinds 2s per quarter higher than on this day week. Oats and beans as before. BASINGSTOKE, DEC. 13. —Corn : In the morning sour fine wheats were sold—others disposed of their corn by samples. Finest dry old and new white and red wheats> both English and foreign, sold at an advance of full ss• per load of five quarters. Moderate ditto certainly in better demand, though we cannot quote an advance.. Trade generally was decidedly in a more healthy state. nearly all good grinding finding buyers. Fine old whiter , weight 64 lb to 66 lb per bushel, made 15/per load; new ditto, 141; old red. 131 to 141; new ditto, 11/ to 121. Flour as last week. Bread, 12d to 13d the gallon loaf. Barley, for malting, was rather scarce; of grinding more than sufficient for the demand; the former rather dearer, the latter without alteration. Several samples of foreign. weighing 56 lb per bushel, and of excellent quality, found buyers at 35s per quarter; second rate malting ditto, 335; best heavy grinding, 30s; common ditto, 27s to 28s. Malt was offered at from 8s to 8s 6d per bushel. Oats of slow sale, without any observable alteration in price. Peas: the demand for boilers was good, at rather higher, prices; some made 22s per sack; second 20s; grey atm maple hog peas were disposed of at from 36s to 38s- Beans: Old ticks and pigeon were offered at 40s to 4 43 per quarter; new best, 38s to 40s; Egyptian ditto, 34 9 . Some very good white Indian corn was offered, but w`e did not hear of purchasers. Rye was saleable at 30s tO 33s per quarter. Spring tares, new, lls to Ils 6d par bushel; old, lOs to lOs 6d. Winter tares about 6d per bushel lower price. In small seeds but very little doing. RINGWOOD, DEC. 13.—Our market this day was thinlY attended, everything dull at last week's prices. WAREHAM, DEC. 12.—There was a large attendance at this day's market. Prices for wheat firm, barley and oats very dull. Wheat from 36s to 56s per quarter. Barley from 23s to 28s per quarter. Oats from 18s to 24s per quarter. Fine flour 88s per sack ; seconds 3 55 and 36s per sack. WINCHESTER, DEC. 9.—The supply of old and D EW wheat was large; a considerable quantity remained un• sold at the close of the market, and although trade was very dull it was not cheaper. Fine old white, 56s to 58 ," old red, 52s to 565 ; b es t new , 5 2s to 545; middl i ng , 4 4 8 to 465; inferior, from 32s upwards. We had A few samples of better quality of barley offering, the foreign being being so superior there was but a limited ammot nt e-s done in this articl e . O a t s were more a bsnal . aid sold very much below a remunerating price tO but gioa . There are but iew be ans an d peas o ff e ring, quite sufficient for the demand. SALISBURT.—Great Cattle Mark e t—Th e s upply Of prime oxen was very 'extensive and sold quickly, from lls sd to 12s 6d; middling ditto 103 6d to i ts 6d. There was a large number of well fatted cows and heifers, which fetched from 8s to 103 per score. Prime fat mutton fetched so high as 7.0; middling ditto 6d to Sld; interior Did to 6d. The sale on the whole was brisk. Corn Market—lnferior new wheat 38s to 445; middling 46s to 525; best 545; old wheat 52s to 565; barley 27s to 335; oats 18s to 225; beans 38s to 465. BELFAST, DEC. B.—Grain—The supply of grain was small to-day, and of oatmeal large. Oats and barley maintained their value, and, in a few cases, prime oats brought an advance of ld to 2d. Wheat on the contrary was 3d lower, and a dull sale. Oatmeal sold freely at esterday's quotations. P ork—Pigs are about Is lower, 47s being the extreme quotation. Monday, Dec. 11. — Grain—The supplies since Friday have been small, and prides have been well maintained. Wheat, per cwt., from 8s Gd to lOs 3d ; barley, 5s 6d to 7s ; oats 5s to 6s 3d ; and oatmeal, 9s 6d to lOs Bd. Indian corn sells at about former rates, say 7/15s to 81 5s per ton. Pork is in moderate supply, and sells at 40s to 47s per 120 lbs. EAST LINTON, DEC. 11.—In to-day's market the supplies were larger than they have been for some time past, and everything sold. Top of wheat, 545, weighing 64 lb per bushel „ Barley, 33s 6d 59 ditto ~ Oats 22s 45 ditto Old Beans 34s 651 ditto New ditto 28s 64 ditto AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat ... 2/ 108 5i Oats ... 1/ Os 8 Barley.,. 11 12s 2k I Beans ... 11 lls 6 COAL MARKS' Buddle's W. Hartley 14s 9d Chester Main lss 3d Dean's Primrose Ilasting's Hartley l4s 9d Ravensworth's Pelaw l4s 3d South Pontop Walker's Primrose Wall's End, &c Acorn Close Brown's lss Od Framwell Gate ..... 16s 6d Peareth South Killingworth ;T.—YESTERDAY. I Lambton Primrose l7s Od I Lyons 179 Od Haswell lBB 3d Russell's Hetton Shotten Denison l6s 6d West Cornforth Whitworth l4s 6d DerwentwaterHartley 14s 9d Howard's W. H. Neth lss Ad Sidney's Hartley Ships at market, 97. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS BRISTOL, DEC. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market was as follove:—Great Western, Quarters, 5i dis.—Ditto, 171. Shares, 3% dis. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 13. STOCK EXCHANGII.—The share market to-day has been rather better. During the earlier part prices were firmer; before the close, however, the quotations became a shade lower, and there were sellers at the fallowing quoted prices:— East Anglian, 31. 10s. Shares, 3—Great Northern (A Shares), Deferred, 3/. 18s. 9d.—Ditto (B Shares), 3% dis.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birmingham), Quarters, 7% dis.—Ditto, 101. Preference, IA p.—London and North- Western, New Quarters, % P. — Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 10/. Preference, 9 %—Midland Stock, 79—Ditto, New Halves, 10% dis.—North Staffordshire, 6% di s .—Y or k Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 1% dis. MANCHESTER, DEC. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4, 6 3 ,4 c.—Grimsby, Old, 30% dis.—East Lanca shire, 16—North Staffordshire, OA n. dis.—West Riding Union, 5% n. dis.—Sheffield, Quarters, No. 1,8% dis.— Caledonian, Preference, 1-16 dis.—Hull and Selby, Halves, 4 8—Sheffield and Lincoln, 14 1 ,¢ c. BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE. _The Bales are—Midland, 5% p 22. North British, 31. 16 s . 3d.—S outh-Eastern and Dover, % —North Staffordshire, 61. 6s. 3d. dis. — Shrewsbury and Bir mingham, 7 3 / 4 dis. GLASGOW, DEC. 12. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The sales are—Dundee and Perth, 25 —Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 41. 19s.—Glasgow, Kil marnock, and Ayr, 5 per cent. guaranteed, 99 1 ,4—Ditto, Halves, No. 1, 4 5 4 —North British, Thirds, 8 08.—Scottish Central, 2 5 3 4—Scottish Midland Junction, 15. LUCILLV BELMONT."—The readers of works of imagination are anticipating the appearance of a new novel announced under the title of °•Lucille Belmont," concerning which, certain rumours have recently been circulated in the higher circles, pointing to a distin guished member of our political coteries as the author. It is said to be his first essay, and to be a work of singu lar interest, affording promise of as great eminence in literature as the author has already achieved in the senate.— Evening Paper. BIRTLIS. On the 12th inst., at Bagshot-park, the Lady Emily Sey mour, of a daughter. ,oa . the Bth inet., at Kensington, the wife of E. A. Bond, Esq., of a daughter. On the Bth inst., at Eastcote-house, the wife of F. H. Deane, Esq., of a son. On the 6Th inst., at Torquay, the wife o f Ed ward T. Hut ton, Esq., of Beverley, Yorkshire, of a son and heir. MARRIED. On the 7th inst., at Trinity Church, Paddington, Edwin Humby, Esq., of Windsor-terrace, Maida-hill, to Augusta, second daughter of Adolphus Pugh Johnson, of Hamilton terrace, St. John's-wood. On the 9th inst., at Hopton, DILL John Edward Lacon, Esq., o f Ormesby-house, in the county of Norfolk, aged 39. On the 9th inst., at Jolin ansum Es On the 10th inst., at S Ha t. b e an A's Anthony thonyßrowne Story, , Esq., aged 38. On the 11th inst., aged two years, Emily Jessie, daughter of J. Williams, Cialston. On the 11th inst., Mrs. Catharine Reynolds, aged 71. Oa the 11 t h inst., at the Grove, Hackney, Mrs. BannsToften, at an advanced age. On the 12th inst., at Finsbury-cir cus , H enr y Rots ) only s urviving son of Mr. H. Cundell. London: Printed and Published by MIIRDO YOUNG,.°nI No. 112, S tran d , Printer, at Whe Bari Office, No. 11 1 Strand, in the P rec i nct of the Savoy, in the cool M iddleaex. ThMidsh December-14i 184& • ceeded to• 7 4hat house, followed by the two policemer, v` ho static, tl f d themselves ,at the door. When thy got i n t o t h e pi l li)ur Arkwright drew forth a long purse, from one ei of which he took out a number of coins which looked dike sovereigns, and from the other a roll of notes reset *,bling Bank of England notes. Having made this dis p=lay of his money, he then asked com plainant if he Ives prepared to produce his 201„ when the latter said tt - tat he had a cheque on the Sailors' Home,. in We11c24.1-square, for the amount. Arkwright wantsl to get the e'rieque into his hands, but expressed wish that he bad bet , ught the cash instead of the cheque, and then c omplainant t got up as if for the purpose of going for the moneA, when he was followed closely by the' Iwo prionerg, o were taken int o cus t o dy a t the door etf the ptiblic-b use. They were quite indignant that they a•tiould be insv - erfered with. They were, .how ever, searched en the y 90t, and in their pockets were esembling sove re i gns , toge ther found a number of eoins,4 ''d amongst them were eon)* with rolls of flash notki, -tk which stopp e d paymel* notes of a Cheltenhant upwards of twenty years age.l for tri a l. The prisoners were commit-le. WORSHIP- gi.. 7 E, ET- J, s rt Breed, a n d J os eph: Owen Moran, William J ones , Barnes, who stood charged with s of •iminal assault and robbery upon a poor woman named Ant.'e Coxfield, were placed at the bar, before Mr. Haraiti: l , for final ex amination. ry the in' the up onnres exposu An 1 MIND axd of Evenir Top ItICH: Orders and co Corn Subscri tniums first tiv profits, Assure, The] awirar Half anTolllll charge Annual KUTI Age. i 20 25 30 35 40 45 50 55 TH Third ary nex `vision ol Amor Four the Ass Perso Colonies Good 11. the two A libe Loans TO ar C O The S In the C Ing palm denly ye k:ant on Proxie A N , tional capital o the half warrant: delivery tween t' Office, 1: clety in I Tria-eross. Clontnel, Galway, )ngfo re, Xoserea, Waterfoi And f the Coin after ail TURETZ, Securi tability, Addre and Con] GR, WINES c:,nsump Port fror Du. 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