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LA.W INTELLIGENCE. VICE.CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Aug. 8. VELISTON V. THE DEAN AND CHAPTER OF ROCHESTER. The following judgment has been delivered by Vice- Chancellor Wigram in the case which was argued before him for three days last week : The VICE•CHANCELLOR—At the close of the argu ments in this case, I recognised the undoubted j urisdic • tion of this Court in all cases of trust, in the sense in which that word is used in this Court in the ordinary case of trustee and cestuique trust. The first question to be determined in this case is, whether the relative positions of the defendants and of the plaintiffs are those of trustee and cestuique trust. That this is the first question to be determined is mani fest from the reasoning of the Court in all the cases, be ginning with " Phillips v. Bury," 2d Term Reports, and " Green v. Rutberforth," Ist Vesey, sen., down to and including the " Attorney-General v. Magdalen College, Oxford," 10th Beavan, 402. The answer which I feel compelled to give, after examining (I believe) every case that was cited in the argument bearing upon it, is that this is not a case of trust, in the sense above explained, bat that the Master, upon the true construction of the statutes, ought to be considered only as an officer of the cathedral church, appointed for the purpose of performing one of the duties imposed upon the cathedral church by the will of the founder. I cannot in this case, for the purpose of the question I have to determine, distinguish the position of the Master in this case from the position of the Master in the " Attorney-General v. Magdale n Colle g e, Oxford;" or from the other cases in the books in which similar ques tions have arisen between collegiate bodies and persons holding offices appointed by the founder, but which per sons have not been members of the collegiate body. I cannot, upon the construction of the statutes in this case, say that the Master is not one o f the " Ministri" spoken of in the statutes. But if the contrary of this could be maintained, I cannot discover a ground tor holding that the Master is a cestuique trust of t he cathedral church only, because he receives a stipend payable out of the common funds of the defendants, which would not equally oblige me to hold that every officer, mentioned in the statutes, to whom a living and a stipend are given, is also a cestuique trust, The case of the " Attorney-General v. Magdalen College, Oxford," is a direct authority in point, and I am satisfied with following that authority. Excluding, then, the case of trust, and assuming also, what certainly I am not disposed to question (though I give no opinion upon the point), that the removal of Mr. Whiston from the Mastership, without hearing him in his defence, was a wrong—the question is, in whom is . the jurisdiction to redress that wrong? If there be a visitor whose powers are not so circumscribed as to exclude the jurisdiction, I apprehend it is clear that the jurisdiction must be in that visitor; and that his decision upon the point is final. This is so broadly stated in all the cases since "Phillip v. Bury," that it cannot be necessary I should refer to authorities in support of it. The case of " The King v. the Bishop of Chester," Ist Blackstone, 22, shows that the rule applies as well to cathedral as to other bodies. The jurisdiction of the Court of Queen's Bench may be called in by mandamus to compel the visitor to act ; and the jurisdiction of that Court, and, in some cases, of the Court of Chancery also, may be called in by prohibition to restrain the visitor from exceeding his jurisdiction ; and where there is no visitor, or the power of the visitor is extinct or suspended (Manchester College case), or is not pleaded in proceedings for a mandamus (Bentley's case, Fortescue), the Court of Queen's Bench may be the proper Court to redress the wrong. Atten tion to these distinctions; will reconcile with the law, as I have stated it, much that was pressed upon me in ar gument by the plaintiff's counsel. In this case lam called upon to decide that the Court of Chancery has jurisdiction by bill, as matter of course, to try the mat ter in dispute between the plaintiff and the defendants. In making the inquiry whether this proposition is well founded, I need not determine whether the Bishop of Rochester is in this case the visitor, or whether, if he be the visitor, he has such an interest in the matter in dispute as to occasion, pro hac vice, a suspension of his visitorial powers, or whether the right of visitation is in the Crown, to be exercised by the Lord Chancellor upon petition, or whether the plaintiff could, by an applica tion for a prohibition, have protected himself against the continuance of the wrong of which he complains (as in the case of the Dean of York), or, lastly, whether the Court of Queen's Bench could by mandamus order the plaintiff to be restored to his office. The only question I have to determine is whether the Court of Chancery, in the exercise of its ordinary jurisdictions by bill, in a case in which no trust exists, can try the plaintiff's right to the office of schoolmaster, from which the defendants have exercised the power of excluding him. lam o; opinion that this question must be answered in the nega tive. Excluding trust, I cannot find a single authority which supports the proposition. I could, on many ac counts, have wished for the opportunity of explaining more in detail the grounds on which the above opinion has been formed ; but having come to the con clusion I have stated, I have thought it best to give the parties the earliest possible opportunity of having my judgment reviewed, if it should be thought erroneous. One other point remains to be mentioned. It was said for the plaintiff, that the Court, at all events, would preserve things in statu quo until the right should be determined by the proper tribunal. That this was not the object of the bill as originally framed is manifest. The object of the bill, at the time the argument commenced, was to obtain the judg ment and decree of this Court upon the main question, namely, the plaintiff's right to the office of schoolmaster, notwithstanding the acts complained of. The bill, as amended by consent during the argument, has made it a bill for the execution of the trust, and not a bill for the protection of property, pendente lite, which is a bill of a special character. But waiving all objection upon the ground of form, I cannot recognise the general pro position that in every case of a dispute arising about a right of office, or other legal rights, the Court of Chan cery can be called upon, as a matter of course, to prevent the claimant from being displaced until the right shall have been tried . ; and no special case for the interfer ence of the Court has been made before me. There are numerous cases even of irreparable mischief where the Court has refused to interfere between adverse claimants, where no ultimate relief could be had in this Court. I regret, therefore, being under the necessity of refusing this motion with costs. Mr. Gough, solicitor for the plaintiff; Messrs. Knight and Knight, Essex-street, for Messrs. Essell, Hayward, and Es s ell, of Rochester, solicitors for the Dean and Chapter. COURT OF BANKRUPGY, Aug. 8. (Before Mr. Commissioner lIoLROYD.) IN RE CRUICKSHANK, MELVILLE, AND STREET. The bankrupts were merchants carrying on business in Austin-friars. They applied for their certificates in May last, Mr. Lawrance appearing for the bank rupts, and Mr. Denton for Messrs. Fresbfield, the soli citors to the Bank of England, who were the petitioning creditors. His HONOUR now gave judgment. The firm of Messrs. Cruickshank, Melville, and Street was one on the list of houses whose failure was announced during the eventful time of which I have been speaking; they carried on business as East 'and West India mer chants. Messrs. Trueman and Cook, colonial brokers, were, in 1843 and 1 844 , largely u nder advances to the bankrupts ; and on the 31st of December, 1844, the debts due to Trueman and Cook amounted in round figures to 89,0001. As security for this there were from time to time deposited title-deeds and other documents relating to several plantations, ships, and properties, and undertakings by letter, in the shape of equitable charges. The total amount due to the creditors of Cruickshank and Co., on the Ist of January, 1845, was about 396,0001. But taking their debts at that time, consisting of good debts and consignments abroad, pro duce abroad, ships and shipments, and taking them at the value at which they are estimated in the capital ac count, there appears a balance in favour of the firm of about 36,0001. The bankrupts were justified in esti mating their debts and properties as good to the full extent for which they take credit in their capital account on the Ist of January, 1845. But the realisation since then, and the amount which is expected to be realised, shows a sad and ruinous loss of about 190,0001, or nearly 50 per cent. The amount of the liabilitiesin January, 1845, is I think thus accounted for. His Honour then went into a lengthened statement of the accounts of the firm. About the 7th of July, 1845, the bankrupts, by deed, assigned to Messrs. Trueman and Cook, or rather to James Farleigh and others, two of whom were clerks in Messrs. Trueman and Cook's employ, property and debts, valued at that time at 131,5101 which may be considered the greater portion of their estate, in trust to secure the payment of the debt due by the bank rupts to Messrs. Trueman and Cook, which was 89,0371. on the Ist of January, 1845. Under this deed the trustees were authorised to make advances for the purposes of the estate, and to realize it at their discre tion; and after the payment of the debt due to Messrs. Trueman and Cook, the residue was not to be held in trust for the bankrupt's other creditors. Notwithstanding this assignment, the bankrupts in their books continue to treat the property as their own. The trustees have realized the property, and the security and proceeds have been paid to Messrs. Trueman and Cook, who, since the fiat, have tendered an account, which has been adopted by the bankrupts, showing an excess of payments beyong receipts, thereby increasing their debt to 117,608/. In the memorial which the bankrupts have laid before me they say they are desirous of drawing my attention to the chief motives and reasons for making this assignment. These reasons are, the importance of carrying on effectually and continuously the cultivation of their West India property; and by the execution of assignment, sec in trust they consider that their object was secured, for benefit of all concerned, as well as of that time that and Cook, supply the as it was fully expected at meab le s p o r t opert . ies would not only eventually leave a surplus for tailapying all the claims, but would say, it was considered2loestr'Clesirable to obtain the y Trueman and Cook. and With this view, the hearty co-operation of that this was really effecter heavy demands subse quently made upon them afforded t , Plehevniodtenaneen.oucee further say that this assignment,tahmo to the pro by circular, was known to their bankers, prietors of those West India estates on e w ra ti been obliged to make such advances ; to nearly they had also stA t e lv tl E lT whole of their unsecured creditors ; an d Q t e t at .lY the in fact, all but universally known. They the assignment was not wholly a new tran saction,t but was, to a great extent, merely the putting into a formal and legal shape several equitable assign ments which had been made to them at various dates previously, for advances made to the bankrupts. They also say that neither was it an assignment of the whole of their estate and effects, but that they had other assets in hand. Notwithstanding those further explanations, I think there can be no doubt that the bulk of the bank rupt's property passed from them to Messrs. -Trueman and Cook. It is also clear that that assignment passed to Messrs Truman and Cook property on which they had no previous equitable charge. Here the bankrupts were not only following 4 mi,goko judginoll4 lA;t they THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, proceeded to carry out their views in a culpable manner, and, although success would have prevented an exami nation, the contrary allows no justification of the means. The moment the bankrupts signed that deed heir inde pendence as merchants was gone. They hearegeable w ith another breach of com mercial duty in treating the property and debts so assigned as their own, in con tinuous accounts —treating it, in fact, as if no such ass ignment had been made. The Bank o Eland was ignorant of this a ssi g nment ; the c England ircum stance came upon them by surprise. The intention of Messrs. Cruickshank and Co. in making it may have been good; this may in some measure extenuate though it cannot be an excuse to justify their n from the plain and obvious rules of duty. In business in their own name, apparently as free agents for their own account, and. although as between themselves it might be understood that no new engagements were to be entered into, still in all contracts concerning negotiable paper, as well as in all other business transactions, any one of the partners had the full power to bind the firm. The partners, by their proceedings, reciprocally gave to each other the power of acting one for the other in the partnership business, in the same manner as if no assignment had been made to Messrs. Trueman and Cook. Each of the parties was the cause of confidence or credit being reposed in the firm, in any matter in which the partnership was concerned. During that period it appears that Mr. Street, in August, 1847, without consulting his partners, took the bill for 7,8001., which was drawn by him in the name of the firm, Cruickshank, Melville, and Street, and accepted by Trueman and Cook, to the Bank of England for discount. The bill was discounted, and the amount was handed over to Trueman and Cook for the purposes of the assignment. With respect to the discount of that bill, the bankrupts say that Mr. Street, being aware how very generally it was known in the City that the firm of Cruickshank, Melville, and Co. had been for nearly two years in difficulties, and during that time been supported by Messrs. Trueman and Cook, he considered that the bill was discounted by the Bank entirely in reliance on the names of Trueman and Cook, whose credit stood very high, as is evidenced by the ; fact that, at the time of their suspension, the Bank held their acceptances to the amount of 60,0001. Judging, however, of the discount of that bill by the ordinary rules applicable to such transactions. I cannot come to any other conclusion than that the di rectors of the Bank were in reality deceived, and that the deception was as real, if not as palpable, as if the bankrupts had made a direct false representation of the state of their affairs. There is another circumstance affecting Mr. Melville and Mr. Street. I allude to the arrangement in July, 1846, for a new partnership with the son of Mr. Oddy, with the obligations of the old firm still upon them, and the more questionable fact of the assignment hanging over them. Actions which are ad judged criminal in a small trader cannot be admittedtn chant. The conjuncture s amoef seCirrtCourasterioenesmtuosbtebleessgesnoeirnalalympeerr: mitted or forbidden. So, in judging of any commercial delinquency, we must look to the general consequences, rather than to the particular ones; and these must be es timated by asking what would be the mischiefs produced by the general toleration of actions of the same sort. Applying this question to the proceedings in connexion with Trueman tind Cook, and to the discount transaction with the Bank of England, to mercantile men, the answer must be obvious. After duly weighing all the circumstances of the case, the Court feels bound to ad judge that the certificate of Mr. Street be suspended for twelve months, and those of Mr. Cruickshank and Mr. Melville respectively for six months from the date of the hearing of their application. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, Aug. 7. The business was brought to a close last night at half-past eight. This day the commission is to be opmed at Gloucester, and to-morrow business begins at ten o'clock, contrary to an ancient custom, according to which the Judges attended Divine service at the cathe dral on the morning after the commission day, and went into court at twelve o'clock. NORTH WALES CIRCIIIT.—Chester, Aug. 7. (Before Mr. Justice MAULE.) THE BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHESTER JUNC TION RAILWAY COMPANY V. FILCHER. This was au action for calls upon 130 shares held by the defendant; the defence to which was that the defen dant was a minor, and therefore not liable on his con tract. Mr. Townsend and Mr. Welsby were for the plaintiffs, and Mr. Brandt appeared for the defendant. The plaintiffs proved their case by putting in the minute-book of the company, signed by the chairman, and containing an entry of the call; also a notice to the defendant by letter, that he must pay the instal ments. The . defendant put in a transfer cer tificate of the registry of the shares in the defendant's name, which proved no more than the mere fact of re gistry, and he was unable to show, under the notices given to the other side to produce books and docu ments, that at the time when the calls were made he was a minor. The father of the defendant swore that the de fendant was born on April 7, 1827, consequently that he was not of age till April 7, 1848. The secretary of the company acknowledged that the certificate of transfer put in by defendant was in his handwriting, and that it showed that defendant was holder of shares on March 7, 1848. The Learned JUDGE directed the jury to find a ver dict for the plaintiffs for 3101. 14s. 6d., the amount of the calls, with leave to move the superior Court to enter the verdict for the defendant if the Court should be of opi nion that the defendant had sufficiently proved his case ' by the production of the certificate of registry, and 1 that the contract took place at the time of the transfer and registration, and not at the time of the making o f I ' the calls. THAMES. William For, a baker, residing at 4, Darling-place, Cambridge-road, was finally examined, charged with stealing a gold guard chain, ♦alue 51., and a silver chain value 55., the property of S9,muel Isaacs, a foreign Jew, residing at 25, Cutler. street, Houndsditch. A solicitor named Steadman appeared for the pri- soner. The prosecutor, who spoke English with considerable fluency, said that he was going with a box of bijouterie through Ratcliff-highway, about half-past three in the afternoon of Tuesday week, when he was followed by three men, one of whom, not the prisoner, came up and said, " You have something to sell." He answered in the affirmative ; on which the person who addressed him took him by the arm, and led him to the Crooked Billet public-house, saying he would purchase some thing of him. They then proceeded to the skittle-ground, when the person who first addressed him said, " I'll play with that old fellow (meaning the prisoner), for he has plenty of money, and you shall count the games." The prisoner then challenged the prosecutor to play, but he declined. The prisoner insisted that he should play; upon which the prosecutor took his box upon his shoulder and was about to leave the ground, when the prisoner seized him by the arm with one hand, and knocking his cap off with the other, whipped a gold chain off his neck. He had a silver chain in his waist coat pocket, with the swivel hanging out, which the prisoner snatched immediately after, and rolling both up together, put them in his pocket. Complainant called out, and said he would go for the police, but as he was moving up the steps for that purpose the prisoner caught him by the coat and tore it. The waiter then came as he was entering the house, and, pushing him back, said, " Don't make such a row, you rascal, and we'll make it all square," the prisoner using the same words at the time. Being a stranger, with no one to help him, complainant forced his way to the front door, and giving his box to a man in the street whom he knew, blocked up the way to prevent egress, and called loudly for the police, but no constable came for a considerable time. His cries collected a mob, who encouraged him not to let anybody pass, but ren dered him no further assistance. The prisoner came up, and said " You —, go out, and do not keep the dour." Complainant replied, " Give me my guard chain," upon which the prisoner took out the silver chain, and was goi n g to thrust it . into complainant's pocket, but the latter rejected it, saying h er m u st have his gold chain a lso. Thep .ri.soner,. however, succeeded in thrusting the silver chain into his cket. The sober then struggled with . and kicked him, but com plainant persisted, and said, " I will not let you pass until a constable comes, or you return my gold chain. also." The waiter then came up, and struck com plainant, saying, " Go from the door, you rascal, or I will punch your -- eyes out ; I will dash your --se r e . ci N th o a a t To t te he (:_ a h it o er s w at as f i o a r c l o l u r r . t, ln i g ns h t a a ma ly be o i brains out:' r n d g e r i e n d him into the dock. form Mr. Steadman—Why he is my witness; I did not know that he was a prisoner. Mr. NORTON—If I knew as much as I know at pre sent he should have been a prisoner long b e f ore now . The complainant then reiterated hi s ev id ence as re garded the waiter, Joshua Smith, who, he said, drank with Fox when they entered the skittle-ground, and was present when tho latter possessed himself of the chain. A constable (continued Isaacs) at last came up, and Fox, who was found in the skittle-ground, was given into custody of Damarel, an active officer, who searched him, but the chain was not found. He had a dummy (an imitation sovereign), closely resembling the currency in colour, weight, and ring of metal. Mr. NORTON committed both prisoners for trial, ad mitting Smith to bail, himself in 801., and two sureties of 40/. each. One of the sureties was the proprietor of the Crooked Billet. SOUTHWARK. Mary Davis and Sophia Davis, sisters, were brought before Mr. Secker, charged with being concerned in the suspected murder of a child, whose body was dis covered lying on the ground in a market-garden, near the Greenwich Railway. William Roberts, a policeman, stated that on the pre vious day, about three o'clock, while on duty in thee Anchor-lane, Bermondsey, his attention was called to a crowd assembled near the arch under the railway. On going to the spot he saw the' prisoners, and they were pointed out to him as being the parties who deposited the body of a child, suspected to have been murdered, in a garden near at hand. He immediately repaired to the place, and finding the body as described, he took the prisoners into custody. A woman aamed Smith was next called, and stated that on the previous afternoon, while out walking with her child, in passing Mr. Shepherd's garden, adjacent to the railway, she looked over the palings into the grounds, and observed:the body of a child. She ,gave immediate information of the circumstance, and marks of violence being observable on the child's neck, as if it had been squeezed to death, the prisoners, who were seen for some time previously lurking about the spot, were suspected of having deposited the body in the place where it was found. The prisoners said that they knew nothing about the affair, except what they had heard that day; that they lived together at Bermondsey; and, having gone for a walk the preceding afternoon, in passing near the railway they were beset by a mob, who charged them with the murder of a child. They denied the imputation, but their denial of it excited the crowd still more against them, and they believed they would have been roughly handled if the policeman had not interfered. They admitted that they had lounged about near Mr. Shepherd's garden, but that neither of them had been inside the palings. Mr. SECKER said that a remarkable feature in the case was that a witness bad passed the garden a short time previously to the discovery of the child, and that it was not there then, and must have been deposited about the period the prisoners were observed, as described, lurking near the spot. He (the magistrate), however, should allow the prisoners to go at large, on entering into their recognizances of 501. each, until Friday next ; and in the mean time the policeman was directed to make the most searching inquiries, in order to discover the offenders, and bring them to ustice. WILL OF PETER THE GREAT.—We perceive that this remarkable document, already published in extenso in our own columns, has been reprinted in a separate form by Mr. Kerbey and Mr. Gilbert. As indicative of the grasping policy and insatiable ambition of the Czar, the paper is deserving of study rather than of a merely passing perusal. It is the key to the rc.ystery of the Russian invasion of Hungary. IMPORTATIONS FROM IRELAND.—The collectors and comptrollers, and other principal officers of the Customs' Department at the several ports and places throughout the United Kingdom have received directions from the Commissioners to prepare and transmit to the Inspector- General of Imports and Exports, the following account with all practicable dispatch, viz., an account of the im• ports into their respective ports of each sort of corn, meal, and flour, from Ireland, in each month for the years 1846, 1847, and 1848, respectively, and of the first half of the present year; the returns to correspond with the quarterly returns o imports. FOREIGN SUGAR.—The vessel Edwin Augustus arrived in the Docks on Tuesday from the Havannah, with 2,550 boxes of foreign sugar; and the vessel Siberia art ived in the Docks on the same day from the Ha vannah, with 2,724 boxes of:foreign sugar on board. In both these cases the vessels belonged to the United States of America, which precluded the admission of the cargoes for home use under the laws of navigation at present in force. ACCIDENT AT A TELEGRAPH OFFICE.—As the youth employed in the telegraph office at Ely was in the act of working the telegraph in reply to a communica tion during the recent thunder-storm, he was knocked down by the force of the eleetric fluid acting upon the wires, but fortunately without receiving any injury be yond the momentary shock. The wires from the office communicating with the main wires were severed, and the business of the office suspended for some hours. The following have been appointed the Commis sioners to act under the Encumbered Estates Act (Ire land): —The Right Hon. John Richards, third Baron of her Majesty's Court of Exchequer in Ireland, Mounti• ford Longfield, Esq., Q.C. and LL.D., and C. J. Har greave, Esq., conveyancer, of 69, Chancery-lane. Baron Richards will have 1,5004 per annum, instead of 3,000 t, remaining on the bench. A CANINE PATRON Or RAILW AY . TRAVELLING.— A terrier dog, belonging to Mr. Hodgkinsen, spirit merchant, of Matlock, Bath, having been accustomed to travel with his owner by rail from the latter named place to Matlock-bridge station, took it into his head to start railway traveller on his own account. Now, master " Spot" had a little acquaintance of his own species near the bridge—a sweetheart, if the truth must be confessed —to whom he was accustomed to pay frequent visits, and finding walking, or rather running, somewhat fatiguing, he adopted rail travelling by preference, and has gone by himself, sometimes once a day from one station to the other, invariably coming back by the return train, and never once making a mistake by taking the express train, which does not stop at Matlock-bridge station.—Derby Mercury. THE HARvEsT.—The active operations of the har vest very generally commenced in this county yesterday, fields here and there having been cut in the course of the past week, and before Saturday night, should the wea ther continue fine, a large breadth will have fallen before the scythe and the sickle. The reports which reach us are that the crops are generally heavy, and though par tially beaten down by the occasional storms of the last fortnight, we do not hear a murmur of any serious da mage, beyond that done by the hail, in one district, which we have before noticed. The potatoes, too, look healthy and untouched by the disease—as far as the digging has yet gone, they come up perfectly sound, so that altogether we may calculate on a good average, in fact, an abundant harvest. Oa Saturd a y ni g ht and Sun day large bands of those labourers who usually at this seasoa temporarily emigrate from their own districts to those in which the harvest sets in earlier, entered this town, and we were glad to see that in the morning many of them attended the church and other places of worship —a fact which we hope may in a great degree be attri buted to the improved religious feeling of the labouring population, but was no doubt partly owing to that wholesome Act which closes the door of the inn and ale-house, and prevents the Sabbath morning being made a time of unholy toil to their landlord, and of weakening dissipation to his guests. Our own labourers, too, are re t n a o s w k ; n and full by P long loy ; h m th a e bit gl t eaner will soon begin the sca ttered ears that run over from the ful l band of the reaper, have been re garded as the equal rig ht of all, we are inclined to agree i employ; with a correspondent , t hat it is desirable there should be no favouritism in th e matter—that the privilege be left to freely and fairly pick the patient hroadfull.— should be widely extended, and the industry of all should Zasex Herald. FRANCE. The discussion on the affairs of Rome was brought to a close in Tuesday's sitting of the Assembly', by M. de Falloux, who declared himself in favour of the unconditional restoration of the Priestly Government in Rome. the raw material. It is well known that some of the large manufactuters laid in very heavy stocl , .s when wool was at its lowest point. MACCLESFIELD, Atm. 7.—The throwing department of the silk trade is now in a more healthy state than it has been for some length of time. When the " commis sion throwstert," are busy (which is the case at the pre sent time), it may be considered that the manufacturers, who chiefly employ them, are at least preparing against a coming demand. As yet, however, the inquiry for au tum❑ manufactured goods continues slack, and at prices which preclude any large amount of business being done. Hundreds of weavers are idle; whilst a large number of country weavers come to town for work, which they take at cheaper rates than the list of prices recently made by the local board, alluded to in our last report, to com plete which cost upwards of 1,0001., raised by levies upon the weavers. The last improvement made in throwing machinery is now very extensively shipped for Italy. . _ HUDDERSFIELD, AUG. 7.—Scarcely so much has been doing as last week, which is partly owing to consider able quantities having been purchased on speculation, in consequence of the advance in wool. Every description of cloth commands higher price. HALIFAX, AUG. 4.—Although the amount of business transacted in our Piece Hall to-day has not been so large as it has been for several weeks past, yet there is a fair amount doing, both in plain and fancy goods, to order, and in the warehouses, and the quotations are fully sustained. In yarns, the business continues good. The spinners are full of orders, and prices remain with out alteration. There is a moderate trade doing in wool. The market is well supplied, and the sales that are effected are upon rather easier terms. In short wools there is very little doing, and prices are stationary. LEEDS, Aua. 7.—We have nothing to report to-day. The brisk demand for goods still continues. The clothiers being fully employed, and there being a steady business doing in the warehouses, prices are firm and stocks light. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS CHRONICLE.—A man of genius, or even of acknowledged talent and proved integrity, is not an every-day production ; and the electors of Reading could hardly be expected to supply, on so short a notice, a new member duly qualified in all respects to replace the distinguished poet, lawyer, and orator, who has recently been elevated to the Bench. But they might surely have found a candidate of sound understanding and enlightened views, who would up hold the great principles of commercial and religious freedom, repudiate the fallacious doctrine of finality, and give his steady support to the judicious advocates of economical reform, without going out of his way th attach an undue importance to the ballot, or pre judging the momentous and embarrassing question of State Endowment for the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland. Moreover, the more sagacious and refl sting portion of them might have come to some preliminary agreement as to the best method of forwarding the wishes of the majority, instead of presenting the unseemly spectacle of divisions and dissensions, resting upon no apparent ground beyond local rivalries or personal predilections and dislikes. We by no means admit that an occasional difference on particular topics is discreditable to Liberals or Liberal Conservatives. Such diversities simply show that they are in the habit of thinking for themselves, and of acting honestly on their own matured convic tions. On the other hand, the unanimity of the more violent section of the " Country Party" is a proof that they do not (perhaps cannot) reason. The late Sir John Astley could never be made to comprehend the bearings of any new question before the House, but his vote was invariably secured by the whipper in who boldly asserted that the game-laws were in volved in the result of the expected division. Just so, the fierce and faithful few who still obey the signal of the Gallant Member for Essex are ready to follow him, at a moment's warning, on being assured that they are assisting to fetter commerce or promote bigotry, or (should even this be beyond their depth) that they are about to spite Mr. Cobden or to annoy Sir Robert Peel. Still, although this kind of unity may be unattainable by persons who seek truth, and who are not kept together by self-interest or vindic tiveness, the sensible townspeople of Reading might at least have concentrated their forces in favour of one of the more rational candidates (Mr. Bowyer or Mr. Norton, for example) ; and the consequence of their neglect or folly in this respect has been, that they have actually incurred the disgrace of being represented by a Protectionist of the white-glove and lady-killing school, who evidently adopts Lord Malmesbury as his prototype, and who presents himself on the hustings w ith a t u ft u p on hi s c hi n , i n in open defiance of Mr. Pl ace ' s we ll-k nown axiom— " it you desire to get on with the English people, you must shave clean." Yet the truth of the axiom was curiously confirmed on the nomination day. Mr. Norton, looking at Mr. Stanford, observed—" Then th ere was another young gentlem an on th e o th er side, who looked quite a genius. He bore in mind the promise that gentleman had made to the electors, a promise which could only spring from one who had an inexhaustible fountain of self-esteem. He told 1,300 electors, in a town containing a population of 30,000, that he would marry one of their daughters." Mr. Stanford hereupon exclaimed—" And ra do it Set;" an announcement which elicited peals of laughter, prolonged and heightened (adds our re porter) by some one ejaculating, in allusion to the candidate's magnificent imperial, "He must get shaved, or they won't kiss him." Mr. Norton, however, was wrong in supposing that the promise, litre Shakspere's circle in the water, was dispersed into nonentity by spreading. " A thousand naked men," says Partridge," are nothing to one pistol ; for though it is true it will kill but one at a single discharge, yet who can tell but that one may be himself ?" By analogous reasoning, a thou sand electors' daughters are too many for one candi date ; yet although it is true he can marry but one at a time, who can tell but that one may be herself ? The value of the prize, or the amount of the tempta tion, is a very different matter; but, according to Mr. Norton,. the Reading belle who is destined to become Mrs. Stanford will find her spouse's house better fur nished than his head. Mr. Stanford, said Mr. Norton, " was against the encouragement of foreign labour. Now, if the Hon. Ge n tl eman wou ld go to his own house in Foley•place, and put out of it all the furniture that was the workmanship of foreign opera tives, the Turkey carpets, the Dresden china, the various articles of vertu—if he did that, he would leave his house nearly as naked and bare as the young gentleman's own understanding." We once dwelt, at some len g th, on th e l u di crous inconsistency of the aristocratic Protectionists in this particular. They indulge in every foreign luxury ; and there are few of them who have not spent two or three years' income abroad. Yet the shopkeepers of London and the mechanics of Manchester are to be prevented from buying foreign corn, lest the landed interest should suffer in their rents I The Duke of Richmond's argument practically stands thus :—" If the people are allowed to buy Norwegian salmon and American breadstuffs, it will be impossible for me to keep a French cook, or to take a box at the Italian Opera." But the cause of free trade was most effectively advocated by Mr. Salmon, the proposer of Mr. Bowyer on this occasion. One passage of his speech was really admirable He believed it was to the fact that the rulers of England had been wise in time, that they now owed it that they were not , in the same situation as the nations of the Continent—and the greatest enemies of England were those who would re-impose fetters on commerce ; who would re-enact the corn-laws; who would subject the people of this country to the chances of a cloudy sky in August, or a drizzling rain in June; who would shut us out from the granary of the world, and would forbid the looms of Manchester and Glasgow and the forges of Shef field and Birmingham from exchanging their produce with the granaries of the Vistula and the Mississippi. Let them not suppose that these were gratuitous suppo sitions—they were the calm and deliberate views of such men as the Stanleys, the Granbys, the Richmonds, and the Herrieses of Westminster, and of their humble ad mirers in Berkshire—they were the views of men who still pursued with vituperation the character of the states man who saw the evil that was coming, and who had the courage to save his country from famine by the sa crifice of himself." A single fact mentioned by that statesman (on the 6th of last month) refutes and confounds the pre tended friends and real enemies of British indus try :—" Here is a great commercial country, exporting annually in official value 133,000,0001. worth of the produce of its industry. You have imported, during the same time, manufactured goods to the declared value of 4,722,000/." To prolong the argument in the teeth of facts like these would be a pure waste of space, time, and temper ; yet no political speculator who has marked the tenacity with which the human mind clings to antiquited error and prescriptive prejudice, will be surprised to see a Protectionist succeed at an election. Reaction, however, is a moral impossibility, when the. progressive policy consists merely in a return to natural principles. Suppose the Mandarin Premier of China were to issue a decree forbidding infant heads to be flattened and female feet to be cramped— it is highly probable that the Stanleys, Richmonds, Herrieses, Muntzes, and Sibthorps of the Celestial Empire would, for a period, prove too strong for him. He might be deprived of all his tails and buttons, or be shut up in a cage for life, minus an eye, an ear, and half his nose. But if the iron-bound shoes and the flattening boards were once laid aside, the fate of the Chinese restrictive system would be virtually sealed, and within half a century the Mar.darins would be wondering at the barb ar i sm, i nstead of reverting to the foolish practices of their prede cessors. Perhaps Mr. Disraeli, who delights in Oriental mysteries, will have the goodness to ex ! pound our parallel for the edification of his friends. al- 1 STONEHAVEN. - Our herring fishing is promising well—one of the boats on Saturday last brought ashore between 5 and 6 erans. On Monday night they did not go to sea, owing to the gloomy state of the weather; but on Tuesday night they all went to sea, and a few of the boats b:ought ashore 4 and 5 mu of excellent Ash,---xiberdecn Journal. SANE V. BROWNRIGG AND TAYLOR. This, like the last case, was an action for calls. The defendants pleaded that they were never indebted. It appeared that in this instance the defendants and on:: Gordon had a joint interest in 20 shares in this railway company. Gordon lives in Scotland, and consequently is without the jurisdiction of the Court. Mr. Welsby and Mr. Townsend conducted the case of the plaintiffs, and Mr. Beavan that of the defendants. i On behalt of the plaintiffs the register of shareholders of the company was put in, in which appeared the names of Brewnrigg, Gordon, and Taylor, as holders of twenty shares. The minute-book of the company' was next pro duced. It contained a resolution bearing date December 28t,h, 1846, and making the first call payable January 2 5th, 1847. The shares had been accepted by the de- I fendant on the sth of August, 1846. The like proof was 1 given of a second call, on the 26th of April , 1847, and of a third call on the 16th of June, - 1847. Letters to the defendant Brownrigg were put in, notifying the fact of the making of the several calls, which letters, under the " Companies Clauses Consolidation Act," are evidence of the calls, and sufficient to fix with liability the other defendant, having a joint interest, though similar letters were not addressed to him. It appeared from these letters that the third call had been made within three months of the making of the second, contrary to the express directions of the statute above referred to, so the plaintiffs were compelled to abandon their demand as regards the third call. They, however, duly proved a fourth and a fifth call. There was also a question raised whether the letter making the second call was posted 21 clear days before the call was payable? The Learned Counsel for the plaintiffs intimated that they would abandon the second call, as they could not prove the posting of the letter, making it according to the re quirements of the statute. The Learned JUDGE directed the jury to find a ver dict for the defendant, with liberty to move to enter the verdict for the plaintiff on the first and fourth and fifth calls, or for such part thereof as the judge ought to have 'irected the jury to find for him. POLICE IN TELLIGENCE. GUILDHALL. Two men, named Richard Hayes and Robert Nixon, were placed at the bar for the fourth time, under the following circumstances: — Mr. George Flintoff, of 153, Fleet-street, bookseller, said that on Thursday, the 19th July, he missed some books from his shop window, and had hand. bills printed and circulated, in consequence of which a Mr. Bumpas, of Oxford-street, sent word to say that he had purchased one of them, " Gibbon's Rome,' at the same time giving a description of the party. Witness, after some trouble, I succeeded in tracing Hayes to the White Horse public house, in Poland-street, where he, charged him with stealing the book, which he denied, saying that he bought it of a man with whom ha had dealt for two years, in Nixon.a)ublic-house. That man proved to be the prisoner 1 Several witnesses were in attendance who had pur chased books of the prisoners, and Mr. Spokes, a book seller in Holborn, and Mr. Flintoff, identified the books so sold as having been stolen from them. A rather amusing scene Rinse on a question being put to the persons baying whether they ought not to have had some suspicion when the books were offered for sale that they could not have been come by honestly, the losers of the property contending that Hayes was no buyer at sales, and therefore they should have been wide awake on the subject, while the purchasers with equal warmth said that they had known him for years in the trade, and had seen him purchase books, and from that fact they had no suspicion. Hereupon Mr. Flintoff and Mr. Spokes retorted that certainly he had now and then bought a shilling book, but he did not belong to " the family." Upon which the Court, much to the amusement of the persons present, were a little enlight ened upon the subject of book auctions or " knock ins," as they are technically termed, from which it would ap pear that the booksellers were known by the name of " the family," while such as Hayes, and persons like him , were called "lambs." When a gentleman's library was to be dis posed of an understanding was co me to between " the , family" and " the lambs, that the latter, for a con. sideration, should abstain from attending to bid while the family attended the auction, and perhaps one or two of them would bid for the whole lot, which, when knocked down, were afterwards conveyed to a public house near at hand, and a distribution " took place amongst them by sale, which was called the profit and loss," or knock ins," inasmuch as each p art y suited himself with respect to what books he wanted at this competition petlt on divided amongstamongst them, and a themselves; theeeietvaeirnpsluusm g ive or profits each "lamb," who would sometimes purchase a few books, that "the f for aa 3 i n g o a r e t re w a n o Ha • • m c Y thought beneath their notice, still persisted th a t h e p urc h a sed the "History of Rome, " st "and th e " Pi c k w i c k P apers " from Nixon, whil e h e proved against him ; but on re i b ts bn lislY denied ever ythi ng shown that he was a well-known thief, an d h a d being been transported, he con fessed that he had been a bad character, but was now an honest man. Alderman CARDEN, after?taking a B rest with the case, ultimately sentencedthera to two m ont h s ' imprisonment each, Nizcgt as the receiver. th i ef deal of pai ns and Hay" 43 the A USTIUA. The Wiener Zeitung of August 3 contains an anncuncement to the inhabitants of Austria that, in consequence of ,the thinning of the ranks of the re serve battalions by the war in Hungary, a fresh levy of troops will be made, to the extent of about fifteen recruits from every 10,000 inhabitants. The above-mentioned journal also contains the official news of the junction in Transylvania of the Russian and Austrian corps under the Generals Luders and Clam Gallas. This junction took place at Cronstadt, on the 12th and 15th of July, and on the 15th General Luders advanced with the two armies to Hermannstadt and the defiles of Rothen thurm. The latter position was first attacked and forced, in spite of the obstinate resistance of the Hungarians who defended it. Nine hundred of them were forced to fly into Wallachia, were they were disarmed. The Imperialists took three hundred pri soners and twelve pieces of artillery. On the 21st inst. General Luders took possession of Hermann stadt, after routing the three hundred Hungarians who held that place. It was _expected that General Luders would march upon Marosh Vasarkely, where General Bem has taken up a formidable position, and where the Imperialists intend to surround him. General Bern, however, has, in the course of this war, always managed to get surrounded, and when it was thought no escape was possible, he suddenly found means to foil his enemies, and to do them more harm than they could ever have hoped to do to him. The city of Csongrad, the inhabitants of which aided the Hungarians, has been sacked and burned by flaynau. A recent letter from the seat of war in Hungary describes in considerable detail the formidable auxiliaries the Magyar armies have found in the wild population scattered over the vast steppes and forests of the interior, particularly the horseherds, or tenders of the troops of wild horses of the plains, the swineherds, and fishermen. The first-named of these are especially dreaded by Austrian troops, on account of the extraordinary weapon they carry and use with deadly skill. It is simply the whip with which they select and catch any horse of the herd they wish to tame and dispose of. The ap plication of it in war is quite a novelty. It has a handle not more than two feet in length, while the thong measures from fifteen to twenty ; a leaden ball is fixed to the end of it, with smaller ones at different distances from it, like shot on a fishing line. When thrown it acts like a lasso, curling round man or horse, or it strikes either to the earth with a crushing blow. The horseherds (or Chykosz) are so skilful in the use of this weapon, that at full gallop they will strike an enemy with unerring cer tainty, on any part of the body they please. In skir mishes any isolated foot soldier, if he fires his musket andj misses, is lost before he can attempt to reload — the wild horseman rushes past, and with the sweep of his ball-loaded thong stretches him lifeless on the earth by a blow on the head. There are some thou sands of these men in the Hungarian armies, and I , they are generally m i xe d w ith the light hussars and sent against the heavy Austrian cavalry. They often strike the office rs f rom th e ir horses with incredible t dexterity. The wounds this weapon inflicts are described as frightful. Before it was known that these horseherds were serving in the Hungarian ranks a great number of Cu rassiers were brought into l'esth, wounded in a manner the military surgeons could not explain. The injury was neither a cut nor a puncture, nor a gun shot wound, and the soldiers were for a long time ashamed to own that it was caused by so ignoble a weapon as a whip. Fortunately, it can only be used where the horseman has ample space; in anything like " close order" it would be as dangerous to friends as foes. One of these men was lately taken pri soner at Wieselburg, and, probably to obtain an exact power of the knowledge of his arm, he was ordered to display his skill in the camp. A stu ff ed figure was set up, the Austrian o ffi cers pointing out the parts he was to strike while in full career. Twice he did as directed, hut the third time introduced a startling variation ; swinging his whip in a wide circle he dashed his horse at a point of the line of soldiers round the place of exercise, broke through it, and was far on his way to the open fields in an instant, untouched by" the volley of balls sent after him. These swineherds (or kanasz) are generally Servians; their weapon is a small axe, with a rather long handle, called " fokosch," and they throw it with such dexterity that at 80 or 100 paces they rarely miss a man, and the blow is almost always fatal, as the Austrian army surgeons can test ify. The fisher men are employed in constructing bridges in their own manner, on a sort of tubs, in a style which the Austrians at first ridiculed accordingly ; ibut, though rude, they were effective, and put together in a very short time, and have proved of the greatest use in the . Hungarian operations. ITALY. The following address to the Romans is at present widely circulated in Rome : "11031A.N REPUBLIC. " In the name of God and the People. " Romans,—Brutal force has overcome your city, but it has not changed or vanquished your rights. The Roman Republic lives eternal and inviolable in the suffrages of the free who proclaimed it, and in the spon taneous adhesion of the elements of the state—in the faith of the people who have prolonged our defence, and in the blood of the martyrs who fell for it under your walls. Our invaders have betrayed all their promises, God will betray them. Remain constant and firm in the faith during the short trial to which you are now ex posed, and despair not of the future. Short is the dura tion of violence, arid certain must be the triumph of a people who hope, fight, and suffer for the cause ofjustice and for that of true liberty. " You have given many proofs of military daring— give now proofs of civil courage. "By all that is sacred with you, citizens, do not yield either to base fear or stupid egotism. Make visible to the world the separation that exists between you and your betrayers. Let Rome be their camp, but not their city; and let the name of traitor to Rome be given to him who, contrary to his honour and conscience, has any dealings with the enemy. The necessities of Europe will not permit Rome to become the conquest of France or of another nation. Let their occupation have 01l the character of a conquest. Isolate the enemy, and Europe will raise its powerful voice for you. " No one can prevent the peaceable expression of your wishes. Let the public voice be constantly heard and understood. " Let the Municipality make it known that it adhered voluntary to the republican form of government and the abolition of the temporal government of the Pope, and that it will consider every government to be illegal that does not emanate directly from the people. From every district, from every provincial town, let lists ap pear of thousands of names who attest the same faith and invoke the same rights. In the streets, in the theatre, in every suitable place, let the cry be heard, Away with the government of the priests,' Freedom of vote,' and after that sole cry let there be silence. On the display of the Pontifical arms let those who swore to the Republic retire from office. Fear not, they can not imprison thousands, they cannot compel a whole people to disgrace themselves, and disgraced you will be, O Romans, if, after once having proclaimed to all Europe your determination to be free, and fought and lost the best blood amongst you to be so, you should now descend to the condition of slaves, or asscciate with your be • trayers. " Your fathers, Romans, were great—not because they knew how to conquer, but that when beaten they did not despair. " In the name of God and the people be great, as your fathers were. This day, as men, you have a world—an Italian world—in your custody. " Your National Assembly is not dissolved—it is only separated. Your Triumvirs, compelled by the force of circumstances to suspend their public action, still watch over your affairs, and will direct your conduct when the opportune moment arrives. " For the Triumvirate, " Italy, July, 18 49 . " MAZZINL" STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) MANCHESTER, Aua. 7.—Oar market has exhibited greater firmness and a more cheerful tone to-day than might have been anticipated towards the close of last week. Sellers have not only stood firmly upon their previous quotations, but have shown a disposition slightly to raise them in some things. The fact is that the contracts still held for many articles are so ample, and the existing stocks of others are geaerally so mode. rate, as greatly to sustain the resolution of producers whenever appearances become rather unfavourable, and naturally to render them susceptible of any exciting causes. Some d egree o f stimulus has been supplied by the Niagara's accounts of a probably backward crop of cotton, as a result of bad weather, and of higher prices by je. to ie. per lb. having been obtained in the States, though this was in a great degree occasioned by advices of the upward tendency of the Liverpool market. For yarns we have had a demand of a pretty general kind, yet of a very limited extent. In goods, the inquiry for print ers has rather increased, and prices are inclined to harden. 34 and 36-inch cloths go off at steady rates. The lower 40-inch shirtings are dull, 64 and 72 reeds being in a compa ra ti ve ly better position. Low jacconets are little inq u i re d a f ter . Madapollams aro steady, but quiet. There is very little doing in T's and long cloths, and scarcely any noticeable increase in the purchase of stout domestics. The highly encouraging reports of the growing crops are, however, opening a better prospect for our home trade. Advices from Tabriz represent the Persian trade as being more than ever depressed; and i those from Cor stantinople state th a t, as yet, no sensible mprovemen has taken place in that market. ROCUDALE, AUG. 6.—We have bad a brisk demand for flannels to-day, at previous prices, and most of the pieces were cleared out early in the day. Notwith standing the workmen are in full employ, and the manu facturers with very slender stocks on hand, the wool dealers complain of the very limited dfiralkLl4 there is for AUGUST 0, 1849, HEALTH OF THE METROPOLIS. • TRANSFER OF LICENCES. (From the Registrar- General's Return.) HOLBORN. It is unsatisfactory to observe that the constant (Present—JAMES WilisKlN, Esq., Chairman; THOMAS increase of mortality, which commenced in the RussELL, Esq.; HENRY POWNALL, Esq.; and R. B. second week of July, was maintained in the week ARDEN, E , ,q.) ending Saturday last. The deaths from all diseases ST. GEORGE THE MAIITYR.—The Angel and Crown, in last week were 1,967—a mortality nearly double C ll l ) o a uc t e.ter-streel, James Wiukworth to Charles Thomas the weekly average of the season, which is 1,008. I S : . r GILES IN THE FIELDS.—The Archer Newton- The progress of the total mortality is shown by the street, Mary Dennis Pilik to James Hall. dross Keys, following numbers returned in the last four weeks : Endell-street, Thomas Sutton Briggs to Williamitlenry 1,369, 1,741, 1,931, and 1,967. The deaths from Whiting Coman. Grapes, Duke-street, Frederick New cholera, which in six previous weeks were 49, 124, house to Henry Moss. Fountain, King-street, Nicholas 152, 339, 678, 783, increased in the last to 926. A O'Brien to Harriet O'Brien. Royal Oak, Great Earl feature worthy of notice in the present return is the street, Elizabeth Garden to Thomas Davies. Spread fact that while the mortality caused by cholera has Eagle, Broad-street, Richard Warner Wood to John increased, there has been simultaneously a decrease Dove Grove. reYtoorNkisihhiraee?Greryie. Great White Lion-street, in the deaths attributed to diarrhoea; for whereas Andrew GEORGE, Ha BLOOMSBURY! ST. Bedford Arms, Char the deaths from this disease (including dysentery) lotto-street, Thomas ‘Viiks to William Camp. Turk's were in four previous weeks 54, 100, 146, and 238, Head, King street, Thomas Palmer to Edwin Power. in the last week they declined to 198, an amount Yorkshire Grey, Hart-street, Alexander Cock King to which is nearly the same as in the corresponding Alexander Young. week of the summer of 1846, and little more than DucHY LIBERTY.—AngeI and Sun, Strand, Joseph that of the same week of 1848. It is shown, there- Maycock to James Moorman. fore, that the total mortality from diarrhoea, dysen- HAMPSTEAD.—White Horse, Hampstead, Jowett tery, and cholera amounts in this return to 1,124, Eastburn to Jonathan Gieen. while the average is only 92. Consequently the ex- Sr. MARGARET AND ST. JOHN, WEST cess from the three epidemi cs excee d in so me degree MINSTER. (P sent—TuomAs ArmoT Esq Chairman, and NA. the increase above the average of the mortality from \-- re riq ' • " all causes, which is owing partly to the circumstance TIIANIEL ...,oULD, Esq.) Castle, Chapel-street, Edward Wordley to John Cook. that the eaths from fractures, burns, and other in jury registered in the week were unusually few. Plou , h, -Rochester-row, to Elizabeth Cropp, widow and executrix of Thomas Cropp, the late occupier. King's Other epidemics besides those mentioned are under Arms, Strutton-ground, Henry Robert Abraham to Elias the average, with the exception of hooping-cough, Glover. Three Johns, Carteret-street, to Frances Wil which a little exceeds it. The mortality from cho- hams, the late occupier, Trevor Arms, Trevor-terrav, lera still predominates on the south side of the river, Knightsbridge, James Law to John Woods Cave. the deaths there, which in the preceding week were ST. PANCRAS. 514, rose in the last to 621. On the north side of (Present—Tuns. RUSSELL, Esq., Chairman, and the Thames the deaths in the western districts r NATHANIEL GOULD, Esq.) were 56, showing an increase; in the northern Marquis saonces of Camden,liziEbeth France Colleg e to street William Grimsdell. North, Camden 27, or nearly the same as in the former week; in the Town, s Oxford Arms,eymou:-place, Camden Town, Maria eastern 127, a slight increase ; and in the central, o Sugden (late Maria Bridge) to Benjamin James Sugden, which include St. Giles and St. George, Strand, her hu.band. Southampton Arms, Tottenham-court- Holborn, Clerkenwell, St. Luke, East London, West road, Richard Whiting to Wm. Wheeler. Roebuck, London, and City, there is a small decrease, the Tottenham-court-road, Wm. Halifax to George Young. number being 93, though in a previous return there Railway Tavern, Hampstead-road, Samuel Tipping to were 97 deaths. The greatest number in any district Samuel Pelham. Bricklayers' Arms, Gresse-street, on the north side of the river is in West London— Rithbone-place, to Henry Freeman and Joseph Salmon, namely 32. Of the southern districts there were 67 executors of Edward Freeman, the late occupier. in Bermondsey, 86 in Newington, 112 i n St. George, Builders' Arms, Comptou - street East, Henry Mathew s Southwark, and 143 in Lambeth. The deaths in to William Byrn. Hare and Hounds, Chalk Farm, Thomas eriand Thornton rm s, , 0 t t t o , na ra - c Edward o u r C t Cole a Rotherhithe are now comparatively few. The deathTritcoe. Jane Mary of a man of forty years, in Brompton, was caused Loader, widow and executrix of Thomas Loader, the by erysipelas of both legs of putrid character (after late occupier. five days' illness), caught from sleeping with a child who suffered from the disease. THE HERRING FISHING. The daily mean of the barometer was highest on Thursday, when it was 29 9G5. The mcan of the week was 29.793. The temperature was under the average of the corresponding days of seven years on every day except Thursday. The highest in the shade was on Thursday, namely, 74.5. The mean temperature of the week was 59.5. The following is the return of cases of cholera reported to the General Board of Health from the 13th day of July to the 6th of August, 1849, both inclusive : ST. MONANCE.—Last week several of our boats here have had good takes. From Tuesday until Friday the success was good, when we take into con- sideration the early stage of the fishing. On Friday one crew had 36 crans, one 29, one 26, and 20, down to half a cran. On Saturday very few were caught. The Friday's herrings were spent—a sure sign that the early shoal were about to depart. Prices have been from 225. to 10s. per cran.—Fifeshire Journal. ANSTRUTHER.—We have had a fair fishing during' the past week, considering the early period of the fishing. A considerable quantity have been cured after supplying the cadgers, but as yet the price has never been below 12s. to curers. A number of French vessels are in the offing purchasing, which has a tendency to enhance the prices during a light fish' ing. The general average for the week is 121 crans, and for the season 141 crans.—lbid. WICK, AUG. 2.—The fishing continues to be pro secuted in this district with a very encouraging de gree of success. Since our last week's report, about 16,800 crans have been landed here, or an average of twenty-one crans for each boat, bringing the entire catch of the season to about 32,800 crans, or an ave rage of forty-one crans per boat for 800 boats. This is eighteen crans more than the average at the same date last year. In fact, few, if any, remember of so large a quantity of herrings being caught in July as our fishermen have this year brought ashore in that month, or of so high an average as our boats have now reached at this date. At th larger stations on the Aberdeen shores, however, the take has been pro portionally under that of last year, while at the smaller stations, Macduff for instance, the success has been much better; but we believe the entire take on that coast is several thousands of barrels under that of 1848 up to the same period. Shipments, chiefly di rected to the Baltic, are going on pretty briskly, large number of vessels being now on their passage i + in the hope that the blockade may be off the ports 0 1 their destination ere their arrival. Most of the car' goes are intended for Stettin ; some four or five for llamburgh, and one or two to markets of less eon' sumption.—North British Mail. Attacks. Deaths. In London and vicinity, viz.:-- Lambeth .. .. Bermondsey ... ... Southwark .. .. • Newington Butts Camberwell ... .. Whitechapel ... . . Poplar .. .. ... Stepney • • ... Lhnehouse .. .. St. George's-in-the-East Shadwell ... ... Wapping , , . . liatcliff ... ~, Spitalfields ... ... Holborn Union.. .. St. Giles's .. ... Rotherhithe .. ... Deptford • • ... Greenwich ... .. Lewisham .. ... Other localities in London 1,160 630 316 ~ 337 ~. 173 ~ 166 ~ 138 .. 94 51 65 46 .. 37 ... 20 .. 26 ... 91 .. 40 .. 38 ... 98 ... 104 .. 25 .. 1,313 Total In England and Wales, viz.:— Liverpool • • ••• Merthyr Tydfil •• • Dowlais .. ••• Gloucester ... •• Cardiff ••• 90.1 Salisbury • • Nantwich ••• Portsmouth .. .. Portsea Island ... ••• Plymouth ••• ••• Mevagissy ••• Bristol ••• ••• Taibach .. ... Aberavon ••• ••• Cwmavon ... ... . Clifton Union ... ... Brighton ••• ••• Poole •.• ••• Other towns in England and Wales .. 4,968 .. 1,970 ... 405 .. 650 .. 47 .. 59 .. 81 126 2,062 .. 115 ... 443 ... 484 ... 87 ... 176 .. 65 45 29 "' 82 ... 43 ... 23 Totals . • • ... In Scotland, viz.:— Dundee ... ••• Other towns in Scotland .. 1,901 General total .. 6,831 532 42 574 ... 12,373 694 169 279 24 38 69 73 259 164 870 3,005 264 27 5,358 HOP INTELLIGENCE. BOROUGH, AUG. G.—The accounts this morning rom all quarters come decidedly worse and worse. The duty has fallen to 65,0001. Nearly all the good hops are withdrawn from sale. MAIDSTONE.—The few good grounds still continue to progress, and branches of hops have been gathered in some forward grounds, such as that of Mr. White head, of Barnjet ; but where there is one good ground there are probably a dozen bad ones, and many which promised to produce a few hops have decidedly retrograded within the last week. The burr " hangs fire," where there is any at the top of the poles, and there are scarcely any lateral shoots. Even the present duty will, we fear, go down. WATERINGBURY, MEREWORTH, TESTON, AND NETTLESTEAD.—The hops have improved only in very favoured grounds, which are very few, but many have got worse, and the mould is making rapid advances in some of the grounds. MALLING.—The main bine now looks very black. The young shoots, though green, are infested with vermin, and the burr is very weakly and slow growing. CRANBROOK.—The few fine days, with which we have been lately visited, has had the effect of improv ing those pieces of bine which have been compara tively clean, and of developing the burr ; but the bad pieces, which are far more numerous, appear to have lost all signs of improvement, save and except a few green shoots which are at the heads of the poles, and which, with a continuation of propitious weather, may perhaps produce a few hops. Opinion here is de cidedly against 80,000/. duty. GOUDHURST.—The late rain, followed by a succes sion of cold nights, together with the vermin close to the shoots, will cause about three-fourths of our plantations to be irrecoverably ruined, and the frosty nights (having had two this week) will retard those which looked a little promising, from growing to any size. In a portion of a garden the poles have been taken up and stacked. HORSMENDEN.—Our plantations have not derived the benefit from the showers that we expected they would. In many gardens the vermin is following the young shoots ; in others, that are clean, the bine does not grow away vigorously. We do not antici pate so large a crop as we did a fortnight ago. We do not think it possible for our parish to average more than from four to five cwt. an acre. COURT OF INLAND RETENUE.—Yesterday several.. spirit retailers were fined under the recent Act 11 an d 12 Vic. cap 121, and sec. 12 and 16, for neglecting to enter in their stock-books an account of spirits received, and for not cancelling the permits or certificates rece ived with the spirits. Henry Sampson, keeper of the Saloon. Bow-street, Covent-garden, was charged with retailing spirituous liquors, having no licence. After hearing th e case, Mr. Commissioner H ar t D av i s gave judginenv ,. against the defendant in the penalty of 201. IMPORTATION OF GUANO.—A vessel, named the Beethoven, belonging to Bremen, h as arr i ve d i n the ducks from South America, with a cargo of guano, which is entered to be warehoused for exportation only, being inadmissible for home use under the navigation-lov e at present in force. This is the first instance which has come under our notice of the existing laws of navige" tion being the cause of a cargo of this article being obliged to be re-exported from this country. FOR HOW LONG HAS TILE QUEEN GONE TO Ilir LAND?—We hasten to contradict an absurd rumour , that it is the intention of our Most Gracious Sole' reign to reside permanently in the Sister Island. This ridiculous report has originated from the prevalent illy pres,ion that her Majesty has gone to Ireland for goo d ' —Punch. . . _ WROTHAM.—The hops still look very black and withering. The young shoots seem quite dying away, and there is very little prospect of anything like a crop of hops this year. YALDING.—Our hops in some grounds have im proved a little since the last rains; but the others are still getting worse. BRENCHLEY AND HAWRIIIIRST.—The weather being more congenial, the hops during the last few days, in our best grounds, are doing a little better, but not to any amount. A great portion are completely gone and given up to the blight. IGHTHAM AND SEAL.---.There is no material im provement in the hops during the past week, there fore the crop must be partial and very slight. EDENBRIDGE.—We can see but little improvement, if any, since our last. The nights are too cold to curl the hops. ORPINGTON.—The hops are decidedly worse.- The burr (what little there is) is followed up so close by the lice, that it is very questionable whether it will ever come into hop, and their appearance is altogether of a lifeless character. ROLVENDEN.—The hops in some parts of the pa rish during the last few warm days and nights have made improvement. The vermin is leaving the young shoots. They are coming into burr, and if we get showers, with sun, we may grow a few in some gardens. HURSTGREEN.—Some grounds have slighly im proved since our last, while others are worse, an d get blacker. The fresh shoots that do look well do not seem thick with fruit ; taken in the aggregate they seem to have made a retrogrtd? movement.—ln one instance the poles have been taken up.—Maidstone Gazette. TUE MOORS.—Recent reports from the hills as t ° the prospects of sportsmen, though not so favourable t g they were represented in the early part of last moatu' are on the whole more cheering than for some yea% past. In the crack districts of Aberdeen and Ban ~„ shires, the birds are said to be plentif u l an d strong . h i s covies are not so numerous as expected, many inr having proved barren this year, but it is nothing uncoui mon to startle eight or ten birds, which i s f u lly an Wy e ' rage. On the Deeside moors there is an excellent prof spect—partridges everywhere well-grown and strongion__ promises better sport than for several bygone seaso n ' —Aberdeen Journal. AN INCORRIGIBLE BEGGAR.—A man who bad be e n„ employed in the ateliers nationaux was recently brong u : before the Tribunal of Correctional Police on the 'bark, of mEndtcity. " Have you ever been condeaaned before? IshouinldfatchtintlhcesoLnagnswere has bed be' an° .sa,aHpideortwfheecotfPtberoner?se,i,lefon.rt,, Always;every time I've b een caug h t, I' ve been condemned." " You have lived 40 years by beggine; " No; 39 only—as I passed the fi rst year of my life :- nu rse!" And you are d ec i ded not to work ?I Why, if I found a lucrative place with nothing to do a might not object to t a k e i t. " The tribunal condemned the fellow to three months' imprisonment. BIRMINGHAM AND STOUR VALLEY. The half' yearly meeting of the shareholders of this company Iv° to have been held at the company's offices in Birmingi ham on Tuesday; but at the hour appointed there was 11, a sufficient number of proprietors present to constitute a quorum, and the meeting consequently adjourned. -"‘ report was produced. In the course of the mornin g , s 4 - deputation from the inhabitants of Dudley, headed "/ Thomas Badger, Lq., waited upon the board of dire' tors to complain, which they did in strong terms, of °I ,: proposed aband onment o f the fork or branch line fr°7",. Oldbury to Dudl e y. If t h e directors persevere in th,eL present intentions, th e nearest station (Tipton) will Z one and a half or two mil es f rom D udley, by far 1.""; most important town in the district. Mr. J. F. Ledssir' the chairman, intimated that they were in communicatio n with the directors of the South Staffordshire Compsnli with a view of running on a portion of that line; en that the subject should also be mentioned to the dire r : tors of the London and North-Western Company, O w lessees of the Stour Valley Railway. GENERAL POST- OFFICE , A UG . I.—The pub l ic 111 . ° cautioned against retaining money orders too long 1 ; hand. By the 11th and 12th Viet., cap. 88, it is en 4 acted, " That all money orders issued before the end,,v is August, 1848, and not presented for payment before t: t , end of August, 1849, shall be null and void." And f:, a regulation made under the authority of the same o ho by the Postmaster• General, with the consent of !",„ Lords Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, e v 'ic money order issued subsequently to August 31st, lt e shall be void, unless presented for payment before 11 4 end of the twelfth calendar month after that in which was issued. Thus, a money order issued in Septet: o 7; IS4B, will lose all value, unless presented for Par lie before the end of September, 1849. BIRTHS. On Old Bo the sth 6t inst., daughter. On n r wife of Henry Folkard, Esq , of s'otfh a inst., at Belitha-villas, Bamsbury-park, t l3° wife of E. Christian, of Bloomsbury- square, of a daughter:, rt On the 6th inst., the wife of J. Bullock, Esq., of BO' bourn-house, Lark-hall-rise, of a son. On the 6th inst., Mrs. F. Gade, Islington, of a son. ee , On the 7th inst., at Doughty-street, Mecklenburgh-squat the wile of Dr. William Smiles, of a daughter. On the 7th inst., a t M ontagu-street, Portman-squa re, L o b :, wife of H. Loder, Esq., of the High Beeches, Susses, We understand that the Countess of Landsfeldt and. Mr. Heald left town on Alonday evening for the 044wat. MARRIED. On the 7th inst., at St. Mary's, Marylebone, John I ` l ° lt i ., ll ' Esq., of Glo ces t er - p l ace , Portman•square, to Elizabeth W', Glo second daughter of the late Jedediah Kerie, Esq., of caster-place. Ev;ii On the 4th inst., at St. George's, Camberwell, ia Besemeres, Esq., Old Kent-road, to Elizabeth, eldest daub ter of the late A. Ewings, Esq., of Sydenham, Ken DIED, • f eOf On the 24th ult , at Genoa, Margaret Smyth, v 4,1 Lieutenant-Celonel Thomas Fothergill, ofg Kin thorp, +°' sh re. both , On the 23d inst., at Southsea, near Portsmouth, -raiz" 110 widow of Captain George Tupman, R.N., and eldest datigrv, ter of the late A. L. Emerson, M.D., of Ulverscroft Fri° Leicestershire, - b" On the sth inst., at Rugby, Emilia Williamina -° second daughter o C. H. Forb es. Esq. st. 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