The Sun. — London, England, 1849-12-21 00:00:00

8A.N.1( RETURNS. (Vrana the London Gautte of Tuesday.) tan - .1 at, pursuant to the Act seventh and e hth ca ; vap. 32, of the Average Amount lan Bank ank N of the several 83.711:3 of Liana Eag ia Circulation daring the Week ending Satur day, the Bda day of Decembn-, 1849: Average PrisvATE BA.NKS• amount. Andover Bank, A.ndover—Heath and Co 13,623 Ashford--Jercrnitt and Pomfret 9,815 Aylsham Bank, Aylaham—R. and G Copeman 4,653 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Riekford an'' , aunt Bbiaak Bank and Baldook and Biggleswada Baldock—Wells, Hap, and landsell ... 26,753 Barn ;mph) Bank, Barnstaple—Aarshall and Co 9,153 Basingstoke and Odihare Bank, Basingstoke — Seymour, Lamb, and Co • 13,662 Bedford Bank, Bedford — T. Barnard . 27,752 Bedford and Bedfordshire Bans., Bedford — Trapp, Halfhead, and Co. Bendley Bank, Bewdley—Nichols, Baker, and 12,118 Crane Bi cas ter and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Biceater — Tubb and Co. .• ••• • ... Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Attwoc is, 21,500 Spoc;ner, and Co Biruungham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming 12.805 - ham—J. L. MoPliett, and Sons ............. Illamliord Bank, Blandford—Bastard am", Oak 7.188 Boston Bank, Boston—Garat and Co ...... . Bo s ton Bank, Boston — Gee a nd Co ............. • 12,992 Bridga - iter Bank, Bridgwater—J. &J. Sealey 5,227 Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Harford, and Co. 33,259 'Broaeley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley—Messrs. Pritchard 20,431 Buakina-ham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Parrott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Stovr- Markat Bank, Bury—Oakes, Bevan ' and Co. 61. 272 Barthury Bank, Banbury—Gillett and Tawney. 27.789 fla,noury Old Bank, Banbury—Xteasrs. Cobb 30.470 City Bank, Bath—Moger and Son liedfordshire'Le-.ghton Buzzard Bank, Leighton B uzz ard—Bassett and Grant 30,869 3irininghana Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire —H. A. and W. M. Harris and Co 12,0 72 Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co 61,377 Bridport Bridport—S. and W. E. Gandy)/ Brighton Ljnlon Bank, Brighton—Hall, West and Borer Burling',on and Driffield Bank, Burlington— Har ling, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edcnands— T. and Co. Br am...a-rove Bank and Stoarbrirlge and Broms ,:.--, ye 'ink, Bromsgrove—RUff)rd, Biggs, and Co. 10,535 Caml)ri.lge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock and 2,495 Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bride—Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—l - Tama:lona and 28,170 C o Carara.rthen Bank, Carmarthen—Morris and Sons ehertsey Bank, Chertsey—lleisri. La Coste Colchester Bank, Coleheiitr—ltouncl, Green, 15,758 2,345 r. 11,1 Co. Colchester and E33OK Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and liadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro —Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little and Wood- 13,524 30.710 31,544 cock City Batik, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh, 5,343 16,157 71,644 anti Co !,:ar , liT Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Cher ‘ stow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank , Mon r-mo.th Old Bank, Nlonatcnth Bank, Brecon 13a=1;, and Ross and Herefordshire Rank, Upstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co. Derby Bank, Derby—Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co , Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Hughes, 6,671 7,773 10.648 32,593 22,103 Lo2ke, and Co Disc Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincharn, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster—Leatham, Tow. 9 ,475 10,123 and 1;o. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster— Cook and Co. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, & Co Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodge and Nor- 53,772 64,822 8,849 MSII Dorchester 01d Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorelr.tster—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster snd Co. 100,113 East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hall. and Co. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford—Sparrow, and Co. 42.552 Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co 7.4,023 Fakenham Bank, Fakenhatn—Gurneys, Birk- 39,527 19,779 beck, and Co .. . . Farringdon [yank and Bank of . \Vantage, Far rin 4,lon—Barnes and Me,iley 5,285 Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight 10,775 Fav,r;llarn Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co 5 , 147 Godalming Bank, Godahning—Mellorsh and 5,597 Tce,.3,n Grantham Bank, Grantham —liewney and King Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... 8,502 Grantham Bank, Grantharn—Hardy and C 0.... 24.598 Ha,ltings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. rter.fo:.d and Ware Bank, Hertford—S. Adams and C Hull BAitk and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull Smith, Brothers, and Co. 11-7 ini.;4lon Town and County Bank, Hunting don —Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Cc 4,520 Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hemp itead— Smi th, and Whittingstall iTonitor_ Bank, IToniton—Flood and Co. liertfor..ishire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen—Sharple• 19,740 and Co. • : e rof , ”73. Ross, and Arehenfield Bank, and Ross and ALrehenfield Bank, Fiereford—Morgan, Hoikins, a'ul Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. tp~wieh and Needham - Market Bank, Suffolk, Tiileigh Bank, Nianningtree and Nlistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— A lexanders and Co. lie,i,;sh Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, 31,100 17.625 19,65 S 57.376 and Mercer Kinston and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J - Davies and Co Kuigiiton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and Co Knaresoorough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knai7e,lborough—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, 16,213 21,702 7,355 19,614 and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—Clota and Sons., LIMP End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C 11,Lrvcy and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—`.Williams, Brown, and C Leek and Stosor&hire Bank, and Leek and 36,681 7,629 52,162 31,275 C ongleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. Lci , :ester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby... LeWeS Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and C 0.... Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green... Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co Lampeter Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very —David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle tons and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St 25,353 25,920 16,710 78,373 22,690 6,540 - Barhe Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brooklehurst and Co M.anningtree Bank,Manningtree—Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Flungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier "d'erionethshire Bank, Dolgelly —Jones and Williavns Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyums and Co :Aennaouthsbire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavonny —Baileys and Co Monmouth Old Btmk, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bulk. Chepstow Old Bank, and ltoss and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth - - Bromage and Snead Morunonthshire Nt'.vport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Sons Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, S lea.ford—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank. Newbury—Bunny and Slocock. Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond. and Son Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and Dyson Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harveys and lluilsons ............................................ Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich —Gur ney, and Birk'vel; Noti in, 2:,..11.111 and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co Nl;u , aton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddook and Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and Co New Snrtam Bank, Sarum Everett, and 22,0C3 (Jo 10.739 27,959 Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co. 0 4 wwit r y Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os weqtcf. Droxon and Co Oxford'yank, Oxford—J. and K. Morrell Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, and Co . . Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge ftnci Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge 'Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge— leeching and S&as ** •• ••• 000000000 Oxfordshire Witney Bao, Witney--Olinek end Co ... 12.293 8,205 8,455 TII.E SUN, Average Amoun t Pease a Old Bank, Hull, t he Hull Old Bank and Bevarley Bank, Hull—l 'ease and Co 36,228 Penzance Bank, Penzance—. Outten and Co 10,047 E'eterhorowTh Bank and Otu idle Park. Peter borough—Motors. Yorke . • Peterborough Bank, Peters twough—Simpl.on and White ... lB5 Pcmorokcshire Bank, Haverfordwest--J. and W. Walters . 10,652 Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank. and 1 Truro Bank. Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven. and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Simonas and Co 24,771 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and 26,308 Co Richmond Bank, Richmond—Maxwell and Co 4,915 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood.. Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds„ and Co 3,463 Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank Roches ter—Day and Nicholson 7,551 1 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons... 10,323 Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 11,744 Rye Bank, Rye—Pomfret and Co. Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co 8,087 Ross 61d Bank, Ilerefordshiro, Ross—Pritchard and Allswzy Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd , a nd Co 11,280 Scarborough Old Bank, Gcarborough—Woodall and 22,347 Co Shrewsbury 011 Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son 3,063 Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton —Maddison and Pearce 11,975 L Southwell Bank, Suuthwell—Wylde and Co. St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story — Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie — Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury Brodie and King O ••••••-• So u thampton and liampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 1,475 Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 11,697 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. ~. 27,487 Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. 20,380 St. Alban's and Hertn Bank, St. Alban's—Gib- son and Stuart — Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 22,16 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslo%; Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns- ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S. Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co. Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Al!nett & Co. Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Greenway and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox. Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co. Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Ban', Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscorebe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, and Co. Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co WorCestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charlea Foster and 1,640 Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— Everett and Co. Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeek, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 10,395 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank. York—Swann, Clough. and Co 38,226 14,148 11,733 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 48,718 Bilston Distriat Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad- ford Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company. Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington . Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 10,314 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 17,628 Dudley and West Bromwich :Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 17,989 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com - panx,Darlington ..n ;ton East Of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 120,872 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 17,010 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 33,426 Hull Banking Company, Hull . 21,055 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha lifax Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,399 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 17,050 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,932 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster .. . 45,991 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 46,481 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,792 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 27,939 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham ... 27,549 Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilts Banking. Company, Melksham 40,840 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 61,058 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 1,856 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 33,605 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamiord Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and liallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield ... Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, Sh,fti..,A Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond ... Storey and Thomas's Banking Company Shaftesbury .. Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield Wolverhampton athlStaffordshire Banking Corn - pany, Wolverhatnpton 32,667 Wakefield and Baruiley Union Bank, Wakefield 11,185 Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven Warwick and Lewnit.gton Banking Company, Warwick West of Englana and South Wales District Bank.Brtstol ... . Wilts and Dorset Bank ing C ompany. Salisbury. 6741,575155 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, 30,492 Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester... . York Union Banking Company, York 54,565 York City and County Banking Company, York 84,057 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Inland Revenue, Somerset House, Dec. 15, 1849. 1,650 18,913 24,523 2,840 35,370 12,210 12,930 4,550 15,491 8,408 7.397 10,105 26,049 11,611 7.563 24,793 43.991 19,177 20,235 44,646 59,410 7,096 3,552 9,205 6,440 8,657 10,840 11,526 7,09 9,586 17,166 6,230 19,864 5,280 38,424 12,260 19,613 3,725 14,037 26,931 44,009 4,876 12,794 7,630 67,822 9,660 LONDON, [The following appeared ast night :—] FRANCE. The National says:—" We learn that a protest has just reached Ezris from the prisoners at Ikllesisle. We have net seen the docamt , nt, but. ,ia have hen told that the irritation exi..,ted amongst the prisoners arose from the fact of Colonel Pierre having made use of the terms repris de .1 tatice, in speaking of those who had not enjoyed the benefit of the amnesty." A letter from Elbeuf of the 18th states that the trade of that town is now more prosperous than it has ever been. All the winter articles, which are generally purchased in November, were bought up this year in October by several houses for exporta tion, and the articles for summer wear, the sale of which seldom begins until December, are now almost all sold. The Paine says—" M. Dillon, Consul of France at the Sandwich Islands, arrived some days ago in Paris. It is believed that the Government will not now delay to publish the official documents on the events which have occurred there." The Council of Discipline of the Order of .Advo cates assembled on Tuesday for three hours, to deli berate on the conduct of the counsel belonging to the bar of Paris in the trial at Versailles. Nothing has transpired as to its decision ; but it is said that, at the next meeting, M. Cremieux, M. Jules Favre, and the eight other advocates, will be sum moned before the Council, to have the result of the deliberation communicated to them. Some persons are of opinion that the return of M. Madier de Montjau, who has been to defend some prisoners tried before the Court of Assizes of the Haute Garonne, on a charge of conspiracy, will be waited for before the meeting takes place. in our Third Edition of 1 which he had received stzted that there was a growing disposition to accede to the convention. He was of opinion that it would be ratified, and he recommended them to adopt the terms.—(Hear.) By the List packet 47 '360 do!:4rs 112 - 1 been sent over, and 250,000 dollirs were in the course of recovery— whi.:h he belLved cei Lin —by .Mant Mackintosh, and Co. The funds as they arrived would be placed under the con trol of their own agents and Messrs. Facian.—(Hear.) He advised the bondholders to appoint well- paid agents in Mexico, in order that their interests might be properly attended to. In the course of a month and a half they would receive 1,500,000 dollars through the house of Messrs. Baring. Such were the arrangements he had made at Wash ington, Boston, and New York.—(Hear.) The Hon. Gentleman was much cheered at the conclusion of his address. Mr. BEACON said he was one of the committee of bondholders, and read a statement to the effect that Messrs. Schneider had refused to pay the money entrusted them to pay the dividends. Their excuse was that they had not received the whole of the balance, though the Mexican Government intimated that they had, but they would not even pay what they had in their hands.—(Hear.) After several questions and much discussion, Mr. POWLES moved " That this meeting has heard with great satisfaction. that Lord Palmerston had interfered to obtain the rights of the bondholders, in order to show that they looked to the Government." Mr. ROBERTSON observed that the cotnmunication with respect to the interference of the Home Govern ment must not be considered official. The motion was, therefore, withdrawn. Mr. LAWRENCE moved a vote of thanks to Mr. Robertson for his zeal and assiduity, and that the convention he had entered into be cordially accepted. He hoped the motion would be carried unanimously.— (Cries of " No, no.") He hoped they would do so unanimously out of respect to Mr. Robertson, and to show the Mexican Government and Lord Palmers ton that they all pulled together. This having been seconded, Mr. SAMP3ON objected to their agreeing to the convention, as the next packet might bring its rejec tion, in which case they could stand upon their original terms. He moved as an amendment that a cordial rote of thanks be passed to Mr. Robertson, and that the meeting be adjourned until the decision of the Congress had been ascertained; which was seconded Ultimately a cordial vote of thanks was passed to Mr. Robertson, and the latter part of Mr. Sampson's amendment was agreed to. The meeting was then adjourned until the news of the ratification or rejection of the convention reaches this country. BANK OF AUSTRALASIA. A half-yearly meeting of the proprietors of the Bank of Australasia was held yesterday, at the c s of the corporation, Austin-friars, Oliver Farrer, Esq., in the chair. The attendance of proprietors was rather numerous. The advertisement convening the meeting having been read, The SECRIITA.RT read the following report : " The directors, in accordance with the precedent established for the past two years, submit to the present meeting the following brief statement of the affairs of the Bank. The banking operations of the corporation have proceeded steadily, and the directors believe that few, if any, had debts have been incurred during the half-year. The realization of the proper ties held by the Bank continues to engage the anxious attention of the directors, but they regret that AO advantageous opportunity has yet offered itself for the accomplishment of so desirable an object, occasioned, among other causes, by the continued depression in 1 the value of stock, and the large quantity expected to be forced upon the market. The commercial and agricultural affairs of the colonies still hold out the prospects of improvement noticed in the last report; at the same time it must be borne in mind that the boneficiel influences of the advance in the price of wool in this country, and of emigration, had not pro duced any very sensible effect at the date of the last advices. The directors have pleasure in stating that the subject of steam communication between this country and the colonies has been taken up by the Government, who have invited tenders for contracts for that purpose; and it is confidently expected that that most important object will soon be carried into effect. The liquidation of the debt due from the Bank of Australia has not progressed so satisfactorily as the directors had anticipated; at the same tin.e they see no reason to doubt the ultimate recovery of the whole claim. They have felt it their duty to take legal proceedings against some of the shareholders in England who have not thought proper to avail themselves of, the offers repeatedly made to them, of coming to terms of compromise; and the instruc• ions they have given to their super intendent, must, they expect, lead to an early settle ment of the debt. The sum received, amounts, in England, up to this time, to 56,2351., and at Sydney, up to the date of the last return, to 69,2371., making together 125,4721. In accordance with the wishes expressed by the proprietors at the last yearly meet ing, the opinion of counsel has been taken relative to the appointment of auditors, and the case, with the opinion, will now be read to this meeting." The case for the opinion of counsel, which was next read, stated that at the last public annual meeting of the proprietors a resolution was proposed that the directors should call a special general meeting of the proprietors for the purpose of appointing auditors, provided it should not be inconsistent with the deed of settlement. This resolution was negatived, but another to the following effect was passed ; that it was the opinion of the meeting that the auditors of the bank accounts should be appointed by the proprietors. Upon this the opinion of counsel was requested—viz., whether, under the deed of set tlement, the auditors could be appointed by the pro prietors ; and if so, what qualification such officers should have 1 Counsel stated, in reply to these questions, that they were of opi nion, according to the present constitution of the company, that the appointment of auditors would not only be unauthorised, but even repugnant to some of the express provisions and general policy of the deed of settlement; and therefore thought that auditors could not be appointed without some express alteration in the constitution of the company, which might be made, under the 27th section, at a general meeting of the proprietors. The CHAIRMAN said it now became his duty to make a few observations on the different topics con tained in the report. They were all aware that this meeting was called fur general purposes—at which no accounts were submitted, and was in fact, and in short, a meeting for pleasant conversation between the directors and proprietors. The report stated that the past banking operations of the corpora tion had proceeded steadily, and that the directors believed that no bad debts had been ' incurred during the past half-year; and he would merely simply state with respect to this paragraph that at some of the branches the business bad in• creased considerably, whilst at others it had remained stationary, but at no one place had the business materially diminished. At the Sydney branch, which was the most important, the business had not extended as much as the magnitude of the place might lead the proprietors to expect, but this was owing to the money due from the Bank of Australia not having been paid. With respect to Launceston the business was comparatively small for the same reason. The business at Port Philip had been very satisfactory. At Hobart Tow❑ it was nearly similar to what it was at the last meet• iag, and was not worse in any respect. At Port Adelaide the business had gone on very rapidly ; indeed he might almost say that he feared it had gone too much a-head—(Hear, hear)—for there was some anxiety with respect to one or two accounts, which, however, the directors had positively ordered to be reduced, and he had the satisfation of stating that Mr. Hatherton had been over there and reported fully on those accounts, and he did not anticipate any loss upon them. But from the great distance at which the business was carried on—a year being nearly required before any communication could pass between the directors and the branches—it was an impossibility to have their orders carried out as if their stations were near at hand. There were influences also acting upon the managers, which in some cases they had strength of mini or power to resist, and those influences were strengthened by the want of a more ready intercommunication with the directors ; but, upon the whole, the business had been satisfactory. As to the realisation of their properties, they would hardly be surprised to hear that they had not been able to do much, because they were perfectly well aware that though during the last nine months the price of staple commodities of Australasia had very much increased in value in this country, yet what took place here was not felt in the colonies until after the lapse of a considerable time; and, therefore, to have forced their properties on the market at a time when large properties belonging to other concerns were expected to have been brought to sal would, in point of fact, have been an absolute sacrifice of the property of the bank. An instance was mentioned the other day where sheep were sold at something like 91 each and their wool only at Is. a head. It was apparent then that before they disposed of any property they should wait until this great influx was taken off the market. lie hoped and expected that the price of wool would in crease 40 or 50 per cent. in the course of the year, and the proprietors might rest assured that the directors would take advantage of the market at the first fa vourable opportunity. He fully expected and antici• pated that the improvement which had gone on in the price of wool and emigration would tend materially to promote the prosperity of these colonies. Steam navigation was very probably about to be established between this country and Australasia, and if so established, they might be assured that a most mate- HUNGARY. On the 2d inst. the Octroyee Constitution was pro claimed at Presburgh, after a somewhat extraordinary fashion. A pulpit was erected for the occasion, from which a priest read the whole of the Constitution, and afterwards preached a lengthy sermon on the duty of passive obedience to the Emperor. The city of Presburgh has been declared a German city, and the use of the Magyar language in it is consequently forbidden. The Valaques who assisted the Austrians against the Magyars have, since their return to Transylvania, commenced a general massacre of the landed pro prietors, and a seizure of their lands. This anti-rent movement meets with the encouragement of the Austrian Government. An account of the trial of Aulick before the Council of War has been published. His defence was noble. It was in these words :—" I swore to the Emperor Ferdinand V. that I would remain faithful to the Constitution of April, 1848, and I am not accustomed to violate my oaths. The ulterior acts of which you accuse me are merely a logical eansequence of what I have just stated. I have not another word to add." SAXON Y. In the Saxon Chamber of Deputies, on the 14th, the Minister Zichinsky said that a Bill on the aboli tion of the penalty of death would probably be pre sented in the course of the session. A deputy com plained that this answer was not satisfactory, and said that he would bring forward the matter on a future occasion, as the German Constitution completely abolished the penalty of death. ITALY. The Paris Pairie bas the following from Rome dated the 11th :—" The French troops which are here are about to leave for France, and will be replaced by others. All this is in accord with the Pope, who, I can affirm, will soon return to the Vatican. The decision is of very recent date. The retirement of General Ros tolan, and the appointment of General Baraguay d'Hilliers invested at the same time with the mili tary command and with diplomatic functions, had alarmed the Sacred College arid the Pope himself. The first interview of General Baraguily d'Hilliers with his Highness was not a pleasant one. The Pope said he was pleased with Portici, and wished to remain. He passed a warm eulogiura on M. de Corcelles, and talked of the services rendered to order and security by General Rostolan, and the conference terminated with the Pope's saying that he would be happy to see General Baraguay d'Hil liers at Rome, but at a later period. The General, who is rather susceptible, did not con ceal his disappointment at this reception. The diplomatists, however, endeavoured to remove this want of good intelligence by their effarts with the General on the one hand and the Pope on the other, and they succeeded. 'the General had another in terview, and a frank explanation ensued. His High ness told the General that a few days before he had been solicited to visit Bologna before going to Rome, but, as he thought this would be displeasing to his good friends, he declined the invitation. He said that, anxious as he was to be among his taithful people in the Legation:, be would quit Portia only to go Rome. Ile added, ' From what has been re lated to me by Cardinal Castruccio Castracane, and which agrees with other information in letters from Cardinal Mai, better sentiments are taking possession of the public mind ; faith revives, and the churches are filled. The moment is therefore favourable. I could have wished not to return until the loan had been concluded. That woul I have per mitted me to adopt some financial measures, of which my poor people have great need; but money matters never advance fast enough, and if they are delayed much longer, I shall not wait, perhaps, for their com pletion, tor if Rome wants me, my heart yearns for Rome.' This paternal language delighted the General, who is now full of hope.' MEXICAN BONDHOLDERS. A meeting of the holders of Mexican bonds was held yesterday at the London Tavern ; Mr. James Capel in the chair. A considerable number of bondholders were present. The CHAIRMAN called upon Mr. Robertson to make a statement to the meeting. He said he met them with great satisfaction on his return from the mission to Mexico, with which they had entrusted him— more particularly as at one time he thought from ill health he should never again return to his native land. If, however, they were satisfied with what he had done, it would be sufficient compensation for the danger and anxieties he had encountered. Much misconcep tion had prevailed as to the nature of his mission, which he hoped before he had done to clear altogether away. He was prepared to submit to any committee they might think proper to appoint the whole of his let ters, private and others, in order that they might report on them to the bondholders. He went out to make the best bargain be could ; and, therefore, it was untrue, as he had been accused, that he bad exceeded his powers ; he went there as if he was in Mixico on his own business. He was wrecked whilst voyaging in the Forth, and lost all his papers and money. He, therefore, landed almost a stranger; he,' however, was most warmly received by Messrs. Manning and Mackintosh, their agents. His applica tions to the Mexican Government, he was told on his arrival, would be treated with a sort of derision. He found three friends who had paid the utmost attention to the claims of the bondholders—Mr. Mackintosh, Mr. Doyle (her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires), and Don Manuel Condon, a gentleman who held a number of bonds. lir. Mackintosh introduced him to the Foreign Minister. He knew that Mexico could not pay 7,000,000 of dollars then overdue, and 5 per cent. besides. He urged upon the Government the anomalous state of the funds sent to this country. He stipulated that an order should be sent to this country to remove this, and it was done. A constant change of Ministers having baffled his negotiations with the Government, M. Aranjuez, the new Finance Minister, proposed to buy up the bonds at a low price, in order to save the payment of future dividends, but he declined the offer on the part of the bondholders.—(Hear, hear.) He made a pro posal to that Minister, but he declined it, saying that he could not adopt any plan which he could not honourably carry out.—(Hear, bear.) He con cluded a convention with that Government, which had bsen published, and in which he laid down three cardinal points: —First, that 4,500,000 dollars of indemnity money should be paid ; secondly, that 3k per cent. should be received on the new revenue for ten years; and thirdly, to have the silver duties of the state set apart for the payment of the dividends. The entire revenue of Mexico amounted to 7,000,000 or 8,000,000 dollars, and the expenditure was 10,000,000 or 12,000,000. —(Laughter.) He at first suggested that new taxes should be raised, but he soon saw the imprac ticability and danger of doing so. For the difference between the 3} and 5 per cent. they had engaged to paw the bondholders, he accepted 500,000 dollars.— (Hear, hear.) The tobacco duties which had been assigned to the bondholders would soon be worth 200,000 dollars. Funds to the amount of from 1,800,000 dollars to 2,000,000 dollars were to be secured for the bondholders, and he wished the bondholders to believe that the terms would be fully kept.— (Hear, hear) Mr. Doyle, her Majesty's representative, would, he felt satisfied, see the contract fully carried out.—(Hear, hear.) The proposition or convention met with the utmost opposition in the Congress, but he believed it would be carried. An address which he issued led the people to the opinion that the convention should be ratified. He left in October, when the convention had not been completed, and at Vera Cruz he learned that Mr. Doyle had received instructions from our Govern ment to press the claims of the bondholders on the Mexican Government.—(Hear, hear.) Since his arrival he had been assured by Lord Eddisbury (Lord Palmerston being out of town) that there was every disposition on the part of the Government to obtain justice to the bondholders ; the Go vernment had instructed Mr. Doyle to interfere on their behalf. A recent letter FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 2J, !849 rial advantage would result to the company, because the great drawback to carrying on the bank was the length of time that elapsed before the persons guiding their branches could know the directors' or k ier, .nd carry them out. If the neriol constrncd by the voyß;4o was redth:ed to hair, the dissylvan • tzigN , thFy were under would consccitly be riLn - , , t-d in proportion, and he might say that he had ever felt it to be next to impossible to direct any establishment well and satisfactorily at such a distant !.art of the worbl. He had no hesitation in saying that the debt due from the Bank of Australia had not been paid off as they anticipated; the colonists had not made those exertions which they had a right to expect, consider ing the forbearance that the directors had shown to them, and he must now state that this forbear• ante would have a limit. Piero was no reason whatever to doubt the recovery of the whole, aryl he trusted that the consummation of a settlement was nearer than they were at present aware of. The debt amounted originally to 220,0001, but upwards of 125,000/. had been pa:4l, so that 95,0001., including interest, had only to be received. They had bet-n compelled, although reluctantly, to commence six or seven actions against some of the batik proprietors in this country, and, though they would be attended with considerable expense and delay, he had no doubt about their being successful. With respect to the auditors, he had to state that if the proprietors really wished to have them appointed, r.r2d sent in a requisition as required by th:. Wed of settlement, the directors would throw no impediment in the way of submitting it to the proprietors at large.—(Hear, hear.) A long and desultory discusion then followed as to the propriety of having auditors, which resulted in a proposition by Mr. Sergeant Gazelee, us the effect that, under the charter, the directors should be re quired to apply either to the Secretary of State for the Colonies, or to the Commissioners of the ',Crea sury, for the appointment of some competent person ' to inspect art.d examine the accounts of the bank, upon which the two last reports were founded. The motion was ultimately withdrawn, 'and the meeting separated with a vote of thanks to the chair man. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—Yuric, Dec. 19. CROWN COLTRT.—(Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.) Samuel Ilansoa, aged 17, was charged with a mis demeanour at common law, for having, on the Bth day of September last, unlawfully administered to Mary Warburton a quantity of Spanish flies, with intent to injure ber, the said Mary Warburton. The indictment likewise charged the prisoner with a common assault. Mr. Overend and Mr. Pierce conducted the prose cution ; Mr. Blanchard defended the prisoner. It appeared that the• prisoner resided with his mother, who keeps cows, about half a mile from the prosecutrix, who was accustomed to go and visit the prisoner's mother. The prisoner had promised the prosecutrix and some other girls some rum, and on the Bth of September they asked the prisoner for it, and he went and fetched a bottle, which he said was rum. He gave the bottle to the girls, and they took it home and drank it, the consequence of which was that they became very drunk. It appeared that the prisoner had purchased some Spanish flies at a chemist's in Huddersfield, saying that he wanted to make a mixture for killing rats. It was urged on behalf' of the prisoner that the offence charged was not a misdemeanour at common law, nor was it an assault. For the Crown it was contended, first, that it was an offence at common law to administer anything deleterious to another, w hatever be the motive, and cited Dixon's case, 3 Made and Selwyn, p. 10; Rex v. Button," 8 C. and P. ; " RPgina v. Walken den and others," 1 Cox's Criminal Cases ; ani Russell on Crimes, 674, 752. Secondly, that fraud was equivalent to force, and that as the prosecutrix would not have taken the Spanish flies without fraud, it amounted to an assault. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS, after consulting Mr. Jus tice Cresswell, said that " Rex v. Button" could not be sustained, and that the charge did not constitute a misdemeanour at common law, or an assault. Verdict, " Not Guilty." Robert Young was charged with the wilful murder of his brother, George Young, on the 17th of July last. Mr. Otta conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Overend and Mr. Dearsley defended the prisoner. It ppeared that the prisoner and the deceased lived at a farm near Thearn, about five miles froth Beverley, in the East Riding ; and on the morning of the day in question they went out together with some horses for the purpose of ploughing, the prisoner carrying an axe and some wedges. Shortly afterwards, when they were in a clover field, a joiner, named Macon, who was at work in his shop close by, heard a groaning in the field, and a voice say, " Lord have mercy upon me." On going to the place he found the deceased lying on the ground, with a frightful wound in the head, and the prisoner standing ner.r with the horses. The axe was not far from where the deceased lay, and had blood and hair upon it. Ile said to the prisoner, " Robert, what have you been doing ?" upon which the prisoner only made a sort of laugh. Assistance was then procured, and the deceased was carried on a door to his own house. The prisoner took no notice of what was going on, but took the horses to the stable, and then took a bill hook and went and slashed the hedge. Ile went into dinner at one o'clock, and ate a very hearty dinner. The police having come he was taken into custody, and when the person in whose custody he was asked him if ha would like to shake hands with his brother, who was not then dead, the prisoner laughed. and said " No." He was then taken to the House of Correc tion at Beverley, and then he seemed to be under the impression that he was brought there for not plough ing straight. Several relatives of the prisoner proved that he was out of his mind seven years ago, after an election at Beverley, where he was a voter, and Mr. Anderson, the surgeon to York Castle, stated that, in his opinion, the prisoner was perfectly insane. His Loansufp asked the jury whether they could convict atter that evidence ? Verdict—Not Guilty, on the ground of insanity. William Cartwright, John Glossop, Daniel Wilkins, Thomas Ratelffe,George Pickering, Cornelius Milner, John Curdy, and William Windle, were charged under the 3d Geo. IV., c. 95, s. 3, with having at Sheffield, on the 11th July, molested Joseph Snape and Wil Liam Snape in their trade and business, and forcing them to contribute to a trades' union. Mr. Overend and Mr. Johnstone canducted the prosecution ; Mr. Heaton defended the prisoners. It appeared that, on the 11th of July, there existed a trades' union at Sheffield, " The Table-blade Grinders' Union," a meeting of which union had been advertised to take place at two o'clock. On the morning of that day the prisoners at the bar went to several of the wheels in Sheffield, for the purpose of forcing the workmen to contribute their arrears and subscriptions, and to make them attend the meeting. The prisoners Wilkins, Glossop, and Ratcliffe., went early to the Washington wheel, where they obtained money from some of the workmen. About 11 o'clock all the prisoners, with others, went to the Bee-hive wheel, where'they asked a man named Mills to leave off work and attend the meeting ; he refused, saying that he had two dozen blades to grin 1. but they threw his bands off, which prevented the machinery front turning the stones. At twelve o'clock all the pri soners, with forty or fifty other men, armed with sticks, went to the 1 - lorobin's wheel, at Red where the two Snipes worked. They were told they must attend the meeting, and were threatened if they did not attend. They again said they would not attend ; and after the prisoners and the rest had gone away the Shapes collected some of their friends to protect them. At half-past two some of the onsorters and a large party of men again went to Horobio's wheel, and again demanded that the two Snipes should leave off work. Joseph Snape said that he wanted to go on, and that he would not go with them. They then stopped his work, by taking off his band, which a lad put on again. The prisoner Curdy then took off the band again, and struck Joseph Swipe a violent blow on the mouth, which made it bleed, and knocked him down amongst the machinery, but fortunately, in falling, he broke the band, so that the machinery stopped. Other men came into the wheel, and then went away. The object of the outrage was to compel those who had ceased to subscribe to the union to do so, and likewise to force others to contribute and become subscribers. It appearing that the union had been dissolved, his LORDSHIP, at the close of the examination of the third witness, said that he thought the prosecutor should forgive the injury to his person, that the pri soners should plead guilty, and acknowledge that they had broken the law, and should enter into their own reccgnisances to come up and receive the judgment of the Court when called upon, and to be of good beha viour in the meantime. The prisoner) having done so were discharged. (Before Mr. Justice CRESSWELL.) Henry Fenwick was charged with having, rit Hull, on the 3d of May last, uttered a forged bill of Ex change for 121., well knowing it to be a forgery. Mr. Archbold prosecut€d ; the prisoner had no counsel. The prisoner, it appeared, was a plumber and glazier, living at Hull, and in April last he bought a quantity of lead from Mr. Turpin, of Hull, the price of which was 181. 133. 6d. The prisoner paid 101. on account, and agreed to par the balance in a month. Failing in that, Mr. Turpin applied to him for payment, and was told that if he would receive in payment a bill of exchange for 121., drawn o'i "John Anderson, of Kirton, near Brigg, plumber and glazier," the prosecutor could pay the balance. Mr. Turpin having made inquiries of a referee in Hull, named by the Prisoner, took the bill in payment, giving 31. 65. 6d. in change. When the bill arrived at maturity it was dishonoured, and it was then discovered that there was no such person as John Anderson, of Kirton, near Brigg, and that moreover the signature was in the prisoner's handwriting. His Loßosntr, in summing up, told the jury that to sg - n male of a non•exinting pertqn to a bill of el:C‘st , :;‘e was 5 forg, , ,ry ; rind th , a it the prLoner uttero:..; such a bill, 'Knowing that the signature was not that of the person whose signature it purported to he, he committed the felony with which he was charged. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. He was then tried on another charge of uttering a forged bill of exchange, drawn on his father-in-law, who lives at Selby, and also found Guilty. His LORDSHIP sentenced him to be imprisoned one month on the first charge, and to he transported seven years on the second. POLICE INTELLIGENCE MAI?3' LEBOA E. Charlotte Taylor, cook to Mr. John Churchill. a medical publisher, ri,iding at No. 1, St, Petersburg pl ace,B s water, arid John Taylor, her son, a boy about fourteen years of age, were brought before the sitting magistrate, Mr. Long, charged under the following circumstances : Police- serge.int 27 D deposed that on the preceding evening, as he was on duty near Mr. Churchill's dwelling, he met the boy carrying on his shoulders a heavy ;%undle, and on stopping him and asking what it contained, he replied, "only some dirty clothes and broken victuals." Witness examined it, and found therein two half quertern loaves, some cooked and uncoola d mutton, and some bacon, butter, can dles, and other articles. He repaired to the prose cutor's house, which was pointed out to him by the boy, whom he took with him, and on ringing the bell the female prisoner opened the door to him ; he questioned her as to whether she had given the property to the boy, when she replied that she had not, but she supposed he must have got it at a house lower down. Witness was then taking the boy to the station, when the female ran after him and said, " The boy is my own child, I gave him the vietuals to carry home, and I hope you will overlook it, as he has no father." Both the prisoners were then conveyed to the station-house and locked up. The female prisoner, in answer to the charge, said, that she bought the bread herself, and that the drip ping was one of her perquisites. Mr. Churchill had no doubt whatever as to the whole of the articles produced being his. The wages of his cook were 161. per year, and there could there fore be no excuse on the score of poverty for robbing him. He, however, did not wish to press severely against her, and he should prefer the case being dealt with summarily to its going before a jury. Mr. LONG told him that in such a matter he could not comply with his request. He should discharge the boy, but the mother must be committed for trial. She was then locked up. SOUTHWARK. Thomas Chaffey and Thomas Seaman, two well dressed young men, were yesterday, at Southwark Police-court, brought before Mr. Seeker, charged with stealing 201. from the person of James Ilsley, landlord of the Rose and Crown, Drury-lane. The complainant stated that on the preceding night he went into the Strand Hotel and Tavern, near Catherine. street, and while standing at the bar the two prisoners walked into the house, and after some little time they entered into conversation. At length complainant mentioned that he wanted to go over the water, and he called a cab, and as the prisoners - said they were going in the same direction he invited them into the vehicle, and when they got to the Surrey Coffee house, in Blackfi iars-road, they all alighted and went into the house and partook of some coffee. As he had no small change about him, he took from his pocket a 10/. and Si. Bank of England notes, in which were wrapped up four sovereigns and two half sovereigns, and opening the notes in order to get change of one of the half-sovereigns to pay for the refreshment, Chaffey snatched the whole of the money out of his hands. He (complainant) immediately started up and demanded the restitution of his notes and gold, and was in the act of seizing Chaffey when the latter passed the money into the hands of his fellow-prisoner, at the same time insisting that be (complainant) had lent it to him, and that he should repay him on another occasion. Complainant, know ing the falsehood of the prisoner's assertion, again demanded the return of his money, but was only laughed at, and as the prisoners were about to quit the room, he called a policeman and gave them into custody, Chaffey for robbing him of 201., and his associate for receiving the money, knowing it to have been stolen. The complainant added that he was present when the prisoners were searched, upon which occasion Chaffey returned him the Si. note, and the remainder of the 20/, together with other moneys, was found in the other prisoner's possession. In reply to Mr. Seeker, complainant said that he was perfectly sober et the time ; that he had pre viously seen Chaffey on two or three occasions at his house in Drury-lane. When he (complainant) de manded his money after it was snatched out of his hands in the way described, Chaffey began to abuse him, using the most scurrilous language. Chaffey had no claim whatever upon him, for he was a person that he knew very little about ; and that he would not lend him a shilling, much less 201. Policeman Rornayne, 3S 1., stated that about a quarter be.'ore ten o'clock on the preceding night, while on duty in Blackfriars-road, he was informed that a man had been robbed of a considerable sum of money in the Surrey Coffee- house. He immediately proceeded there, and found the complainant and the two prisoners in one of the boxes, when the complain ant charged the two latter with plundering him of 201., end described at the same time the circumstances under which he had been deprived of his money. The policeman insisted on searching the prisoners, and in Seaman's pockets he - found thirteen sovereigns, a ten pound note, together with five half-sovereigns, all of which money he said belonged to himself. While he (policeman) was searching Seaman, he observed Chaffey h. , nd over a five-pound note to complainant, saying, " Here it is back, but you know that you lent me the money." The other made answer and said, "You know it to be a falsehood ; you snatched all my money, and passed most part of it to your companion. The policeman aided that he subsequently took the prisoners in custody to the station house. Chaff-y, who exhibited much impatience during the statement of the case, now begged that he might be permitted to give his version of the affair. He then proceeded to describe that he had met his fellow prisoner, fur the first time in his life, on the previous night, at a public house near Drury-lane, and that their acquaintance arose from the circumstance of the young man accidentally upsetting a glass of wine on the counter. That they left the house together, and went to Mr. Short's in the Strand, where they met with the comp!aieant, with whom they had something to drink, and who afterwards invited them to take a seat in a cab over the water. That they pulled up at the Surrey Coffee-house, and while sitting there he bor rowed 10/. of the complainant, and commenced tossing for money with his fellow-prisoner, and the complain— ant joined in the play. Seaman, however, was the winner of a large sum of money from his antagonists, and complainant vexed at the circumstance, imme diately accused both of them with robbery, when the stakes that were laid were taken off the table. Complainant—l deny the truth of the assertion that I lent you a farthing, for the fact is, I would not trust you with a hint of porter. Chaffey continued—lt is useless for Mr. Ilsley to say that I am almost a stranger to him, when he knows the fact to be otherwise, and that we have been long and intimate acquaintances. Why, it was only last Tuesday we were at the docks, and afterwards went to dine together. The prisoner then asked the policeman if he did not say, when accused of the rob bery in the coffee house, that the complainant bad lent him the money. Tile policeman replied in the affirmative, but added that the complainant denied the assertion, and insisted that he had been robbed of his money. Mr. SECKER a,ked the complainant if any betting or tossing was going for ward in the coffee-house ? The complainant admitted that there was between the prisoners, but that it was all " sham," and that he diii not j tin in it, and he reiterated that he was plundered of the money precisely in the way he described. Mr. SECKER observed, that he should call upon the prisoners to enter into sureties of 201. each, to appear at that Court on the 2d of January, and that the com plainant, if he wished it, night have an opportunity of indicting them at the Sessions. The policeman was then directed to restore the whole of the money claimed by the complainant, and the remainder to he given up to the prisoners. A MtscILCULATION.-011 Tuesday a young man, named Riehards.nt, who had been paying his address , to the • daughter of Mrs. Brunston, of the Bow Br;dge Inn, Leicester, shot himself. Deceased, who w. a a house paintc.r, became acquainted with the young woman this . autumn. A few we,ks since, whilst at ag« ntle house, he stole a small picture, and though, wh, first taxed witli the theft, he treated the charge with the air of injured innocence, he ultimately confessed and gave it up. The charge was not pre:«sed, but he lost his situation, and w,s sent out of the town back to his fri,nds. A shalt time since he calm , hick to Leices ter and pitempt« d to renew the acquaintance with the young v«0111«ln. Not meetihg with the encouragement he wished, he apparently resolved to shoot himself ; though, from the mode in which his double-breasted waistcoat was arranged, and from a scarf being Itund folded up as a sort of pirl, and the pistol being very small, and loaded with shot instead of a bullet, it. is p o t:able he intended to do himself only so much harm as initOt have induced Mrs. Branston to lake him into her house out of compassion. Miscalculating the dis tance at which he should fire, the whole of the charge of small shot entered so close together as to pioduce the effeet of a buyer. An inquest was held on Friday after neon. Deceased had once been placed in a l una tic asy lum. Verdict, " Temporary insanity."—Lincoln.shire Mercury. men• THE COUNTRY MARKETS. BOSTON, DEC. 19.—Wheat, red 33s to 383, whit,3 43;; oats, 12s to 17s Od; beans, new 24s to 265, old 00s per quarter. L'iNG SUTTON.—Return sfJett, for thu wed; crtEng I)2'. 15 —.lVbe, - Lt, 326 cc,;, 4 buil:, £O2l 55 tid 10!2.1); qrs, 4 Lu.,12, 591 Ss Od 19s 71.1); beans, 15 qrs, 0 bush, 181 19 s Od (aver. 253.3 d); oats, 21 qrs, 151 Os Od (aver. 143 31,l) ; peas, 27 Vs, 351'2s (aver. 26. i.) LYNN, DEC. 18.—Wheat, 32s to 365, fine 38s to 40s; burley, 20s to 245, fine 26s to 005 per qr. ALFORD.—Averages for the week ending Dec. 17: — Wheat 35s 8-'.ld; barley 22s Old; Oats, 14s 6id per qr. SLEAFORD, DEc. 17.—Wheat, white 40s to 423 red 38s Od to 40, 0,1; new 03 to Os; barley I9s to 265; oats, 14:: 6d to 18i 6il; beans, 27s to 333 per qr. UPPINGHAM. DM 19 —Wheat 36s to 40s; barley 225 to 25; oats 15s to 23r; beans 26s to 36s per qr. Batter 9d to 10d per lb; eggs 14 tor Is. LOUTH, DEC. 19.—Wheat, red 34s to 385; wbite 42A; barly 215 t 245; eats 135 to 16s; beuns 29s to 32' per qr. ROTHERHAM, DEC. 17.—Beef, 53 6...1 to 6s, extra gull lit) GS to 6s 2d pe- stone; mutton, 4id to .51.1 per lb; stork sheep, 00s to 00, per head. DERBY, DEC. 18.—Beef made from sid 'to 61d; mutton, 5d to 6d; veal, 51 to 6d per lb; pigs, 7s 6d to 8s per score. Rough fat, 33 6d pee stone of 1410. Hides. lid per lb. CAlf•skins 2d to 31d per lb. LOUGHBOROUGH, DEC. 20 —A sh,, , L supply of wheat at to•ds.)'s kat, which was frefly taken in at Is over the l'ates of this thy week. No alteration in ',pang corn. EDINBURGH, DEC, 19.—The quantity of wheat brought forward this :day was 886 qrs, being 73 qrs more than last week. Top price the same, and 2d up on the average —lOO qrs unsold. The quantity of barley brought for ward was 1,436 qrs, being 318 qrs less than last week. Price on the top the same, and the average 4d down-- 171 qrs unsold. Of oats we had 1,274 qrs bronght forward , or 303 qrs more than last week. 'fop price 230 d, and the average 7d down-112 qrs unsold. The quantity . e. beans was 59 qrs, or 127 qrs less than last week. Pries on the top the same, and the average the same-17 qr. unsold. Top of Wheat ... 63 inn 47s Od ... Barley ... 56 lbs 25s 6d ... Oats ... 45 lbs 203 Od ... Beans: •65ilbs 30s Od EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKET, DEC. 19.—The supply of cattle this.meruing was 525, being 94 less than lila week. At the beginning of the market sales were slowly effected, at a reduction of 3d per stone, and towards the close a still greater reduction was submitted to. At the close a clearance was not effected. Top price of the best beef 7s 6d to 0.; current 6s 6i to 7s Od; middling and inferior 5s to 61 Od per Dutch stone. The supply o f sheep this morning was 2,609, being 74 less than last week. The attendance of buyers was by no mesne numerous, consequently sales were exceedingly dull. Top price of the best mutton sid per lb; current, 40 to sd; inferior, 3d to 41. A great number unsold. DUNDEE, DEC. 17.—Wheat, 40s Od to 42s Od; foreign ditto, 47s Od to 50s Od; barley, 22s Od to 23. Od; mite, 18s td to 19s Od ; peas and beans, 23. Od to 25s 6d. DUNBAR, DEC. 18.—Wheat, weighing 641b5, brought 39. 01, and prices to 30s Od ; barley , weighing 581bs, brought 23, Od, and prices to 19 ; Od ; oats, .weighing 45ilbs, brought 19s Od, gn u prices to 13s 6d; beans and peas, weighing 001bor brought 00s Od, and prices to 00s Od. Coax, DEc. 19.—Flour—First 12s6d to 13s Od ; extra 141; seconds, lls to 12, 6d ; households 9s to 10s 6d; thirds, 7s 10" per cwt. Oatmeal 9s 6d to 10s; Indian meal 61 6d to 6,9 d; wheat' meal. 9s 6d to lOsper cwt. Indian corn 125 s Od to 12716 d per too. Bran 31105 to 3/ 1256 d per ton. Hay—Farmers 8s to 375; averag e 245; dealers 35s to 98s Od; average 38. per ton. Straw_ Farm, ol 12s Od to 28s Od ; average ?5s ; dealers 005 O s i to 00. U a ; average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Whe a t en l oa f 6d t o 6i 4 2. household loaf 5d to Sid per 41b. F r e s h b u tt er , 8d " 93 per lb. Eggs —6s 6d to 6. 8d per hundred. Coals: Newport 14s; Lydney 16s ; Landore 14. ; Best No th T Culm 13s per ton. Tallow 39. Od to 00 s per o _2; Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imp er i a l ga ll on . Mer, —Beef aid to 5d ; mutton 4d t o 5d ; vea l 4d , Od ; pork 3id to 4d ; bacon 7d to 841 ; sausages 5d 1"j, lb. . Hops 81 Os per cwt. Bangor s lates 312 s 6d t o 31 55; ton. Bark—Barbary 715 s to Si 5s ; Valonia 141 t o 01 ; Fre5 C 715 x ; English 01 per ton. Fleece Wool 10s to 12s per ,ton Hemp 32/ to uO/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 18s to 191; r! ditto 24s to 26s per barrel ; Newfoundland 1.0 Os to 12 1 P" , ton. Timber—Memel, 851 per ton; deals, first quality. 18 ‘', second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 14 s to It salted 14s to 20. per cwt ; calf s ki ns 2d t o 20 per ' Potatoes, white 7jd to 941; Minions lld to 12d; Guano Peruvian, 111 10s; Ich a b oe 91 p er t on; T ar —A r ebsege 19s per barrel. R&M Y ri it vi A ICKETS LIVERPOOL. DEC. 20. STOCK Exemtsom.—The market to .day was rather better', yet without material alteration in prices. The transactior/A Were as follow. - Caledonian, Preference, 8 1 4—Londons n ; North Western, 11 l!-4 Ditto, New Quarters, lls. 3d. Midland, 46—Ditto, Halves, 22 dis.—North British, I 'l., Preference, 5 1 ,4 South-Eastern and Dover (So. , 1). 6 1 4 —South .t.tafibrdshire, 44 dis.—St. Helen's (Railway' 111:1 Canal), 16. MANCHESTER, Dac. 20. 16 STOCK EXCHANGE. --The transactions to-day were follow :—London and North-Western, Ditto, Of chester and Birmingham, Quarters (C ),.,,,,"; cashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 6 3 4 Ditto, West Rior: Union, 6 11-16 dis.— East Lancashire, Quarters, 2 15- I ° 4 Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Preference, 8— Staffordshire, 9 3 4. n. die. South-Eastern and Dover ( 9. 4), Scrip, 6 7. 16. BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 20. SIOCK Excrinfox.—There was little—approaching i° nothing—done in our sha re mar k e t t - d ay. S outh Sts'f• fordshires unexpnttclly made an advance, anal were dole at 4 , 4 4 dis. There is no doubt (for the assertion is ma d e upon unobjectionable auth o rity), t h at i n t h e course o f as hor h 0 time the directors will m a k e ano th er a t tempt to i n d u ce t -- . shareholders to lea s e th e li ne t o M r . M'L ean an d (or ) otbe% The result, of course, when it comes b e f ore th e s h are beldel will be mainly in the h an d s o f th e L on d on an d Nor!b ., 0 Western and Midland Rail wa y C om p an i es . The q uestio is, " Will those great corporati o ns use th e i r p rox ies?' YORK, DEC. 19. 0 l STOCK EXCHANGIC.—The transactions to-day were follow: Eastern Counties, 674 N or th St a ff or d s hire, 7 / 4 .. „d, North Western, Preterence, 3i g —York and North Preference, 61A. NARROW ESCAPE THR OUGH THE S AGACI TY -7 np, ,l I Doc.—On Thursday ev en i ng l as t, as M r . Ch ar les DI I I , lington was on his way home from Lydgate, he, througi: the sagacity of hie dog, narrowly escaped being pre c toted into a deep and dangerous chalk pit, near Lyug - d, lime kiln, which is within a few feet of the public rt g without any fence before it for protection. On lei lva- i f Lydgate he found that the ni g ht was ver y dark, 6 . 11 0 fearing he might lose a valuable dog which was ` ni t '. him, he took the precaution o f t yi ng hi s poc k e t 101-n 0 kerchief on its neck, for the purpose of keeping tt ne h it him, and which, no doubt, was t h e means o f saving •-• life. Having got some distance on the road, he, " Ti t light appearance on his left, supp ose d h e h a d arrive%j the turn of the road towards Ashley, and had tar A j d that way at rather a quick walki ng p ace , w h e n 113 ' i - i which he was leading suddenly refused to acceal;ite him, and forcibly attempted to pull him in the oPP, ° ",be direction on the road. O a ascer t a i n i ng t h e caus e 0, " d s reluctance to proceed, he found hi mse lf on the 01' 0 of a dangerous precipic e , fro m whi c h, h a d h e goo° lid step further, he must have inevitably f a ll en .—/3urY - Suffolk Herald. On Sunday night week a baited hook was l 1111 d of the pool at Trentham, Staffordshire, for th e punt s-. r ah catching pike, and one ha v in g t a k en t h e b a i t , a °I; gio which measured more th a n fi ve f ee t across thew 'f went to attack the fish, ard swallowed the hook: le which it was held until it wa s di scovere d on t he f°l`° ing morning. TgE A actI.MOLOGICAL SOCIETY. —We undorste this society (which, it will be remmber, d, a sserav o l three months since at Chester) will hold their 6 , 13 ° 0 4 meeting for 1850 in La ncas hi re. T hey have ele,si' James Heywood, Esq., F.R.S. &0., their P re nt, and we b e li eve t h ey w il l v i s i t both Manchester too Lliicbtter, though it i s no t y et fi xe d w hi c h o f the .0' places will have the largest share of their attenii°°' Manchester Guardian. • ass' [ADVEttTISEMENT.]—An exc e ll en t C ure of 3 , 1 , st; order in the Stomach eff e ct e d by H o ll oway ' s Pill s .—A intimate friend of the family of General Rosas, Gover n- 6 1o' the Republic of La Plata, declares that she was lately cur b , bi a disorder in the stomach, and res t ore d to per f ec t llea lt A tbg the use of this admirable re me dy. Sh e h a d con sulte d most eminent physicians in the country, but had not beef b , to obtain any relief from the complaint th a t was killing 1,44 inches until she took Holloway's Pills. John Eastman' th so an eminent merchant of Luenns Ayres, communicatu, d particularsO to Professor Holloway, in a l e tt er , dated lt,ig IS49.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor 1 1011°- Establishment, 244, Strand, London. 81R7713. ht 1 On the 15th i ns t., a t Rid ge -house, Leeds, Yoi k s hire' wife of F. W. Tetley, Esq., of a daughter. .k..„„11 edt On the 15th i ns t., at B r i g h ton, t i e w if e of 11. .*--- Esq O.. of a son. ..:il DO. n the 17th inst., at W oo l w i c h, th e w if e o f C ar l i m brigge, Royal Engineers, ot a daughter. Pr On the tell inst, the wif e o f ! r . L an k es t er , o f 0 1 - A lington-street, London, of a daughter. yo ll ' On the 19 h inst., at Lee, K en t, the wife of .5. , -- r,„,(- 1 Esq., of a son. ...• aos 0 , he !Sib ,---• o ` • - ars' Ai the !Bth inst., in Norfolk street, Park-lane, - Yarn 11, of a son. • On the 18th inst., at Chelt e nham, the wife of CaPl6l a R. Watts, of a son. On the I 9th inst., in Lower-street, Islington, 0 0 - 116 Weeion, of a son. MARRIED. On the 20th inst., at St. Michael's Church, Pi te in p i fi tlo . ,'" the Rev. J. H. Hamilton, Jame. Willis, Esq., of "clest r " hill, Burford, Oxford hire, to Jane Bray, of 7, '- terrace, ,Eaton• square. Al e%# 01 the IBth at Holton, near Oxford, the Rey'' Alinogit ander R. C. Dallas, rector of Wonston, Hants, i ° tor to s . Biscoe, eldest daughter of the Rev. T. G. Tyndale, Holton. PCP el On the 18th inst., at Strood, Kent, Wiliam Croft, sori,, Bayliatn-cottages, Camde n New-road, late depotYl o r' late of the Ordnarce, to Harriet Woollett, relict of t"" S. Woollett, ~ in R.N. $t 0,1 the I F. otii st,. at the New Synagogu`' are a Helen's, D. B. Adl er , E sq ., o f C o p en h a en, to Jan , ' daughter of J. Raphael, Esq., of Finsbury-circus. DIED , A it i l On the 18th i ns t., at Ripon, highly respecte-'3led.- lc, f Smith, Esq , surgeo a , a u th or o f th e " Ifarrowgate f;' Guide," ii:c., aged 42 lO r ' On the 16th inst., in Burlington -street, Brightol3, 0. , Slater, aged tiO. .. o ref On the 17th inst, In l'ernard-street, Russell -01 " , ri _... Campbell, Esq., aged 71. k ' O esi .T, On the 17th ins ~ at Sti r :i ngA , W a ntage, B er k S' at ir [byw ord Esq., aged elthe Oa the , 18111 inst., Benjamin Sewell, Esq., o' - 14 w ile park and Chatha-place. aged 76. t he On the 18th i ns t., at Weymouth, Eliza Cassms./01.' of E. Rogers, Esq , of Stanage-park, Radnorshire.. . , Ci mndon : Printed and Published by BIURDO " — so. of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Offif e ' t " Arend, in fin , Precinct of the Sevov,. in ti aa . 7 Middlesex, Friday, December 21, 1849. Ti cr ec ware stui nod las, Load tali false has 1 12 or Sato, lit 01 *b.l .. t Lond ot; tneo.l