The Sun. — London, England, 1849-11-20 00:00:00

PUBLIC EXECUTIONS. TO THE EDITOR OF THE TIMES. Sir,—When I wro . e to you on Tuesday last I had a ) intention of troubling you again ; but as one of your correspondents has t )- day expressed a reason able desire that I would explain myself more clearly, and as I hope I may do no injury to the cause I would serve by statin , my views upon it a little more in detail, I shall be gI7KI to do so, if you will allow me the opportunity. My positions in reference to the demoralizing na ture of public executions are — First, that they clgfly attract as spectators the lowest, the most depraved, the most abandoned of man kind, in whom they inspire no wholesome emotions whatever. Secondly, that the public infliction of a violent death is not a salutary spectacle for any class of people ; but that it is in the nature of things that on the class by -whom it is generally witnessed it should have a de basing and hardening influence. On the first head I must appeal again to my own experience of the execution of last 'ruesday morning; to all the evidence that has ever been taken on the subject, showing that executions have been the favourite sight of convicts of all descriptions ; to the knowledge possessed by the magistracy and police of the general character of such crowds; to the police reports that are sure to follow their assemblage; to the unvarying description of them given in the news papers ; to the indisputable fact that no decent father is willing that his son, and no decent master is willing that his apprentices or servants, should mingle in them ; to the indisputable fact that all society, its dregs excepted, recoil from them as masses of abomination and brutality. (That there were not more robberies committed at this last exe cution was not the fault of the assembled thieves, whom numbers on the occasion the Home Secretary may easily learn from the Commissioners in Scotland yard, but the merit of the police, whose vigilance was beyond all praise.) On the second head, after a passing allusion to the hardening influence which familarity even with na tural death produces on coarse minds, I must again refer to my own experience. Nothing would have been a greater comfort to me—nothing would have so much relieved in my mind the unspeakable terrors of the scene, as to have been enabled to believe that any portion of the immense crowd—that any grains of sand in the vast moral desert stretching away on every side—were moved to any sentiments of fear, repent ance, pity, or natural horror by what they saw upon the drop. It was impossible to look around and rest in any such belief. With every consideration and respect for your suggestion that the concourse may have been belying their mental struggles by frantic exaggerations, 1 am confident that if you had been there beside me, seeing what I saw, and hearing what I heard, you could never have admitted the thought. Such a state of mind has its signs and tokens equally with any other, and no such signs and tokens were there. The mirth was not hysterical, the shoutings and fightings were not the efforts of a strained excitement seeking to vent itself in any relief. The whole was unmistakeably callous and bad. As the ferocious woman who was charged on the same day with threatening to murder another in the midst of the multitude, proclaiming that she had a knife about her, and would have her heart's blood, and be hanged on the same gibbet with her namesake, Mrs. Manning, whose death she had come to see—as she had her evil passions-excited to the utmost by the scene, so had all the crowd. I believe this was the whole and sole effect of what they had come to see, and I hold that no human being, not being the better for such a sight, could go away without being the worse for it. To prevent such frightful spectacles in a Christian country, and all the incalculable evils they engender, I would have the last sentence of the law executed with comparative privacy within the prison walls. 13fere I state how, let me strengthen this proposal with some words of Fielding on this subject, to whose profound knowledge of human nature you, I know, will render full justice : " The execution should be in some degree private. And hero the poets will again assist us. Foreigners have found fault with the cruelty of the Englsh drama, in re presenting frt quent murders upon the etage. In fact this is not only cruel, but highly injudicious; a murder bshind the scenes, if the poet knows how to manage it, will affect the audience with greater terror than if it was acted before their eyes. Of this we have an in stance in the murder of the king in Macbeth. Terror hatia, I believe, been carried higher by this single in stance than by all the blood which hath been spilt upon the stage. To the poets I may add the priests, whose politics have never been doubted. Those of Egypt in pat ticular, where the sacred mysteries were first devised, well knew the use of hiding from the eyes of the vulgar what they intended should inspire them with the greatest awe and dread. The mind of man is so much more capable of magnifying than his eye, that I question whether every object is not lessened by being looked upon, and this more especially when the passions are con cerned ; for those are ever apt to fancy much more satisfac tion in those objects which they affect, and much more of mischief in those which they abhor, than are really to be found in either. If executions, therefore, were so cslitrived that few could be present at them, they would be much more shocking and terrible to the crowd with out doors than at present, as well as much more dreadful to the criminals themselves." From the rnement of a murderer's being sentenced to dew h, I would dismiss him to the dread obscurity to which the wisest judge upon the bench consigned the murderer Rush. I would allow no curious visi tors to hold any communication with him; I would place every obstacle in the way of his sayings and doings being served up in print on Sunday mornings for the perusal of families. His execution within the walls of the prison should be conducted with every terrible solemnity that careful consideration could de vise. Mr. Caleraft, the hangman (of whom I have some information in reference to this last occasion), should be restrained in his unseemly briskness, in his jokes, his oaths, and his brandy. To attend the execution I would summon a jury of 24, to be called the witness jury, eight to be summoned on a low qualification, eight on a higher, eight on a higher still ; so that it might fairly represent all classes of society. There should be present, likewise, the governor of the gaol, the chaplain, the surgeon, and other officers, the sheriffs of the county or city, and two inspectors of prisons. All these should sign a grave and solemn form of certificate (the same in 1 every case) that on such a day, at such an hour, in such a gaol, for such a crime, such a murderer was hanged in their sight. There should be another cer tificate from the officers of the prison that the person hanged was that person, and no other; a third, that that person was buried. These should be posted on the prison gate for 21 days, printel in the Gazette,and exhibited in other public places; and during the hour of the body's hanging I would have the bells of all the churches in that town or city tolled, and all the shops shut up, that all might be reminded of what was being done. I submit to you that, with the law so changed, the public would (as is right) know much more of the infliction of this tremendous punishment than they know of the infliction of any other. There are not many common subjects, I think, of which they know less than transportation; and yet they never doubt that when a man is ordered to be sent abroad he goes abroad. The details of the commonest prison in London are unknown to the pub lic at large, but they are quite satisfied that pri,oners said to b 3 in this or that gaol are really there and really undergo its discipline. The "mys tery " of private executions is objected to; but has riot mystery been the character of every improvement in convict treatment and prison discipline effected within the last 20 years? From the police van to Norfolk Island, are not all the changes changes that make the treatment of the prisoner mysterious ? His seclusion in his conveyance hither and thither from the public sight, instead of his, being walked through the streets, strung with 20 more to a chain, like the galley-slaves in Don Quixote (as I remem ber to have seen in my school-days), makes a mys tery of him. His being known by a number in stead of by a name, and his being under the rigor ous discipline of the associated silent system—to say nothing of the solitary, which I regard as a mistake—is all mysterious. I cannot understand that the mystery of such an execution as I propose would be other than a fitting climax to all these wise regulations, or why, i f there be anything in this objection, we should no return to the days when ladies paid visits to high waymen, drinking their punch in the condemned cells of Newgate, or Ned Ward, the London spy, went upon a certain regular day of the week to Bride well to s ee th e women w hipp e d. A r!other cl ass o f o bj ec t ors I k now there are, who, desi ring the total abolition of capital punishment, will have nothing less ; and w ho, not d oubting the fearful influence of public execu tions , would have it protracted for an indefinite term, ratli n e s ; t h ane r spare i the demorali z ition they do not dispute, a th for a while of their final end. __ Ba le of losing sight of these I say nothing, considering them, however good and pure in intention, unreasonable, and not to be argued with. With many thanks to you for your courtesy, an d beg,zing most earnestly to assure you that I write in a deep conviction that I incurred a duty when I b e _ came a witness of the execution on Tuesday last, from which nothing ought to move me, and which every hour's reflection strengthens, I am, Sir, your fait ARLES, CH DICKENS. Devonshire-terrace, Saturd ty, Nov. 17. SHOCKING OCCURRENCE.—Yesterday morning a hog pig, the property of Mr. John Boardman, gardener, Lower-road, Deptford, rubbed open the stye door and made its way into the parlour, where the animal at tacked a male infant, about five months old, lying asleep in the cradle. The cries of the child alarmed Mrs. Boardman, who was in the kitchen at'joining, and with much difficulty she beat off the beast, which also bather severely in the leg. The child was shockingly lace rated, the left foot being entirely gnawed off. It is not expected to survive. The animal was at once destroyed. INSTITUTION OF CIVIL ENGINEERS. 1 Nov. 13, 1849. JOSHUA FIELD, Esq., President, in the Chair. In accordance with the r esolution of a special 1 meeting of members, the sess ion of the institution i commenced on Tuesday evening, instead of, as here tofore, in the middle of January. This is a great improvement, as it assimilates the routine of this useful soeiety to that of other scientific bodies ; it will also prove very convenient to the country mem bers, give a greater number of meetings, and enable the session to terminate brilliantly with the President's conversazione. The annual general meeting for the election of the president, council, and officers will take place on Tuesday, December the 18th. The paper read was a "Description of the Coffer dam at the Grimsby Docks," by Mr. Charles Neate, Assoc. Inst. CE. It commenced by briefly noticing the importance of preliminary structures in all works of hydraulic engineering, and the difficulties generally attending their execution. The position of Grimsby, on the south shore of the Humber, :was then de scribed • its proximity to the sea ; the nat ural shelter afforded ' by the opposite shore of Spurn Head ; and the various advantages it presented for the construc tion of extensive docks. A general description followed of the enclosure made for the purpose of the dock-works, which com prised an area of 138 acres , and projected five eighths of a mile beyond the margin of the high-water line of the shore. It was explained that the flatness of the coast necessitated this great projection, as it was requisite to found the new entrance locks in the low-water channel of the river, in order to secure, at all times, a sufficient depth of water for large vessels. These conditions regulated the position of the coffer-dam, which stood in a very exposed situation, and was entirely self-supported; its principal features were stated to be its extent, and the form of its construction. The length of the coffer dam was 1,500 feet, supporting at high water a head of water of 25 feet, whilst the excavation behind it was carried to 11 feet below low-water. The form of the dam was that of a circular curve, with a versed sine of 200 feet, or nearly one fifth of the span. Several of the constructive arrangements were peculiar; the work consisted of a triple row of whole timber sheet piling, which derived interior support from counterforts or buttresses of solid sheet piling, driven at intervals of 25 feet throughout its length. The long or through-bolts were made to break joint and terminate at the middle row of piling, so that no water could pass along them through the dam. In the middle row of piling, wrought-iron plating was substituted for timber walings, which formed excellent longitudinal ties, and left an uninterrupted surface on the piling, against which the puddle would lie compactly. It was stated that these arrangements had imparted an extraordinary degree of stability and tightness to the structure, which had resisted the effects of storms, and the pressure of the tides, in the most perfect manner, during a period of fourteen months. A portion of the ground between the works and the shore was described as being of a soft, silty clay, probably the site of an old channel ; and as it was found, after all precautions, impossible to raise any solid structure upon it, the alternative was adopted of displacing it completely by raising a bank of chalk stone rubble, which sunk down to the hard bed of clay beneath. This method was successful in forming a very fine embankment. The abundant supplyof water from Artesian wells in Grimsby was adverted to, and referred to the vicinity of the chalk hills. The conclusion of the paper drew attention to the magnitude of the masonry works now advancing at Grimsby, and for the formation of which the coffer dam was erected, and which, when c o mpleted, from the designs of Mr. Rendel, the chief engineer, and under the superintendence of Mr. Adam Smith, the resident engineer, will form perhaps one of the most useful, as well as the most important, maritime works of modern times. The paper announced to , be read at the meeting of Tuesday, November the 20th, was " A Description of the 0!d Southend Pier Head, and the exten,ion of the Pier, with an inquiry into the nature and ravages of the ' Teredo Navalis,' and the means hitherto adopted for preventing its attacks," by Mr. John Paton. ST. GEORGB'S HARMONIC SOCIETY.—The second concert given by this society took place on Friday even ing, before a numerous and select audience. The mem bers exhibit a decided improvement every time we hear them, and deserve an especial word of praise in that respect. The principal vocalists were Miss Ellen Lyon, who elicited a rapturous encore in " Let the bright Seraphim" (Mr. Harper trumpet obligato); her sister, Miss Eliza Lyon, also obtained an unanimous redemand for " Charlie is my darling" (from Allmann's selection), which she sang with great feeling and spirit. Miss Collins in " Oh, Araby," deserves special mention; she has a fine contralto voice. Mr. Frank Dudley, in " Phiiip the Falconer;" Mr. Pelham, in " Ellen Lo• raine;" Mr. Mattacks, in " Nan of Battersea;" Mr. H. Buckland, in " The avalier;" and last, but d(ed(dly not least, Mr. W. H. Seguin, in " The Sea Kings," rendered their respective songs with artistical excellence . Mr. T. Harper performed " The Soldier tired" on the trumpet superbly, and was tumultuously encored. M. Zerbini also played Do Beriot's " II Tremo!o" on the violin, in which he was much applauded. Mr. J. C. Beuthin and Mr. A. Jackson officiated at the pianoforte very creditably. Mr. S. T. Lyon c , nducted. DENIAL BY A PROTESTANT CLERGYMAN OF CHRIS TIAN BURIAL TO A ROMAN CATHOLIC.—It is our very painful duty, this week, to record one of those outrages upon the Christian character, which arc alike revolting to an intelligent community and a disgrace to that system of religion by which they are sanctioned. The circum stances of the case, as neat ly as we can gather them, are briefly these:—The family of John Gully, Eici , of Ack worth-park, having recently been visited by a painful bereavement, application was made to Mr. Kenworthy, the clergyman, to have the deceased interred in the churchyard of Ackworth, where a former branch of Mr. Gully's family had been already buried. Permission was given for the interment (which the Rev. Gentleman knew he durst not refuse), but the deceased young lady having been a Roman Catholic, he would not allow the corpse to be taken within the precincts of the church. It was not likely that a high-minded and honourable man like Mr. Gully would submit to such an insult. What pa rent, with a heart bleeding under the loss of an amiable child, could endure to have the mark of degradation stamped upon the remains of that child, by being denied the right of Christian burial ? And yet this most undoubtedly would have been the case, had the par ties been without the means of providing another place of sepulture. Happily this was not Mr. Gully's position, and a remedy in his case was at baud, though the cir cumstances must have cost the mourning family much additional sorrow. Ackworth-park being contiguous to the churchyard, a spot was selected as near as possible to the place where the other members of the family had been buried; and this being by a Catholic clergyman set apart as a place of sepulture, the remains of Miss Gully were deposited there on Thursday morning last. according to the rites of that church in whose faith she died. The conduct of Mr. Kenworthy needs no com ment. Surely such a system will soon lack defenders, and will give place- to one whose principles are more equitable and just. We have no quarrel with episcopa lianism as such, but we do object to a church being called national, and being supported by national funds, denying its citizens a right to its privileges.—Leeds Mercury. THEATRICALS AT WINDSOR CASTLE.--Her Ma jesty has expressed her entire approval of the arrange ments effected by Mr. Charles Kean relative to the en suing theatrical entertainments at the Castle (luring the Christmas holidays. Messrs. Grieve, Telbin, and their assistants are now eneaged in preparing the scenic and decorative accessories for the pieces to be played. The first piece selected by her Majesty and her Royal:consort ii the tragedy of Julius Cesar, which will be very powerfully cast, it being understood that Mr. Macready wilt personate the noble Roman Brutus, and Mr. Charles Kean, Mark Anthony. It is not at present ar ranged as to who will enact Cassius, probably Mr. Van denboff, or Mr. James Walteck. The first representa tion is appointed to take place in the Christmas holiday week—viz , Friday, the 28th of December. The first part of King Henry IV., in which it is said Mr. Murray, the manager of the Edinburgh Theatre, will play Falstaff, is also named amongst the repertoire of the Court performances for the present season.—Sunday Times. AGONISING DEATH.—The Penang (Prince of Wales's Island) Gazette of June 30th describes a most distressing accident. A party of,gentlemen from Pulo- Ticoose college were on a visit to Batu-Kawan, some of whom went out to shoot, in the plantation of the late Mr. A. M'lntyre, on the morning alluded to. The Rev. Mr. Thivett, superior of the college, and another, had separated themselves from the rest of the party, and one or other of these gentlemen having shot a bird, it fell; but its wing only being broken, it attempted to escape by running, and took the direction of a small inclosure, at the only opening into which it entered, the two gen tlemen following in pursuit. Mr. Thivett was in ad vance, and immediately on crossing the entrance of this inclosure he disappeared: his friend, who was close upon his heels, had hardly time to check himself, and so escape the cruel death Mr. Thivett suffered. His friend heard him call out, " he was a lost man," but on approaching the edge of the pit he could not see his person on ac count of a quantity of grass and other rubbish which covered him. The pit proved to be a trap carefully disguised, covered with grass and attap leaves laid upon slender sticks, set for tigers, about twenty feet deep, and planted at the bottom with strong nebong spears, set perpendicular, or slightly inclining towards the sides of the pit, and rivetted in the soil so that they could not be moved; on one of these the unfortunate gentleman had fallen, which transfixed his body, maintaining him in the onlylet do w n instrument position in which he fell upon it . ' A rope was procured, u on p e ee o k f e t t h k e u p i a fe r , ty th w e asof hand,it, and h e with by mean a s t suc ceeded in dividing the spear near where it was fixed to the ground. Mr. Thivett died at three o'clock the fol lowing morning. THE TWEED BANK.—We see that a further and final dividend on the estate of the proprietors of the Tweed Bank is to be declared in the District Court of Bankruptcy, in this town, on the 22d instant. It is un derstood that this dividend on the joint estate of the parties • will amount to twopence in the pound, in addition to the dividends made at various times since the failure of the bank eight years ago, amounting in the whole to los. 2d. in the pound.—Newark Guardian. THE SIIN, LONDON, FRAN CE M. Benjamin Delessert has given notice to the S President of the Legislative Asernbly, that he will propo , e the following additional clauses to the Bill introduced by the Minister of Finance for extending the contract existing between the Government and the Bank of France. Ist. From the date of the promulgation of the present law, the notes of the Bank of France shall cease to be a legal tender. Nevertheless, the Treasury shall never refuse to accept Bank notes in payment. 2d. The legal limit of the issue of the notes of the Bank of France, fixed at 425,000,000 f. by the decrees of the 15th and 25th March, and the 27th April, 1848, is annulled. The following. is a return of the situation of the Bank of France on Nov. 15:— f. 286.564,639 48 . . 125,283,858 0 ..• 81,244 24 ASSETS. Cash and ingots Ditto in branch banks Bills past due ••• Bills falling due in Paris, of which 18,243,307 f. Oc. are from the branch banks 46,090,349 25 Bills in the branch banks ... 77,830,244 0 Advances on coins and ingots... ... 5,267,200 0 Ditto by the branch banks ... 463,689 0 Ditto on French public securities ... 21,152,021 10 Ditto by branch banks... ••• ... 1,659,521 0 Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... 50,000,000 0 Ditto on the loan of 150 millions 50,000,000 0 Loan of 3,000,000 f. to tho city of Mar seilles ••• ••• ••• ••• Advance •to the department of the ••• ••• ••• ••• 3,000,000 0 Seine Rentes of the reserve fund ... 10,000,000 0 Aentes, disposable funds ... 42,581,488 13 Investments of the new branch banks in the public funds ... Hotel and furniture of the Bank Real property of the branch banks Interest in National Discount Bank Ditto branch banks „. Bills protested at Paris ••• ••• Ditto at the branches ... Expenses of administration of the Bank Ditto of the branches ... Miscellaneous ... 1,075,000 0 .c. 12,779,541 39 4,000,000 0 2,733,765 0 200,000 0 230,000 0 2,879,409 39 1,975,910 0 417,902 85 423,372 0 214,945 30 f. 7•16,904,130 13 horseback, having a groom in livery with him. In fact he had always borne the appearnce of a man of property. Thus it had come to pass that the plaintiff had felt no hesitation in fruiting him. The articles of clothing which now remained unpaid for were t o waistcoats, for one of which four guineas, and for tiv? other two guineas had been charged. It might chance that his Learned Friend would cavil at the price charged for the first of these necessary items of wearing apparel ; but when he came to inform the jury what had been the precise character of the article, he was sure they would concur with him in the opinion that the price was extremely reasonable. This was the description as set out in the particulars : —" A rich Persian silk waistcoat, very richly em broidered with gold and silver, and lined through with satinette and satinette back, 4/. 43.," and the other waistcoat was described as " A fine white _ . quilting waistcoat, 21 25." The first of these was doubtless a dress waistcoat for parties or the opera, and, like the second, was perfectly suitable and necessary for a gentleman of the position in society which the defendant was understood to have held. That being so, he should contend that the plaintiff was entitled to a verdict, not only upon the bill of exchange, but for the goods supplied. - Evidence was then given to show the delivery of the goods in question, and it was understood that the bills had been admitted under a judge's order. In the cross examination of one of the witnesses by Mr. CHARNOCK, the witness said that he was not aware that his master, the plaintiff, was a discounter. Mr. Baron PLATT—What do you mean, Mr. Char nock, by a discounter—a man who takes a good dis count off when a customer pays his account ? Mr. CHARNOCK—Oh, no; not that, my Lord. I mean a man who is notoriously a discounter of bills of exchange.—(Laughter.) The witness then went on to say that the white waistcoat was not one of those which would, as a matter of course, be worn under the finer one, for it had been made to be worn by itself. It was not made to be " (pinned" into the other. Mr. HARNOCK, on behalf of the defendant, said that the plaintiff was as well known at the west-end as being what was termed a " bill discounting tailor," as was the tailoring shop of " Moses and Son" known in the eastern portion of the metropolis. In reference to the plea of infancy, he was in a position to prove, by the production of the certificate of his christening, that the delendanttad been christened on the 28th of August, 1822, so that at any rate he would not be of age until the 28th of August, 1843, while this second bill had been made on the 28th of July preceding. It was clear, therefore, that at the time that bill had been given the defendant was not of age. In addition to that documentary evidence he should bring for ward the father of the defendant, who would prove the day of the birth to have been prior to the date of the last bill, about twenty-one years previously. He would show,' too, that so far from this young man having been a man of property, he had at this parti cular period been living in a garret in Ryder street, upon 11. a week, an allowance which was made him by an aunt, an'l that he had nothing else to exist upon. The defendant's father ha , l formerly been an officer in the 6th Dragoons, but owing to various causes had fallen into difficulties. Now, with respect to these waistcoats, let him ask who had ever heard of such a price being paid fora waistcoat as four guineas, unless it were indeed where a man had to attend a dinner of the Lord Mayor's in the city of London, or, perhaps, in the case of a Qaeen's counsel when he had to be presented at a Drawing Room ? Then, no doubt, these " parsley and butter" looking waistcoats might be justifiable.—(Loud laughter.) Then, indeed, such gewgaws might be regarded as " necessaries," these silk or satin waistcoats, sprinkled with flowers of every colour in the rainbow, variegated with splashes of "parsley and butter."—(lncreased laughter.) In such cases these waistcoats might be allowable. But in the instance of a poor young man who was existing, or barely existing, upon a weekly allowance of 1/. from an aunt, it was preposterous to talk of such articles as "necessaries." At the present moment the defendant was a purser's clerk on board of one of her Majesty's vessels which was in China. Looking at all the features of this case, he was sure the jury would be of opinion, when he had established the tact of the defendant having been under age at the time this second bill was made, that the plaintiff was not in law entitled to recover upon that docu ment ; and, next, that they would agree with him that these waistcoats were not "necessaries" for a young man in the defendant's position in life. A witness then produced the certificate of the de fendant's christening in Christ Church, in Newgate street, dated on the 28th of August, 1822. John Ramsden, the father of the defendant, was then called, when he spoke to the birth of his son on the 6th of August, 1822, whilst he himself was living in the_" rules of the Bench." He went on to say that his soa, until his appointment as clerk on board of one of her Majesty's vessels, had possessed no other means of subsistence than an allowance from one of his aunts of 1/. a week. Cross-examined—He had himself been a lieutenant in the 6th Dragoons, and had mixed in good society. He had inherited a fortune of 20,0001. from his grand- mother; which had come to him in 1816', but the whole of that property had been spent be:ore the defendant's birth. • Mr. JamEs, in replying, adverting to the " parsley and butter" waistcoats, as his Learned Friend had denominated the full dress waistcoat, said it was the first time he had ever heard such a term applied to a " court" waistccat, except it might have been applied in the case of which he had often heard mention — namely, that a certain gentleman at one of the Lord Mayor's dinners had put a boiled fowl into his pocket when at the table; whereupon, the act having been no ticediby his next door neighbour, that gentleman, taking up the parsley and butter tureen, had poured its con tents into the pocket upon the fowl, saying " That having the fowl he might as well have the sauce."— (Loud laughter.) In that instance, probably, there had been a "parsley and butter" waistcoat, but in no other. He contended that the defendant was bound to have given evidence to show that he had indorsed the bill to the plaintiff during his infancy. Mr. Baron PLATT held that the defendant ought to have produced such evidence, and not having done so —seeing that the indorsement might have been made after the attainment of his majority—the verdict upon that issue must be for the plaintiff. The Learned BARON then proceeded to sum up the evidence. The jury eventually returned a verdict for the plaintiff, in respect of this second bill—damages 841._125. 6d. They also found that these waistcoats were not necessaries for a young man situated as the defendant was, and that the second bill was a substi tution for the first. The verdict was then entered for the plaintiff— damages 841. 12s. 61, with liberty to the defendant to move to enter a nonsuit. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. fames, a shirt-cutter in the service of Messrs Moses, the clothiers in Aldgate, and Lee, who keeps a piece-broker's shop in Fore-street, Cripplegate, were brought before the Lord Mayor and Allerman Carden, charged, the former with having robbed his employers, and the latter with having received the stolen property, knowing that it had been dishonestly obtained. Mr. Hobler attended for Lee. Storey, of the City police, said—ln consequence of information which I received on Saturday I watched James's residence, at No. 14, Oxford-street, Stepney. Between 11 and 12 o'clock I saw him come out with a parcel, and I followed him to Lee's house, No. 89, in Fore-street, where he deposited the parcel on the counter. He remained there but a few minutes. I saw Lee take the parcel off the counter, and place it upon the ground behind the counter, without opening it. After James came out I went in, and asked Lee where the parcel was which the man who had just gone out had brought in. He said " What parcel ?" I replied " That," pointing to it lying on the ground. He then said, " Oh, yes, a man did bring it me—this is it." I asked him what he gave for it, and hg told me eight shillings. I asked him whether he had bought any more. He said "No." I said, "Are you sure of that ?" He replied that he had bought a little more calico. I said I should search the place, and I did so, and found altogether 285 yards of it, which he admit ted he had bought of - James. I took Lee to the station-house, and I found upon him 10s. in silver. I then went in pursuit of James in company with Barnes, a brother officer, and we apprehended him near his house, told him we were officers, and that we took him into custody for robbing his employers of a parcel which he had taken from his house to Lee's in Fore-street. He said, " Some kind friend, I suppose, has put you on to me," and I took him to the station- house. Barnes, the officer, produced some calico shirting, which he had found in James's house. Storey, in his cross•examination by Mr. Hobler, said that Lee produced every article which he said he had purchased of James, but not until he was told that the place would be searched. Mr. Samuel Moses, one of the partners in the esta blishment in Aldgate, said—James has been in our employment about two years, as a shirt-cutter, and taker in of shirts from the persons employed to make them, and is the foreman in that department. He had no right to take any portion of the work home. A. parcel which had been given to his wife to make was found on his premises. That had not, of course, been illegally taken. 1 saw James at the station, and, without making him any promise whatever, I asked him some questions, to , which he answered that he knew nothing about the stolen goods, and that he had never sold any to Leer but he subsequently stated that he had sent his boy on Wednesday last with the bundle which the officer had seen him deposit at Lee's, for the purpose of making it up to sell, being short of money. The articles which the officer saw James deposit at Lee's are '?urs. I see our private mark LIABILITIES. Capital ... ... r • . f. 67,900,000 0 Ditto of the Branch Banks ... ... 23,350,000 0 Reserve fund ... •.. 10,000,000 0 Ditto of the branch banks ... 2,980,7.50 0 Reserve-inimobiliere 4,000,000 0 Notes to bearer, in circulation 381,733,100 0 Ditto of the branch banks ... .., 65,355,375 0 Ditto to order (post-bills) ... ... 903,800 83 Account-current with Treasury creditor 52,597,931) 28 Various accounts current ... 90,380,840 84 Ditto in branches ... 25,078,997 0 Bills payable at sight 4,925,500 0 Ditto at branches ... 1,654,093 0 Bills of the branch banks payable by ... 6,572,967 10 the Bank Ditto of the Bank payable by branches.. 3,217,680 0 Dividends payable ..• • . ... 315,798 25 Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 158,072 99 Discounts, interest, and expenses ... 3,233,106 96 Ditto branch banks ... 1,680,165 0 Re-discounts of the last six months ... 143,693 49 Ditto in branch banks .. ... 323,587 0 Miscellaneous ... ... 398,667 39 f. 746.904,130 13 Certified by the Governor of the Bank of France. D'A RG OUT. We find by the above account that the cash in hand has increased by 2,500,000 f. The azi3ount of commercial hills discounted in Paris has increased by 3,250,000 f. The protested bills have diminished by 120,0001. The b4nk notes in circulation have increased by 6,600,000 f. The balance to the credit of the Treasury has increased by 3,500,000 f.; and the sundry credits have diminished by 3,000,000 f. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. We have received Hamburgh papers of the 14th instant. They corroborate the last news of Prussia intending to withdraw altogether from her interfer et ce in the Duchies. General Bonin, and about 46 officers, are said to be preparing to leave the Hol stein service, and to return to their respective regi ments in Prussia. There are other reports, which, however, want confirmation, of a deputation from Kiel having proceeded to Berlin to request the imme diate evacuation of Schleswig by the Prussian troops. The Danish papers protest that the removal of the Gefion frigate from Eckernforde would be an insult and a violation of the armistice. The Superintendent of the Schleswig Clergy, M. Niedsen, having addressed a remonstrance to the Prussian Commissioner, Count Eulenburg and his col leagues. the Count has forwarded a lengthy rejoinder to M. Niedsen, in which the Schleswig clergy are ac cused of having more regard for revolt than fur god liness. ITALY. At the sitting of the Chamber of Deputies of Turin 1 on the 13th inst. the order of the day was read for discussing the treaty of peace concluded with Austria. The President having read the articles of the treaty, Deputy Balbo proposed that a division should take place on the resolution proposed by him on the 24th of September that the report of the Commission should be adopted. M. Buffs insisted that a resolution which he proposed to move should have the priority. It was to the effect that the treaty of peace concluded with Austria should be considered as an accomplished fact, and that, consequently, no division should rake place on the subject of the treaty. M. Balbo demanded that his resolution should hare the priority, but M. Buffa was called on by the President to pro ceed. Ile delivered a long speech, which he con cluded by observing that the treaty was now irre vocable, and that, even should the Chamber refuse to ratify, Austria would not have the less right to insist on its full execution. He, in consequence, moved the following resolution : First, That the Chamber considers the treaty con cluded between his Majesty the King and the Emperor of Austria, at Milan, on the 6th August, 1819, as an accomplished fact. Secondly, The Chamber will provide. by special laws, for the regular execution of the treaty." An animated discussion ensued, in which MM. Pi nelli, Sinco, D'Azzeglio, Brofferio, and Cabella took part; after which the debate was adjourned. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 19. Sittings in London, at Nisi Prius, in Michaelmas Term, before Mr. Baron PLATT and Common Juries.) The " second sittings" in London for the present term at Nisi Prius was held this morning at Guild hall. The list of causes was about the average length. A number of undefended cases were disposed of in the early part of the day. CURLEWIS V. RAMSDEN. This was an action on a bill of exchange for 59/., accepted by the defendant and endorsed to the plain tiff ; there was also another count upon a second bill of exchange for 651. at three months' date, drawn to the defendant upon, and accepted by, one Bell, and endorsed by the plaintiff; there was then a count on an account stated, and another for goods sold and I delivered. The defendant pleaded infancy, and did not pro mise, and that the articles supplied were not neces- series. • Mr. Edwin James and Mr. Hawkins conducted the case for the plaintiff; and Mr. Charnock appeared for the defendant. Mr. JAMES, in stating the case, said that the plain tiff was a tailor, carrying on an extensive business in Conduit-street, who sought to recover, in the first in stance, really the amount of the second bill set forth in the declaration and a sum of six guineas for goods supplied, the truth being, that with respect to the two bills, the second was a renewal of the first. Now, the answer which the defendant had thought proper to make to this demand was, that he was an infant. If, however, he were correctly instructed upon the point, all he could say was, that the defendant at the period in question had been a tolerably large and full grown infant, carrying in his deportment all the manners Sind bearing of a full-grown man, and driving sometimes in his brougham, sometimes in his cab, and at others riding on horseback, with his groom in due attendance in either instance. Moreover, the defendant had been introduced to the plaintiff as a young gentleman who was possessed of considerable property, and he purchased certain clothes of him, for which he paid in due course. After that he bought another quantity of clothes, and then he induced the plaintiff to give him money for the first of the two bills of exchange, which, on its arriving at maturity, was renewed by that of which the amount, 651., was now sought to be recovered, and then that second bill having been dishonoured, an action having been brought, the defendant set up the plea of infancy. It was neces sary he should state that the action had been com menced in the month of September, 1845, and why it had happened that the end of the year 1849 had arrived before it had been brought into court for trial. Interviews, it would seem, had formerly taken place between the attorneys fur the plaintiff and the de fendant, at one of which the Latter told the former that there was no prospect of the plantiff getting his money and that the defendant had gone abroad. Under that state of things the attorney for the plaintiff had not pressed the matter on, and so matte rs stood, when at length the attorney for the defendant " ruled" the plaintiff to go on with his action, and the latter was now in court under a peremptory order to proceed. Now, supposing his Learned Friend who appeared on the other side were to prove the infancy of the defendant at the time in question, then the jury would have another point to consider—namely, were the articles which had been supplied to the defendant suitable and necessary for his station and rank in life ? It was understood that the de fendant had come into very considerable property on his attaining his majority, and he had, both before and subsequent to that period driven to the plaintiff's in a brougham and a c4b, and bad called on TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 20 upon them ; and my belief is, that all the articles found at Lee's, and represented to be ours, are ours. Nu doubt they were taken from us from time to time. Mr. Hobler requested that the magistrates would tact bail for Lee, who bad never been suspected of dealings of a sin Liter kind before, but, The Loin MAYOR and Al lerman CAuDEN declined in such a case to accept bail to any amount, and the prisoners were rematried till "Thursday. MARYLEBONE. A young man named George Jackson, a French polisher, living at 93, Harwood-street, Hampstead road, was charged on suspicion of having stolen a box containing leases, &c., ani also with having carried cff feloniously other property to a considerable amount in jewellery, &c., belonging to Mr. Henry Grimsdell, landlord of the Marquis Camden public-house, Cam- den street, Camden•tOwn. Mr. nobler. solicitor, attended for the Licensed Victuallers' Protection Society, to conduct the prose- cution. The evidence of Mr. and Mrs. Grimsdell was to the effect that they had recently left the Eagle Tavern, and removed to their present residence about three weeks ago. Numerous alterations and repairs being required, a tradesman named Taunton was employed to see to these being properly done, and on Saturday morning last the prisoner, who came to the house as French polisher, upon the introduction of Mr. Taun ton, took from a room in the upper part of the house a chest of drawers in order to do the polishing busi. ness in an apartment on the first floor. Prior - to the said drawers being removed, Mrs. Grimsdell took from the top of them a deed-box, which She placed on the floor ; it hail in it the leases of three houses, a gold brooch and chain, seven silver spoons, two gold lockets, and sundry books and papers. The loss was not discovered until a policeman called at the house at a late hour on Saturday night, and gave them such information as led to the prisoner being given into custody. Butt, 340 P, stated that on Saturday night, be tween eleven and twelve o'clock, as he was on his beat by the side of the Surrey Canal, Camberwell, he saw some papers floating on the water, and with the assistance of another officer he drew them out. The papers were here produced and identified by the prosecutor ; they were the leases and memoranda before referred to. _ _ Milligan, 202 S, deposed that on the following after noon (Sunday) he took the prisoner into custody at his lodgings in Hirwood-street, and on telling him what he was charged with, he denied all knowledge of the robbery. Mrs. Grimsdell, in addition to the evidence which she had previously given, said that after what she had heard from the police with regard to the finding of the papers, ke., she examined her drawers, and ascer tained that from one of them a gold watch, chain, and seal had been abstracted. Other evidence was gone into, showing that the prisoner was seen on the staircase above the room where he had been doing the French polishing shortly before he left, and that when he quitted a lighted candle and his tools were found in the room in which he had been working ; in further proof of the guilt of the prisoner it was stated that he had a mother who resided over the water, and not more than five minutes' walk from the canal where the papers were picked up. Mr. HowLria asked if any more of the property stolen had been met with, and an answer was given in the negative. The officer who took the prisoner in charge said that his (prisoner's) mother had admitted to him that her son was with her on Friday last, which was en tirely at variance with the statement of the prisoner when captured, at which period he declared that he had not been near his mother's hou , _e for more than a week. The prisoner, on being asked what he had to say, asserted his entire innocence, and accounted for his tools being left behind by asserting that he had other jobs to do at the house on a future day. In order to afford time for the police to trace the gold watch and other missing property, the prisoner was remanded till Saturday next. CLERKEN WELL. James Sturland was brought up on remand, charged by Mr. Thomas Davie 3, chymist and drug gist, of No. 13, Ilereford street, Bayswater, with having uttered a forged bill of exchange for 3601. The particulars of this case have been detailed in the newspapers. Dir. Wakeling, the solicitor, attended for the prose cution, and, at his suggestion, the prisoner was again remanded for the production of further evidence. WORSHIP-STREET. Three men, named Li?ly, Horner, and Sinfield, were brought up charged with the following ferocious attack upon the police. Holds worth, a constable of the N division, was on duty in the Kingsland road at a late hour on Saturday night, when his interference was called for by the outrageous conduct of the defendants, who were quar relling and disturbing the whole neighbourhood. He requested them to go home, and Horner and Sinfield went into a house adjoining, but Lilly refused to leave, and threatened to kick his inside out if he at tempted to make him. He took Lilly by the arm to lead him away, but he was immediately rescued from him by the other defendants, who run out and at tacked him; and upon Williams, an officer of the H division, corning up to his assistance, he was instantly set upon by Horner, who kicked him violently and repeatedly in the stomach, and then ran up stairs, followed by the others. Caffrey, 153 N, then came to the aid of his f e llow-constables, and they pur sued the defendants up stairs, Caffrey first; but upon reaching the landing they found all the defendants armed with pokers, tongs, and other weapons, with which they threatened to dash out the brains of the first officer who attempted to capture them. Caffrey, however, still went up, but was instantly sent stag gering down stairs upon the other constables from a violent blow on the head with a pair of tongs, and it was only after a desperate resistance from two of the defendants that they were all finally captured and lodged in the station. The prisoners, when called upon for their defence, gave a general denial to the chief facts alleged against them ; but The MAGISTRATE characterized it as an outrageous assault, and, without giving them the option of paying any pecuniary penalty, sentenced each of the pri soners to three weeks' imprisonment in the House of Correction. L AMBETH. The young woman Evvins yesterday attended before Mr. Elliott to receive further assistance from the fund subscribed by several benevolent individuals for her use. In reply to the magistrate's questions, she said that she had not seen Jordan since she gave evidence against him at the Old Bailey, though she understood, she said, she was to have seen him on Thursday or Friday last. Mr. ELLIOTT said he had received some letters, in which her intention to see that person was strongly objected to and commented upon ; and, for his own (Hr. Elliott's) part, he thought it would be much better for her not to see the convict. She said she had no particular wish to see Jordan, but was informed that it was his wish to see her. As it was objected to, however, she should not go near him. Mr. ELLIOTT ordered the sum she required to be paid her. THAMES. Mr. John Carroll, a shipping agent, of No. 97, Pennington-street, Ratcliff-highway, was brought before Mr. Yardley, charged with manslaughter, in causing the death of William James Stevens, a man in his 77th year, a letter-cutter in iron and other materials. It appeared that the prisoner and the de ceased were in front of the bar of the Red Lion public-house, in Ratcliff- highway, on Saturday night, and some " chaffing" was going on between them. The old man was annoyed by a remark made by the prisoner, that he was very much like O'Connor, who was murdered by the Mannings. The old man said he was a loyal subject, and loved his Queen and country. He was ridiculed by the priioner, and the deceased's ire being roused, he offered to fight Carroll, and began pulling his coat off. The prisoner said he would not disgrace him.elf by fighting an old man, called him an old fool, and told him to put on his coat again, at the same time giving him a violent push with both hands. The old man fell sideways, when his coat was half off and his arms were pinioned by it. He fell with great force with his left temple on a settle, the edge of which was broken away by the violence of the fall. The old man's neck was broken, and he died a few minutes afterwards. Mr. Heritage, the landlord of the house, immediately called in a police•constable named Seaman, No. 150 11. The prisoner, who mistook him for another officer, said " Wigley, it was me that gave him the push. I did not do it with any ill will." The deceased was then lying on the floor in front of the bar, with his head resting on the seat. He breathed once as Seaman was about to raise him, dropped his lower jaw, and expired. Seaman ad dressed the prisoner, and said, " You must consider yourself ray prisoner," to which Carroll replied, " I thought it would come to that. If you had not been here I should have delivered myself up at the station house." _ _ The prisoner, in defence, said he had no intention to injure the old man, who halleng.d him to fight be• fore he pushed him. Mr. YARDLEY said the case must be remanded to await the result of the coroner's inquest; but at the request of the prisoner he consented to accept of bail himself in 501. and two sureties of 251. each. A man offered to become security for the whole amount. Mr. YARDLEY—I can't do that. When a life has been lost by violence I must have two sureties for the prisoner's appearance here again. The required bail was afterwards tendered and accepted. God bath often a great share in a little house, and but a little share in a great one.—Eliza Cook's Journal. 1849. ROYAL BRITISH BANK. This institution, incorporatsd by royal charter, and established for the purpose of introducing into this metropolis the principles of the Scottish system of banking, yesterday entered upon its career of useful ness, by commencing operations at the premises of the bank, Tokenhouse yard. In the evening the Governor and Deputy Governor, together with a large company of the directors and shareholders, celebrated the inau guration of the undertaking by a dinner at Love grove's Hotel, Ludgate hill. Mr. John M‘Gregor, M.P., the Governor of the bank, presided. On the removal of the cloth, the usual loyal and patriotic toasts were proposed and duly honoured, after which The CHISHOLM, M.P., gave the toast of the evening " Prosperity to the Royal British Bank." He said that since the union between England and Scotland, the people of the latter country might boast of the many advantages they had conferred on the sister and richer country. The Scottish agricultural societies set the example, which was copied by the great agri cultural societies of England, and he might point also to the Scotch banking system as being more appropriate to advert to on this occasion. That system they were now for the first time introducing into the English metropolis—(Cheers) —and if he might be excused the feeling of nationality, it was inborn with his (the Chisholm's) fellow-countrymen. Scotchmen might, perhaps, boast that there were now but two chartered banks in England—the Bank of England and the Royal British Bank—and that the charters for both were obtained by Scotchmen —(Cheers.) He could speak from his own knowledge of the soundness of the Scottish system of banking ; and when he saw the able direction under which the present undertaking was placed, he could not but feel that it would prove highly beneficial to those who joined and those who supported it. He had, therefore, great pleasure in proposing " The Royal British Bank—its success and public usefulness." The CHAIRMAN returned thanks, and observed that in bringing forward the subject of Scotch banking in connexion with the city of London, it appeared to him that to broach it at all was an act of extreme temerity. Only eight months ago it had scarcely the vestige of an existence ; yet if any one unacquainted with the institution and formation of banks had entered the bank that day—the first day of its operations—he appealed even to those who had been long connected with the great bank of this country, the Bank of England--he would have been unable to say that it was a bank that had not been many years in existence.—(Cheers.) The Chairman then adverted to his speech in the House of Commons, when the Scotch system of banking was attacked there ; and remarked that the undisputed facts which he then adduced had given birth to this bank, and was the cause of their being assembled at that board.— (Cheers.) He believed that all those connected with the bank would faithfully do their duty, and not dis appoint the just expectations of the people. Mr. ESDAILE, a director, then proposed " Pros perity to the Bank of England," and bore testimony to the high national importance of that great corporation, and to the practical wisdom and incorruptible in tegrity of those who had had the control of its opera tions. The speaker then briefly adverted to its his tory, and concluded by observing that the directors of the Royal British Bank would do well to take a lesson from the wise and liberal, the firm, cautious, and disinterested policy of the Bank of England. The CHAIRMAN then gave " The health of Mr. Cameron, the general manager of the Royal British Bank." Mr. CAMERON acknowledged the compliment. Mr. APSLEY PELLATT (a director) proposed the next toast—" The Friends and Well wishers of the Royal British Bank, particularly those connected with the London and provincial periodical press." He said that if the undertaking had not had a spice of philanthropy in it, as well as been founded on sound commercial principles, he would not have con nected himself with the company. Its principles, emanating from the north, were about to be centra lised in that metropolis, and would enable the humble mechanic and industrious artisan to obtain, on giving good security, that assistance for enlarging the sphere of his operations, or raising himself in the scale of society which the principles of banking in this country had hitherto denied him. They would give a vivacity and a spirit to English commerce which had never characterised it before. Their bank would be in truth " the bank of the million," in which they would have an inducement to deposit their smallest savings, which could again be lent on good security to those who had remunerative means for employing capital. We might have abundant harvests, yet the want of a suf ficient circulating medium would not allow the mouths of the people and the produce to come into healthful contact. The labourer had no means of getting at it because we had no banking on popu larised principles. Mr. Pellatt concluded by proposing the toast, which was duly acknowledged. Mr. OwEN then gave, "rhe Church, and religious institutions and charities of all classes ," and referred to his daily avocations bringing him into frequent contact with the indigent and necessitous. Ile had read those striking articles on " Labour and the Poor," which were now being published, and had to thank the editor of the Morning Chronicle from his heart for the information they afforded.—(Cheers.) He had earnestly pondered over these articles, and wondered what could be done to alleviate the misery they disclosed. How he wished that those who were drawing their thoughts to that subject would also direct them to some plan by which this mass of evil could be removed. He had frequently visited the desolate spots alluded to by the writer. The institu tion dearest to his heart was the London City Mis sion, which had between four and five hundred thou sand poor people under its care. But the end of all his reflection was, that we must come back to the remedy pointed out by the Being who made man, and his only hope, if this wilderness world was ever to be converted into a garden, and the mass of misery to be removed, it was in the powerful application of the truths revealed in the volume of inspiration. The Rev. Mr. MARTIN returned thanks. The CHAIRMAN proposed " The Oriental Bank of Mr. R. H. KENNEDY, Deputy-Governor of the Royal British Bank, and who is also a director of the Oriental Bank, returned thanks for the latter institution. The CHAIRMAN gave " The Joint Stock Banks, and the banking institutions generally of the United Kingdom." Mr. PATTERSON, in acknowledging the toast, ob served that it was not altogether correct to say that this bank was the first to introduce the Scottish prin ciple into England. The leading characteristic principle of the Scotch banks was first established in this country in its joint-stock banks more than twenty years ago. The joint-stock principle, how ever, was not the only principle belonging to the Scotch system. Others, perhaps more important and more valuable in their direct bearing on the commer cial community were omitted : no attempt was made even to make them known to the English people. The joint-stock banks, however, by adopting the principle which first popularised banking to a great extent, and broke up the monopoly which previously existed, earned great credit for their discernment, and were peculiarly entitled to the cordial thanks of the friends of the Royal British Bank, inasmuch as they might be truly called its pioneers.—Loud cheer ing.) This bank recommended itself to public, confidence because, although in one sense original yet it walked by the lights and guides of another nation's experience in the same course. It sought to transplant the principals of the Scottish system into England; and as much of those principles as had been transplanted here twenty years ago had taken deep root, and produced a good tree that had yielded abundant fruit.—(Cheers.) 'I he Royal British Bank, by introducing the system of cash credits and of deposits, on the principle of receiving the smallest sirs, and of allowing . interest on them, and indeed in improving on these principles, would entitle itself to the gratitude of the British community ; because it would confer, to a grea ter extent than the Joint stock banks had yet done, on a class of the com munity hitherto strangers to the benefits of banking, those advantages accruing from the joint-stock banks to the middle cla,ses, which had given them so much stability, and such great facilities for the transac tion of their business.—(Cheers.) The CHAIRMAN then p ro p ose d th e h ea lth of the foreign constituents and well-wishers of the Royal British Bank. Mr. HARTS returned thanks, and expressed a hope that the foreign b us i n e s s of the bank would become an important item in their balance sheet. The healths of Mr. Moxou, one of the trustees, and of Mr. Mullins, solicitor to the company, were seve rally given from the chair, and briefly acknowledged, in appropriate speeches, for which we have not space. Mr. PARKES then gave the health of Mr. Mac gregor, the chairman, which was drank with much cordiality; and the company shortly afterwards separated. [ Advertisement.] LLCTURES ON CONSUMPTION, &C• &C.-Dr. Cronin will commence on the 29th invent a popular course of six lectures on diseases of the Lungs, Chest, Stomach, and Liver. During the course, Dr. Cronin will illustrate by diagrams, uxicroseopicel observations, &e , his new and original theory of the nature, causes, and forma tion of tubercle, and explain his peculiar and successful mode of treating consumptive, asthmatic, and dispeptic diseases. Terms fur one course, 23.; the whole course, 103. 6d. Fur prospectuses of lectures, &c., apply be tween ten and one daily at Dr. Cronin's residence, 14 Leicester-place, Leicester-squar:. APOTHECARIES' SHALL.—Names of gentlemen who passed their examination in the science and practice of medicine, and received certificates to practise, on Wed nesday, Nov. 14, 1849:—R. Allansun Gaskell, St. Helen's, Lancashire; George Alfred Sheppard, Wor cester; David Purdie Miclean, Burton, Westmoreland; Lionel Smith, Beale; Philip Henry King, Grantham, Lincolnshire; James Warnes Saunders, Aylsham, Nor folk; William Henry Welsh, Eccles, Lancashire. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. The following is the official statement of the quantiti corn, &c., received in the port of London from the po Essex, from the 12th Nov., 1849, to the 17ih Nov., both inclusive : , A T.': Colchester Harwich .. Leigh Maldon 4: 44 - 1 3; 4£35 16 192' 90 - j 121 - , 127 CHELMSFORD, Nov 16.-There was to-day a large supply of wheat, fur which the trade was extremely slow, and last week's prices were barely maintained. Other descriptions of grain wit hind variation, and little doing in anything. Wheat, white, old 4's to 48s; new 44s to 49.; red, old 38. to 435; new, 29. to 45.; barley, 28s to 30s ; chevalier 28s to 32s ; grinding 20s to 24.; oats 17s to 23s ; malt 54s to 565; chevalier 54s to 58.; peas, partridge, new 28s to 30.; old, -s to --s ; white, new, 288 to 303; old, -s to -s ; dun, new, 27s to 29.; beans, tick, new 25s to 27s ; old, 281 to 303; harrow ticks, new 268 to 28.; old 29. to 31s; ma zagan, new 24. to 26s ; old 25s to 27s per qr. COLCHESTER, Nov. 17.-Wheat, white 448 to 48s; red 40s to 44. ; barley 28. to 32. ; beans, mazagan 24s to 28.; middle and small 283 to 30s ; pea= 26. to 3)s per qr. HADDINGTON, Nov. IC-The following are the prices of grain at our market to-day :- W heat. Barley. Oats. Bean'. ... 46. 61 283 6. 11203 6d 32. Od ... ... 353 41 22. 1;11 :.7s 81 283 91 ... .. 28s Od 15. (td I 14. 01 24; 01 quantity of Wheat in market 333 qrs., 317 sold Do. Barley do. 531 qrs., 457 sold Do. Oats • do. 450 qrs., 411 sold Do. Beans do. 34 qrs., 34 sold KIRKALDV, NOV. 17.-The following are the quotations up to this date:- Wheat. Barley. Oats. Beans. I Peas. First 443 Od 24. Od 20s 01 -s Od I-s Od Second 42. Od 19. 61 18. ed -s Od -s 01 I Third 34s Od 17 3 Od 15. 01 -s Od -s Od First Second Third Total Oatmeal, per bag of 2801 . b5. imp.. 27s to 00s Od. GLASGOW, Nov. 15.—Provisions—Cheese, 463 to 505 Od per cwt • retail, 5d to 6d per lb. Skim milk, lBs to 00s per cwt. dountry fresh butter, 9d to lld per lb; Irish pow dered, in lumps, 9d to 10d; country powdered, wholesale, lid to Bd. Country eggs, 9d per dozen ; carried hen ditto, 5s 6d per hundred, or 7d per 'dozen. Hens, 2s od per pair ; ducks, 2s Od. STIRLING, Nov. 16.—Wheat, foreign, 21s to 25s Od; ditto, home, 2 .11 Od to Os Od; ditto ditto new, 16s to 20s, barley, per boll of 6 bushels, 00s Od to 0030 d ; ditto new, lls to 17s 6d ; oats, common, 12s Od to 13s Od ; ditto new, 9s Od to lOs Od ditto, Flemish, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto ditto new, Os Od; malt distillers, 33s to 351; ditto brewers, 35s Od to 38s ; beans, per boll, Os Od to Os Od ; ditto new, 16s Od to 17s 6d; peas, 14s 6d to Os Od ; flour, new, per sack, 34s to 355; ditto common ditto, 24s Od to 25s 6d ; oatmeal, per load, Os Od to Os Od; ditto new 26s Od to 28s ; ditto per peck of 71bs, Bhd to Os Od ; fresh butter, per lb, 8d to 10d; eggs per dozen, 6d to 7d; hay per ton, •!4i to 475. _ KE.Lso, Nov. 16.—Wheat, old, 34s to 363 ; ditto, new, 21• to 34s •d ; barley, new, 12s to 17s Od ; ditto old, 00s Od to OOs ; potato oats, OOs to 00s ; ditto new, 1 1 to 13s Od ; com mon oats, OOs to OOs Od ; ditto new, 9s to 11s Od ; peas, 00A to OOs Od; beans, 2Us to 22s per boll of six imperial bushels. PERTH, Nov. 15.—Wheat, 32s Od to 44s 0d; barley, 181 to 23s Od ; oats, 14s to 16s ; peas and beans, 25s Od to 28s Od per quarter. Oatmeal, per sack, 26s to 28s. FALKIRK, Nov. 15. —The supply of grain in this day's market was 734 bolls; wheat at les Od to 21s 6d per boll ; barley, Iss 6d to 18s Od ; oats, 11s 6d to 13s 9d; beans, Its Od to 15s Od per boll ; oatmeal, Os to Os per load. HAWICK, Nov. 15.—Wheat, new, 26s Od to 329 Od; barley, new, 14s to le,s 0,1; ditto old, 00s to 00s ' • potato oats, 12s Od to 14s lid ; common oats, lis to 14s Od; peas, 234 Od to 253 Od ; beam, 23s Od to 25. Od per boll of six imperial bushels. --___ --- BERWICK, Nov. 15.—Wheat, 35s 4d; barley, 20s 3d; oats, 15s 1041 ; rye, Os Od ; beans, Os Od ; peas, 00s Od ave rage per imperial quarter. COAL MARK ET.—YESTERDAY. Bate's West Hartley... 14s 3d I Bell Cares Hartley Chester Main l4s 9d Braddyll Davison'sWest I lartley 14s 9d Hetton East Adairs Main..... 14s 3d Haswell l7s 9.1 I East Wy1am........ ..... 14s 0 d i fi utton Hasting's Hartley l4s 6d,Jonassohns Hedley's Hartley Holywell Main .. lss 3dl Lumley . l6s 3d North Percy Hartley.. 14s 3d Old Deecks I Newcastle Hartloy .. 12s 6d Russell's Hetton New Tanfield l4s 3d Stewart's Old Tanfield Ravensworth'sW.Hart 14s 6d Heugh Hall South Peareth l4B Od,Hartlepool l7s 6d Vanfield Moor .... ..... 14s 6d South Hartlepool ranfield Moor Butes... 14s Od: West Hetton l6* Od Westerten Hart ley ... 12s 6(l' Whitworth l4s oa Wylam Wall's End, &c lMaclean's Tess 153 6d Brown's ..... ... l4s 6d Seymour Tees Elm Park Go6forth .. .. Hedley ... .. .... ....... 158 6d Tees Heaton Northumberland Peareth . l4s Od I Howard's W. H. Neth. 145 9d Wharncliffe ....... 168 Od Nixon's Merthyr and Washington . Eden Main Lambton Primrose ... 16s 9d ISnapeth orpe lss Od ..... Ships at m tarkel, 406. RAILWAY ,t - tAttli MARKETS. BRISTOL, Nov. 19. STOCK ERMA KGE.—The share market was dull and de pressed to-day. The only transacti 'n was—Great Western, Quarters, 12is d;,s. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 19. STOCK ExcnA NoE.—The share market was very dull to day, and prices had a downward tendency. The transaction s were as follow : Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire (late C. and B. ), 6 per cent. till 1859, 13 Ditto, II; Shares, 10 dis.—Caledonian, Preference, 71/4 —Edinburgh and Glasgow, 30—Gr eat Northern, dis. —Ditto, 5 per con t. Preference. 2 1 / 4 dis.—Ditto ndon and York Extension) , 563. 3d. dis.—London and York, Fifths, 6% dis.—Lond on and North-Western, 112 1 / 4 c.—Ditto, New Quarters, ,l .4 1 ) . - *" Midland, 47 c.— Ditto, Halves, 22 1 4 dis.—South-Eastern and Dover, New, (No. 2), 16 dis.—Ditto,. ( No. 4), o%—York• Newcastle. and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. till 1850, 5 1 / 4 c. MANCHESTER, Nov. 19. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The transactions to-day were follow : Manche ;ter and Birmingham (C ). Quarters, Ws c. p. Dover ( Zio. 4), Scrip, 6 1 / 4 —Sheffield, Preference, 9 5-16 n.— Lee& a Ditto, 12 1 / 4 —North Staffordshire, 9 5 !1" West Riding Union, 6% n. dis. —Manchester and Lea' s ' Fifths, 6% c. dis.—Caledonian, Preference, 9 1 / 4 . BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 19. fol- STOCK EXCHAIRGE. —The transactions to-day were as - low :—North Staffordshire, 9 1 / 4 dia.—Shrewsbury and Dir. mingham, Prefer ence, Scrip, 2/. 6s. 3d. p. YORK, Nov. 17. STOCK EXCHAXGE.—The transactions to-day were follow :—Eastern Counties, 7—North Staffordshire, `,4"' York and North Midland, Preference, 5/. les. 9d. BIRTHS. On the 17th inst.. at Chesham-place, the lady of the Richard Cavendish, of a son. On the 13th i nst., at Fellfoot, the wife of F. Astley, E s q . of a daughter. On the 15th imst., at Woolwich, Mrs. Robert Talbot, of daughter. On the 15th inst., at South Bedford-street, Liverpool, till lady of G. llilbei a, 51.1)., of a son. On the 16th ii at., Mrs. F. Newton Dickenson of SYs t°li ' court, Glocesters hire, of a daughter. On the 16th inst., at Marlborough-place, Old Sent-611 c Mrs. Henry Rolls, of a son. MARRIED. At Greenock, on the 13th inst., Peter Brown. E, 1161 ,," Helen, only daughter of the late Archibald Black, r' 544 Greenock. London: Printed and Published by 1101URDO OU;NO: No. 112, Strahl, Printer, at The Sum Office, _,l l Strand, in the Precinct of the S avoy. in the coolai Middlmeezjueslty, November SO, 1849. OFFICIAL A PPOINTMEN T.—We have learned --- very great plea sure that Mr. Michael Murphy .has re' ceived an impoi7tant appointment under the new Bank" rapt Act—that of OfficialAasignee. If high and honour . able character. great intelligence, and a thorough blew ° ledge of genera I business, such as must come within th e cognizance of a Court of Bankruptcy, fit any man f °l ' position of great responsibility, surely our esteemed se. honoured fellow citizen is that man. Indeed, there is not one who kn ma Mr. Murphy but must respect b' for his genuine worth and charity; there is not one 10 1 will not sympathise in his merited good fortune; stp " surely, there iw not one who will not repose the Pr f: foundest confide ace in his impartial discharge of tuv duties of his important office. — Cork Examiner.. Look in thg heart and write. He that writes ,° himself, writes to an eternal public.—Eliza Coohs Journal. A new trade bas sprung up in Melton Mowbrai butter-market lately, a nd, w ill no doubt continue to bet followed during the dearer seasons. It is known tbe n an immense qintntity of butter is purchased at Igel t h % market for Leicester and Nottingham markets , "/ hucksters: it appears that, to lower the prices at Melteei they have resorted to a plan of making up Irish b' Dutch tub-butt er into pounds of the usual shape, tie d to , t j o mixing a few fresh lumbs for tasting, had contrivent_, sell the whole F A such, at double its value; arid thus , u ld creating a seemingly large supply, they have reduee_4 the price of th.e genuine for themselves. It is stat e J. that there were several hundredweights of this kind u° butter in on Tuesday last.—Stamford Mercury. [ADVERTISIIMENT.] —The following extraordinad Cure of a Swollun Leg by Holloway's Pills and Ointmes t published in the Adelaide Observer, South Australia :•*" George ?slundon, a settler in the colony, had been suffering for many months with a swollen leg, and the pain was so into eli° as deprive him of sleep. He w a s recommen d e d to try il i f o ; way'. Ointment and Pills, an d by us i ng She as direeteu ' to about a fortnight, a cure was so far effected as to permit bi el t walk to Adelaid e , a distance of twenty miles, to give this ste_ ment to the editor of this journal, for the information and benr fit of his fellow-creatures."—Sold by all Vendors of Medico'! and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Sti lls . j London. DIED On the 13th ult., when travelling in America, Frederic)? the second son of Sir George Strickland, Bart., M.P. on the 12th inst.. ut Harbord-honse, Richmond, Su rre Lieutenant-Colonel Rowles, 11 E I C.S. On the 13th inst., at the Gr tto , Fasildon , Maria, wir e 4 67. the Rev. G. H. Peel, formeey of Ince, Cheshire, aged on the 15th init., at Lydiard Millicent. the Rev. gent/ T. Streeten, vicar of Rodbourne Cheney, Wits, aged 43. ~ On the 111th inst., at Ardwick, Manchester , aged 16, l le r , Elizabeth, eldest daughter of John Manwar in g , pl ot , law inspector. On the 16th inst., at Brighton , aged 59, Susanne, ,? W. Smee, Esc., of the Bank of Englan d. f Fa' On the 16th inst • agett e 7, Robert Bat y, M.P., 0- light-lodge, near Hastings. On the 16th inst., in Brecknock - place , N ew Camde-at.ocart Mary, widow of the late Mr. William Dowling, of I I or square, aged 73. On the 17th inst., ag d 21, Robert, the only son of Ml ' Cannon, of Lloyd-square, Pentonville cri id 4 , I it, ies o f rt.s. in 1819, ~... L