The Sun. — London, England, 1849-12-29 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE. PALACE COURT, Westminster, Friday, Dec. 28. (Before Mr. W. BRENT BRENT.) The Court sat for the last time to-day for the transaction of public business. There were forty su mmonses under the Small Debts Act, in which several commitments were made for non-appearance and for non-payment. In one case a poor woman attended for her husband, a stonemason, who was unable to attend through illness. She stated that her family were in a state of starvation, adding, that the last article she had parted with to support her family was her bed, and she had the duplicate in her pocket for it. On the part of the plaintiff, who was stated to be a tallyman, an order was asked for, not so much with the view of sending the defendant to prison as to compel payment of the instalments ordered of 23. 6d. a week. The poor woman told the attorney's clerk that if he gave her Is. it would be a great act of charity. The Learned JUDGE declined to make an order against the defendant, and the poxr woman seemed pleased with the result. There were no causes tried on the present occasion —there was no jury summoned, and not one of the Rltir Learned Counsel appeared. The Court will be opened pro forma on Monday, and then finally close. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Dec. 28. (Before Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS.) IN RE GEORGE WILLIAM DRUMMOND user. This insolvent, a young man of twenty-two years of age, had been a lieutenant in the Royal Artillery, but was now a prisoner in Whitecross-street Prison. Mr. Nichols and Mr. Sargood opposed on behalf of several creditors, and Mr. Dowse supported. Mr. Collier, a watchmaker, at Dover, complained that on December 18, 1848, the insolvent had hired a gold watch and chain of him at the rate of half-a crown a week, but had never returned it. At the same time the insolvent asked the creditor to cash a draught upon Cox and Greenwood for 101., but he could only lend 71., which insolvent took, and had not repaid. The insolvent upon being examined by Mr. Necuoes admitted that there were many creditors in the schedule for dishonoured cheques, upon which they had advanced money. He had accepted several bills of exchange, which had been discounted, and in part payment of one of these bills he had received a set of shirt studs, valued et sixty-six guineas. His commis sion in the Royal Artillery had been forfeited in con sequence of his being absent without leave. Mr. Harborough, hosier, of Cockspur-street, said the insolvent owed him 211. 16s. for goods supplied between August, 1847, and January, 1849. He would not have trusted the insolvent had he known at the time that he was so much in debt. Mr. Cater, army-cap-manufacturer, of Pall-mall, stated that on November 29, 1848, the insolvent called upon aim, and after ordering an undress cap asked him to cash an order upon his agents, which he did not want presented until Dec. 1, as he was short of money and wanted to leave town directly. Wit ness gave the insolvent 141, the amount of the order, but the latter was never paid. The insolvent was then examined by Mr. SARGOOD —He said that when he gave the order upon Cox and Co. to Mr. Cater his account was overdrawn. He still owed his agents a balance of 15/. He supposed that he might have twelve creditors in his schedule for clothing supplied. (Mr. Sargood said they were eighteen in number.) lie believed there might be eighteen creditors for borrowed money, whose debts altogether might amount to 2001. He owed a dressing-case maker 42/. for a dressing case costing 201. ; a dispatch box, 101. 10s., and one or two other articles. Those articles were now in the possession of Mr. Eustace Murray, a graduate at Magdalen College, Oxford, to whom he had handed them on account of 23/. which that gentleman had lent him and paid for him. Mr. Wilkinson, a creditor in the schedule, cashed an order upon Cox and Co. for 101. in April last. At that time his account with his agents was overdrawn. He wanted that money to pay the rent of a lady at Brompton. He owed one creditor 16/. for cigars, to whom he had previously paid 45/. Mr. Commissioner PHILLIPS observed that it was impossible to look at the schedule without being con vinced of the utter recklessness of the insol vent's condsact, which was only mitigated by the excuse—a poor one—of hie youth. Mr. SARGOOD said, the corps to which the insolvent had belonged was the one in the British army which presented itself most rarely to this court. In reply to Mr. Dowse, the insolvent said he re ceived his commission in July, 1846, at which time he was between 18 :and 19 years of age. Some few of the debts in the schedule were contracted while he was under age, but not many. At the time he gave the cheque to Mr. Collier he had not received his accounts from his agents. He knew he had over drawn his account, but did not know that he had done so so largely as it appeared ; and he believed that Messrs. Cox would have paid Mr. Collier's cheque, as they had already allowed him to over draw. Soon after hiring the watch and chain from Mr. Collier he came to London, and iu a scuffle in the streets at one o'clock in the morning, the watch was drawn out of his pocket, thrown down, trodden on, and broken to pieces. The remains he gave away, there and then, to a woman who was standing by. To some of the creditors he had paid money, but to many he had not. He did not remember ever being questioned by any tradesman about his circumstances. When he entered the Royal Artillery, in addition to his pay of 124/. a year, he received presents from his friends ; but these latter had been discontinued during the last year and a half on account of his extrava gance. He had been in prison since May, and had received very little assistance from his relatives. He had received 8/. from his late brother officers at Woolwich. The insolvent's uncle was called to prove that the insolvent had a reversionary interest in some property under his father's marriage settlement. His father was the late Mr. D. Hay, Consul at Morocco. Mr. NICHOLS addressed the Court, and said the insolvent's conduct had been in startling contrast to that usually pursued by the officers of the gallant corps to which he had recently belonged—a corps whose members scarcely ever appeared in this court —a fact which reflected as much honour upon them as gentlemen as their efficiency in the art of war con ferred upon them as soldiers. The Learned Counsel submitted that the insolvent had been guilty of the grossest extravagance, and had contracted all his debts without any expectation of paying them, the debt of Mr. Collier in particular having been contracted with fraud. Mr. SARGooD felt that the youth and inexperience of the insolvent would be a great extenuation if the debts had the simple character of extravagance, or if there were any evidence of his simplicity having been practised upon by clever knaves, but the history disclosed by the schedule told a different tale—that the insolvent had evinced great tact and actual fraud in obtaining the means to pursue his reckless career. Mr. DOWSE admitted the imprudence and the reck lessness of the insolvent, but urged that his extreme youth must be taken as a great mitigation for his indiscretions. When he joined his corps he was, be sides his pay, in the receipt of an allowance from his friends, which he considered would be continued. Those friends had paid his debts more than twice before, and the insolvent hoped that they would do so again. It was this expectation that had, perhaps, induced him foolishly to incur the present debts. The insolvent had been guilty of folly, but he had been more than six months in prison, and he (the Learned Counsel) hoped that that detention would be held a sufficient punishment, and spare the Court the neces sity of pronouncing a remand. Mr. Commissioner Primaps said the case was an extremely painful one. It was quite impossible for any one, himself a father, to look upon the young man before the Court without feeling sorrow. Such feelings, however, could not be allowed to intercept the course of public justice, and although he might regret the appearance in this court of a young man at the outset of life in the station of a gentleman, yet that sentiment was mitigated by the circumstance that his appearance here was en tirely his own fault. He (Mr. Commissioner Phillips) always considered in these cases whether the debt had been incurred by the solicitation of the creditors, be• cause where such was the case he would never for a moment listen to the creditors' complaint, unless the insolvent's conduct had been tainted with fraud. Here, however, no such facts had been proved. It was not averred by the insolvent that he had been induced to incur these debts through the importuni ties of the creditors. The insolvent had arrived at a period of life when the law declared him able to manage his own affairs ; he had entered a respectable corps, and was in possession of a sufficient in come to maintain himself respectably in society. This was the case of a young man soliciting money in every quarter, a young man utterly reckless in his expenditure, perfectly indifferent as to his means of repayment, and whose sc h e d u l e presented itself covered with the most frightf u l extrava gance, in debt to every species of tradesman. In the oourse of eighteen months he bad incurred bon& fide consideration debts to the extent of 1,0111. H o , was it possible such conduct could be excused ? H e (the Commissioner) would be altogether neglecting his duty to society, and to the creditors, who appeared to be in nowise to blame—he should be neglecting the duty imposed upon him by the Act of Parliament, were he to shut his eyes to such delinquency. The insolvent not only had no expectation of being able to pay the debts, but seemed to have been utterly care less about paying them at all. His friends had twice before paid his debts, so that he had in fact been twice before insolvent, and y e t w h en th e generos i ty of his friends had been compelled to cease, he persisted in continuing the same careless system of extrava gance. Taking all the circumstances of the case into consideration, he felt bound - to award to the insolvent THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 29, 1849. a remand of eight calendar months from the date of his vesting order, at the suit of the complaining credi tors, for contracting their debts without reasonable expectation of payment. Tbis judgment would keep the insolvent about six months longer in prison, and it was to be hoped would teach him in future to avoid such ways as would lead to this court. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. A butcher, named Tunnage, was summoned before the Lord Mayor by Mr. Fisher, Inspector of Meat of the City of London, for having exposed for sale a quantity of beef which was not fit to be eaten by human beings. The complainant—At nine o'clock on Saturday night I walked into the shop of Joseph Gardner, No. 53, Aldgate High •street, and saw two quarters of beef hanging upon a nail there, and seized them as unfit for human food. I saw the defendant, who admitted that they belonged to him, and said he had purchased them of a wholesale butcher in White chapel. I then took them to the greenyard, and brought them to the Mansion-house on Monday, and received an order from the magistrate to destroy them, which I accordingly have done. The defendant rents the front of the shop of Mr. Gardner, and was selling on that night, and the Whitechapel butcher said he had sold the meat to him for 4d. per stone. It was in a high state of inflammation, and had probably an- ticipated the knife. The defendant said he had purchased the meat in broad day, in the open market, for dogs' and cats' meat, and not for human food. Mr. Fisher—lt was hanging along with other meat, and Whitechapel market is not a place for the sale of dogs' meat. The defendant said he was in the habit of selling an immense quantity of stale tongues, bullocks' hearts, and other parts of the animal for dogs' meat. Mr. Fisher—lt is my duty to seize. all exposed meat which is unfit for human food. The LORD MAYOR Certainly. I fine the de fendant 20s. and costs. Mr. Fisher—These men seem to think that the inside of the shop is not the open market, and that they can do whatever they please within doors with impunity. It would be of service to them probably, and I am sure it would be serviceable to the public, if they were convinced of the contrary. The LORD MAYOR—Bring all here whom you find acting as if they entertained that foolish opinion. Charles Lowland, a young fellow who was five years ago taken as an apprentice into the house of Messrs. Causton and Jones, printers and stationers, of 47, East Cheap, was brought up in the custody of Haddington the officer, charged with having robbed his employers, whose practice it has been to take lads into their employment without fee as apprentices. Mr. Causton had for some time observed deficien cies in the till, and proceeded towards the detection of the thief upon the advice of the officer, who one day went into the shop, and purchased two reams of paper for 165., which he paid for in a half•sovereign, two half crowns, and a shilling, all of which he had marked. The prisoner's duty was to pay over all he received into the hands of the clerk, and of that money he had paid over only 103. Subsequently the marked money was found in his pocket. It is believed that his plunder, of which he had laid aside a considerable sum for future comforts, must have amounted to between 4001. and 600/. The prisoner gave &confused, unintelligible account of the manner in which he became possessed of the marked money, and nas committed for trial. Mr. Nelson deposed, that about a fortnight ago the prisoner entered his service, and up to the preceding evening nothing occurred to cause himself or his daughter to complain of her conduct. About four o'clock on the evening before his daughter, on find ing the coal-cellar filled with smoke, gave an alarm, and on his (witness's), with some difficulty, making his way through the dense smoke into the cellar, he found a box in which shavings, wood, and turf were in flames. The latter had reached the flooring, and ignited the joists, and had the fire not been disco vered so opportunely, and extinguished so promptly, the house and those adjoining must have been de stroyed. Supposing, however, that it might have occurred by accident, by the prisoner being in the cellar with a candle, end a spark falling into the box, he did not say anything to her, but allowed her to at tend to her business as usual. At about 6 o'clock,while at tea in the drawing-room, something was heard to fall on the landing-place of the next floor resembling a candlestick, and, on going out to see what was the matter, he found the whole of the lobby of the upper part of the house in flames. By a good supply of water he was enabled, after much exertion, to subdue the flames ; and then discovered that the fire had evidently been caused by a light having been applied to some silk and other dresses hanging up there, and all of which, to the amount of 151., had been destroyed. lie subsequently found that the prisoner had also set fire to the curtains to the bed in which she slept, and which were completely destroyed. Mr. ELLIOTT—Did the .114 mes from those curtains extend to anything else ? Mr. Nelson—No, Sir ; they seemed to have exhausted themselves on con suming the bed-curtains. Mr. ELLIOTT—Is there any part of the building, the flooring, or pictures burnt? Mr. Nelson—Oh, yes ; the joists in the cellar are much burnt, and the bannisters and flooring of the top landing are also much injured. _ _ Mr. ELLIOTT—Did you see the prisoner at the time the upper landing, as you have stated, was on fire ? Mr. Nelson—l did ,not, Sir; she absented herself for about a quarter of an hour, or, at least, she was not to be seen for that time, when her ser vices were much required to carry up water to extin guish the flames. Mr. ELLIOTT—Has she said anything to you about either fire? Mr. Nelson—Ne, she has not; but I understand that she has to the policeman. In con clusion he (witness) said, that bad it not been for the alarm caused by the slight noise resembling the fall of a candlestick, the room, and perhaps the whole house in which it was placed, must have been destroyed. Fire or ten minutes more would have given the flames such an ascendancy, that it would have been impossible for him Ito subdue them, or pre vent their spreading all over the house. The constable who took the prisoner said that at the station-house the prisoner was asked why she did it, and her reply was that she did not like to be out as a servant, ant she did it to get home again. The prisoner, after receiving the usual caution from the magistrate, said the thing was quite accidental. She was remanded to a future day. HAMMERSMITH. On Thursday just before the close of the court, a young man named Edward Davis was brought before Mr. Beadon, in the custody of Inspector Drake, V division, on numerous charges of burglary and robbery. Inspector Drake said, he had no doubt the magis trate would remember that on Monday last a middle aged woman named Anne Perkins was charged before him with having been concerned in a robbery that had been committed on the premises of Mr. Salmon, the landlord of the King's Arms public-house, Fulham road, Little Chelsea, on the 19th instant. The evi dence against her was, that she had pledged on the morning of the 20th instant, the day following the night of the robbery, at the shop of Mr. Wolsten hohne, a pawnbroker in Liquorpond-street, Gray's Inn road, a lady's paletot, a green velvet scarf, a blue scarf, and a gown for 155., all of which were identi fied by Mr. Salm on as aving formed a portion of the property stolen. On that evidence the prisoner was remanded until Saturday next. From informa tion which he had subsequrn'ly received, he had ascertained that the robbery in question had been committed by the prisoner at the bar, whom he had that day succeeded in apprehending, after much in quiry. He had also ascertained that the prisoner had been likewise concerned in several daring burglaries recently committed in the neighbourhood of Battersea. If the prisoner were remanded for a day, he should be prepared with the necessary witnesses to prove four clear cases of burglary against him as well as the above robbery. Mr. BEADOS said, that as the principal charges against the prisoner had occurred in the county of Surrey, he thought the cases had better be taken at the Wandsworth court than on this side of the water. The inspector had therefore better bring him up the next morning before him (Mr. Beadon), when he would either go into the cases or remand him to a future day. Yesterday the inspector informed the magistrate that on the previous day the prisoner Davis was removed from the court to Milman's-row, Chelsea, station of the division, for safe custody until his re moval in the morning to the Wandsworth police court, but he was sorry to say that shortly after he had been placed in one of the cells of that station, and left alone for a few minutes, on his being again visited, it was discovered that he had committed sui cide by hanging himself, and, although the body was still quite warm, and a surgeon was immediately in attendance, life was quite extinct. Mr. BMADON said it was to be regretted that the matter bad terminated in the manner it bad, but of course it could not be further proceeded into. An order was then made for the discharge of the female prisoner, who would have been admitted as a witness in the case. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Victoria, cap. 32, fer the Week ending on Saturday, the 22d day of December, 1849. ISSUE DEPAZTXENT. Notes Issued.— .... 30,284,630 Government debt • • 11,015,100 Other securities •• • • 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion 16,007,563 Silver bullion • • • • • • 277,077 £30,284,630 I X 30,284,630 M. MARSHALL, Chief Cashier. r, 1849. oZPAZTIIII24T. Dated the 27th day of Decembei 2.14NX1X0 D Z. Proprietors' capital . • 14,553,000 Rest •••-••• • • • • • • • 3,114,159 Public deposits (in cluding Exchequer, Commissioners of National Debt, Sav ings -banks, and Di vidend accounts)" 10,263,704 Other deposits • . • • 9,486,680 Sven day and other i Government secnri- ties (including Dead Weight Annuity) • • 14,350,850 Other securities .• • 10,860,565 Notes •••• • • •• 12,451,220 Gold and silver coin.. 796,012 Ws" :. •••••• •• • • 1,069,234 £38,468,677 38,488,677 MARSTLILL, Chief Cashier. 1849. Dated the 27th day of Deeeml GRINTON PIER.--TO protect this pier from the mud and sand which were gradually accumulating around it, the Duke of Buccleugh has found it neces sary to construct a breakwater on the western side, at a cost of about 70,0001. We understand that a similar breakwater will have to be erected on the eastern side, involving a similar outlay of 70,0001. These outlays were, or course, never contemplated, and the necessity for them is a cause of considerable regret.—North British Mail. _ _ A GANG OF BURGLARS.—Soon after twelve o'cock on Friday night, four men went to the farm-house of Mr. Taverner, who resides between Moreton and Fyfield, and having awoke the occupants of the house, requested an audience with Mr. Taverner, stating that they were members of the constabulary, and wanted to speak to him. Mr. Taverner, however, suspecting them to be in pursuit of a very different object to that represented, fetched his gun and advised them to retire peaceably, or threatened to fire upon them. At first they only ridi culed him, and seemed beat upon effecting an entrance; but at the first discharge the miscreants thought it beat to decamp. The same party then proceeded to the house of Mr. Smith. of Moreton, and three of them having laid in ambush, one of them aroused the inmates, imploring their assistance, and stating that his horse had fallen down in the road ; the son of Mr. Smith having opened the door, four men with their faces covered with black crape rushed in, demanding money. Seeing that ho must be overpowered by numbers. Mr. Smith, who is an aged man, offered no resistance, and the burglars ransacked the room, taking from the hutch a A/. note of the Essex Bank, with about 3/. in gold and silver; they also took away a silver watch, a hat, some bread and meat, and effected their escape. There is no doubt that these men form members of a gang of desperadoes who have been the terror of the neighbourhood for a long time.—Essez Standard. THE MANCHESTER COMMERCIAL Assocranow.— A meeting of the directors of the above association was hAI on Thursday, at the offices, York Hotel-building, when Mr. James Aspinall Turner, President of the Association, occupied the chair. Mr. Leone Levi, Hone. rary Secretary of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce, attended to explain his views on the expediency of amalgamating this association with the Chamber of Commerce, and co. operating with the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce to obtain from Parliament an Act to establish in all commercial towns tribunals of commerce, to be composed of commercial men, with a legal judge as pre sident, permanently sitting to decide all cases of com mercial disputes. Mr. Levi also suggested the propriety of adopting some mode whereby the President of the Board of Trade would be enabled to obtain the constant assistance of mercantile mea in the formation of all enactments affecting our trade and commerce. A long discussion ensued, and the subject was ultimately ad journed for future consideration. Oa Saturday last a four-oared punt left the shore for the purpose of putting a man on board a vessel bound up, having accomplished which they were return ing by the west side of the jetty, when a heavy seastruck the boat, and upset it. With difficulty the men gained a footing on the rock, and were immediately assisted in without further damage than a soaking.—Kentish Observer. _ _ Dispatches were sent off yesterday evening from the Colonial•office, for the Governors of the North American Colonies, SOUTH AUSTRALIAN COMPANY. A !general meeting of this company ;was held yesterday, at their offices, New Broad-street, City ; J. Ruddell Todd, Esq., Chairman, presiding. Mr. DAVID M'LAREN, the manager, read a supple mentary report of the society's operations from Oct. 31, 1848, to April 30, 1849, in which the directors stated that the expectation which they had repeatedly ex pressed of increased income from their rent rolls had been fully realised. The addition to their rental, secured during these six months, was as follows : Increase to the annual rental of the town property, 281/. 125.; ditto port buildings, 313/. ; ditto country lands, 9161. 175.; the increase in the net receipts of the wharf during the same period amounts to 2661. 6s. ld., making a total of 1,7771. 15s. ld. By dispatches to the 24th August, information had been received from the Colonial Manager of further leases effected during the preceding four months, as follows :—Of country lands, 3,009 acres, annual rental (being nearly ss. 81 per acre, average), 851/. 14s. ; of town lands, rather less than four acres, for 21 years, thiefly on building leases, 1791. 10s. Od.; of port lands, of small rear allot ments, 131. Bs. 01. ; total, 1,0441. 12s. Od. During the six months from October, 1848, to April, 1849, only two country sections had been sold, yielding a surplus beyond the valuation in last in ventory of 2501. The sales of the town acres had been confined to portions of those of which part had been previously sold, excepting two acres in North Adelaide, which realised 1001. above the inventory rates. There was reason to believe that by this time opera tions had commenced for forming a railroad from Adelaide to the Port, and, as the terminus was likely to be on their land, in the rear of the extended wharf, their property there would become still more valuable. Some very advantageous sales of small allotments, had in consequence been made, at a rate rather exceeding 2,0001. per acre. Fortunately they had upwards of a hundred acres there, with a continuous line of frontage to the harbour, upwards of a mile long. A steam tug was in active employment at Port Adelaide, and machinery and drawings fur a dredging vessel had been sent, for which the Colonial Government pro vided the funds. These measures should greatly benefit the harbour, and afford facilities for the con tinued improvement of their property. The portion of last year's clip of wool, which was sold after the annual meeting, did not bring quite so good prices as that sold in May. The net proceeds of the wool amounted to 5,662/. ls., as against 3,6241.65..71 of the preceding year. The market had decidedly improved, and the prospects for next year are very encouraging. The sales of sheep, and value of those killed for ra tions during the six months preceding the 30th April last, amount to 1,232/. 7s. 2d. The mining opera tions of the company continued to be carried on, to a very limited extent, and on the most cautious prin ciples. The board had repeatedly advised their agent that it would be more agreeable to them if they could succeed in granting sets of these mineral lands to those who would work them with spirit - , judgment, and perseverance, and pay them a fair royalty —than working them on the company's account. Messrs. Thomas have erected smelting works at Ran mantoo, agreeably to which all their ores fur two y ears were to be smelted by them, and returned to them in copper. This would give a value to low ores, which could not have paid freight and charges to England. A quantity of ore had been sold to a smelting com pany in Van Diemen's Land, and previously to the 18th April there had been delivered to them 25 tons, at 121. 13s. per ton. The directors had studiously avoided exciting sanguine expectations as to the probable produce of their mineral lands, and they thought it necessary to caution the shareholders against attaching undue importance to it. Gol I had been found in several parts of the company's land. A scientific practical mine surveyor of high character had shown them specimens cf the gold, and stated that he should consider himself remunerated for superintending such workings with one fifth part of the net profits derived therefrom. This information was transmitted to the board by Mr. Giles so recently as on the Ist August last. Emigration still steadily continued both of the labouring classes and of those possessed of capital. Increased facilities (much called for by the colonists) will have been afforded ere this, for legitimate banking business, by the establishment in Adelaide of a branch of the Union Bank of Aus tralia. Upon the whole the board congratulated the proprietors on the steadily increasing revenue of the company, their favourable prospects, and the rapid progress which the colony had made in all the elements of a general and most substantial prosperity. The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the report, said it was almost unnecessary for him to mike any observations, as they had endeavoured, and be hoped with a tolerable degree of success, to supply the shareholders with information up to the latest period. The conveyance of dispatches was now rather difficult and tedious, but by means of overland intercourse their information was within a period of three months. The report would show that they were progressing as rapidly and fairly to that system of things whieh would exclude everything of a doubtful or speculative nature. The rise in the price of wool would enable them to get rid of their flocks without loss ; and they expected that they would soon be in a position to have applied to the mines the industry, capital, and activity of others, instead of working the minerals themselves. Mr. ',Amnia cordially seconded the resolution, thinking that the directors had done everything to promote the interests of the company. Mr. MILLER said he was gratified to see that the income of the company had increased by 2,0001., but he was anxious to know how much bad altogether been expended in their mining operations. The CHAIRMAN replied that the total amount, in cluding everything connected with the mines since they commenced working in December, 1845, was 31,000/., but there was to be set against this, 8,8001. which was received by sales of ores in this country, and also 8,9001., the estimated increased value of the land ; and he thought there was a very good prospect of recovering the remainder by royalties or by fur ther sales of ores. After a short discussion the reportlwas agreed to and ordered to be printed. s _ _ Mr. MILLER moved a resolution to the effect that, in consequence of the great risk and uncertainty attending mining operations, the meeting was of opinion that it was inexpedient to employ the funds of the association in working or preparing their mineral property. The motion was seconded by Mr. WATSON. The CHAIRMAN said there was no one more against mining operations than he was, and the directors had already done what this resolution expressed, for they had given positive instructions that no more of the company's capital should be employed in mines which would not pay a profit. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chairman, and the meeting separated. The weekly meeting of the above society was held in the committee-rooms, on Sunday, the 22d—Mr. Kickham in the chair. Several members were en rolled. The rent to be paid for the rooms was de termined, and the treasurer handed money to the secretary to pay the debts of the society. Some of the members of the committee handed in returns of the agricultural produce of their respective townlands, and the number of inhabitants in each ; the census of the parish will be soon completed, and we fear that the decrease both in the produce and people of the parish will be startling.—Tipperary Free Press. TsE FUNDS.—The Three per Cent. Consols, 96k; ditto for opening, 013 i I; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock, 961 i; Patriotic Insurance Company, 7; Wicklow Copper Mine, 9i; Great Southern and Western Railway, 30; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 54 FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE OF FRIDAY. DOWNING-STREET, DEC. 28, 1849. The Queen has been pleased to appoint the Rev. James Burrowes to be Colonial Chaplain for her Majesty's settlements in the Gambia. ller Majesty has also been pleased to appoint the R :v. Reginal Robert Bradley to be Colonial Chaplain for her Majesty's forte and settlements on the Gold Coast. T. Wyatt, Oxford-terrace, King's-road, Chelsea, builder, 2s. 2d., on Saturday, Dec. 29, and three subse quent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Sambrook court, Basinghall-street. J. L. Norton, Birmingham, stationer and printseller, 2s. Bd., on any Thursday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Christie, Birmingham. J. Harper, Dudley, Worcestershire, and Walsall, Tipton, and Bilston, Staffordshire, mercer and draper, 5P., and 4s. sed., on new proofs, on Tuesday, Jan. 8, or any subsequent Tuesday, between eleven and one, ay the office of Mr. Fraser, Manchester. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall •street._ _ _ R. Knight, Albert-place, Mitcham-road, Surrey, eetist(ivietualler and timber dealer, Jan. 26, at ehiven —C. W. De Bernardy, Salisbury-square, bill broker, money scrivener, and commission agent, Jan. 21, at one —S. Leggatt, Nor 'via, innkeeper, Jan. 9, at half• past eleven—R. Harris, Northtmpton, carpenter, Jan. 19, at eleven—J. 0. Culyer, Edmonton, gasfitter, contractor, and engineer, Jan. 24, at eleven—J. C. has, Norwich, haberdasher, Jan. 18, at twelve. In the Country. W. Bates, Tithby, Nottingham, horse dealer, Jan. 25, at ten, at the Court, Nottingham—R. E. Saxton, Crich, Derbyshire, jeweller, Jan. 25, at ten, at the Court, Not tingham—J. Smith, New Sleaford, Lincolnshire, whar: finger, coal dealer and auctioneer, Jan, 25, at ten, at the Court, Nottingham. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. _ _ T. T. Clarke, Sunderland, baker, after 21 days from Dec. 20—S. A. 11. qt, Cullum-street, Fenchurch-street, trwrehant. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Morse and D. Price, Cork- stre..t, Burlington gardens, tailors—W. Figgins, J. Hidden, and J. W. Lots, Manchester, ale and porter dealers—R. G. llig gins, and A. H. Godbv, Newport, Shropshire, surgeons —C. Egg and ii. Egg, Piccadilly, gunmakers—T. Haigh and D. Hodgkins, Liverpool, general town carriers—R. Furneaux and C. Furleaux, Brixhain, Devonshire, ship builders—T. P. Teale and J. Teale, Leeds, surgeons— T. Druce and W. I)ruce, Swan walk, Chelsea, coal and timber-merchants—R. Stanton and N. Gosling, Lancas ter, drapers—ll. Waithman and P. C. Beckie, Old Broad -street, City, silk-brokers—J. Band and J. Ridg way, Woolley-bridr, Derbyshire, corn and provision dealers—C. Lange and E. Kroll, Leicester-street, Leicester-square, hotel. keepers. GUILDHALL. In the course of the morning Sir Peter Laurie entered the justice-room, and begged the sitting magistrate to allow him to express his thanks to the press for the kindness with which it bad assisted him in tracing a poor man who was missing, and was supposed to be drowned. The notice taken by the press had elicited that the man was alive. He had written to his brother, Mr. Petrie, of Dun dee, from Kent, and had removed the anxiety for his fate which had arisen in his family. He (Sir P. Laurie's) correspondent wrote, " I know not all you have done in regard to the matter, but your giving publicity to my letter has been the means, under God, of meeting the eye of the object sought for. Accept, then, of my tribute of thanks for your great kindness in answering the prayer of an entire stranger." MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Thomas Eagles, town-traveller to Mr. J. Rogers, .obacconist, 392, Oxford-street, was charged with having embezzled various sums of money belonging to his employer. The prisoner was fully committed. W ORSHIP-STRE ET. Sarah Jane Smith was charged with robbing her landlady, Mrs. Anne Binkes, the wife of a mechanic at Cambridge-heath. The prosecutrix stated that the prisoner had occu pied furnished apartments in her house for a consi derable time past, and always paid her rent with ex treme regularity until about a week ago, when she, fell a fortnight in arrear, and witness being in want of the money, 11s., pressed her for payment. On the following Monday (last Monday) she paid her the amount, but witness having received a private intimation that she had most probably been paid out of the produce of some portion of her own goods, she went up to the prisoner's apartment, and intimated her suspicions, upon which the prisoner at once admitted the fact, intreated her forgiveness, and promised, if she would afford her time to do so, to return all her property in a week or two. Upon examining the place, however, she found that not only had the sheets, blankets, pil lows, and other articles disappeared, but that even the bed itself bad been taken, and as the value of the whole was about 51., and she could not afford the loss, she immediately called in a policeman, and gave the prisoner into custody. The prisoner burst into tears, and stated that she was the daughter :of a licensed victualler, who had formerly been in very affluent circumstances, but had, through a series of misfortunes, been deprived of his business, and was now reduced to such distress, with a large family to provide for, that he could only allow her (the prisoner) half-a-crown per week for her support. She was a very good needlewoman, and therefore had recourse to that for a subsistence, and was for some time so successful that she was not only enabled to employ a number of other needle women under her, but also to respectably furnish a small house out of her earnings, and for some time was doing exceedingly well, when all of a sudden the work fell off, and then declined so rapidly that she was obliged to discharge all her hands, not having work enough for herself, and ultimately lost the whole of her furniture also. She then took the prosecu trix's lodgings, and after working hard for many weeks at needlework which produced her only half a-crown to 3s. per week, and pawning all her wearing apparel and other articles to the value of 201., to pro cure food and pay the prosecutrix her rent, amount ing to 4s. per week, she had no longer anything to raise money upon, and to save herself from starvation, and pay Mrs. Binkes the 1 ls. she pressed her for, she was tempted to make temporary use of the prosecu trix's goods, without considering she was committing a crime, as she paid for the hire of them, and with the full intention of restoring them, unknown to her, as soon as she could again get employment, which she was promised in a fortnight by two houses in the City, for whom she had long worked, but whom she had daily called upon for some time past without avail. In proof of her assertion the prisoner exhibited to the magistrate her fingers, which appeared to be literally seamed with needlemarks, and offered, if the prosecutrix would give her time, to place in her hands as security duplicates for property to ten times the amount she was sued for—ll. 155., and appealed to the pawnbroker then in attendance, whether he had not goods of hers in his possession one to the amount of at least 201. The pawnbroker answered that he had no doubt he had, and also stated that the prisoner had always appeared to him to be a very respectable and well conducted young woman. In answer to the magistrate's questions, the pro secutrix admitted that the prisoner's conduct, whilst in her house, had been of the most unexceptionable character; she was constantly engaged at needle. work the whole of the day, till lately, when she seemed to have nothing to do, and she knew that her connexions were very respectable. She, however, pressed the charge with much severity against her, though repeatedly appealed to by the prisoner not to send her to prison, which would be her ruin ; and the prisoner having stated that she had no friend in town but her father, who had been running about all day like a madman, on hearing of her being in custody, to endeavour to raise the money, Mr. HAMMILL said that as the prisoner was ad mitted by the prosecutrix to have previously borne an excellent character, and had conducted herself in the most straightforward manner when accused of the offence, and it must inevitably ruin her reputation if she were committed to gaol, he would advise her to accept the security the prisoner had offered, and allow her the time she sought for the restoration of her property, which she certainly would not procure if the prisoner were committed. The prisoner was perfectly unjustified in the course she had pursued, but it was hard to say what a woman might do in a state of starvation, and he thought the fortnight ought to be allowed her, but he must at the same time tell the prisoner that she would certainly be committed at the expiration of that period if the prosecutrix were not then satisfied. The prosecutrix, but with great reluctance, ulti mately acceded to this arrangement, and the prisoner was in the meantime liberated upon a 201. recog niz mice. LAMBETH. Mary Glennon, a girl fourteen years of age, was placed at the bar before Mr. Elliott on a charge of wilfully setting fire to the dwelling-house of Mr. John C. Nelson, No. 20, Church-street, Old Kent road. IRELAND. FROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) DUJLIN, THURSDAY EVENING, DEC. 27. The stereotype dictum of " No news," holds still. Last night we had a bad pantomine in the Queen's, and far worse in Hawkins'•street. But as first representations of such matters are seldom successful with critics, it is very probable both will prove remunerative. A representation, at Hawkins-street, of the Royal Family, very infelicitously introduced, caused a great outcry, and the poor quasi Prince of Wales, dressed en matelot — not, indeed, as a British tar, scampered off at the first dissonance of his reception. The political allu sions were all in exceedingly bad taste, though pretty well " put in," and were accordingly vociferously reprobated by the denizens of the upper spheres. The libretto is written by Captain Leicester Smith, and even exceeds that gentleman's capacity for writing nonsense. If the Solicitor-General (Mr. Hatchell) does not stand for Windsor, in the room of Lord John Hay, Mr. Baldwin, Q.C., chairman of Cork, and sergeant at-law, must undergo the ordeal and the costs of an election. Governmeut are determined to have one legal officer from Ireland in the Imperial Parliament ; and, heaven knows, poor Monahan, the Attorney-General, has no chance of advancing any in terest in a deliberative assembly. Let the royal pocket borough of Windsor get ready for the recep tion of an Irish Attorney-General's devil, or provin cial chairman, if the fat and factious Hatchell don't " take on." Saunders to-day says, Dr. Kirwan, the Presi dent of the Galway College, is dead. We have no letter or paper from the west to confirm or contradict the report; but I would not be surprised to hear of the learned gentleman's decease, for he has been for some time labouring under a paralytic attack. Mr. Francis Morgan was this day re-elected law adviser t o th e C or p o ration of Dublin. The richest thing in this business is, that poor Morgan had to run to France last year, for a suspected intention of breaking, along with Smith O'Brien and the rest, the law, which I suppose experience will now b e tt er enable him to expound. This is about the f u nnie s t thing that has occurred since this pantomime season set in. There are three country papers in to-day. They don't contain anything except a fair or so. Moscvasona FAIR.—The monthly fair of this town was held on Friday last, and was the largest held for some time past. The day being fine there was a large attendance of both buyers and sellers. The supply of horses was above an average, and sold pretty freely, particularly those for farming purposes. A few good horses were sold. The cattle market was large also, but no improvement was visible, except in beef, which sold well at pretty fair prices. Sheep and pigs sold very well, but there was no advance in price. The linen market was very large, but sales were dull with a downward tendency ; 3,000 webs were sold princi pally by the drapers or manufacturers.—Newry Tdc. graph. MULLINAHONI TENANT PROTECTION SOCIETY.— INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Thomas Edward Couch, Giant's Grave, near Britton ferry, Glarnorganshire, sailmeker. Howell Morgan, Wick, Glamorganshire, publican. Joseph Turner, Worcester, bout and shoemaker. William Girdlescone, Tilney, Norfolk, plumber. William Clare, West Lynn, Norfolk, gardener. Peter Fiet , is, jun., Ki►sg's Lynn, Norf::,lk, musieseller. sanucl Stokes,. Dudley, Worcestershire, commission agent. Catherine. Simmonds, W 4 st Bromwich, Staffordshire. Robert Leckie, Iluddenfield, commercial traveller. Daniel Ward, Huddersfield, beerseller. Ed ward King, Bri-cknock, dentist. John tShenfiZld, Norwich, chairmaker. Edward Moss, Brecknock, baker. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. W. Barrowman Rawyairds, grccer, to meet within the Old Exchange Tavern, Glasgow, Jan. 2 and 23, at one. A. Mackay, Easter Ardross, Ross-shire, ironmonger and blacksmith, to meet within Mackay's Crown and Anchor Hotel, Thin, Jan. 4, and Feb. 1, at one. W. Deans, Leith, merchant, to meet within Dowell's Room, Edinburgh, Jan. 3 and 31, at two. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending December 25, 1849, is 275. 6 1 ,, d. per cwt. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current, Dec. 28.) Suca.u.—There is a smaller stock of Colonial than last year by 17,000 tons, but of Foreign the increase amounts to 16,000; in the former there is a decrease in imports of 5,000, but an increase in the latter of 8,000. The quantity of Colonial cleared for home u,e is larger than in 1848 up to this time by 23,0003 but of Foreign deliveries exhibit a falling off of 11,000 tons. For exportation the quantity taken ex ceeds that of last season by about 3,000 tons. The Ga zette average price of Sugar is 3s 6id per cwt above this time last year. Although the production of Sugar in 1850 is expected to be fully equal to this season, still more remunerative prices are expected to prevail, as consumption in this country, in Europe, and America, is likely to further increase. The Sugar market has been closed since our last, but business will be resumed on Wednesday, when a good home trade demand for Sugar is likely to exist, as dealers hold only limited stocks. The public sales of Sugar at present declared for next week, comprise 150 hhds Barbadoes, and 7,800 bags Manilla, but other par cels are expected to be announced before that time, and are likely to go off well. REFINED.—There is much firmness in the market, and at an early period a large home trade demand is expected to prevail for lump Sugar. Stocks are small and less than at this time in the former year. For brown lumps the value is 50s to 50s 6d. Standard Lumps 51s 6.1 ; Tittlers, low to fine 503 6d to 545, double 54s 6d to 555. Hamburgh Loaves 51s to 54s Gcl, and double 55s to 565; there are not free sellers for delivery at present rates. Sales of Wet Lumps have been made at 48s to 49s for low to fine. Bastards are not much wanted, at from 31s to 37s for low to fine, but the market is firm. Only small orders have been completed in Pieces, yet prices are firm, good, and fine, at 41s to 455, and low to middling 38s to 403. For Treacle there has been an enlarged sale, and prices are on the advance; boiled from West India Molasses has been selling at 16s to 16s 6d, patent 17s to 175 6d, and golden syrup 18s to 19s 6d per cwt, with several buyers for delivery, but few sellers. For Bonded Crushed Sugar the rates insisted upon are 29s to 30s ; there are not many buyers, and the stock is not larger. Treacle for exportation is quoted at 134 6d to 14s, and not many buyers. For Bastards the market is quiet at 18s to 21s for low to fine, and for Pieces at 22s to 265. The value of Foreign Crushed Sugar is from 26s to 29s for low to fine, but the demand has become limited. For Loaves the market is quiet and the prices rule firm at 31s to 32s 6d for 10 and 151bs Hambro. FOREIGN.—There has been a fair inquiry after bonded and duty parcels, but holders refusing to sell at former terms, caused the private operations to be of little moment. That higher rates will prevail appears to be the general opinion. The stock is not so large as of late, whereas deliveries have improved, more especially for home trade purposes. From Havannah accounts have been received to the 3d of De cember, which state the exports of Sugar last month to have been 50,000 boxes. At Hamburgh there has been more firmness in the market. The Stock of Havannah Sugar at Antwerp was 26,000 cheats, and at the same time last year 15,000. Advises from most of the Sugar producing countries are favcurable with regard to the crops. TEA.—There has been a large business concluded in the lower qualities of Congou, and prices have improved to 9id to 10d for ord and good ord. Other sorts have been purchased with more freedom, and at previous terms there are not sellers generally. The value of me dium sorts is 10d to is lid, and better sorts Is 2d to is 9d. Green is held with more firmness and at previous rates purchases to a fair extent have been made, whilst low and mid kinds have been dealt in with most freedom. For scented Tea rather more demand has been ex perienced, and former terms are well sustained. Since the beginning of the year duty has been paid at this pert upon 27,412,981, Liverpool 5,084,146, Bristol 844,279, Hull 286,519, and Clyde of 2,050,749, making a total of 36,678,715, and to the same time last year of 35,265,567 showing an increase of 1,413,148 lbs. There is now little difference in the stock compared with this time last year, and public sales will be decl are d. COMM.—To day a fair amount of business was con cluded in Coffee, and it was difficult to purchase good ordinary Native under 54s 6d per cwt; still there are speculative buyers rather under this rate. Cocoa.—British Plantation is held with firmness, and deliveries continue to extend, but the sales made have been small red Trinidad at 42s to 50s for low to fine, and grey 40s to 43s per cwt; a better demand is expected to take place shortly. A fair quantity of Foreign has been sold at 29s to 31s per cwt, whilst higher rates are likely to prevail. RlCE.—There has been a further improvement in the market for East India, and appearances with respect to the future are favourable. Imports are also expected to fall off, and deliveries to further extend. A good busi ness has been concluded by private treaty, and chiefly on speculation, whilst a further rise in the value is apparent. We quote white Bengal at 10s to Ils 6d, cargo, 93 to 9s 6d ; Madras pinky white, 9a 6d to 103 61, Pearl Barley 9s to 9i 6d per cwt, indeed at these rates there are not generally sellers, whilst only limited parcels are held in first hands. A fair quantity of cleaned Rice has been sold; Carolina, first sort at 263, second ditto 225, and low to fine Patna from 12s to 19s per cwt. For Sago prices are likely to rule higher, and stiff rates are paid for Sago flour. SALTPETRE. —The value of rough is firm at 26s to 283 6d for low to fine, and an increase of demand is expected to take place shortly. British refined is quoted at 29s 6d to 303. Nitrate of Soda is wanted at 133 3d to 13* 6cl per cwt, at which there is a firm market. The stock is 2,488 tons, and at this time last year it was 1,160 tons. SPICES.—For Pimento prices rule at 54d to 6d per lb. but a public sale will take place on Weduesday of 450 bags %Olen the real value of the article will be tested. Black Pepper is held with firmness; Mal ,bar thot aid to 3id, other sorts 31c1 to aid, and Sumatra 3d to 31-d per lb. There is a much smaller stuck than in the former year. White Pepper is worth 4d to 9d for ord to fine. Mace has beau selling at 2s 2d to 2s Bd, and brawn Nutmegs at 2s 6,1 to 4s tor ord to fine. Oa the part of holders of Cloves there is firmness. For Cassia Lignea prices rule at 96s to 102 s for ord to fine. Sales of Ginger have been made to a lair extent, and full terms are paid. COCHINEAL.—This afternoon a public sale of 159 bags of Honduras went at advanced rates,, and realized from 45 2d to 4s 7d for silvers. • `INDIGO.—The market has a firmer aspect, and at an early period an active demand is expected to prevail for all purposes, together with au advance in prices. De liveries have b* en upon a large scale this year, and ex ceed those of the previous one by nearly 5,000 chts of East India, whilst the stock is on a par with that time, but imports have been 900 chts larger. l•:prarrs.—Prices are firm for 'turn, and a favourable opinion is ent-rtoined with respect to future evenis e(;11- nected with this article. Tne st )ek is not so large as of late, whereas deliveries do not exceed those of the past year, and a _decrease in the imports is likely to take place, by reason of the low rates that have existed this }ear. The value of Jamaica 20 to 29 per cent over proof is from 2s 2d to 2s sd, 30 to 36 over 2s 63 to 3s, favourite mariis 33 2d, Leeward Island proof is 5d to is sd, East India is 3id to is CI, ttad Demerara 30 to 40 per cent over 2a 2d to 2s 4d. Ia Brandy a good trade has been concluded, and higher rates are likely to prevail, whilst deliveries still far exceed those of the former year. We quote Cognac best brands of the vintsge of 1848 at 4a 8d to 4s 101, 1847 ditto 5s 4d to 5s 6:1, 1846 ditto 5s 8d to 5s 10d, 1845 ditto 6s 2d to 6s 41, inferior sorts 2s 10d to 4s 4d, and Bordeaux 2,1 8.1 to 2s 10d per gallon. Geneva is held for is 9fl to Is 10d, and fine 2s 3 , 1 to 33 3d. The value of British made Spin it is still 9s Bd, and Gin 8s to 8s 6d per gallon , whilst no rise in the value is looked for. Ores —There has been a good trade concluded in Lin seed Oil, and at higher terms. Home dealers have been the chief operators, whilst there are iew sellers on the spot under 29s per cwt. For delivery several contracts have been concluded at 29s 3d to 29s 6d, and the market has a firm aspect. Rape Seed Oil is in better supply, and there being few buyers, previous terms are not to be obtained—Pale is offered at 425, and brown 41s. There has been a good deal doing in Cocoa Nut Oil at from 34s to 35s for fair to flue, and holders are less disposed to press sales. Palm is much in demand, whilst it is difficult to purchase fins r 33s per cwt, as the supply is still small, whilst consumption is large, and likely ro to continue. For Olive Oil there is a firm market, with every prospect that a large demand will prevail shortly. The value of Gallipoli is 441 lOs to 451, and other sorts 421 to 431 lOs per tun ; indeed at these rates there are not free sellers. In Cod Oil few sales have been inade, still holders are inn, and will not sell under 301 lOs per tan. Seal is not cheaper, still the market has been in a quiet state Pale is held for 38/ to 38/ lOs straw and tinged 34/ to 37/, yellow and br wn 30/ to 331. In the value ot Southern no further di oboe nas yet taken place, yet there are few buyers, and' quotations rule from 30/ to 341. A much better demand for all sorts is likely to take place shortly, as dealers have allowed their stocks to get much reduced, and consumption as good, whilst there is only a moderate quantity held by impor ters. For Sperm the market has a firm aspect, end several parcels have been sold—fine Bitish realised 83/ to 84/, and American 821 per tun, whilst the chief lvdders ire not free sellers at these rates. The value of Eieadmntter is from 851 to 881 per tun. TALLOWY.—Russian on the spot his met with only a limited demand this week, and holders appear more disposed to realise. The rates accepted have been 385 to 38s 6d per cwt for fine P. Y. Candle. For delivery only bruited sales have bern made, and 38s 6i to 39a is the value for the three first months of 1850. In home melted a good trail , : has been concluded at 38a to 39s nett cash• but the supply far exceeds dealers' wants. Other sorts of T.alow ere oGred rather under last -t•eek's terms. The stock yet. exceeds that of last year, but prices are much under that time, and dealers are smaller. Rough Fat is dull of sale at 2s Vd to 2s 3d per stone o f 2 8 pounds. Y A tth A:I3.KET S. BRISTOL, DEC. 28. STOOL EXCHANGE.—AIthough the holidays have but just closed, the market was firm to-day, and the only alteration in prices we have to note are—Great Western, Quarterly 11% dis.—Midland, 504 Shares, 22 dis. Ll VERI'OOL, DEC. 26. STOCK EXCITAITOR.—The share market was dull tc-day' and little business doing. Prices tend downwards. The transactions were as follow:--Birkenhead, Lancashire, an d' Cheshire, 16 dis.—London and North-Western, 108—Ditto, New Quarters, 88.3 d. p. Fifths, % p.—Mancheste r, Sheffield, and Lincoln, Preference, 7%—Midland, 43 1 4 Ditto, Halves, 2 - 2% dis.—North Britisb',' New Preference, 41 . 18s. 9d.—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N.E. Purchase), 6 per cent. ti.l 1850, 4% dis. MANCHESTER, DEC. 28. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The transactions to-day were 0 Fifths, follow :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 7 la dis.—Dit to 23!. Extension 1118 etis.—Ditto (H. and S.). Halves, 27 1 / 2 -- Ditto, West Riding Union, 7 1-16 dis.—Esst Lancashire, Preference, Quarters, 7 1 4—Great Northern, New, 5 P er cent., Preference, scrip, 1014—London and North-Wester n, 109—Ditto, Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (C 1 1-16 p. —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Eighths, I%—Ditto, Grimsby 201., 3 1 A—Ditto, Sheffield and Lit'' coinshire, 3 3 / 4 —North Staffordshire, 10 n. d.—South Laster and Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 6 7.16. BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 28. S root EXCMANGE.—The qu ,tations to-day vary little from those of yesterday. The prospect of the lease of th e. South Staffordshire to Mr. M'Lean and others, Upon amen ded and improved terms for the shareholders, has decidedly I proved the value of that stock. Shares were in demand, btl' few sellers. YORK, 'Jac. 27. STOCK ExcnAxenc.—The transactions to-day were As follow:—Great Northern, 71. 3s. 9d.—North British, 1 1 ": SLEflield, Rotherham, and Goole, N. Div., guaranteed 6 per cent., 16. GLASGOW, DEC. 27. STOCK EXCHANGE'. The transactions to-day were I? follow: Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halvea (No. IF lON—Ditto (No. 2), 80. FATAL ACCIDENT AT SMITH'S I)ISTILLERT.--"lre s : terday afternoon u jury was empannelled at St GeOrge 6 Hospital, before Mr. Bedford, the coroner, to inquir e into the circumstances attending the death of Thomas Clark, aged 32 years. the late engineer to the unforts• nate steam-boat thicket, which was blown up on the Thames some months since, and by which several per" s , )ris were killed. The deceased was convicted at 111 . 6 Central Criminal Court, charged on a coroner's inquis v lion with having fastened down the safety -valve belong' ing to the engine of the Cricket with string and thereby caused the boiler to explode. The deceased was sent tented to six months' imprisonment, on the expiration 0 which he was again taken into the employ of Mr. Smith' the distiller, of Thames-bank, and one of the proprietor of the liar-penny steam-boats. On Friday, the 3 1 : 32 ; ult., the deceased had been employed in repairing one °,' the still-heads, and whilst descending a ladder with 101 hack to it, he was suddenly seized with giddiness in the heed, and in order to save himself from "falling , h e sprang off the ladder, and fell with considerable violenc e , upon the ground. lie was picked up insensible and If f t found to have received a fracture of the left thigh• scid was subsequently attacked with delirium tremens. 61:1 died on Christmas-day from the effects of the injuri es! Verdict, accidental death. LEONARD NORMANDALE ; OR, THE ITlls Eji BROTHERS.—This new novel of fashionable life, wr itten i by the 'Hon. Charles Stuart Ssvile, son of the Earl Mexborougb, is attracting general attention on soce e i e of the remarkable manner in which it enters into Is, most private relations in the domestic lite of the el l e tocracy, and exposes the abuses which arise from ash aggrandisement of eldest sons at the expense'of the,l o of the family. The author's intimate knowledge 01 , 1 .A 1 subject has given an authority to his revelations they could not otherwise have received, and fully P" . counts fa- the interest which the work has excited. PEDESTRIANISM.—A walking match, ten >nile sn for 20 sovs. aside, between John Thomas, the "Saloc a g Peclest and Spooner, of Turnbam-green, cam e ° o f on Monday last, and attracted a large concours e 0 sp:rctators. The ground selected to walk upon I f from Lord Hill's Column to the top of Etust re e ' s B.r.)k, near this town, one mile in length. VinP r i. and a referee having been chosen, and all other prelit e en naries duly adjusted, shortly after two o'clock the 1 ,1, be started, and performed the distance as follows: 1 . e. . first two miles was walked by Spooner in 15 min. 55 s e eh :, the s( coed ditto, by Thomas, in 17 min. 28 see.; 1 ,0 1 third ditto, by Spooner, in 17 min. 5 sec.; the f o ,°' to , ditto, by Spooner, in 17 min. 38 sec.; and the fifth ail e d by Spooner, in 19 min. 31 sec. Spooner accoraPli s ' ds ; the ten miles in 1 hour, 27 minutes, and 37 seei o c di „ while Thomas was 1 hour, 30 minutes, and 30 seo ° o g The walking was considered first - rate. On te,.r 9 ,: ii t, the fifth mile, Thomas was nearly three yards irl T be d when Spooner put the steam on, materially inert,ll his advantage, and eventually won easily, to the nos e-ir more ification of the " Salopians," who bad backed tlier, min at odds, and booked his winning as a moral Cit; tainty. Spooner, who is only in his nineteenth yesi r 'bis a promising sprig, and is likely to become a stow is profession. Thomas is in his 27th year. We Piles hesrd that Spooner can be backed to w a lk th e ten in 1 hour and 26 minutes.—Shropshire Journal. ran APOTHECARIES' HALL.—The following geatie— passed their exam nation in the science and practieuers m?dicine, and received certificates to practise on 9 rPritgt day:—George Clarke, Bach; Edward Gulledge h o L ind , m; Charles Williams, Whitby; William Yan g Junes, iniog, North Wales. p n elr ° [ADVERTISEMENT.]—Skin Diseases --Dr• Testimony of the Efficacy of Holloway's Pills and Ointio n b lio, Extract of a letter dated "16, Blessington-street, v u de- Feb. 9, 1847 .—Professor Holloway,—Dear Sir ; lia/i n t l eOt voted my particular attention for some years to th• tres' thst of cutaneous or skin diseases, I think it right to inform y° ° ou r I have in a great many cases recommended the use o f lot pills and ointment, and invariably found them to have the ye ti perfect effect in removing those diseases, even when of n e„ s so desperate nature. (Signed) W. E. Powell, M.D." l „ -- the of scald heads, ringworms, pimples or tetters on the fa cnyth effect of the medecine is astonishing.— Sold by all Ditg,g f otii and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, London. . BIRTHS. Of On the 231 inst., at Millbank-street, Mrs. G. F. W' mte. -" a daughter. w o co , On the . 25th inst., at Dave Leys, Staffordshire , the 11' T. P Heywood, Esq., of a son. r r voio ef On the 26th inst., at Porters, the lady of S.C. ve - Esq., of a daughter. of ° At Derby. on the 26th inst., Mrs. F. J. JessopPt ih• daughter. ~. ' W In Dorset-square, on the 26th inst., the wife of l NV. Hayne, of a dau P u ghter. h list. At Esss-x-house, tr.ey, near London, on the 27t Mrs. Comma, of a daughter. __.---- . A At Monkstown Churc h near ARRIED Dublin, on the 1-t cot- 8 Georre Sal Bedford, Esq., of the Treasury, üblio to Elizabeth Charlotte, relict of the late N. O. D WOl ier 4 GO' or Ely-place, and daughter of Joseph Strong, Egg" - namuck, county of Dublin. to on the 26t0 inst., Monsieur Henry Beer, or A;ilppe Esther, third daughter of Henry Davis, Esq. , 491 ' Bedtord-place, Russell-square. On the 27th inst., at Mickleham Surrey, J. E. C°'rect°' to Mary Jane, only daughter of the Rev. A. Burraester, of Alickleharn. 1' DIE , '" , At Hampstead, on the 18th i n st., aged 83, Susantst e of the late G. P. Brietzcke, Esq., of the SecretaryOr of Office. Home ' epartment. 'KA' On the •)-tth inst., Jane, wife of Joseph F u ller, f Goldweil house, Speen, Berks, aged n 9. At Torquay, on the 25th inst., Annette, only datighot o 0 1 ' Major Hood Richards, aged 14. O D On the 26th inst., aged 80, Edward Cherrill, EA' , ° $ ; merstnith. m. IV° On the 26th inst., in Gracechurch-street, I.l' Sa well. age.(l. 1 - . A fri i)l On the 27th lag., in E.is bourne-terrace, Jo6llll- 0, l's le Esq., aged :'B. "W• At Widcombe, Bath, Charlotte, relict of the Rev. . 1 " e. A. 2,1., rector of 'lumpish= and Wraxall, Dorsetsll' '6,? irt) I*. : Printed and Publiste,tl by MURDO Na 112, Strand, Printer, at The SUn 00 4 t ?Dm St4v,v. %r. tit® filiddl! sex, Saturday, Dectuaber 29, 1849. Will FEHALL, DEC. 26. The Queen has been pleas-d to present the 12,v. WilliLlm Corbet Le Breton, M.A., to the deanery of the Island of Jersey, void by the death of the Very Rev. James Hcmery. WAR-OFFICE. DEC. 28. Royal Regiment of Horse Guards—Captain Francis Sutton, from the 6th Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Brevet Major Hanmer, who exchanges; Cornet Alger non Massingberd, from the 13th Light Dragoons, to be Cornet, vice Sackville George Lane Fox, who cx charlges, Dec. 28. 6th Dragoons—Brevet Major Wyndham Edward Hanmer, from the Royal Regiment of Horse. Guards, to be Captain, vice Sutton, who exchanges, Dec. 28. 13 h Light Dragoons—Cornet Ssckville George Lane Fox, from the Royal Regiment of Horse Guards, to be Cornet, vice Mas3ingberd, who exchanges, Dec. 28. Ist Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guard 6-Li euten an t Charles Thomas Lindow, from the 74th Foot, to be En sign and Lieutenant, vice A. U. P. Stuart Wortley, who exchanges, Dec. 28. 4th Foot—Captain John Henry Edward de Robeck, from the Bth Foot, to be Captain, vice Hext, who ex changes, Dec. 28. s'.la Foot—Lieutenant George Renny to be Captain, by purchase, vice Forrest, who retires; Second Lieutenant Albert Ernest Ross to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Renny, Dec. 28. 61 Foot—Edward Cliff°, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice do Ruvignes, promoted, Dec. 28. Bth Foot—Captain Charles Staniforth next, from the 4th Foot ' to be Captain, vice de Robeck, who ex ehanges, Dec. 23. 9th Foot—Lieutenant Henry Ralph Browne to be Captain, by purchase, vice Cabitt, who retires; Ensign Samuel Blakelock Moody Skinner to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Browne. Dec. 28. 22d Foot.—Captain the Hon. Perigrine Francis Cust, from half. pay 3d Dragoon Guards, to bo Captain, vice Browne Russell, who exchanges ; Lieutenant John Brennan to be Captain, vice Oust, who retires; Ensign Duncornbe Pleydell Bouverie to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Brennan; Ensign Thomas Young, from the 84th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Bouverie, Dec. 28. 48th Foot—Lieutenant Cam Sykes to be Captain, by purchase, vice Granville, who retires; Ensign Robert Edward Coote Colthurst to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sykes. Dec. 28. 49th Foot—Lieutenant Charles Philip Joseph Stop ford to be Captain, without purchase, vice Montgomery, deceased; Ensign Theodore Houghton Platt to be Lieu tenant, vice Stopford, Dec. 15; Ensign Joshua Walter Bond, from the 86th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Platt, Dec. 28. 51st Foot—Major Henry Reid, froth half-pay 3d Ceylon Regiment, to be Major, vice Mainwaring, pro tented; Captain Percy John Rice to be Major, by pur chase, vice Reid, who retires; Lieutenant Richard Atherton Ffarington to be Captain, by purchase, vice Rice; Ensign Edward O'Callaghan to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Ffarington, Dec. 28. 57th Foot—Lieutenant David Edward Armstrong to be Captain, by purchase, vice Dawson, who retires; Ensign Edward Courtenay Geils Kenny to t e Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Armstrong, Dec. 28. 72d Foot—Captain John Mullen, from half-pay Un attached, to be Captain, vice Brevet-Major William Henry Rubinson, who exchanges ; Lieuteant Alex ander Dalton Thellusson to be Captain, by purchase, vice Mullk n, who retires ; Ensign the Hon. Henry War render Fitz Maurice, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Thellusson ; Andrew Cathcart Bogle, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Fitz Maurice, Dec. 28. 74th Foot—Ensign and Lieutenant Archibald Henry Plantagenet Stuart Wortley, from the Ist or Grenadier Regiment of Foot Guards, to be Lieutenant, vice Lindow, who exchanges, Dec. 28. 91st Foot—Ensign and Adjutant John Gordon to have the rank of Lieutenant, Dec. 27; Ensign Edward James Somers Rae to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hors brugh, who retires, Dec. 28. Ist West India Regiment—Lieutenant Ilaydon Lloyd Cafe to be Captain, by purchase, vice Mackenzie, who retires; Ensign Frederick Mares Godden to be Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Cafe, Dec. 28. BREYET.—Captain the Honourable Peregrine Francis Cust, of the 223 Foot, to be Major in the Army, July 22, 1830; Major the Honourable Peregrine Francis Cuss, of the 22d Foot, to be Lieutenant-Colonel in the Army, Nov. 9, 1846. The under-mentioned Cadets of the Honourable the East India Company's Service to have the local and tem porary rank of Ensign, during the period of their being placed under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Sir Frederic Smith, of the Royal Engineers, at Chatham, for Field Instructions in the art of Sapping and Mining: —George Ayton Craster, Gent.; Henry Alexander Brownlow, Gent.; William Spottiswoode Trevor, Gent.; Joseph Rogers Soady, Gent.; Jasper Otway Mayne, Gent.; Henry Thomas Rogers, Gent., Dec. 28 ADMIRALTY, DEc. 24. The following promotions have this day taken place c on s equent on the death of Admiral of the White, the Right Hon. John Lord Colville . Admiral of the Blue, the Right Hon. James Marquis of Thomond, to be Admiral of the White. Vice-Admiral of the Red, Sir George Mundy, K.C.8., to be Admiral of the Blue. Vice-Admiral of the White, Sir Charles Bullen, K.C.8., K.C.H., to be Vice-Admiral of the Red. Vice-Admiral of the Blue, the Hon. Frederick William Aylmer, C. 8., to be Vice-Admiral of the White. Rear-Admiral of the Red, John Ayacough, to be Vice- Admiral of the Blue. Roar-Admiral of the White, Charles Gordon, C. 8., to be War-Admiral of the Red. Rear • Admiral of the Blue, the Hon. Alexander Jones, to be Rear-Admiral of the White. Captain the Right Hon. George Anson Lord Byron to be Rear• Admiral of the Blue. Retired Captain Frederick Elward Vernon Harcourt has also been promoted to be a Retired Rear-Admiral, on the terms proposed in the London Gazette of the Ist of September, 1846, but without increase of pay. WHITEHALL, DEC. 21. The Right Hon. Sir Thomas Wilde, Kat , Lord Chief Justice of her Majesty's Court of Common Pleas at Westminster, bath appointed Henry Moore Griffiths, of Birmingham, in the county of Warwick, Gentleman, to be one of the Perpetual Commissioners for taking the acknowledgments of deeds to be executed by married women, under the Act passed for the abolitio❑ of fines and recoveries, and for the substitution of more simple modes of assurance, in and for the county of Warwick, also in and for the counties of Stafford and Worcester. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Hugh Hill, coach broker, Old Kent-road, Surrey. BANKRUPTS. Henry Smith, farmer, South Ockendon, Essex, to sur render Jan. 9 and Feb. 8, at one, at the Court o f Bank ruptcy. Stansfeld, official assignee; Rawlings, John street, Bedford-row. John William Jackson, coal merchant, Colchester, Jan. 5 and Feb. 14, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Cannan, official assignee, Birchin-lane, Cornhill ; Bull, Ely-place, Holborn; Abell, Colchester. Benjamin Brook, tailor, Ixworth, Sutra, Jan. 10, a twelve, and Feb. 18, at eleven at the Court of Bank , ruptcy. Graham, official assignee; Teague, Crown , court, Cheapside. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall-street. I. Argent, Fleet-street, victualler, Jan. '24, at twelve— W. Atkinson, Austin-friars, City, merchant, Jan. 19, at eleven—C. C Butterfield, Petersfield, Southampton, banker, Jan. 22, at twelve—L. Guilleaume, Berners street, Oxford-street, manufacturer of artificial flowers and dealer in lace, Jan. 21, at twelve. In the Country. J. Ellis, Pontypool, Monmouth - shire, dealer in wines and spirits, Feb. 1, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—J. Fisher, Bristol, livery stable keeper, Jan. 28, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—G. Burdis, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, banker, Jan. 28, at eleven, at the Court, Newcastle upon-Tyne—C. Tabor and W. Clarke, Nottingham, lace manufacturers, Jan. 25, at ten, at the Court, Birming ham —T. Carter and G. Wharton, Gainsborough, Lin colnshire, engineers and wheelwrights, Jan. 30, at half past ten, at the Town-hall, Kingston-upon-Hull—T. M. Adam', Holton-le-Bechering, Lincolnshire, corn factor, Jan. 30, at half-past eleven, at the Town-hall, Kingston upon-Hull—C. H. Lambert, Kingston-upon-Hull, drug• gist, Jan. 30, at half-past ten, at the Town-hall, Kings - ton-upon-Hull. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. W. Barton, Old Brentford, grocer, ls. 311, on Satur day, 29th inst., and three subsequent Saturdays, between elt-Ten and two, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch lane, City. W. Line, Ealing, bricktnaker and builder, 35., on Saturday. Dec. 29, and three subsequent Saturays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Groom, AbAurch-lane, City. G. Ackland, Moorgate-street, merchant, 4d., on Satur day, Dec. 29, and three subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch lane, City. H. Lister, Far Newland, Lincoln, miller, 2J., on Fri day, Jan. 4, or any subsequent Friday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Carrick, Hull. _ S. Mann, Kingston-upon-Hull, merchant, 1 / 3 / 4 1., on Friday, Jan. 4, or any subsequent Friday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Carrick, Hull. T. Coates, Sunderland, spirit merchant, is. 6d., on Saturday, Dec. 29, or any following Saturday, between ten and three, at the office of Mr. Wakley, Newcastle upon-Tyne. R. Allison and T. Allison, Dean-street, Soho piano forte manufacturers, I Id., on Saturday, Dec. 29, and three subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Elwards, Sawbrook•court, Basinghall street. T" At a numel ♦ellers, held circular, It was, amor mously. That this n commercial 1 the necessitie lers who, by duced to pow the support a according to .5 of laws for th such ins tituth Tellers' Benel That a Corr pointed to car - That a vote Valuable servl That the th W. 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