The Sun. — London, England, 1849-08-08 00:00:00

II dl and Selby .. ...... 50 ...... 92t ......... 92% Ditto, Half Sines ... 25 ...... Do Quarter Shires... 12% L 3 icaiter and Carlisle... 00 ...... _ Ditto, Thirds Lancashire & Yor',thircICo Do. do. M. B. & B ... 95 Ditto, ditto 06 ... Ditto, % Shares ...... 46 ... .. ... .. _ Do. Quarters . ..... ... 22 1 4 I73 VA %... ........ 17',.; D. , . Fifths... ... 10 Do. Thirds ..... . 15 ..... 8:, , e ; ... 8)i Do. New Guaranteed 6 par Cent... Do. Liverp. and Bury 46 ...... ... — Ditto (Huddersfield and Sheif.).. . Do. (W. Riding Union) 9 Do. (Preston ;Sc Wyre) 25 Do. 1.A., Shares (A)... 10 1 eeds and Bradford 5O lolz% 103 . ...... 100 Leeds and Thirsk ...... 50 Ditto, New ..... ........ 50 Do., Prefer., 6 per et. 3 1., i, .. - De., Pre f. t:nar., 1813 9 Liverpool, Crosby and Southport . 10 ..... ... London S.; Black wall.-- 12 1,..:... 4 London, Brighton, ano South C0act........ 50 ...... ...... ..... Do.Guarant. 5 per ct.. 9 ...... ... ..• ..• — Do. Pref. 5 per cent.... 50 .. ... Ditto, ditt0...... 1852 50 — Ditto, New 55, guar. 6 per cent. .. Lon don and Greenwich 12115 s 4d... 9j6 x. d.... . ... 9 7 /g x. d. D tto, Preference .. . 20 London and N. Weatern lt.o Ditto, New Quarters.. 12 Ditto, Fifths - .. 7% 7IA Do. 401.Shares(L.M.) 1.0 _ Do. 105 (M. Sz B.) C. I ... .. --__ Lo 4 ;. &S. Western ..... 50 ..... 34% 35 Ditto, New 501. ...... 42 4...... 110. New 401. 34 - •••••. 000000000 Ditto, Thirds l6/.135.4..1.... Do., New Scrip, 1848, . Pref. 7 per Cent. on Deposit, and 5 per Cent. on Calls Londonderry &Coleraine 25 - — Do. %, Shares .. 3 3 4 Londonderry and Ennis ki!len 25 ...... ... ........ ... Do. 1 ,4 Shares-- ...... 5 ...... Manthaiter•liuxton,and Matlock.. ..... ....... .• 5 AI mchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire...loo .. Do. Quarters (No. 1) 23 Ditto ditto (No. 2)... 25 D 0.% Shares (No. 3) 12 %...... - - Do. New 101. Pref..... 10 ....• Ditto, Gt. Grimsby ... 50 Ditto ditto . ..... .... 17 Ditto ditto ... Ditto Shef f ield and Lincolnshire 2O . ... Do., Grimsby Dock... 25 Do., Lianchester and incoln Union..... 41.25. Midland ...... ......... ..110 ...... 65 64% ... Do. Consolidated Pref.100 Do., do., 50/. Shares 30 .....16'4 1 6 1,i Do. Birm., and Derby 100 — Do•Cousol. Bristol and Birming., 6 per ct.... 100 Ditto,Brist. & Glocstr. 40 Ditto ditto .... .18i.125.6d.... -- .. Do.,Erew ishVal.,Pref. 50 Ditto, Leieest.& Swan nington, 8 per ct. guar.loo Midland Groat W estern Irish Middlesbro' and Redcar, 6 per cent. guar. Newcastle and Carlisle•loo Do. Quarters Newmarket - ••• •• ••• a "oak - Do. Extension . ..... —2/. 12s Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford 6 ~.... . Newry and Enniskillen 7 Newry, W arren porn t, and Rostrevor .. 20 Norfolk ... . 100 - 1)0. New 20/. Dc. Guaranteed 5 p ct. 20 . —_ • ••• . Do. Guaranteed 5 1 A - pc. 5 u 0.1.0 westoft (4 i.er et) 2U Ditto (6 per el.) - Do. do. Waveney Val 2 ...... -- ..... ......... - N 'ahem Counties Union 4 ...... - - North British ........ ... 25 ..... 13 1 4 13 13 , 4... 13 1 4 Ditto, Halves .. - Ditto, Quarters - - Ditto, Thirds .... .. .. 81 4 - - -•-• - - Ditto Preference ...... 2% • - ... ...•..... 2% North Staffordshire ... 17 1 / 2 1.2 W 3 12 ex.int. 12 1 / 2 xi North Wales - - North-Western .... ..... 13% .- - Oxfsrd, Worcester, and Wolverhampton ...... 50 -. .. ...... .. .. 17 1 / 2 Reading, Guildford, and Reigate l5 - - Royst on and Hitchin ... 4 1 ,2.... - ex.int -x. Scottish Central ......... 25 ...... 22 22% ... Scottish Midland... ...... 25 - . ...... ... •• .. -- Ditto, New - - --• ... -_ Shrewsbury and Birin... 11 - Ditto ditto. Class B. 7 ...... -- ......... -- - Ditto, New Guaranteed 8 . ..... 101 1 / 2 ..... .... Shrewsbury and lierefil. 3 .....• *- -- Shrewsbury & Cheater (Nor. W. Min.) - .... - Ditto Halves ... ditto 9 ...... - - Ditto 08westry ...... 18 1 / 2 - - Ditto New ... ._. - Do. 8 per Cent. I'ref. 10 - - Shropshire Union - South Devon.- 5O - ..... ... ••• - Do. Preference - •••• •••• •••• '' Soath Staffordshire 81.2 .- south - South Ea:A(3m - •.... ••• - 1) 0., No. 1 - - ~D 0.,. N 0.2. 1 -;0., No. 3 ....... ~.... 30 - Do., Registered No. 4 10 - ex. div .. - x.d „ Do., Scrip No 4 south w a l es - . South Yorkshire, Don caster and Goole iheflleld, Rotherham, & Goole (N. Div.) Gua ranteed 5 per cent. ... 14% - ... - „ Do. do (Sou. Div.) ... 5 - ... - owans. & Loughor & Ca meron's Stra. Coal. ... 7 - - Taw Yale Extension ... 8 - ••• •• - Thames Haven Dock and Railway .... - - Vale of Neath ... .. 8 - Waterford and Kilkenny 20 ...... - .. - Waterford and Limerick 47 1 / 2 -. ... Waterfil,Wxfrd,Wicklw and Dublin Wear Valley 6 per Cent. ' Guaranteed • LO - Do. do. do. ... '25 - Do. do. do: ... 15 .. ... - ..... ... , Wast Cornwall _ _ . W hiteliaven & Furness 16 Windsor, Staines, and South Western ..... ... 12 Wilts, Somersa, & Wey - - mouth 45 - •• • York, Newcastle, and 20 1 4 Berwick. ...• •• ......... 25 Do. Newcastle Eaten. 20 DJ. G.N.E.PretorcLce ,s_ti ..... ...... ..... Do. ILrtlepool Dock and Railway .. 100 ...... Yore and Ncrth Midland 50 ...... 30% 30% Ditte, Pratereno , FOREIGN RAILWAYS Arlk,lo Italian (late Ita lian and Austrian). ... 5 Boulogne and Amiens... 20 Central of Franco (Or leans and Vierzon)... 20 benierara Dutch Rhenish ..... ..... 7%... .. • ........ — 7 , East Indi an Great Indian Peninsular 5 Do. Do. ... . .. lOs Louvain ala Sambre ..• 7 % L uxembourg Ditto Madrid and Valentia 2 ...... Namur and Liege ...... 20 ... .. .. . — Northern of France l4/. 85... dis. ex.i dis.x.i Orleans and Bordeaux 7 ...... „ I "aris and Orleans raris and Rouen 2O ..... 21% 21% Paris nod Strasbourg ... 11 U ‘ ,.ouen and Havre ...... 2 0 ...... zanabre and Meuse — Strasbourg and Basle Tours and Nantes ll ..... . ournay, Jurbise, Lan den, and Hasselt ...... 20 , Y4 st Flanders 8%..... Ditt o ...... ..... B l /2 — JOINT STOCK BANKS. A ustralasia Eritish North American 50 eOleilial ..• 25 - V. ommercial of London 2 0 ~ , i •ondon.Joint 5t0ck...... • 10 London & Westrninster. 20 ...... ex.div —x:.(l National Prov. England. 35 ~..bitto New..... ... ...... 10 National of Ireland 2 2 IA — -- ........ —•— P rovincial of Ireland ... 25 bat°, New ..... ..... 10 - ••• • 1 3nion of Australia Ditto,New.... ..... •• ••• 2 I A• . • ••• - • Ijnion of L0nd0n......... 10 ...... ... ex.div — x.d Union of Madrid 40 - LLOYD'S SHIPPING-(THIS DAY LONDON, Arta B.—Wind this day at noon W.S.W.; light breeze and fine weather. DEAL, A no. 7 . —Wind S.S.W. to S.S.E.—Arrd. from the River and sld. Eglinton, Loiby, Montreal. S:d. Prince, Quebec; Elizabeth, Quebec. OFF BASTINGS, Au G. 7 . — Arrd. Diadem Skeane St. John's, New Brunswick. , , COIVEC, AUG, 7.—Wind S.E. and S.—Sld. Woodlark, d ey. POOLE, Auto. 7.—Wind &E.—Nymph, Newfoundland, PORTLAND ROADS, AUG. 6.—Std. Promise, Quebec. DARTMOUTH, AUG. 7.—Wind W.—Sld. 6th, Calypso, Quebec; 7th, Carnation, Quebcc. CAMPEELTOWN, AUG. 4.—A steamer was oa Pater son's Rock this morning, but got off after throwing about thirty ton.; of pig-iron overboard, and proceeded to Greenock; she is supposed to have received con siderable damage. ExmouTu.--Sld. John Brown, Quebec. PLYMOUTH, AuG. 7.—Arrd. Benjamin Elkin,l4l`Gratb, London for Adelaide, South Australis. LIVERPOOL, AUG. 7.—Wind S.—Arrd. Wm. Jarvis, aarvis, Motile; Wm. Penn, Malony, Philadelphia. 6th, Woltecove, Quebec. 7th, Commerce, Africa; Ambrosina, Africa; Pagean' Panama; Ilyanite, Vera C ruz; Lancashir e , Savannah ; Albania, New York; A berdeen, New York; Constitution, New York. Off THE port, E. Z., New York; Ocean Queen; Ringer; Tarifa. Her Miijesty'g ship Calypso, which sailed from Valpa• roiso, 28th May, for Rio Janeiro and England, had 2,350,000 dollars in gild Lnd silver on freight. FOWEY, AUG. 6 Sid. Good Intent, QM:bee. SCILLY, AUG. 6.—Wind S.—Sld. Minalto, Rh Janeiro. PORT TALBOT, AUG. s.—Acrd. Jane, Charleston. MARYPORT, AUG s.—Sld. Congress, Quebec. HULL, AUG. Elizlbeth Holderness, Rich'. bucto ; Meatus, Quebec. MILFORD, AUG. 7.—Wind S.E.—Arrd. 6th, Porn broki shire Lass, Dm ies, Cronstadt. FLEETWOOD, AUG. 7.—Sld. Perseverance, Quebec. CARDIGAN, AUG. 2.—Arrd. Zenith, Young, Quebec for StuWerland. Sid. sth, Triton, Quebec. OFF FALMOUTH, AUG. 6.—Rachel, La Folt y, Accra. PILL, AUG. 7.—Wini S.S.E.—Sid. William Miles, Qirebec. SCILLY, AUG. 6.--Part of a box, marked " L. & C 0.," the heals of two small kegs, marked " J. Hali and Son," and the head of another, marked " 251bs. F. F. E. C. 1)., P. and W., London, H. F. 5r two dead horses, and a piece of paper, marked " Patent Belmont Sperm," " Price's Patent Candle Company, manufactured ex presily for trop i cal climates, shipped by Richardson and Roebuck, purveyors to liar Britannic Majeaty, Manches ter," supposed to have come from the vessel lost near this port in the night of the 29th ult., have been picked up here. MARKET NEWS.-(THIS DAY.) CORN-EXCHANGE-WEDNESDAY Our market to day was very scantily supplied with all kinds of Wheat of home produce, yet the demand for that grain was in a very depressed state, at almost nominal currencies. There were very few buyers iu attendance from any quarter. The imports of foreign Wheat this week have amounted to 5,060 qre. Selected samples sold at Monday's decline. In other kinds scarcely a transaction took place. For all kinds of Barley, the supply of which was moderate, the demand was heavy, at barely stationary prices. Malt was in good supply and heavy request, on somewhat lower terms. Oats met a very dull inquiry. Damp qualities were 6d lower to purchase. In 'bans and Peas next to nothing doing. Indian Corn, Meal, and Flour were offering at reduced prices. ARRIVALS TIIIS WEEK. Wheat. 1 790 qrB. Barley. Oats. Flour. -- qrs.) 850 qrs. I 2,1703 k, English .• •• .. Scotch ...... - I 5,060 I 3,290 I 13,040 I -- Malt, 1,170 qrs. BOROUGH HOP IteLELHICE'r. _ - 1ri5h......... Foreign •• •• •• The finest Hopi are in moderate request, at full prices. In all other kinds next to nothing was doing. The plantation accounts are considered unfavourable; and the duty is called 70,0001. to 80,0001. Sussex pockets, 3/ 103 to 41 103; Weald of Kent ditto, 31 12s to 4/ 10s; Mid and East Kent ditto, 418 s to 717 s per cwt. IXTZEITECIIAPZ3Z. Only a limited badness was transacted on the follow ing terms:—Beef, from 2s 2d to 35 4d; Mutton, 2s 10d to 3s 10d; Lamb, 3s 101 to 4s 10d; Veal, 2s 8d to 3s 6d; and Pork, 3s 2,1 to 4s p , r 81bi by the carcase. BOW-STREET.-(THIS DAY.) Two young men, named Randall and Burns, - who described themselves as drapers, were charged before Mr. Henry, with creating a disturbance in Maiden-lane at three o'clock this morning. It appeared that the de fendants, who had be en at the Cider Cellars, left with out discharging their reckoning, and were followed by the waiters. Eventually the defendants paid what was demanded of them; tut the altercation in the meantime was so loud as to bring the policemen from Southamp ton-street and Haairietta-street to the spot. The defen dants being remonstrated with about their noise, per sisted in shouting, and refused to go on. They were fined 40s. each, and Mr. Henry cautioned them against again representing themselves as " drapers," whereas it turned out that they were only " assistants," or shopmen. If he had remained in the error that they were drapers ho would have fined them as drapers. THE " SWEEPS AND BETTING" OFFICES.— Wylde and Henry Hitchens, brothers, were charged with steal ing two pictures and some books, the property of their late employer, Mr. Thomas Deacon, of No. 16, New street, Covent-garden. The prosecutor stated that the prisoners were employed by him as clerks, at his offices in New-street, which were opened for the purpose of receiving bets upon the results of the several races from time to time pending. He went down to Goodwood last week to watch the results, and the persons who had de posited bets with him expected to be paid their winnings the day after the races. He came to town at the ap pointed time, with the full intention of paying; but on his arrival he found that the offices were closed, the key returned to the landlord, and the moveables, consisting of two coloured prints of races (valued at 11. 15s. the pair), and three or four betting books, had been conveyed away by the prisoners. The prosecutor was cross-examined by a solicitor on the part of the prisoners. He was a bankrupt fourteen years ago, and had taken the benefit of the Insolvent Debtors' Act three years ago. He did not on either of those occasions go by his present name. In fact his real name was not Thomas Deacon, but Thomas Dean. When he was made a bankrupt he had been trading in his right name, but he became insolvent under the name of Thomas Sims Dean. That was not a false name because his mother's name was Sims.—(A laugh.) He had never gone by the name of Sims. He had given receipts for Mr. Thomas Sims, at a " betting concern," with which he was connected at present, in Great Wild-street. There was a real Mr. Sims there, and he (prosecutor) was not the person, though he took money for him and gave receipts. He had been connected with the Madras Railway scheme, but he could not say upon his oath whether he was registered or not as the promoter of that scheme. He did not recol lect the facts, but the deposits were never paid back. He could not pay them, for he had no money. Re had gone by another false name, that of Dustin, in which he took a cheesemonger's shop and business in Judd-street some time ago, and sold it at a profit. He never opened it himself. He had assumed, at the place in New-street, the name of Deacon to escape his creditors, who had an execution against him. He had not been at the offices since he came up from Goodwood. The prisoners and another clerk named Brande had received all the money in his absence, and be could not pay the claimants. He had paid none of the winners, for he had not received the money. Braude made away with it all except about 121., which they had let him have. The prisoners met him in Gray's lan-lane last night, beat him, and took him to the station-house. They accused him of cheating a friend of theirs. He gave them into custody on this charge, but the police let them go until this morning, when the pictures, &c., were found in their house. He further admitted that although he had sworn at the beginning of his examination that he lodged at 9, Duchess-street, Portland-place, he had at present no fixed lodging, The gagrstrate ultimately dismissed tho charge. MA RLBRO'-STREET—(THIS DAY.) Diana Greenman, a well dressed woman, was charged with having torn from the doors of Trinity Chapel, Con duit-street, a list of voters, thereby rendering herself liable to the penalty of 201. The defendant was seen to go up to the door, and, after looking at the list, she deliberately tore out a leat, and was about walking off with it, when she was given into custody. The accused, in defence, said she was a member of the chapel, and thought by seeing the papers on the doors that they referred to some matters connected with the chapel; she therefore, in her ignorance, tore out one of the leaves in order to read it at her leisure. If she had done wrong, she was very sorry for it, and would take care not to be so foolish again. The MAGISTRATE said, as she had expressed such con trition for the offence, he should only fine her in the mitigated penalty of ss. The money was immediately paid. THE COAL TRADE. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlR,—Kno wing your columns are always open to correct public abuses, I take the liberty to state, that in consequence of my connexion with the coal trade, my hostility to the system of coal merchants sending out short weight being publicly known, I have received many letters from families making loud complaints; and as I can prove that the majority of carts and waggons daily passing through this metropolis do not contain in each sack more than one hundred and a half, in place of two hundred and twenty-four pounds, I beg to suggest the propriety of Government appointing some official person to test the mode in which the coal merchants weigh and send out an article of such extensive consumption, and ,hereby destroying the wholesale plunder to which the .nhabitants of this metropolis are subjected. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, L. L Aug. 8, 1849. ROYAL ITALIAN OPERA, COYENT-GARDEN.—Her Majesty's box was occupied last evening by Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston. Among the visitors were —the Duke and Duchess of Cleveland and Lady Au gusta Pilule, the Duke of Devonshire, the Duchess of Richmond and tho Ladies Augusta and Cecilia Lennox, the Marquis of Titchfield, the. Marchioness of West meath and the Hon. Mrs. Henry Murray, the Marquis of Douro, the Greek Consul-General and Madame Ralli, Earl and Countess Granville, the Countess of Glerigall and Lady Margaret Butler, the Earl of Cardi gan, the Countess of Tankersille, Viscount and Lady Mary Anne Alford, Earl Bruce, Countess Poulett, the Countess of Carnwath, Viscount Exmouth, Viscount Cantilupe, Viscount Sydney, Lord Bateman, Lady Mary Bentinck and Mr. F. Bentieck, Lady Beadl e . sham and the Hon. Miss Thellusson, Lady Bayley and Mr. Bayley, Lady Leeson, Hon. Colonel Arthur Upton, Hon. Mrs. W. Herbert, Hon. Spencer Cowper, Hon. Edw. Upton and Mrs. Upton, Chevalier and Ma dame de Herta, Baron Osten, Hon. Cecil Forrester, Hon. Edmund St. John Mildmay, Sir John Walsh, Bart., Sir Thomas Hare, Bart., Sir George Armytage, Bart., Sir Henry Webb, Bart., Sir Charles Marshall and Miss Marshall, Sir John and Miss Burgoyne, Lady Jervis, Mr. Gregory, M.P., Mr. Gerrard Sturt, M.P., Mr. Disraeli, M.P., Mrs. Disraeli, Colonel Wingfield, General Wyndham, Captain Parker, Captain Stirling, Captain Cuddy, Captain C. Ellison, Captain Dalrymple, Captain Egerton, Captain Dudley Carleton, Captain Bastard, Captain D'Aguilar, Captain Robinion, Colonel Blanc, Mr. Cttlingliam Smith, Mr. J. Lloyd Clayton, M. and Madame de Lizirdi, Mr. and Mrs. Arabin, Mr. A. Arcedeckne, Mr. and Mrs. Coghlan, Mr. 11. Greville, Miss Burdett Coatt: and Miss Burdett, &c. &c. Dispatches were sent off yesvirday evening from the Colonial -office for the Governors of Hong-Kong and Ceylon. LoripoN AND NORTH-'WESTERN.—The dividend of this company will be alter the rate of 7 per cent., and foe balance c,rried forwaid to the next half-year will be considerable. SUN, SYMPATHY with the HUNGARIANS. MEETING AT EDINBURGIT. A public meeting of the citizens of Edinburgh was held in the Music Hall on Monday, for the purpose of " expressing sympathy with the Hungarian nation in their glorious struggle for constitutional freedom." The Hall was filled, the larger portion of the audi ence being composed of the working classes, with a sprinkling of females. On the platform were—Mr. Cowan, M.P., the Lord Provost, Count Krazinski ; the Rev. Drs. Alexander, Brown, and Hetherington ; Mr. Makgill Crichton, of Rankeillour ; Baillie Stott ; i Councillors Gray and Radpath ; Mr. James Mon -1 crieff, Advocate; Mr. A. Dunlop, Advocate; Mr. Duncan, S.S.C.; Mr. J. F. Macfarlan; Mr. William M'Crie; Mr. George Lees, A.M., &c. On the motion of Mr. M'Crie, the Lord Provost was called upon to preside. The LORD PROVOST, on taking the chair, said they were met that day in the sacred cause of liberty; and he was delighted to see so large a meting of his fellow-citizens assembled at a time when, as a friend near him had remarked, Edinburgh might be said to be out of town. At one time he entertained some doubts about the propriety of a meeting of this kind, lest it might have been found to do evil rather than good, but after the speech of Lord Palmerston in the House of Commons—(Applause)—and the effect which that speech had already produced, all doubts had been removed from his mind ; and remembering, as they must all do, that this was not the first time that Britain had interfered in the cause of Hungary, he thought they would be far behind their predeces sors were they not on this occasion to take some notice of their struggles for liberty, and to express towards them their cordial sympathy and good-will.— (Cheers.) He felt assured that no one worthy of the British name could stand tamely by and see a combined despotism attempting to blot out the very name of a noble, brave, and religious people from among the nations of Europe.—(Renewed applause.) He was sure every other nation in Europe would be induced to follow the example so nobly set them by Britain in lifting up their voices against so grievous and un worthy a tyranny as the combined forces of Russia and Austria were exerting against the people of Hungary.—(Hear, hear.) Mr. lIARRISON stated that he had received letters of apology for absence from Lord Dudley Stuart, the Rev. Dr. Candlish, the Rev. Mr. Goold, the Provost of Leith, Bailie Tullis, and others. He also announced a donation of 51. from Mr. John Grant. Mr. COWAN, M.P., then rose to move the first resolution. Referring to the largeness and enthusiasm of the meeting, he said there was no place more likely than the capital of Scotland to respond heartily to the call made on them to sympathise with the persecuted and cruelly treated subjects of Hungary. Their forefathers, in former days, had nobly vindi cated their national existeuce in the face of fearful odds. He need only refer in proof to the names—now household words,—of Bruce and Wallace, who, five hundred years ago, in the face of English power and English tyranny, maintained successfully the national existence of the kingdom of Scotland.—(Cheers.) He was sure the hearts of the descendants of these men, and the inhabitants of the country for which they had fought and bled, would be filled with indig nation when they read the accounts which were received day after day through the newspapers, garbled as they were, of the injuries perpetrated on the noble Elungarians by those cowardly tyrants, Russia and Austria (Hear, hear) for he hardly knew whether the -execrable cowardice of these mighty tyrants did not exceed the outrages and barbarities which they were enforcing against that brave and noble people. He trusted such a shout would be raised by the united voice of Europe and of Christendom as would speedily put a stop to such tyrannous proceedings.—(Ap plause.) He was glad to think that the object of this meeting was a moral one—that it was proposed to effect the end they had in view by the influence of mind upon mind throughout the nations of the earth ; and he was happy to think that that honest and singularly able man, Richard Cobden—(Cheers) — whom he was proud to call his friend, had struck the right chord when on a recent occasion he stated that unless the sinews of war were forthcoming from the western nations of Europe, Russia had little means of her own to carry on this contest. And were they in this country, with the recollection of the burden of debt entailed upon them by past wars, or the capitalists of other countries, likely to embark their money for an object which was likely to prove so utterly worthless, and its accomplishment ac companied by the desolation of the country which was invaded by the ruthless tyrant ? He trusted, therefore, that by strong expres sions of opinion from meetings such as the pre sent, in every part of this country and of other coun tries, representing as they did the opinions of the independent class of the community, even the Em peror of Russia would find it impossible to carry on this accursed contest, which must not only secure for him the detestation of this country, but the execra tions of succeeding generations.—(Applause.) After expressing his satisfaction at the peaceful tendency of the recent foreign policy of the Government, the Hon. Member concluded by proposing the following resolution :—" That this meeting heartily sympathise with the Hungarian nation in the noble and deter mined efforts which they are now making to maintain their constitutional independence, and to secure the permanent enjoyment of civil and religious liberty ; which efforts, the meeting ardently hopes, may soon, by the blessing of God, be crowned with a glorious success." The Rev. Dr. ALEXANDER seconded the resolution. They were called together, he said, to maintain a great principle in that science which had been justly denominated the ethics of nations—they were called to maintain the faith of treaties and the sanctity of oaths—they were called to lift up their protest, in the spirit and accordant with the deepest conviction of this nineteenth century, that might was not right, and that the attempt to wrest by brute force from a free people their chartered and cherished independence was an outrage upon humanity, and an offence in the sight of God.—(Cheers.) They were met to offer their sympathy to a free people struggling for that which was the dearest possession both of individuals and of nations, and, as far as they had the power, to aid them in bringing their struggle to a glorious and successful conclusion.—(Renewed applause.) It was of great importance that they should have distinctly before them the cause as it exactly stood which had brought them together. They had met not for the purpose of contemplating the case of two great powers attempting to settle a quarrel between them by an appeal to arms, nor of taking part with any body that had broken loose from former restraint, and was seeking to act apart from legitimate authority ; but they were met to look at the case of a free people —of a people who had always, in historical memory, been a free people—who were seeking nothing but what they had always been accustomed to possess, but from whom a great power was seeking to wrest their ancient independence, and for this purpose had called in the aid of another, perhaps a greater, cer tainly a more despotic power, in order that they might trample underfoot the treaties which many centuries had sanctioned, and might bring under bondage and slavery a people that had always called themselves free. From the time that the crown of St. Stephen passed into the possession of the House of Hapsburg, at every demise of the Crown, and every successive coronation, the independence and freedom of Hungary had always been secured in the most solemn and impressive manner. It was therefore in the face of everything that went to establish the freedom of - the that Austria and Russia were now waging war on the plains of Hungary, and they had therefore before them a case so clear and simple, that he could conceive of no man hesitating to give an ex pression of his sympathy towards the struggling party, resisting that aggression on his rights. If it was asked what right had they to interfere at all in the matter, he would say at once, if they had no right before, Russia had given them an un questionable right.—(Loud cheers.) If the repre sentative of unmitigated despotism might interfere to fasten pinions on freedom, the representative of the liberty of the world might interfere and say, He shall not.—(Loud applause.) And he (Dr. Alex ander), appealed here, not to conventional arrange ments, nor to political interests—he would not raise up what he was sometimes inclined to suspect was little more than a sort of phantom, the balance of power. He would go to higher and more impressive considerations. He would appeal to that law which was above all laws—that law of which the great Roman orator and philosopher had said that " neither by the vote of the Senate, nor by the sill of the people, can we be absolved from its obligation"— that law which found a response in the bosom of every intelligent man—the great law of moral rectitude— (Hear, hear)—and, appealing to that law, he main tained that Hungary was entitled to be free, and that England was entitled to send her voice across the waters, and say to the despots=" She shall be free." —(Loud cheers.) There might be some in that assembly who were conscientiously opposed to war of every kind, hut he could not suppose that even they would refrain from cordia:ly wishing success to the Hungarian arms, for this plain reason, that the appeal had already been made, and the struggle must come to a close by the victory of one or other of the parties ; and even if they sh4uld think the Hungarians had done wrong in appealing to arms, they still must wish, since one party must conquer, that they should conquer who had right on their side.—(Hear, hear.) But he would venture to go a little further for him self. He was there to offer his meed of cordial applause to the Hungarians for the course they had pursued, and for the bravery and courage they h a d manifested. He believed there was such a thing as just and necessary war, and that when war was so it was honourable and might be commended. He saw nothing in religion or in morals which forbade a man to defend the sacredness of his own hearth and home, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1849. even by an appeal to arms, against the plundering in vader—(flear, hear)—and when he read in Scripture that the magistrate was not to wear the sword in vain, he inferred that if he might employ the sword against one of his own subjects for the protection of the whole, much more might he employ it for the protection of his country against a foreign foe.—(Cheers.) He would not be understood as apologising for war, for he could cordially say he hated it ; but he hesitated not to say there were worse evils than war--there were long years of tyranny, injustice and wrong—there were fortresses filled with a foreign, a lawless, a li centious s oldiery,—there was commerce inter rupted, letters suspended, the sacredness of domestic rights invaded, honest cititizons interrupted in their vocations the dignity of matrons insulted, the chastity Of virgins trampled under foot; dungeons filled with innocent victims, and scaffolds reeking with noble and virtuous blood. These were worse than war with all its hateful hor rors, and when he looked to the character of the Powers that were now waging war against Hungary —when he thought of the policy of Metternich, of the dungeons of Speilberg and the vast wastes of Siberia—when he remembered they had to do with men who spared none from their revenge, and who had, even within his own memory, violated every sense of decency, out rage d ever y f ee ling of humanity byby lacerating ad t i h ng the flesh otforvtiurtrning scourge —when virtnous and r noble saw they were the parties see ki ng t o o btain dominion over Hungary, he said a t once , t en th o usand times give him war with all it s h orrors , with its quick sc e—when he women dispatch, and with its hasty but decisive agonies, than this long-continued, desolating, distracting plague, which, like the fatal Upas tree, infects the very air with death, and under which all truth, virtue, and honesty languishes and dies.—(Applause.) He knew that some feared there was risk of our own country being plunged into war if the Government interfere in the pending conflict; but while he had little apprehension of this, he could not for one, wish that this country (which, upon the whole, was the freest upon the face of the earth), should, from fear of some possible calamity, fold her majestic arms and sit still, keeping unworthy silence when the black despots were gathering together their forces to blot out from amongst the nations of Europe a country which had ever borne the name of free, and whose arms had ever been wielded in freedom's cause.—(Loud applause.) The resolution was then put to the meeting, and enthusiastically carried. Mr. ALEXANDER. DUNLOP, advocate, said he rejoiced'that they had not left the Hungarian people to struggle on without their sympathy, as they had left the Romans till they were trampled under foot by the despotism of France, under the garb of a friend.—(Hear, hear.) He rejoiced too, that their Government had taken the position which it had done in expressing the sentiments of the people of Britain ; but, even though no expres sion of their opinion had been given, he held that it would have been equally imperative on the people of this country to have raised their voices in sympathy with the Hungarians. The people of this country were pre-eminently called upon to come cordially forward in the present case, not only because the Hungarians were now engaged in a struggle similar to those in which they themselves had been engaged in former times, but also because of the position which Britain alone held among the nations. France, to her shame, had passed over from the cause of freedom, and en gaged herself in trampling on the liberties of a foreign people; and therefore to Britain alone could a strug gling nation look for sympathy and support; and although,they could not and were not seeking to aid her by arms, yet they were not to undervalue the effect of the moral influence of Britain The resolution he had to propose was to the following effect :—" That this meeting deeply deplore the war waged by the Austrian authorities, and that with such barbarous cruelty, against the independence and liberty of Hungary, and deprecate in the strongest manner the armed in terference of Russia with the settlement of a question between the house of Hapsburgh and the Hungarian nation, as unwarranted and oppressive in itself— hostile to the rights of an independent people— perilous to the peace of Europe—and threatening even to endanger ultimately its civilization and free dom." The resolution, he observed, declared two things—it deplored the conduct of Austria, and de precated the interference of Russia. As to the con duct of Austria, it was just another proof of the ter rible blindness of despotic governments. That Go veanment had a glorious opportunity of building up again the house of Hapsburgh on a broad basis of constitutional liberty. The Hungarian nation had a constitution of its own, and it had shown the most undoubted loyalty to that house. Austria had now, however, lost that opportunity, and she was now try ing to exercise her old despotism over the Hungarians. But he (Mr. Dunlop) rejoiced to think they had such counsellors and patriots to direct their counsels and lend their arms, as Kossuth, Bem, Dembinski, and others, who had shown themselves worthy to achieve the victory, and would certainly have done it had the parties been left to themselves. But the great despot of Russia had been called in to aid the aggressions of Austria. It was grievous enough in any circumstances when one power inter fered with another; but when one nation would have achieved its liberty had the struggle been a fair one, it was infamous - that - a foreign power should be called in to secure them in a yoke from which other wise they would have delivered themselves. The Learned Gentleman proceeded to show that it was the interest of Britain, for the purpose of preserving the peace of Europe, to endeavour to prevent the extension of the Russian power, and concluded by proposing his resolution. The resolution was seconded by a Mr. FRASER, a working man, and unanimously carried. The Rev. Dr. lIETLIERINGTON then moved the ' next resolution, which was as follows :—" That, in the opinion of this meeting, the Government of Great Britain should embrace every opportunity of pressing upon that of Austria the duty of abandoning the attempt which, with foreign aid, it is now carrying on to - crush the independence of Hungary, and to overthrow that constitution which the sovereigns of Austria have uniformly acknowledged and sworn to maintain, and of remonstrating with the Emperor of Russia on his interference by force of arms in the internal affairs of another country." A remonstrane of the kind proposed in the resolution, he contended, was not likely to cause war, but to stop it by the calm might of moral influence. It took the ground so well cccupied by Lord Palmerston recently, when he declared l j t r t ni a t s h ttli e nneg H gw o r u neu s s e sl o o Cotd in t o ini m aet m e,n d n o s pp , in reference irneivoaniifaoguanidnesdt the bayonets of infantry, the roar o f ar till ery , an d the charge of cavalry."—(Cheers.) In the speech of her Majesty, when proroguing Parliament, it was said that her Majesty would continue to direct her efforts to promote the restoration of peace ; so that the object of the meeting and of the resolution he proposed was really to support the Government in the objects they had in view—the restoration of peace, and at the same time the defence, by moral means, of the rights and privileges of civil and religious liberty in Rungary.—(Hear) Mr. JAMES MoNcRIEFF, advocate, in seconding the resolution, said he did so on two general grounds— because on the one hand the contest now waging in Hungary had a most noble and magnificent aspect for freemen to look upon, and on the other because the struggle was fraught with interests most momentous and important to Britain. lie repudiated the calumny which had been in dustriously circulated on this subject, that they were anxious to pledge the country to war. When he considered from what quarter these taunts came— that the men who uttered them were the representa tives of those who had embroiled all Europe in a war that had hung a mill-stone of debt about their necks to establish a despotism that was now the plague of Europe, he could not but be indignant that they should set up the bugbear of a Continental war to prevent them from doing that which was the safest and surest means of averting it.—(Hear.) On the LORD PROVOST putting the resolution to the meeting, Dr. WM. GLOVER (the Chartist) rose from his seat on the platform for the purpose of moving an amend ment. His appearance was the signal for a loud burst of hisses and discordant sounds from all parts of the hall, which effectually drowned his voice, and prevented a word he uttered from being heard five yards from where he was standing, vehemently insisting on his right to be heard. After he had persevered for some time, amid the greatest disorder, a person of rather mitre appearance s t ar t e d f rom hi s seat (also on the platform) in a state of great excite• ment, and, by an alarming exhibition of his " cane," appeared to threaten the Doctor with summary pro ceedings. But neither the menaces of this enthusiastic gentleman, nor the groans of the audience, could turn the persevering Doctor from his purpose, and, after the Lord Provost had succeeded in obtaining some thing like order, he read his amendment to the effect that the meeting was of opinion that the Royal House of Austria or Hapsburg had forfeited all claim to the throne of Hungary, and that the Hungarians had a perfect right to choose what form of Government they thought proper, independent of all foreign interference, and that the meeting memorialise her Majesty to acknowledge the independence of Hun gary and its existing Government, and to , Austria towithdraw her France, ambassadors :n d e ve every from other the CGGovernment Courts nm violating. the of n laws of nations and the rights of humanity. Th e Doctor attempted to support his amendment, but th e noise was immediately resumed, and in the midst of it an Episcopal clergyman from America (M r . J. C. Richmond), rose from the body of th e H a ll, an d attempted, in a great measure unsuccessfully, to address the meeting, as representing t wen t y m i ll i ons on the other side of the Atlantic ! - Ultimately, the confusion was ended by the Lord Provost putting the resolution and amendment to the meeting, when the latter found only two supporters, and the resolution was declared carried. Mr. BROWN (a working man) seconded by Mr. J F. Macfarlane, moved the following resolution, which was also adopted :—" That a memorial be presented, in the name of this meeting, to her Majesty's Go vernment, through the Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, praying and urging them without delay to use their influence with Austria and Russia, for putting a stop to the warfare and armed interference so much deprecated by this meeting, and further to endeavour to bring about the restoration of peace on a basis, which shall secure, in a manner satisfactory to the people of Hungary, their religious and civil liberties and rights." On the motion of Mr. HartmsoN, it was agreed to prepare a suitable address to the Hungarian nation, to be transmitted to Kossuth ; and after a vote of thanks was given to the Lord Provost, on the motion of Mr. Duncan, S.S.C., the meeting separated. TESTIMONIAL TO THE HUNGARIAN REFUGEES. " THE HUNGARIAN NATION COUNTS ON THE SYMPATH OF EVERY NATION WHICH LOVES RIGHT AND Ll- BERTY."—Kosauth's Protest against Russian Liter Veil tion. Subscriptions may be sent to the following bankers:— Messrs. Coutts and Co. Messrs. Drummond. Messrs. Smith, Payne, and Smith ; or to any one of the members of the committee recently formed to carry out the Testimr * * *All further Post-office orders to be made payable to Murdo young, Esq., at the Money Order Office, Strand. Subscriptions already received ... —7:5 2 5i From a Few Lovers of Liberty, sympathising with the Cause of the Hungarians, by J. 5.... 1 14 0 Contributions from Plymouth — W. Ackland ... 0 2 6 E. Brown Codd 0 2 6 T. Nicholson ... .. ... .. ... 0 2 6 H. Fryer ... ••• ... ... J. M. Carkeet John Burnell . Thomas Stephens Thomas Vivian 0 2 6 0 1 0 0 5 0 •• • 04 1144 ... 0 2 6 ••• ..4 1144 1141, 0 2 6 Holmand 0 2 6 W. Cumming ... 0 2 6 R. Parsons ... 0 1 6 Isaac Nichols 0 5 0 William Burnell ••• ••• •• ••• 0 10 0 D. 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SIR,—It affsirds kle much pleasure to be able to for ward you 2/. by Post-office order, towards the Hungarian fund—an amount trifling in its pecuniary value, though not so as expressing the sentiments of no less than 80 inhabitants of this town, the collection having been pri vately made by sixpenny donations. This I hold to be one of the main objects of the Testimonial, and I have great pleasure in having so far assisted it. It has, perhaps, an additional value as a token of the spirit for improvement now so rapidly spreading amongst the youth of our country, 10s. being the subscriptions of twenty young men who have entered into a society for mutual improvement—most of them members of that great body the working class.—l am, Sir, your obedient servant, H. E. H. Bridport, Aug. f. CASE OF THE COUNTESS OF LANDSFELDT. TO THF; EDITOR OF THE SUN. SlB,—Your article of this evening on this subject, like many other articles I have remarked in The Sun, is characterised by sound law and gentlemanly feeling. I contend that there was no case even•for holding the accused to bail. If the doctrine relied upon by the pro secution were correct, any person might be accused of a crime, and called upon to prove their innocence without even a prima facie case; the magistrate had it und3ubt edly in his power to discharge the lady, the first hus-• band not being present, and no human being having the power to say that Mr. James was living on the 19th of July last. I am astonished that the lady's counsel should have " admitted" that the case ought to be carried fur ther. It is quite clear that the worthy magistrate, who is no contemptible lawyer, but for this admission, would have discharged the lady. As it is intentio facit reus, and I am confident there is no jury in England who would convict of bigamy a woman ignorant of the law, and who had been already divorced by solemn Act of the Ecclesiastical tribunals of this realm, more especially as the lady being (as I am informed) a Roman Catholic, would attach more than ordinary importance to the de cision of courts of that character. I am, Sir, your obedient servant, A BARRISTER-AT-LAW. Inner Temple, Tuesday Evening. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Six,—You have exposed many of the abuses of the Sabbatarians. Will you lend us your aid in another glaring case. The West India steamer arrives at Southampton on a Saturday, and the letters go on to London, where they lay all Sunday. On the Monday they are sent down, and I get them on the Tuesday morning. Now, Sir, the steamer brings large quantities of bullion, and we aro all, of course, very anxious to get our remittances, bills, correspondence, Sic. This is the case with me at the present moment. Urgent business calls me away, yet by this pernicious system I am detained here a day longer than necessary. If the Post-office is not to be opened in London on a Sunday, then let the bags be made up for the provinces in Southampton. The bulk of the business is done through this town, and yet we are sub jected to this unnecessary inconvenience. I am, ycurs very truly, A WEST-COAST MERCHANT. Liverpool, Aug. 6. [This is another of those intolerable grievances—re quiring instant alteration—which press so heavily upon the mercantile community, merely to gratify the evan gelic vanity and the orthodox whims of an insignificant minority. We would recommend our correspondent to memorialise the House of Commons.—ED. Sun.] THE CHOLERA. RETURN OF CASES, AUG 7. Attacks. Deaths. In London and vicinity, viz.:— Lambeth ... 41 13 Bermondsey ... ... ... 114 44 Southwai k 20 Camberwell 1‘) ... ... ... - .) Other localities in London ... 141 56 In England end Wales, viz. : Liverpool ... ... ... ... 169 68 Merthyr Tydvil ... ... ••• 1 2 9 Dovvlais ... ... ... ... 28 13 Plymouth ... ... ... ... 18 3 Portsmouth Other towns in England ... ... 174 98 In Scotland, viz.:— Dundee ... ... ... ... 26 16 Arbroath ... ... ... ... 1 1 Total MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, AUG. 4, 1549. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ...*l3OB Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... ... 41 Tubercular Diseases ... ... ... ... 164 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senscs... ... 110 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 50 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... 85 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... .. ... ... 64 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, 8 , 3 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 5 Diseases of the Skin, &c. 1 Malformations... ... 1 Premature Birth ... Atrophy ... 18 Old Age Sudden ... 12 Violence, Privation, Cold, or Intemperance 23 Causes not specified 4 DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... .• • 1,967 Population Average weekly Deaths Enumerated, Deaths 1844-8 in the 1841. Five Suinincrs. Week. West Districts... 300,711 . . 147 205 North D.Aricts.. 375,971 .. 191 227 Central Districts 373,653 ... 183 ... 265 East Districts ... 392,444 ... 227 ... 1332 South Districts.. 501,190 ... 260 •-• 9'),,s Totals... ..... 1,948,369 ... 1,008 ••• 1 ' 967 Males. ... ... ... 993 Females ... ... ...... "• *** 974 BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males „„ 7 6 0 , 3 0 Females ... ••• ''• ••• Total... ...1,393 * In this number are included 926 eases of death by Cholera, 44 by Scarlatina, 39 by . Typhus Fever, and 179 by Diarrhma. LAW INTELLIGENCE. VICE-CHANCERY COURT, Aug. 7. (Be!ore Sir J. L. KNIGHT BRUCE.) ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. THE BISHOP OF ELY. This was the petition of the Rev. W. G. Townley, rector of Up sell cum-Welney, one of the trustees of Marshall's Charity at Welney, in the Isle of Ely, for the purpose of enabling the trustees to raise 2,2001. upon the security of the surplus rents of the charity estates, for the purpose of repaying an outlay incurred in certain new buildings beyond the estimate which had been sanctioned by the Master. The petition stated the whole buildings had been completed for a cost of 5,314/., being 2,072/. Gs. sd. more than was estimated, and that the average surplus income was about 6561. per annum, and he asked that the Court would sanction the raising the excess of Expenditure, by bond, upon security of the future sur plus income. Mr. Wigram appeared in support of the petit'on; and Mr. Sayrea for the Bishop of lity, and the co trustees, and the schoolmaster, who consented. His lloNoutt made the order accordingly. PREROGA7IVE COURT. (Before Dr. HAGGARD, who sat as a Surrogate.) NARY RUSH, DECEASED. Dr. ADDAMS said he bad to renew his application on F ehalf of the guardian of the children of the late James Bloomfield Rush, to set aside the will, upon which pro bate had been granted, of the late Mary Rush, mother of James Bloomfield Rush; and which purported to ap• point him executor, and the property of the testatrix to be divided between his children, upon the youngest child art iving at the age of 21 years, which will, it was al leged, was, upon the oath of Emily Sandford, a forgery, she having attested it as a witness after the death of the testatrix. The Learned Judge, on a former application, thought the affidavit of such a person us Emily Sand ford was not sufficient to justify him in annulling his for mer act, and rejected the application until further cor roborative evidence was adduced. The Learned Advo cate said he bad now to offer to the Court the affidavits of two respectable gentlemen, a Mr. Durrant and a Mr. Wilkinson, who attested to the belief that the will proved was a forgery. Under these circumstances he hoped the Court would grant the application. The will of the tes tatrix gave her property to her grandchildren, to be paid to them in equal portions upon their arriving at the age of 21 years. The Learned JUDGE granted the application as prayed, ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUI T.—Croydon, Aug 7. The business of these assiz,s commenced this morning. The number of causes put down for trial is ninety-six, of which seventeen are special jury cases. Mr. Baron Al derson presided on the Crown bide, and the Chief Baron at Nisi Prins. The Learned BARON, in charging the grand jury, said that it gave him at all times great pleasure to meet the gentlemen of the county of Surrey; but it did so para. cularly on the present occasion, because, according to the rule and custom of this kingdom, ho was entitled to a pair of white gloves by reason of there not being any capital charge in the calendar. The CHIEF BARON did not commence the civil busi ness until twelve o'clock, and nothing more was done during the day than to dispose of a portion of the unde fended causes, and commence the first defended common jury case, which at half-past five o'clock was adjourned till this morning. OXFORD ClRCUlT.—Monmouth, Aug. 6. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice ERLE.) Thomas Edward Turberville was indicted for forging, on the 2d of February last, a❑ order for the payment of 31. 12s. 61, with intent to defraud Jacob Chatterley and others. There were 24 counts, some describing the in strument as an order and some as a %arrant for the payment of money, some charging only an uttering, some laying the intent to defraud Chatterley, others to defraud Wm. Rees and others, and others to defraud Rees only; in short, it W 45 laid in every possible mode in which it was thought the evidence would support it. Mr. Cooke appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Huddlestone for the defence. The prisoner had been a member and the paid actuary of the Temple of Peace Lodge of the Society of Odd Fellows, at Newport; Jacob Chatterley was " the noble grand" of the society; and William Rees was the treasurer. Both were also members of the society. The practioe of the society was for the treasurer to pay cheques in favour of sick members when presented to him signed by the noble grand and the actuary. On the day above named the noble grand, on the representation of the prisoner that a member, who in fact was not ill, and never applied for any order, was ill, and wanted a cheque for 125., countersigned one already signed by the prisoner, and handed it to him. The latter altered it to 31. 12s. Gd., and it was afterwards paid without any suspicion of fraud. There was no evidence that it was presented by the prisoner. Oa the close of the case for the prosecu tion, it was objected on the part of the prisoner that those counts could not be sustained which charged the intent to defraud Jacob Chatterley and others, or Rees and others, as in both classes of counts " others" should be taken to include the prisoner himself, as he was a member of the society and part owner of the funds, and therefore amounted to a charge that the defendant intended to defraud himself. Ilis Lordship, however, held that " others" must be taken to include all the other members except the pri soner, and therefore was sufficient, withi❑ the pro- visions of the 7th George IV., c. 64; but that if necessary ho would reserve the point. It was next ob jected that the counts which charged the intent to be to defraud the treasurer could not be sustained, as the pro perty belonged not to him alone, but to him jointly with the prisoner and the other members of the society. But his Lordship held that, as the same law that applied to bankers applied to other agents, and the treasurer had a duty to pay only on genuine orders, and this order, if valid, would protect him, and if not valid, would not protect him, he was defrauded by paying it ; and, therefore, the intent w as rightly laid to defraud him. On this point his Lordship had no doubt, and he was not requested to reserve it; and the prisoner having been convicted of the forgery was sentenced to seven years' transportation. liza Hunt was indicted for uttering, on the 4th of May last, a forged request for the delivery of a quantity of grocery goods, with intent to defraud Henry Roper. Mr. Barrett appeared for the prosecution; the pri soner was not defended. In the details of the case there was nothing worth mentioning; and it is noticed only in consequence of a decision ot the Court on the construction ot the recent Act 11th and 12th Viet. c. 42, which is of practical im portance. The 18th sec. of that Act provides that the prisoner's statement at petty sessions " shall be taken down in writing, and read over to him, and shall be signed by the said justice or justices, and kept with the depositions of the witnesses, and shall be transmitted with them as hereinafter mentioned ; and afterwards upon the trial of the said accused person the same nriy, if necessary, be given in evidence againit him without further proof thereof, unless it shall bo proved that the justice or justices purporting to sign the same did not, in fact, sig❑ the same." The prisoner in the present case made a statement before the magistrates, which the counsel for the prosecution proposed to give in evidence merely by calling for the depositions and reading it from them. His LORDSHIP said that h© had at first entertained an opinion that this was not the proper course; but he had had occasion to consider it at Hereford with his Learned Brother Baron Rolfe, and they both came to the con clusion that they would tal;e notice of the transmission of the depositions from the petty sessions, and that on the coußsel calling for them from the officer of the court, or the judge, and their being produced, nothing more was necessary in order to allow a statement made by a prisoner before the justices at sessions to be read against him. The depositions were then called for, and were handed down by his Lordship, and the officer of the court read the statement. The prisoner was ultimately Acquitted. The business had not closed at post-hour (half -past six), but it is expected that it will bo brought to a con clusion this evening. NORFOLK CIRCLIIT.---7lpswich, Aug. 7. Joseph Baldwin, aged 4 7, a man of Herculean pro portions, was charged with breaking into the house of John Barnes, at Redlingfield, on the 6th of May, and stealing therein five shillings' worth of penny pieces, six buns, a piece of linm, and half a pound of pickled pork. Mr. Palmer conducted the case for the prosecution. On Sunday, the 6th May, Mr. and Mrs. Barnes quitted their house, for the purpose of going to church, leaving the doors and windows ali secured. On their return they were surprised to find the marks of two or three very large footprints on the druggett in the keeping room. They ascertained that a cupboard had been forced open in which was kept the key of another cup board. This key still hung on its accustomed nail, and nothing was missing from that cupboard. The other, however, when opened with the key, showed that the intruder had visited its shelves, for the various trifles mentioned in the indictment were missed from them. The next question was how to account for the en trance and the exit of the thief, and a minute inspection of the window, which was found bolted as usual, satisfied Mr. Barnes that a pane had been taken out of the lead close to the hasp. Through this aperture a hand could easily open the fastening, and then the window afforied an aperture of 13 inches by 30. The pane, however, had been carefully replaced and the lead knocked together again, thus showing that the robbery had been effected with considerable precaution, and meet probably through the agency of a boy or small ti t ? h 11 3 :010 01 % had afterwards admitted a larger man through Information having been given of this ee o r t i r g, a ,ing, “ w at 12 discovered that the prisoner had . be a er d i direction from the o'clock on the day in questivoanr,disn his own house. The house of the prosecutor to% the latter on Tuesday, but Afterwards, however, it was poolel3ic,efoaucncdorrointigiilny se arched .iit. nothing in prisoner had paid an arrest. of l i t •ates to the overseer, in penny pieces, . 3 if P i o : r o dupsoet 4 was searched again, when a piece of linen ascertained e = xactly corresponded with that lost by and . his gas f ou nd, wow Mrs. s Barnes, who recognised it as a piece of her hus band's shirt sleeve, which she had only removed from that the cugpboardarment on the Saturd a y night, Lind then placed in . The priiocer, in his defence, contended that it wag physically' impossibl e that he should have committed the robbery, he could not have got through the windua, "if he had tried ever so;" and, as for the payment to the overseer, he had paid him with coppers received from his deceased master on Saturday. Ile also ac counted for the possession of the linen by saying that he had picked it up in a ditch, while at work, between the first and second search. The jury having found the prisoner Guilty, His LORDSHIP sentenced the prisoner to transpo:L tion for ten years. John Woods, aged 32, and John Lcwis, aged 43, were . i /~ /_• charged with assaulting anti besting John Muuniogs, on the 27th of March, and robbing him of 171. 15s. Mr. E. Rodwell was counsel for the prosecutiot ; Mr. Dasent defended Woods ; and Mr. 13ulwer defended Lewis. The prosecutor is a jobber at Carel, about sir miles from Ipswich, at which village both the pri soners live, the latter being a labourer, and the former the parish schoolmaster. On the 27th of March the prosecutor went to the Plough at half-past seven in the evening, and met there two men, named Fallows and Woods, to the latter of whom he let fall that he had beta that day paid by one Salmon, and that he had the money in his pocket. Soon after eight o'clock Woe d 3 went out, saying he was " going ht me to have a hot supper;" and in half an hour after Fellows also left. In the course of the evening Woods was seen prowling about the streets with a huge walking-stick as late as half -past ni❑e. At that hour the prosecutor left the Plcugh to go home, an I when he had reached a corner Of the road shaded by high hedges, he saw two men standing ; (110 of these he knew to be Woods, and bade him '• d night." The man so addressed mode him no answt r, but springing forward felled the prosecutor to tf e ground with a blow on the head front a stick, aid o ccedcd to force a handkerchief into his threat. Whil e this operation was going on, the prosecutor seized Wocsls by the lower lip, attempting to drag fr( m his lace a fal-e pair of moustaches and whiskers. The pain of this attack caused the robber to mutter for " help" to his companion, who then lent his aid, and held the head of the prosecutor as Woods drew from his pocket his purse. This dune, the two took to their heels, and the prosecutor calling murder, went to his house, where he was met by a neighbour attracted by his cries. Information was given to the police at one o'clock by the prosecutor, who charged Woods and Fallows a jib the commission of this offence, saying ho was sure of roods, as he had marked his face, but was not so confident as to Fallows. At half-past five o'clock a man passing Wood's house saw him peeping out of his door mysteriously, and presently after Lewis came by, when Woods beckoned to him, and they remained in conver sation for some minutes. Immediately after this the prosecutor and the police appeared at the house of Woods, whom they found dressed in his school-room, and presenting marks of scratches on his face, and recent injury to the lower lip and chin, to which the prosecutor triumphantly appealed. When Follows came, the pro secutor at first charged him as being the companion of Woods, but when the two were put together, he with drew the accusation, saying that Fallows was far too big. In Woods' house were found two sovereigns, which he accounted for as belonging to a benefit club, and in that of Lewis were found two sovereigns and a half in an outhouse, under an old flower-pot. Soon after this Lewis was taken into custody, and in his watch fob was found a half-crown, which he gave two different accounts of, while it was subsequently traced most clearly as one of two half-crowns paid by Salmon to tho prosecutor on the morning of the robbery, the prosecutor stating that he had not parted with tiny of the money so paid to him. Both the prisoners having been found Guilty, Woods, against whom there was another charge of' burglary on which no evidence was offered, was sen tenced to be transported for ten years, and Lewis to two years' imprisonment. This case, which did not come to a conclusion till half-past eight o'clock, terminated the criminal business of the assize. NORTH WALES CIRCUIP.—Che.der, Auy. 6. The business of these assizes commenced this morn ing ; A;r. Justice Maule presiding at Nisi Prius, and Mr. Baron Platt in the Crown Court. The calendar shows a total of 47 prisoriers for trial — a lesser number than usual at these assizes. The cause list contains the entries of ten causes—three of these are for special juries. Two coining cases, of no particular interest, occupied the Crown Court throughout the greater part of the day. NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice MAULE.) CLARK V. LEACH. Mr. Evans and Mr. WelsbycOncTucted the case of the plaintiff', and Mr. Townsend appeared for the defendant. The plaintiff is a salt merchant at Runcorn. In that town there is no bank, so that persons in business having cheques and letters of credit to cash were in the habit of sending them for that purpose by the captains of ves sels going to Liverpool. The defendant is a captain of a steam-vessel running to Liverpool ; and the plaintiff entrusted to him a letter of credit for 451. to cash for him in Liverpool, which the defendant promised to do. He took the letter of credit, cashed it, and, on his re turn, gave the plaintiff 51., stating thtl,t he had lost from his pocket a roll of notes, which formed the re mainder. It was contended that defendant did not take reasonable and proper care of the letter of credit, and was therefore liable. Mr. TOWNSEND, for the defendant, contended that Leach was not liable for the loss of the notes, inasmuch as he was a gratuitous bailee of the letter of credit, not performing this service for the plaintiff in consideration of hire and reward, but simply as a personal friend. Tho Learned JUDGE said that the questions for the jury were uhether defendant was employed to per form the duty for hire and reward, and if so, did ho take rea sonable and proper care of the money. The evidence clearly made out that he had undertaken the duty of coshing the letter of credit iu consideration of receiving remuneration fur the trouble. That being so, assuming that he was to be paid, did he use such diligence as a man should use when he undertakes such a service for reward. The amount of care to be employed in such a case differs materially from that required where a party takes upon himself such a duty in the capacity of a friend : ho is required to be more strict if he svoiks for hire than if he winks for friendship. The defendant in this case should take such care et the proceeds of the letter of credit as is reasonably required to protect such property as bank notes—that is, more cure than is suf fici-nt to ensure the safety of less valuable property. Where a man has to pass through crowded thorough fares with such property on his person, ho should exer cise proportionate vigilance over it. The questions, then, to be considered are—first, whether defendant un dertook the duty for hire and reward ; if he did not, then the verdict should be for the defendant. If he per formed the duty for hire and reward, then the remaining question is, whether ho had taken reasonable and pro per care of the property. If he had not, the verdict should be for the plaintiff, if he had, fur the defendant, The jury consulted for five minutes, and then returned a verdict for the plaintiff for 401., the amount sought to be recovered. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Aug. 7. (Before Mr. Commissioner IN RE CHARLES BROOK IRWIN. This was an adjourned hearing of the application of the insolvent for his discharge. Mr. Cooke, with whom were Mr. Sargood and Mr. Dunn, supported; Mr. Nicholls opposed. The grounds of opposition were that the insolvent had vexatiously defended en action brought by Mr. Sandersen, on a bill of exchange, and that he had ob tained from Mr. Turnley, a yacht, by improper rept e eentations, and without having any reasonable expecta tions of payment. It appeared that the insolvent obtained his final order in this court in 1843, owing debts to the amount of 4,0001. His debts on the present occasion amount to 8,0001. In 1846, his only brother, who held a high judicial office in India, died, leaving, as was alleged, the insolvent entitled to estates in the counties of Cavanagh and Neath of the value of 15,000/., and one-half of a personal property of 15,000/., the other halt of the latter being divided equally between himself and an only sister. A claim was set up by the trustees of the in solvent's wife upon the property thus accruing, by virtue of the terms of the marriage settlement executed in 1833, wherein he vested all his future property in trus tees, appointed by the wife, of which Mr. Hamer is one. Upon the question going before the Master of the Rolls, judgment was given in favour of the wife upon the deed of settlement, in opposition to a claim preferred by the assignee under the first insolve n cy. Mr. Turnley's com plaint was that in 1846, subsequent to the death of his brother, tbo insolvent had purchased from Lim the yacht, giving him references to his solicitors, stating that he had considerable estates, end that he might depend upon his honour as a gentleman and an officer that all was right. Here upon Mr. Turnley took the insolvent's acceptante for the amount for which he sold the yacht (400 I.); but from information that he subsequently received he was in duced to fellow the insolvent to Liverpool, where I o offered him back his bill and 80/., on condition of his returning the yacht. The insolvent declined, now al leging that at the time the bill was not due, that he had laid out 150/. on the yacht, and that he had at the time no doubt but ho should be able to pay the amount. Subsequently the insolvent sent the yacht to Mr. Hamer, with authority to sell it. Mr. Hamer had done so, and claimed the money. Mr. Sanderson's objection presented no feature unusual in such cases. Mr. Nacuoans submitted that the transaction he r n e t re specting the yacht was a conspiracy. The t n knew at the time that Mr. Hamer was ahtrautstf,,ewieoss:er'the whole of his property. lie knew , too , him self had been an insolvent in t hat court. Reasonabl e inferencesnsaet ion must _he had the insolvent's other t insolvency given his bills and blank accep ta nces to a horse dealer, of th e name of Samue l Lazarus La wrence, to t he amount of 7501. Not one s hillin g had been p aid under the first in solvency upon also be first from debts to the amount of 4,0001., an d h e did not believe th at a shilling would be realised for the cre ditors upon the second. Mr. Como.: said he should not attempt to maintain that his client had been either a discreet or a wise man —his transactions with Lazarus Lawrence, Pearl, H. Milton, William Milton, and Crotty, to the extent of 2,000/., all of wh om were horse -dealers, and all of whom had recently been either bankrupt s or insolvents in nut Court, show e d that. It had been his misfortune to fall into bad hands. Like many other young men, he fancied he was a judge in horse-flesh, and his debts were swelled by that fancy to the amount of about 5.000/. With re spect to the alleged misrepresentation to Mr. Turnley, it was not denied that proporty to a, large amount bad b:en bequeathed, but it was suid, he knew, or ought to have known, that by the conditions of a marriage the property was not his. It certainly did appear that he had put his signature on the morning of his marriage to a document that contained very strong and stringent provisions, but it was not by any means clear that he knew what ho had thus dune until the Master of the Rolls had given his decision. It was an exciting ma. went, was that morning of marriage to most persons, and it was not to be always supposed that a man was then exactly in his right state of wind, —(Laughter.) He submitted that there had been no fraudulent inten tion on the part of his client. The four mouths that he had been in prison might be considered a sufficient atonement for the part he had taken in defending the action, and the Court would, he trusted, declare bias en titled to his discharge. ills HONOUR said that he considered bOth charg • against the insolvent had been sustained. Upon the MR