The Sun. — London, England, 1849-08-17 00:00:00

BANK RETURNS. (From the London Gazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 4th day of August, 1849:- Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and CO 11,603 Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt and Pomfret 9,915 Aylsham Bank, Aylsham-R. and G Copeman 5,459 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Bickford and Hunt 30,628 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswads Bark, Baldock-Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell ... 23,354 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Drake and Co 8,660 Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoko- Seymour, Lamb, and Co ..... 15,679 Bedford Bank, Bedford - T. Bar nard Bedford and Bedfordshire Bans, Bedford- Trapp, Halfhead, and Co. Bowdley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and Crane ............ Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-Tubb and C0............ 11,201 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Atteroc ds, Spooner, and CO • ..... 22,485 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming- 02 ham -J. L. Meilliett, and Sons ............. .•.. 13.1 Blandford Bank, Blandford-Bastard an d Oak. 8,002 Boston Bank, Boston-Garfit and C o ...... . ...... 55,122 Boston Bank, Boston-Gee and Co. ............... 8.055 13ridg drater Bank, Bridgwater-J. &J. Seale). 5,219 Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Co. 32,201 Broseley and Bridgnortb, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. ritcard 19,559 Buckingham Bank, Buckingham- Pritchard 19,559 Bukingham Bank, Buckinghata_Btlett, Parrott, and Co. • Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Stow Market Bank, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co 62,506 Banbury Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney 25,862 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb 25,225 Bath City Bank, Bath-Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett and Grant 31,997 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H A. and W. M. Harris and Co 13,330 Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 57,537 Bridport Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry - Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington- Harding Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- J. Worlledge and Co. Bromsg, , rove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove-Rufford, Biggs, and Co. Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and 16,909 Sons Cambridge and Cambridg eshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and 24,480 Co. ............................ . ................. . Carmarthen Bank , Carmarthen -Morris and 14,410 Sons ................................................. .. Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-Messrs. Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, 14,725 and Co. Colchester and Es sex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester -Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro -Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Wood- 6,166 12,190 11,204 31,213 34,104 cock City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbecks and Co.. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh, 6,655 16,670 71,045 105 6,540 and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff-Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmcuth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co. Derby Bank, Derby-Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby-Smith and Co. Derby Oh', Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and C 0..., Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Hughes , Locke, and Co Di ss Bank, Diss-Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster Bank, Doncaster-Leatham, Tew, and Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster- Cook and Co. Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse, & Co Devonport Bank, Devonport-Hodge and Nor man ......................... Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester-Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Foster, and Co. East Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower, Hutton, and Co. Essex Bank and B ish op s Stortford Bank, Chelmsford -Watford, and Co. Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham-Gurneys, Birk-. beck, and Co. Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon-Barnes and Medley Farnham Bank, Farnham -Messrs. Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godahning-Mellersh and Kean Grantham Bank, Grantham-Kewney and King - Guildford Bank, Guildford-Messrs. Haydn 11,183 Grantham Bank, Grantham -Hardy and Co 26,189 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings-Smith, Hilder, and Co. 22,660 Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford- Matthews and Co. riertford and Ware Bank, Ware-S. Adams and 14,152 Co Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull -Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don-Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich-Cox,Cobbold, and Co 5,024 Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead Smith, and Whit tingstall ...... Honiton Bank, Honiton-Flood and Co. Hertford shire,Hitchen B ank, Hitchen-Sharples and Co. 33,068 H ere ford, Ross, and Archen field Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford-Morgan, Hoskins, and Co 21,109 Ipswich Bank, Ipswich-Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich- Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone-Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington-J Davies and Co Knighton Bank Knighton-J. Davies and Co 6 365 Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough-Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal-Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. 35,167 Kettering Bank, Kettering-Gotzh and Sons 7,933 Longtoa Staffordshire Bank, Lane End-C. Harvoy and Son 55,426 Leeds Bank. Leed s-Beckett and Co Leeds Union Bank, Leeds-W.Williams, Brown, and C).......... . Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek-Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. - Leioester Bank, Leicest er-Pa g ets and Kirby 21,584 Lewes Old Bank, Lewes-Molineux and Co 27,643 Lichfield Bank, Lichfield-Palmer and Green 18,543 Lincoln Bank, Lincoln-Smith and Co 77,028 ampeter Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very-David Jones and Co. oughborongh Bank, Loughborough-Middle tons and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington-C. and S. St Barbs 3,305 Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis -Gurneys and C 0..... Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis- Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield-Brooklehurst and Co 13,881 Manningtree Bank,lilanningtree-Nunn and Ca 9,242 Marlborough Bank, Marlboroug h and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Flungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough-Tanner an d Pinckney 12,230 Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough-Ward, Merriman, and Hillier 7,313 Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly-Jones and 5.892 Wilams....••• Miners' Bank, Truro-Wll Y ams and Co 1 2,109 Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny - B aile y s and Co 23,843 Monmouth Old Brak, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth -Bromage and Snead . 11,730 Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport W. Williams and Sons. 7,620 Newark Bank, Nowark-GodfreY s and Hutton 21 , 391 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark B an k, S Leaford-Haudley, Peacock, and Co .... _Newbury Ban-c;;............................... . 46,454 Newbury -Bunny and Slocock. 18,054 Newmarket Bank Newmarket -Eaton, mond, and Son Ham- Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Di ss - Taylor and 18,230 Dy50n........................ - Norwich Crown Bank, Norwia; ..... 3,421 Hudsons .......................... arve Ys and . Norwich and Norfolk Bank , Norwich -Gur neys and Birkbeck krottingham and Nottin g hamshire n Not tingham-hart,57,337 Fellows, and .............. 7 's, ni Nuneaton Ban k, Nuneaton-Craddcoek and "-' C 0...................................................... 3,695 Naval Bank, Pl ym outh -Harris, Mudge, an d New Serum Bank, Co arum- H e tly, tt, and CO ................................. ..• 11,945 Nottingham Bank, Nottingham-Smith and Co 25,731 Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry-Croxon and Co Oxford Bank, Oxford-J. and R. Morrell ..... Oxford Old Bank, Oxford-Robinson, Parsons, andC0...... .......................................... 31,36' Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Tonbridge- Beeching and Sons... Oxfordshire Witney Back Witney-Williams, glilkallo% ll4 CA..; Um ye 10,473 7.960 9,919 26,620 24,857 9,310 10,100 51,797 69,889 10,433 41,330 85,403 47,419 41,958 27,945 20,001 5,092 8,373 4,185 5,565 5,474 21,315 7,669 Average Amount. tease s Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 40,280 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and. C 0... Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank.. Peter borough—Mossrs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson, 8,595 White, and Simpson Pemorokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J• and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoveu. and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co Beading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co Richmond Bank, Richmond —Stapleton and C 0... Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood... Ledgard 4,415 and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank ,Roches ter—Day and Nicholson Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons... Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and 7,114 27,1.95 26,135 5,180 9,178 4,986 7,293 13,120 14,283 11,660 Co Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaway Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Sh re wsbury—Rocke, Ey tons„ and Co Sittingbourne and Miiton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Son Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co. St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and 9,508 3,987 31,266 12,193 19,785 30,043 2,130 King - Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp - I 0 ton—Atherly and Fall ........................... 3 3,67 Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore ..................... ,007 Stourbridge Bank, Stourbr id g e—rd, Wragg, and Co . . ."Stevenson 11,791 Stafford Old Bank, Stafford and Co 13,438 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—... Eaton, Cayley, and Co. ......................... 24,935 Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins ......... . ......... Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co . 20,366 St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib son and Stuart Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 15,63 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and 8,495 Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co 6,075 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 22,483 Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co. Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co 11,681 Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W llancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, and Co. Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 69,793 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—CharlesFoster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— Everett and Co. 6,484 7,32 8,455 12,25 7,814 6,38 4,289 3,518 8,750 2,335 Wolverhampton— Wolverhampton Bank, Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and lialesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 11,587 Yeovil Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank. York—Swann. Clough. and Co 40,283 40,605 CAMERON'S COALBROOK STEAM COAL AND SWANSEA AND LOUGHOR RAILWAY. The adjourned half-yearly meeting of the pro prietors of the above railway was held yesterday at the offices of the company, in Moorgate-street, for the purpose of receiving the directors',report. Only ten shareholders and two directors were present, and although they were sufficient to constitute a meeting, Mr. SMALLBONES, one of the principal proprietors, suggested a further adjournment. He objected to the report and past proceedings of the directors, but in the absence of the directors who bad taken the most active part in the management of the under taking, he did not feel himself at liberty to make any observations, or submit any proposal to the meeting. Mr. WRIGHT moved that Captain Northcote do take the chair, which was seconded and agreed to. The minutes of the previous meeting were then read and confirmed. Mr. WRIGHT wished to know if the accounts sent out to the shareholders included the amount due to the solicitors P The CHAIRMAN said it did not. The solicitor's bill of costs was ready to be sent in, he understood, but he could not say what the amount would be. Mr. WRIGHT complained that the accounts had not been audited. The SECRETARY explained that - the reason they had not been audited was this, one of the auditors had dis qualified, while the other had declined to act. Mr. STRELLY, the auditor last referred to, said he refused to audit the accounts because he could not understand them. Mr. WRIGHT said the account was illegal and could not be received. Colonel BAINES pronounced the proceedings of the company, from beginning to end, to be fraudulent and irregular. Formerly there were 150 shareholders in the concern, , but sixty of them had been allowed tooensecyar That he he considered,labilitybyp yin w g as a m t o r s i t fl u in n g fai s r. um of m Mr. ELDERTON said the money paid by the share holders had enabled the directors to pay off most of the liabilities, and now a very small sum only was required to discharge the remaining out standing debts. All, then, that would be wanted would be the railway transit, and there were two modes of obtaining it. If the South %Vales could raise the money to continue their line on to S wansea, an expenditure of 2,0001. would give their collieries a direct communication with r2hal. enit railway a me would l s ibui wl bring South diaus line, nytegohnv a the as far while,velfeatihrtacol lieries elaieirss to aooon o otm t hu h ael ekdre port expenditurena o short oh a foo r i ra d tr , company o n w n o wm m a pn p l as :a n h en n ya e d y , orl profitable lafyinn3ieeft;olhoYoef'iot Mr. WRIGHT said the money amounted to 26,779/. Now, what banker would lend them money with that debt over their heads. He wished to know how the shares stood ? The SECRETARY said the shares of the company numbered 20,000, but only 4,000 were held by the public—the others were in the hands of the company. Mr. WRIGHT suggested that under these circum stances they had better re-sell the property to the vendor. After some further discussion, Mr. HOWDBN stated, that if the line to Llanelly could be made the collieries could be worked to yield 10,0001. a year. Now the expense of the company would be about 3,0001., so that, in point of fact, if once they obtained the railway they would receive an actual profit of 7,0001. It was ultimately resolved that in order to meet the exigencies of the company the board of directors be recommended, if possible, to borrow sufficent money to pay the debts that must be paid. The vacancies in the direction were then disposed of, and the auditors appointed for the ensuing year. Thanks were then voted to the Chairman, and the meeting terminated. TILE SUN, JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 45,402 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad- __ _ _ ford Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work- _ _ _ ington , ... 27,380 Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry., 12,192 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel- 9,095 tenham _ 93,792 Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company _. _ ____ _ - - Carlisle _ 21,i - 96 Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 18,946 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 18,698 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington \EI East Of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 128,174 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 14,756 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 36,259 Hull Banking Company, Hull 25,297 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha lifax Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking COm -31,555 H e l 1 s a t n o y n , Banking Halifa x Company, Helston 1,453 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 16,433 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough .. 20,195 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,988 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster ... 58,670 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 43,404 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,227 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 26,718 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 44,053 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 62,248 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 19,646 Pares's Leicestushire Banking Company, Lei cester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 1,673 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 33,448 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford. 48,390 Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang- 1,85 port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking C om .•• • mshire Banking Company, S a t Sheffield ...• • ... Sheffield puny, n o d u r i b i r a i i d , g a e Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking 51,156 Company, Sheffield Swaledale and Wensleydale Bankin g Com p an y , Richmond . Storey and Thomas's Banking Company 755 Shaftesbury • 8 • Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield . Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Corn - pany, Wolverhampton 32,073 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 11,077 Whitehaven Juint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven Warwick a n d Leamir_gton Banking Company, West of E iek nglane ttivi South Wales District 3211:833179 Bank, Bristol 69,058 Wilts and Dorset Ba n ki ng Comp any, Salisbury 62,740 ... West Riding Union Banking C ompany, Hud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Ban - ki ... **************** 27,242 Whitchurch . g Company, .................. Worcester City and County Banking- e ................. Worcester , York Union Banking Company, York .... . 6 4 0 ' 0 6 4 4 9 , Yor City and County Banking Company, York 75:5 4 - 5 - Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns, Wad ReTtatia, 59nineet lime, August 11,1848 40,22 3,43' LONDON, FRIDAY EVENINGI_ AUGUST 17, 1849 . A SAIL ON THE DEAD SEA At 3.25 passed the extreme western point, where the river is 180 yards wide and three feet deep, and entered upon the Dead Sea; the water, a nauseous compound of bitters and salts. A fresh north-west wind was blowing as we rounded the point. We endeavoured to steer a little to the north of west, to make a true west course, and threw the patent log overboard to measure the distance ; but the wind rose so rapidly that the boats could not keep head to wind, and we were obliged to haul the log in. The sea continued to rise with the increasing wind, which gradually freshened to a gale, and presented an agi tated surface of foaming brine; the spray, evaporating as it fell, left incrustations of salt upon our clothes, our hands, and faces ; and while it conveyed a prickly sensation wherever it touched the skin, was above all exceedingly painful to the eyes. The boats, heavily laden, struggled sluggishly at first; but when the wind freshened in its fierceness, from the densityof the water, it seemed as if their bows were encoun tering the sledge-hammers of the Titans, instead et the opposing waves of an angry sea. At 5.40, finding that we were losing every moment, and that, with the lapse of each succeeding one, the danger increased, kept away for the northern shore, in the hope of being yet able to reach it ; our arms, our clothes, and skins, coated with a greasy salt ; and our eyes, lips, and nostrils, smarting excessively. How different was the scene before the submerging of the plain, which was " even as the garden of the Lord !" At times it seemed as if the dread Almighty frowned upon our efforts to navigate a sea, the creation of his wrath. There is a tradition among the Arabs that no one can venture upon this sea and live. Repeatedly the fates of Costigan and Molyneaux had been cited to deter us. The first one spent a few days, the last about twenty hours, and re turned to the place from whence he had embarked, without landing upon its shores. One was found dying upon the shore ; the other expired in November last, immediately after his return, of fever contracted upon its waters. But, although the sea had assumed a threatening aspect, and the fretted mountains, sharp and incinerated, loomed terrific on either side, the salt and ashes mingled with its sands, and foetid sulphurous springs trickled down its ravines, we did not despair; awe-struck, but not terrified ; fearing the worst, yet hoping for the best, we pre pared to spend a dreary night upon the dreariest Waste we had ever seen. At 5.58, the wind instan taneously abated, and with it the sea as rapidly fell ; the water, from its ponderous quality, settling as soon as the agitating cause bad ceased to act. Within twenty minutes from the time we bore away from a sea which threatened to engulph us, we were pulling away at a rapid rate, over a placid sheet of water, that scarcely rippled beneath us ; and a rain cloud, which had enveloped the sterile mountains of the Arabian shore, lifted up, and left their rugged out lines basking in the light of the setting sun.—Lynch's Expedition to the Dead Sea. MR:PIPS HIS DIARY. (From Punch.) TUESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1849.—Finding Fault with my Wife, for that she do not use enough Exercise ; whence her continual Headach, and Faddell, the 'Potticary his Bill of 51. She replying that I would never take her out, I said I would whenever she liked ; whereupon, we agreed to go a Walk forthwith, and my Wile did propose Regent Street. So we thither, pleasing ourselves with observing the Passers-by and the Carriages, thou;h their Number do now begin to diminish, and the streets do daily blaze less and less with fine Ladies and flaming Liveries. Going by Lindsey and Woolsey's, my Wife's eye taken with a Scarf in the Window, and would stop to look at it with a crowd of other women gazing at the Finery, which Mr. Skitt do call Baits, and a Draper's Shop a Lady-Trap. Presently she recollected that she wanted a Collar ; so we into the Shop, where some sixty or eighty Ladies sitting before the Coup. ters, examining the wares, busy as Blue-Bottle Flies at a Sugar Cask. Behind the Counters the Shopmen anal Assistants, showing off the Goods, and them selves also, with mighty dainty Airs, every one of them almost, Narcissus his Image. But I fear me they owe their pale delicate Looks and Languid Ways in part to the Want of sufficient Air and Exercise ; which is a sad Consideration. One of these dapper young Sirs did help my wife to her Collar, cat 3s. 6d ; when she thought she had better get another while about it, cost 3s. 6d. more. Then, says he in his soft condoling Voice, " What is the next Article ?" as though taking for granted that another was wanted—which was too true. For hereupon, my Wife bethought her of lacking some Lace Cuffs, four pair : cost 12s. " And now, Mem," (meaning Madam), says the young Fellow with a Simper, " allow me to show you a Love of a Robe, a Barege, Double Glace, brocaded in the Flouncings, and reduced to Twenty-one-awl-Six from Forty five." But she professed that she needed it not : whereat I was glad ; when he did tell her he would do it at One-and-Four less: and she then saying that it was indeed a Bargain, which I find is a Woman's iVord for anything cheap whether wanted or no, I let her have it : cost 1/. Os. 2d. But, to be sure, the Pat tern was pretty, and my Wife being well-dressed do please my Taste, and also increase my Consequence and Dignity. The Robe bought, it comes into her Head that she could not do without a new Shawl to match it, blue and scarlet, cost 2/. 25., but will - look mighty fine, and, I hope, last. Here I thought to walk her at once bodily away ; but seeing a stout middle-aged Gentleman doi ng th e ver y thi ng and how mean it looked, did forbear; and in the Meanwhile the Shopman did beg, as he said, to tempt her with a superior Assortment of Ribbons. She rummaging over this Frippery, I to gaze about the Shop, and with Fellow-Feeling did mark an unhappy small Boy, while his Mother was comparing some three-score different Pieces of Satin, perched on a Stool, out of Patience. My Wife would have ss. worth of Ribbons, and here I hoped would make an end; but the shopman did exhibit to her some Silk Stockings ; and I telling her they were un necessary, she declared that then she must wear Boots, which she knows I utterly hate ; and con cluded with buying half a Dozen Pair, cost 245. , with this my Martyrdom finished; and we away, bowed out of the Shop with Congees by :the smirk ing Shopwalker, rubbing his Hands and grinning, as obsequious as could be ; and so Home ; I mighty serious, having laid out Si. 10s. 2d.; and the next Time I take out my Wife for a Walk, it shall be in the Fields and not in Regent Street. WEISNER AND CROPS.—On Saturday evening Edinburgh and vicinity was visited with a violent storm of thunder and lightning, and so heavy did the rain fall, that many supposed a water-spout had burst over us. The storm seemed to have been general, and must have seriously flattened the crops, particularly heavy wheat and barley. Ever since the beginning of the present month there has scarcely been a day in which thunder was nol heard, or on which rain did not fall, yet except on Saturday the injury was partial and unworthy of notice. Several fields of barley in favourable situations have been cut within these two or three days, and various farmers speak of commencing cutting in the beginning of the week, but generally harvest will not take place till about the end of the month. This day three years (15th Aug.) did the potato disease manifest itself in its greatest virulence--it seemed as if on that day the pestilence passed over and destroyed that crop. This year we would Lin hope the country will be spared from a similar visitation, though there are accounts of the disease having appeared to a small extent. We have not heard of any symptoms of its appearance in this vicinity. —Scotsman. LrrE ASSURANCE IN FRANCE.—It is conceded on all hands that the great extension of life assurance in this country is one of the best signs of the times. Every man that assures his life renders the state a service, since the state is thereby saved the cost of keeping his family when he is gone; besides, the man that assures his life is an enemy to tumult, since ho mast thereby lose all he had saved. No wonder, then, that the President of the French Republic is desirous that a law should b e passed for " th e i ns tit u tion of aids and insurances, so as to insure to the laborious classes a refuge against the consequences of the suspension of works, of infirmities, teed of old age." In France life assurance is all but un known.----The Reporter and Assurance Chronicle. FISHING WITH CORMORANT:3.—On Friday week Mr. Salvin, accompanied by Mr. Brockboles, Mr. Gillow, and other friends, took the birds (four in number) to the Wyre, and continued the sport for several hours, but in consequence of there being too many eels in that part of the river where the fishing was carried on, the take of trout or other kinds was only inconsiderable. On Satur day,the party fished the Calder stream, and on Tuesday the Brock, when the success was of a much more marked character, particularly on the latter day, the trout being many of them of large size, and in excellent order for table. In order to prevent the gratification of their glut tonous in clinations , and to secure the fish which they succeed in catching, a strap is placed round the lower part of the throat of the cormorant, which hinders the swallowing of a fish of a tolerable degree of bulk, but not of eels; and that is the reason why the sport cannot be pursued with satisfaction where eels are found in any considerable quantity. The birds appeared to be only imperfectly trained, artificial means having to be used to induce them to fish, and to entice them to bring the prey when caught, in order to its being disgorged from their throat, down which they never fail to force it as far as, they possibly can. This want of more perfect training to bring the fish to land after having caught them occa sions at times no little incouvenier.ce, and the risk of personal injury to the person who directs the sport, as he is obliged to wade into the water, and in his attempts to seize them by the bill to secure them, he has need to ex ercise great caution and expertness, to avoid the savage strokes and bites which they are so capable of inflicting. —Preston Pilot. WESLEYAN METHODIST CONFERENCE.—MANCHES TER, AUG. 15.—The sittings of this religious denomi nation were closed yesterday evening, the Conference having sat to the latest day it could legally continue, under the poll-deed of the late Rev. John Wesley. According to the official returns of the number of mem bers in the coenexien presented to the ConfereneP, the total Let increase within ti.e pafit yea,: in Great Ireland, and the foreign (missionary) stations, was - 8,787 members. The Conference for 1850 will be held in Loudon. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—Croydon, Aug. 16. (Before the CHIEF BARON and ti Common Jury.) DROWN V. YARDLEY. This action was brought by the plaintiff, Anne Brown, to recover damages for the seduction of her niece by the defendant. Mr. Sergeant Shee, Mr. Prentice, and Mr. Pollock were for the plaintiff; and Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. Simon for the defendant. This case was tried at the last summer assizes at Guildford, when a verdict was returned for the plaintiff, with 2001. damages. The case was fully reported at the time, and a new trial was granted on the ground of mis direction by the Learned Judge who then presided (the Chief Baron). The plaintiff, it will be remembered, oc cupied a cottage at Winkfield, near Bagshot, and her niece, Mary Anne Brown, lived with her and performed the household occupations, no servant being kept. In the month of June, 1846, upon the occasion of Ascot races, the plaintiff's niece was on a visit at a public-house in the neighbourhood, and the defendant saw her there, and an intimacy took place between them. It appeared that at this time the defendant was not more than 19 years old, and was living with his mother at a place called Holly Port, about six miles from the plaintiff's house; and it seemed that he was in the constant habit of visiting her niece, who was ten years his senior, and of being alone with her two or three hours of an evening; arid the result of their intimacy was the birth of a child, in December, 1847. Very shortly after this event oc curred the defendant discontinued his visits, and in the beginning of 1848 he announced to her his determination not to carry out a promise he had repeatedly made to marry her, but at the same time offered to allow her half-a-crown a week for the support of the child, which he suggested was all that the law could compel him to do. :iince the last action it appeared that the child had been affiliated upon the defendant, who, after breaking off the connexion with the plaintiff's niece, had married another young woman, and an order for the payment of half-a-crown a week had•been made upon him. Mr. CnAmnEas addressed the jury at some length for the defendant, contending, as on the former occa sion, that the plaintiff; standing in the position of aunt, had no right to claim damages to a greater extent than the actual loss she had suffered in the services of her niece; and he at the same time urged that all the mis chief had been occasioned by her want of caution in allowing these young people to be constantly together of an evening, and her not taking proper steps to in form the mother of the defendant of what was going on. He then remarked upon the ages of the respective par ties, one being a boy of nineteen, and the other a woman of 30, and he asked the jury whether it was not more probable the latter was the seducer than the defendant? In conclusion he said that, while undoubtedly it was the duty of a jury to protect the female portion of the com munity, yet he was sure they would at the same time see the necessity of protecting their own sons and the sons of their neighbours from being entrapped into improper alliances, and thus bringing misery upon themselves and those with whom they were connected. The CHIEF BARON then summed up, and the jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict for theplain tiff—Damages, 150/. FRANCE. The Union says--" A report has been in circula tion that the Councils-General intend to propose the revision of the Constitution, and that a great number of representatives, before leaving Paris for their departments, engaged to use all their influence to induce the Councils-General to assume the initiative on this occasion. It is also stated positively that petitions, demanding the revision of the Constitution, will, under the same influence, be signed throughout the whole of France." The Committee on the Budget, the only one which is to continue its labours during the prorogation of the Assembly, held a general sitting yesterday to deliberate on the various Bills submitted to it. The Bill on the income-tax was not in general approved of. The several members who spoke agreed that a necessity undoubtedly existed to augment the resources of the Treasury, in order to arrive at the equilibrium of the Budget, but they consi dered that this tax was objectionable in many ways, and particularly in its mode of collection. Such a tax existed already, it was said, as the taxes on real property, on houses, on rent, even on patents, are nothing but a presumed duty on the profits arising from property, industry, or commerce. The mode of collection proposed in the new tax, it was observed, would give rise to acts of an arbitrary character, as a sort of inquisition would be exercised in each man's case, which would produce an impression on the public of a more objectionable character than could be made up for by an increase in the revenue. The Committee, in consequence, appeared in general to prefer partial additions to each branch of the revenue to a single tax on the general appreciation of men's property. Some members spoke of a duty on paper, and others on the dividends given to shareholders in public companies. The Committee, without coming to any division, sent the matter to a sub. committee. The duty on potable liquors was considered indispensable. The Bill relating to the concession of the Paris to Avignon Railway was favourably received, it being admitted that the state could not at present undertake the com pletion of the works. The Committee, before separating, divided itself into the five following sub- Committees : Income-tax—MM. Doubet, Bochet, Creton, Sau vaire-Barthilemy, and Gaslonde. Potable Liquors—MM. Benoist d'Asy, Gasc, De Charency, and Andre. Paris to Avignon Railway—MM. Gouin, Mathieu- Bodet, Giraud, Combarel de Leyval, and Sauvaire- Barthelemy. Registration Dues—MM. Andr6, Gasc, Druet- Desvaux, De Panat, and Loyer. Stamp Duties—MM. Buffett, Druet-Desvaux, Beaumont (de la Somme), and Fournier. HOLLAND. THE CHOLERA. AMSTERDAM, AUG. 13.—Here the cholera is greatly on the decline ; only three fresh cases were brought into the hospital yesterday, and three of the patients there died, while 34 remained under treat ment. Unhappily it has appeared at the Hague, where it is very fatal, as is generally the case at the commencement. Including Scheveningen, 105 persons have died and 51 recovered, while 160 were reported under treat ment. It is, however, not easy to give the numbers with entire accuracy ; other cases may have occurred which have not been made known. Only 14 cases are in the hospital. At Leyden 141 fresh cases occurred on the 10th ; deaths 5, recovered 16, under treatment 72 At Utrecht, from the 6th to the 12th, 263 fresh cases were reported ; recovered 120, died 164, under treatment 2441. At Kampen, 35 cases occurred on the 10th ; died 16, recovered 9, under treatment 40. THE HAGUE, AUG. 14.—The King has appointed Mr. Van Olimart Secretary for the Affairs of Lux embourg, at the Hague, in the room of Mr. Pagnet, who will resume his post of Professor at the Athe na= of Luxembourg. The Cardinal Archbishop of Malines is expected at Thilbourg on the 23d, in Southern Brabant. On the 15th instant there will be a Family Council, composed of the he•in and relatives of his late Ma jesty King William 11., which win meet in the Palace of the Kneuterdyck. The Princess of Saxe Weimar will repair to the Hague for the purpose of being present at this Council, which is to discuss the final arrangements relative to the property left by his late Majesty. A public sale of the splendid collection of paint ings belonging to the late King is very generally spoken of; at all events, they will be put tip at a valuation. The Second Chamber of the States General is to meet this day, at two o'clock, for the purpose of being prorogued. In the sitting of the First Chamber of the States General on the 11th the project of law for regulating the domains of the Crown was passed by 31 votes against I.—Dutch Papers, Aug. 14. AMSTERDAM, AUG. 13.—THE BOURSE.—The na tional funds were the only stock in which there was not some depreciation. Spanish were partiCularly flat, and Austrian had a downward tendency. Of South American stock the Peruvian was most offered. —Amsterdam Courant, Aug. 14. DUTCH PUNDS.—ABIS TERDAM, Aua. 13. Money. Bills Actual Debt, 2% per Cent •••••• .• •• • 52% 534 Ditto, 3 per Cent .......... •••• • • • • 61% 62 4 Ditto, 4 per •••• • • • • 81 81% Amort Syndic, 3% per Cent.— •• • • 84 8134 Commercial Company, 4% per Cent • • 153 155% Spanish New 5 per Cents. Ditto 3 per Cent., Inland Exchangeon London, at sight ••12 02 Two months. ••••••• • •• • • •• 11 97 On Hamburgh, at sight .... 35 Two months. ••••••• • • • • • • • 34 87 On Paris, at sight• •.••• .• • • 57 Twomonths. •• • • ••• • • • 56 62 Lord John Russell will leave London on Mond a y the 20th inst., on a visit to her Majesty in Scotland,,. Scotsman. TULLY V. HOFFMAN. This was a special jury case. Mr. M. Chambers and Mr. Hawkins were for the plaintiff; and Mr. Sergeant Channell and Mr. Bramwell for the defendant. The plaintiff in this action was the owner of a vessel called the Friends, and the defendant was a merchant of the city of London. It appeared that the Friends left R3tterdana, with a general cargo, a portion of which consisted of between 100 and 200 tons of manganese, which, according to the bills of lading, was to be de• livered to the shipper or his assigns, 10 running days to be allowed for unloading after the arrival of the vessel in the port of London, and after that time 80s. per day was to be paid for demurrage. The vessel arrived at Gravesend on the 21st of December, and was on that thy reported to the Custom-house. She arrived in the port on the 22d, and was moored off the Tower, and on the 27th she was taken to Hay's wharf, for the purpose of unloading some potatoes which had been consigned to a person named Harris. This was completed on the 23 of January, and the manganese was then delivered to the defendant, to whom it was consigned; but it appeared that the delivery was not completed until the Bth of January. Under these cir cumstances the present action was brought to recover 321 for eight days' demurrage, the plaintiff insisting that the 10 running days commenced after the arrival of the vessel at the tier off the Tower. On the other hand the defendant contended, and called evidence to prove that, while the vessel was off the Tower, the captain was not ready or willing to discharge the cargo, and that soon after the vessel was taken to Hay's wharf, the unloading of the manganese was, in consequence of the manner in which the cargo was stowed, temporarily de layed until the potatoes had been taken out of the ves sel, and that consequently the defendant was absolved from paying more than the days' damage, the amount of which was paid into court. The CHIEF BARON left it to the jury to say whether they believed the captain was prepared to deliver the cargo whilst the vessel was at the Union tier off the Tower, or whether his intention was merely to keep her there until he could determine at what wharf he should land the potatoes, and he expressed his opinion that if they should think the captain was not prepared to deliver the manganese until the vessel arrived at Hay's wharf, the plaintiff was not *entitled to recover a greater amount of damage than had been paid into court. The jury returned a verdict for the defendant. EVEREST V. WHITE. In this case Mr. Chambers and Mr. Bovill were for the plaintiff; and Mr. E. James, Mr. Brown, and Mr. Prentis, for the defendant. The action was one for libel brought by the plaintiff, an attorney at Epsom, against the defendant, who had been his partner. The libel was justified by the de fendant. _ . . In the course of the opening by the plaintiff's Counsel the CHIEF BARON suggested that such a cause as this should surely be settled by a more private tribunal, and, after some discussion, it was agreed that the matter should be referred. Mr. JAMES objected to any verdict being taken which might be deemed a triumph by the opposite party, and it was therefore agreed that the jury should be dis charged. (Before Mr. Sergeant Dowma and a Common Jury.) HOUNSFIELD (CLERK) V. CURTIS. This was an action to recover damages for false impri sonment, and also for the plaintiff being illegally dis possessed of a tenement at Norwood. The declaration likewise alleged that the defendant had assaulted and falsely imprisoned the daughters and servant of the plaintiff. To the latter count the defendant pleaded " Not Guilty," and to the material allegation with regard to the imprisonment of the plaintiff he pleaded that a felony had been committed, and that he was justified in giving the plaintiff into custody. Mr. E. James, Mr. Pearson, and Mr. Newton, were for the plaintiff; Mr. Petersdorff, Mr. Corner, and Mr. Denman for the defendant. This cause was commenced on Tuesday and adjourned till Wednesday, and, after occupying the whole of that day, was again adjourned, and was not concluded until late in the afternoon yesterday. The facts of the case, however, lay in reality in a small compass, and it will not therefore be necessary to give the evidence in detail. From the evidence adduced for the plaintiff it appeared, that he was a minister of the Established Church, and on the 20th of March, 1848, he hired a furnished cot tage at Norwood, cal!ed Cedar Cottage, belonging to the defendant, for one year from that date, and, on the 21st of March, 1849, it was alleged that the de fendant, who was said to be a man of considerable pro perty, had gone to the house with a number of persons, and that they had forced their way in, and ransacked the drawers, and committed other violence, and, upon discovering that two silver spoons were missing, the de fendant had given the plaintiff in charge for stealing them, and he was taken to the Lambeth Police-court upon that charge. It was also alleged that after the plaintiff had been taken into custody, his two daughters, aged respectively 12 and 14 years, were confined in ene of the rooms of the cottage, and the next morning were violently expelled from the premises. The plaintiff, it appeared, underwent one or two examinations before the magistrate upon the charge of stealing the spoons, and eventually, the evidence being insufficient to support it, he was discharged. It transpired in the course of the case for the plaintiff, that while the charge in question was undergoing inquiry another accusation was preferred against him, upon which he was committed, and subse quently took his trial at the Old Bailey, and was ac quitted. It also appeared that he had been imprisoned for nearly eight years in York Castle for debt, and also that he had been confined for four months in Wakefield House of Correction, but no evidence was given as to the grounds for that imprisonment. Mr. PETEASDORFF made a very forcible and eloquent address to the jury on behalf of the defendant, who, he said, so far from being a person Possessed of property, as had been represented, was in reality a poor labouring man, who had nothing else to depend upon but his la bour and the rent he derived from this furnished cot • tape. In an evil hour he was induced to accept of the rev. plaintiff as his tenant for a year, but he could never get one farthing rent, and although he made repeated applications for it, ho was set completely at . defiance, sessionte and r r a a f t o l ro e n fw g i ht t i h bc yh he f force, e s ,h c az o nd m d p lfi e e n i t l d e ti d nh , ge atw cottage,thh e e n e h x 0 p r oh a ar t d i e o g n adi on o n f petohis so that some ;of his property was missing, he gave the evidencet they e plaintiff yw ou li would say be slshould otuh charge , ladthea and y bheaf w do rheeant them, the jury all ehv ee bad htsa d r e heard na os o dnoa u t b h bl e e t grounds for taking that step. The L earned Counsel in the course of his address expressed his surprise that the plaintiff should have had the hardihood to bring such an action as this under the circumstances, and he said he could only ascribe it to a feeling of malevolence utterly unsuited to his position, or else to a morbid desire for notoriety. Several witnesses were then examined, from whose evidence it appeared that during the whole of the period of the occupation of the cottage by the pl a i n tiff an d hi s f a mily not a farthing of rent was paid, and th e on ly money the defendant received was a deposit of W. and a small sum that was realised by a distress th a t was se nt in when half a year's rent became due. It wa s also proved that when application was made for the rent the persons were insulted, and towards the close of the year that the bell was muffled or removed, so that no person could gain admittance to the house. It also appeared th a t a ll th e tradesmen ro und the neighbourhood had claims upon the plaintiff; and it was alleged that the defendant had no alternative but to regain possession of his cottage by force; but the evidence went to show that no more was used than was actually necessary, and that the daughters of the plain tiff and his servant wore all , wed to stay in the horse ali night, on their promising to leave the next inorning, when they refused to do so, and upon this they were gently carried out. With regard to the plea that a j felony had ben committed, a witness was examined, who swore that some time before this occurrence he saw the plaintiff bargaining with a Jew for the sale of silver spoons, and it was suggested that they were those that were missed. Mr. NEWTON (in the absence of Mr. James) having replied, Mr. Sergeant DOWLING summed up the whole case with great care and impartiality. The jury, after a short consultation, inquired of the Learned Judge whether, supposing they should be of opinion that there was reasonable and probable cause for giving the plaintiff into custody, it would support the plea of justification ? Mr. Sergeant DoWLING said it would not. The plea was that the felony had actually been committed. The jury then again turned round, and almost imme diately gave a verdict for the plaintiff upon the count for fske imprisonment—Damages, One farthing, and for the defendant upon the other issues. His LORDSHIP refused to certify. NORTHERN ClRCUlT.—Liverpool, Aug. 16. NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice WICHTAIAN). SPOTSWOOD V. BARROW AND ANOTHER. This was an action of assumpsit, brought by the plaintiff, a commercial traveller, to recover a year's sa lary on his dismissal, to which the defendants pleaded that the plaintiff was dismissed because he would not obey the lawful demands of the defendants, and sold goods on longer credit than they authorised ; did not give references with the orders of his customers, and made bad debts ; that he improperly detained their money in his hands without their consent, and that he threatened to injure the defendants in their business. There was also a plea of tender of the plaintiff's full demand for past services. Mr. Knowles, Q.O , Mr. Grainger, and Mr. Hugh Hill appeared for the plaintiff; Mr. Sergeant Wilkins and Mr. Atherton for the defendants. It appeared that the plaintiff entered the service of the defendants, who were shirtmakers at Manchester, in the year 1846, at a salary of 2001. a year, and 11. a day for his travelling expenses, and the terms of his eu gagement were that he was to give exclusive services to the defendants. He had, however, done business for another house, made bad debts, and did not sell the quantity of shirts that he was expected to do, and accordingly the defendants summarily dismissed him in August last year; and ho brought the present action for a year's salary consequent on his dismissal without notice. His LORDSHIP directed the jury that if the defendants dismissed the plaintiff without reasonable cause they must find a verdict for him for the amount claimed for his year's salary. If the jury were of opinion that the defendants had reasonable cause to dismiss the plaintiff they must find for the defendants, and say for which of the causes alleged they so found. The jury having retired, after an absence of three hours, sent to ask permission to get some water, and had not returned their verdict when our report was dispatched. The case occupied the greater part of the day. CROWN COURT.—(Before Mr. Justice PATTESON.) James Beesley, aged 24, and Richard Urmson, aged 25, were indicted for having, at Windle, on the 16th of May last, robbed Thomas Holding of ten sovereigns. Mr. Cross appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. J. Pollock for the prisoners. The prosecutor, it appeared, was a dairyman, living in Meeguire-court, Liverpool, and on the 16th of last May he went to Wigan by railway, for the purpose of purchasing a cow, taking ten sovereigns with him. He did not, however, succeed in making the purchase, and left Wigan for the purpose of walking to Liverpool. Having walked a few miles on his way home he stopped at a roadside public-house called the George and Dragon to try and get a bed; not succeeding in this, he left there about twelve o'clock at night to walk home, and the prisoners followed him. When he had gone a short distance the prisoners passed the prosecutor, and stopped at a place called Moss Bank. brow. On the prose cutor coming up to them they seized him and threw him down, and the prisoner Urmson rifled his pockets, after which he was permitted to go home. He immediately gave in:ormation to the police, and from the description which he gave he was taken to the house of the prisoner Beesley's father, where the two prisoners were found. No money was, however, found upon them ' - but in Beesley's coat pocket was found a piece of cloth which had been torn from the prosecutor's waistcoat in the struggle. The jury found the prisoners both Guilty. Sentence deferred. BUOAIPTON COUNIY COURT, Aug. 15. SADLER. V. HOWARD. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, Ann Sadler, against Miss Louisa Goss Howard, an actress, lately performing at the Lyceum Theatre, to recover compensation for an assault. The damages were laid at 5/. Mr. WILLIAaIS, in opening the case, said that in the beginning of June last the husband of the plaintiff was engaged as coachman by Lord Bury, eldest son of the Earl of Albemarle, to drive the defendant, who was under his Lordship's protection, and resided at Mer rington-house, Old Brompton. A short time afterwards Lord Bury also engaged the plaintiff to attend upon Miss Howard, to take care of her, and accompany her to and from the theatre. On the 233 ult., some differences arising between Lord Bury and Miss Howard, the latter ordered the coachman to drive her to the Strand, where she had taken lodgings. Miss Howard then gave him the keys of Merrington-beuse, and a letter directed to Lord Bury, which he gave to his wife (the plaintiff) to deliver, when that nobleman handed her back the keys, telling her to take care of the premiies. The next morning Lord Bury and his butler west to remove the goods from Merrington-house to his Lordship's residence in Onslow-square, and on the same afternoon the defendant came in a cab, and asked plain tiff what bad become of the plate, to which his client answered that it had been taken to Lord Bury's silver smith's. Defendant then made use of the observation, " Upon my soul, did you do that?" and the reply being in the affirmative, she went up stairs, and returning with a postilion's whip, commenced thrashing the plain tiff with it across the lawn to the garden-gate, which was open, and where, laying hold of her arm, she swung her into the road, at the same time violently kicking her. Plaintiff's evidence fully bore out the statement of her solicitor. Cross-examined—She understood that Lord Bury was at present insane, and the inmate of a lunatic asy• lum. She never knew that Lord Bury had inundated the house with furniture, which Miss Howard had sent back to the different tradesmen, who had not been paid. There was a great quantity of goods and plate brought to the house, which Lord Bury had pur chased at Willow Bank sale. Witness's husband was in the service of Lord Bury, to whom there was no doubt Merrington-house belonged. On the day of the assault, when the defendant arrived, Lord Bury was on the lawn with his butler and otherfmen, rcmoving the goods, which Miss Howard seeing, she was about committing personal violence upon his Lordship, which was prevented by the butler, and his Lordship went away in a cab, and defendant came in. Shortly after witness went with Miss Howard to Lady Bury's to seek an interview with his Lordship, which theywere unable to obtain. Mary Humphreys, housemaid at MerTington-house, gave evidence of the assault committed on the plaintiff by whipping and kicking, and after wards seeing the bruises caused thereby on her arms and legs. Mr. Luwia said, he should b© prepared, by the state ment of his client and another lady, to prove that there was no assault committed, and that Merrington house and all the furniture therein belonged to Miss Howard, and not to Lord Bury, who was appointed by her uncle as guardian, with the sanction of Lady Bury. Lord Bury had, while labouring under an attack of a direful malady, removed a quantity of things to his own house, which had since then been returned to Miss Howard by Lady Bury. His HONOUR (Amos) remarked, that he thought Lady Bury would have been an important witness, to have stated what the position of Miss Howard and Lord Bury was, as to her being under his Lordship's guardianship. Mr. LEWIS said, that he could not have troubled her Ladyship in her present distressed state of mind, owing to the afflicting disease bis Lordship was labouring under. Miss Howard, on her oath, here deposed that Lord Bury was in no way connected to her but as her solici tor described. The assault she denied, although, after repeatedly but in vain desiring the plaintiff to leave her house, she went with her to the end of the lawn, and shut the gate against her. Miss Connor, an actress, said, she was on a visit at Miss Howard's on the day is question, and saw her fol low the plaintiff to the garden gate. Miss Howard had a dog whip in her hand, which she used to correct some favourite dogs with—(Laughter)—but she did not attempt to strike the plaintiff with it; in fact she never saw her friend so calm as en that day.—(Laughter.) The JUDGE observed that on the whole he thought, if an assault had been committed, it might have been under excitement; and ho should therefore award the plaintiff 10s. with reduced costs. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, AUGUST 16. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market was depressed to-day, and little business doing. Great Western, Quarters, were done at 8% dis., and Wilts, Somerset, and Weymouth, 15 dis. LIVERPOOL, AUGUST 16. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The share market continues to improve, aud there is more business going forward. The sales are—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Preference, 12 1 4 —Lancaster aud Preston, Quarters, 13% —Leeds and Thirsk, Preference, Quarters, % dis. —Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 2% dis.—London and North- Western, 128% Ditto, New Quarters, 2% c. p. Ditto, Fifths, 965. 3d. p.—Midland, Halves, 14% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4), 6% —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), 6 per cent. till 1850, 965. 3d. dis.— Newry and Enniskillen, 5% dis, MANCHESTER, AUGUST 16. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The transactions to-day were as follow : East Lancashire, Preference, 7% —Skrewsbury and Birmingham, Pre ference, NIA c.—Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 3% dis.—Ditto, 321. Shares, 7 dis.—North Staffordshire, 6% dis.—Edinburgh and Glas gow, 40%. BIRMINGHAM, AUGUST 16. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The transactions to-day were as follow: London and North-western, 129—Ditto, Fifths, 4% p.— Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 6% dis.—Ditto, Preference, 2% p. YORK, AUGUST 15. STocK EICIIANGE. — The transactions to-day have been as fol low:—Great Northern, B%—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. B. Purchase), 3% —York and North Midland, Preference, 7%. MONEY MARKET.—The premium on gold at Paris i s 9 per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 3/. 17s. 100. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 25.37; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25.35, it follows that go ld i s 0.08 per cent. dearer in Paris than in London. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 437 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 1011. per ounce for H, gives a:t ozebalq;e (4 13.11; f';ti th ext;iiiilige tit ilutlubUrgli ou Loliduir at short hems 13.111, it follows that gold is 0.11 per cent, 'leaser in London than in Hamburgh. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. BIRMINGHAM, AUG. 16.—At Gloucester and Wor cester markets, on the 11th, the wheat trade ruled dull, at a reduction of 2s to 3s per quarter on English wheat, and is to 2s on foreign. Barley unaltered, with a fair retail sale. Oats maintained their value. Beans rather lower. Peas less inquired for. During the present week the weather, with the exception of a few showers, has continued fine and favourable for the harvest; and the few sales reported in wheat aro at a further decline of about is per quarter. There are only retail transactions in barley, beans, and oats; the value of each is nomi nally unaltered. Peas the turn cheaper. At this day's market wheat further gave way is per quarter, but we , had an improved sale. Barley held for former cur rency. Lower prices were not submitted to for oats. Beans quite al dear. Peas neglected. BRISTOL, AUG. 16.—At this day's market we had s good supply of English wheat. The showery weather we have had for the last few days has caused a little more demand, and previous prices are fully sustained. In foreign the sales have been extremely limited, and values are about the same. English new wheat fetched from 38s to 44s per imperial quarter; foreign wheat, 47a to 50s per 48u1b; ditto, red, fine qualities, 43s to 455; ditto, red, ordinary qualities, 38s to 41s; ditto, hard, 351 to 38s. For flour there has been only a retail sale, and at a decline of is per sack—English seconds, 30s to 32s per sack; American sweet, 23s to 25s per barrel. For grinding barley there is a very fair consumptive inquiry; English melting, 27s to 30s per imperial quarter; ditto, and foreign grinding, 20s to 25s per 4001 b. Oats and beans are dull of sale; oats, Devon and Welsh, 18s to 19s per imperial quarter;_ Irish white 205 to 21s per 3021 b; ditto, black, 17s 6d t 183 6d per imperial qr; foreign, none; beans, English, 28s to 34s per imperial quarter; foreign, 25s to 28s per 480Ib. The arrivals for the week ending August the 16th have been--wheat, 876 quarters; oats, 215 barrels; barley, 900 quarters and 121 barrels; beans, 310 quarters; flour, 1,100 sacks and 7,475 barrels. The averages for the week are—wheat, 40s sd; oats, 18s; barley, 245. BOSTON, AUG. 15.—Wheat, red 43s to 465, white 503; oats 14s to 21s; beans 32s to 35s per qr. LONG SUTTON.—Return of sales for the week ending Aug. 11—Oats, 15 qrs, 121 7s 6d (average 16s 6d.) SLEAFORD, AUG. 13.—Wheat, white 47s to 495, red 44s to 465; oats 18s to 21s; beans 35s to 36s per qr. ALFORD.—Averages for the week ending Aug, 13--- Wheat 46s 104 d per qr. OAKHIM, AUG. 13.—Wheat 46s to 50s; barley 27s to 31s; oats 19s to 225; beans. 30s to 37s per qr. UPPINGHAM, AUG 15.—Wheat 47s to 525; barley 253 to 30s; oats 17s to 245; beans 30s to 38s per qr. Butter Ild to 1 lid per lb; eggs 185 for Is. MELTON MOWBRAY, AUG. 14.—Wheat 43s to 51s; barley 27s to 31s; oats 20s to 245; beans 34s to 38s per qr. Butter lld to 13d per lb; eggs 16s to 18s for Is. GAINSBOROUGH, AUG. l4.—Wheat 47s to 50s-19 0 qrs. 4711 10s (average 49s 71d.) NEWARK, AUG. 14.—Wheat, white 50s to 525, red 48s to 50s; barley, grinding 24s to 255; oats, old 22s to 245, new 20s to 225; beans, old 33s to 35s per qr. ROTHERHAM, AUG. 13.—Beef, 5s 6d to 6s 6d per stone; mutton, 4iel to 5-id per lb. Cattle 236, sheep 2,600. GLAscow, - Atia. 15.—Since our last, we have had mach heavy rain, with a cool temperature. From the northern, as well as from the western, parts of this king dom we hear rather increasing complaints respecting the re-appearance of the potato disease. The imports from abroad consisted of about 2,900 quarters of wheat , 2,837 sacks and 994 barrels of flour, 1,786 quarters of oats, and 617 quarters' of rye; coastwise from Ireland they were trifling. At Grangemouth about 1,485 quarters 0 1 wheat, 585 quarters of barley, 1,153 quarters of oats, 250 quarters of beans, and 550 quarters of rye arrived from the continent. There h s been a limited business done during the week, at lowering rates, excepting bar ley and the best description of sack and barrel flour► which met a fair sale at last Wednesday's currency. This day's market was thinly attended. Wheat and flour sold to a moderate extent; the better qualities without change in value, whilst, to make progress with inferior parcels, an abatement of 6d per boll or barrel re' quired to be submitted to. Barley for malting purposes commanded the extreme rates of this day se ennight. Oats end oatmeal were dull, at a decline of 6d per boll or load respectively. Beans and peas without materiel alteration. Indian corn advanced 6d to 9d per 2801 b. EDINBURGH, AUG. 15.—The quantity of wheat brought forward this day was 568 qrs, being 60 qrs more than last week. Top price the same, and the averaee Id dowo —165 qrs unsold. The quantity of barley aought for' ward was 317 qrs, being 9 qrs less than last week. Price on the top 13 3d, and the average 10d down- 121 qrs unsold. Of oats we had 716 qrs brought forward, ori 174 qrs less than last week. Top price 4d, girl the average 5d down-84 qrs unsold. The quantity °` beans was 41 qrs, or 32 qrs less than last week. Prig on the top 6d, and the average is 7d up-8 qrs Ting"' Top of wheat ... 63ilbs 558 od ... Barley ... 57 lbs 29s Od Oats 464-Ibs 22s 8d ... Beans ... ... 67 lbs 35s 6d EDINBURGH CATTLE MARKET, AUG. 15.—The suPf of cattle this morning was 341, being 78 fewer than ; or week. The weather still continuing unfavourabl? 1 ,„ slaughtering, sales in consequence were exe eedo s gda dull. Top price of the best beef 7s 6d; current 6 , eue . to 7s; middling and inferior 5s to 6s per Dutch stun A great many unsold. The supply of sheep and 1a 133 ", this morning was 4,193, being 1,537 loss than last wee,r On account of the short supply sales wer e more readily effected. Sheep maintained last week's prices, w hile lambs were a shade higher. Top price of the best mustoo 5d per lb; current, 4d to 4d; inferior, 3d. Lambs (top), I9s 6.1; current, 14s to 15s; middling and inferior, 501 0 , lOs a head. - - DUNBAR, AUG. 13.—Wheat, weighing 63ilbs, brough t 445, and prices to 00s Od; barley, weighing 00IbS, brought 00s 041, and prices to 003 Od; oats, weighing 43,11b5, brought 21s 6d, and prices to 20s Od; beans o n pease, weighing 6411b5, brought 333 Od, and prices to 32s Od. DUNDEE, AUG. 10.—Wheat, 463 Od to 49s OdAfOre i g ti ditto, 47s 03 to 50s Od; barley, 228 Od to 233 od; 18s 6d to 19s Od ; pease and beans. 23s Od to 25s od. Coax, Ace. 15.—Flour—Firsts 14s Od to 14s 6d; extra 1 561 „ s seconds, 13s 6d to 00s Od; households 10s to 12s; thirds, per cwt. Oatmeal 12s 6d to 00s; Indian meal 6s 6d to 6s 9d; whe at , ; ~ meal, 103 Od to lls per c w t. I n di an corn 6/0 s O d to 615 s Oa r",, - ton. Bran 3/ 10s0d to 4/ per ton. H ay —F armers 15 s to 26 5; averss -22s ; dealers 30s to 41s 6d; av erage 00 s per ton. Su aw—Farnime"d 17s Od to 19s Od ; average 00 s ; d ea l ers 4 0s O d to 00s average 26s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 617, household loaf 5d to sid per 41b. Fresh butter, 7 d 8d per lb. Eggs-4s Cd to 4s 2d per hundred. CO ' Newport 14s; Lydney 16s ; Land ore 14 s ; B es t P"..7 t , Culm I3s per ton. Tallow 40s Od t o 00 s per t est Whisky, 25 0. p., 6s Od per imperial gallon. , I q o —Beef 4d to 7d; mutton 5d to 64d; vea l hi? et 7d ; pork 4d to 50; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 6d lb. Hops 61 lOs per cwt. Bangor slates 3121 6d to 3155 n; ton. Bark—Barbary 8 1 to 8110 s; Valonia 14/ to 0/ ; Fres" . 7/10a; English 01 per ton. Fleece Wool 105 to 12s per sto ne d ' Hemp 34/ t 0351 per toe. Fish— Scotch herrings 17s to las; r e ditto 26s to '2Bs per barrel ; Newfoundland 10/ lOs to 121 P e, ton. Timber—Memel, 85/ per ton; deals, first quality, 1 ? second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 103 to lit salted 12s to Hs per cwt ; calf skins lid to 22,d pe r I Potatoes, white 7d to 10d; Minions 00d to 00d; Guano"; Peruvian, 111 108; Ichaboe 9/ per ton; Tar—Archangs l 19s per barrel. PHENOMENON IN ROSS•SHIRE.---A curious phenoree: non occurred at the farm of Balvullicb, on the estate 0' Ord, occupied by Mr. Moffat, on the evening of Monday f last. Immediately after one o f t h e loudest pea ls thunder ever heard there, a large and irregularly AO' mass of ice, reckoned to be nearly 20 feet in circurafe r ence, and of a proportionate thickness, fell near thelar ny. house. It had a beautiful crystalline appearance, being nearly transparent, if we except a small portion of l a which consisted of hailstones of uncommon size, fit ; together. It was p r i nc ip a ll y compose d o f sma ll squeli t , —diamond shaped—of fro m o n e t o th ree i nc h e s in all firmly congealed together. The weight of this lag s piece of ice could n o t b e ascerta i ne d ; b ut i t i s a 0 2. ° A ; fortunate circumstance that it did n o t f a ll on Mr. Mou" . o house, or it would have crushed it, and un d ou btedly 04 _,. caused the death of some of the inmates. No appearao whatever of either hail or snow was discernible in t b surrounding district.—Ross-shire Advtaiser. There is something in the last hour of the day, 1 have been itself a happy one, which seems t o collee n ; trate all the pleasant things of the past. It is like a fin.. evening sky, calm and sweet, and full of rays, that all the rosier, because they are the last.—Eliza COO Journal. 431 The Government contract for 100,000 gallon rum for the navy was again taken yesterday by Messfil - Lemon, Hart, and Son, of 59, Fenchurch-street. ne MARRIED. eutr On th 11 th in s t ., at the re g istrar 's o ff ice , Portsea , nan t Frederick Llewellyn Alexander, Royal Marine Ari a to Emma Lock. of rr' cir e On the 13th inst., at Gosport, Mr. T. E. Spratt, borne-street, Haymarket, to Sarah Ann, only daughter John Balls, Esq., of Gosport, Hants. dar e ' On the 14th inst., at St. George-the-Martyr, Queen - stof William Joseph Booth, Esq., of Red Lion-square, to Ann Susannah, daughter of the late Richard Rosser, E„s c t r ieo On the 14th inst., at the parish church, Halifax, idlirtlie Harold Macaulay, f Rastrick, Esq., to Ann, widow o f late Captain Atherton, of Woodhouse. On the 14th inst., at the Cathedral, Manchester, .E'criislllo' Bury, Esq., of the Middle Temple, barrister-at• law, to beth, youngest daughter of Alexander Henry , Esq., " of Woodland', near Manchester. Of Ems'' DIED On the 11th ult , at Madeira, Henry Rimingtcn , Newstead-hall, Yorkshire. i . A ,O O On the 29th ult., at Gower-street, Euston-equate, Thor Gunning Plunkett, Esq., of Clooneagh , county of Roscoth Ireland. st" :isvelit On the 12th inst., Jane, widow of the late Richard ' Esq., of Shoreditch.all' On the 13th inst., at 51, Cadogan-place, George Tsr6or, Esq., youngest son of Richard Tattersall, Es q ., of GrosteVell place. Smith, On the 14th inst. , at Blandford, Dorset, Se p t On imus .-'--- Esq. the 15th inst., at her residence, Albion. place, A lbi lft; road, Holloway , Mrs. Catherine Spencer, relict of th e Mr. Richard Spencer, aged 64. _...-----"" t Sti• L6ridon : ltdtili.DO 1 0 z,` 111,, No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, Strand, in the Precinct of the tikvoy, is the OQU i ''' bliddleaes, Friday, August 17,184 9 : JAI ----, BIRTHS. On the 6th inst., at Minsteed Lodge, New Forest, tho rn the wife of William R. Preston, Esq., of a daughter. the On the 10th inst., at Crawley, Sussex, the wife of Rev. Charles Fowler, aeM r On the 12th inst., at Chichester, the wife of - Gruggen, .. of a daughter. On the 13th inst., at West Hill Villa, Wandsworth, the wife of Mr. James Allan, of a daughter. On the 13th inst., at Everingham-park, the 'ady of Constable he Maxwell Esq i of a son. f 0 On e 13th inst.,K at rkdale, near Liverpool, the W ife Mr. John H. Austin, of a daughter. n o org e On the 14th inst., in Nottingham - p lac e , t h e wife o f Hill, Esq., of a daughter. .~