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LAW INTELLIGENCE. --- JUDICIAL COMMITTEE OF THE PRIVY COUNCIL, Dec. 18. GORHAM V. THE BISHOP OF EXETER. - - (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday. Mr. BADELEY continued to say, that it was the most presumptuous thing to take upon ourselves opinions such as were entertained by the appellant on the subject of baptismal regeneration. The question was what doctrine bad the Church held, and what had she handed down ? He (Mr. Badeley) held that the Opinion that prevenient grace was necessary to confer regeneration to infants in baptism, was unsound doctrine ; it was certainly not the doctrine of the Church of England, and was nowhere to be found in her formularies. The idea of prevenient grace was putting a limitation upon the sacrament of baptism, and attaching a condition which the Church had not done. Mr. Gorham had no right to put such a limitation upon it, seeing that the Church had laid down the doctrine of baptismal regeneration generally and absolutely. It seemed to him (Mr. Badeley) that Mr. Gerham's doctrine was a most fatal heresy. It was a lowering of the doctrine of the sacrament of baptism by preceding it with something of which the Church knew nothing. If that were so, then he contended that Mr. Gorham was rightly rejected by the Bishop of Exeter from the living of Bampford Speke. If he (Mr. Badeley) had proved that Mr. Gorham held doctrine inconsistent with the doctrine taught in the Book of Common Prayer, then he contended that the Bishop was bound to refuse him institution. Mr. Gorham had done more than contradict the doctrine in the Book of Common Prayer ; he tad done some thing worse; he had contradicted the Nicene Creed, in which we were taught to believe " one bap tism for the remission of sins." It was by bap tism, and by baptism alone, and not by any prevenient grace, that that remission of sins was given. If there was one part of the formularies of the Church of England which we should preserve with more religious tenacity than another, it was the Nicene Creed, since it had been handed down to us from the earliest period of the Church, and had alway a been regarded with the deepet veneration. lie had little more to urge on their Lordships on this question. He had laboured under some disadvantage he believed, because he saw before him two Right Rev. Prelates, one of whom it was supposed at least, if not both, had during the pen dency of this suit committed themselves more or less to the opposite side of the question. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY, with some emo tion, said—Upon whet authority is that supposed, so far as I am concerned ? Mr. BADELEY—SimpIy, if your Grace asks me, it is supposed that your Grace has preferred a gentleman in the Church who has taken a very violent part in this matter—a very strong part as a partizln, and who has also taken it upon him to express himself very strongly indeed about the Right Reverend Prelate whom I have the honour to represent. The Archhiihop of CANTERBURY--I gave that pre ferment to that gentleman in consequence of a work he published five or six year.; ago, entitled " The Rule of Faith and Practice.," which I consider to be a most important work with regard to the Church ; and I had no thought at all of his book about infant baptism, which I believe had not been published at the time ; indeed, I am sure it had not. Mr. BADELEY—I thank your Grace most sincerely for that explanation. It will be received most thankfully by a large body in the Church ; and, whilst I most sincerely apologise for the remark which has elicited that statement from your Grace, yet I cannot say I regret it very much when I think of the explanation it has been the means of drawing from your Grace, and which will be received most thankfully by a considerable number of persons in the Church. The Archbishop of CANTERBURY—It only shows how mistaken it is to make observations of that kind founded upon imperfect or erroneous information. Mr. BADELEY..—I most sincerely apologise to your Grace. Lord CAMPBELL (emphatically)—l must say the observation was extremely indecorous, more par ticularly when it is contrasted with Mr. Badeley's previous argument, than which anything more learned, able, or temperate I have never heard. Mr. BADELEY bowed and repeated his apologies. In conclusion he seil—lf your Lordships should reverse this judgment the consequences will be . most tremendous. It will be regarded as a sen tence declaratory, by the highest authority in the land, that the Church has forfeited her trust, that she has ceased to hold that primitive doctrine which is at once her privilege and her boast, and that she has lost that which is her only hold upon the affections and obedience of her children. But I do hope from such circumstances your Lordships will save the Church of England. With that remark I shall leave this momentous question in your Lordships' hands; and I can only pray God Almighty to guide you to a right decision.—(Murmurs of applause.) It being now a little after three o'clock, their Lordships adjourned until about a quarter past four. On the re-assembling of the Council, Mr. TURN&R proceeded to reply upon the argu ments advanced on behalf of the respondent's case. lie ,should abstain from giving one single answer to the observations which had been used respecting himself personally by the Counsel on the opposite side, as to the manner in which be had opened the appel lant's case. The argument which had been chiefly employed against Mr. Gorham by the Counsel for the respondent was, that he had dissevered regeneration from the sacrament of baptism. It was important for him (Mr. Turner) to stete exactly what Mr. Gorham did actually believe on this point. Mr. Gorham might have differed upon the extent of the grace given in the sacrament, but that the sacra ment, worthily received, did give grace, he had never attempted to deny, and never had thought of denying. Mr. Gorham held that the doctrine of regeneration being tied to the sacrament of baptism was a tenet of the Church, and not of the Church of England. It would be found, on a reference to page 96 of Mr. Gorham's book, that though he might have differed as to the extent of the grace conferred in baptism, that he did not deny that baptism was an effectual sign of grace, and that grace was given to the worthy recipient of that sacrament. If Mr. Gorham had fallen into any error at all, it was in holding that grace might be given by God when and where he willed, and not in denying the efficacy of baptism. The geestion was, whether that opinion was contrary to the doctrine of the Church of England. Dr. Addams had said that the doctrine of the Church of England with respect to baptism had never varied since the Reformation. Now, in the Articles of 1536 and of 1552 there were very great discrepancies on the sub ject of infant baptism. The declaration that infants should be saved thereby, in the Articles of 1536, was similar in the Articles of 1552. It had been contended that the doctrine of the Church of England was, that in baptism there was remission of sins ; but it might be open to very great doubt whether remission of sins meant regeneration in the sense in which it was used in the Articles. Remission was something done for us; regeneration what was worked in us. The question was not whether sacraments conferred grace, but whether regeneration was tied to the sacrament. It was said that infants must necessarily be worthy recipients of baptism ; but had we any right to assume that infants must necessarily be an object of God's mercy? Had the Church of England ever under taken to declare the inscrutable purposes of God ? In the 8;11 Article the Latin word "renatis" was in one place translated " regenerated," and in another " baptized," and it was argued from this that " rege nerstion" and " baptism" were equivalent terms. That argument, if argument it could be called, was entirely destroyed by the word " baptized" being used in the passage in St. John, from which the Article was drawn up, and Mr. Gorham's view was strengthened by the fact that the words " credentibus et renatis " were used in the Article. With regard to the argument from the Prayer Book, he should like to know on what ground it was assumed that the Ar ticles and Prayer Book were in pari materia. Lord CAMPBELL—I should say they were generally in pari materia but alio intuitu. _ _ _ Mr. TURNER continued—Not one word had been said about the statute 13 Elizabeth. The Prayer Book was not intended, like the Articles, as A decla ration of faith, but as a form for insuring a uniform mode of worship. They bad been told that the lex supplicandi was the lex credendi, and that might be true in :some cases ; but where the lex credendi was separate, was there any ground for saying that the lex supplicandi was the same, because it had been withdrawn from the lex credendi, of which at one time it formed part ? Then, with regard to the canons, a direction in them to the minister to instruct children in the catechism wa s cons t rue d i nto a declarat i on that the doctrine of the Church of England was to be found in the catechism. His Learned Friends had not only omitted any reference t o th e statute 13 Elizabeth, but they had omitted saying anything of the King's declaration prefixed to the Articles, i n w hi c h it was said that any matter of doctrine not to be found in the Articles should be referred to convocation, and be judged of by convocation alone. On the offic e of private matter and the words were the essentials of baptism ; but he did net say w'a ,, ther prom i s e s of faith , and repent ance ware implled in that office. IN er had any answer been given to his (Mr. Turner's) argu ment that in the office of confirmation the promises given in baptism were required to be renewed by the party confirmed. The whole argument from sponsorial promises --the whole que.,tiAl of con - damn or . no condition—had b een p asse d over avithaut a single observation en the part of his Learned Friends. There were Articles in the Church of England which left a latit u d e f or pr i vate j udgment , like that which referred t o Ch r i s t' s d escending into THE SUN, LONDON, Hell. What was there in the Articles on baptism which showed that no room for private judgment was left there ? They had been told that the doctrine of the Church of England as well as of the Church of Rome on the subject of baptism had been the same for 1 ; 500 years. The doctrine of the Church of Rome wag explained by Archbishop Laurence to be that the infant was considered to be in a middle state, and it was a dispute among the members of that Church whether grace was conferred by baptism. If he were asked what was the state of an infant after baptism, before the grace of God was given to him —his answer was, that it was one of God's myteries, into which he ought not to be anxious to inquire. With respect to the argument used by his friend Mr. Badeley that day, he was sure that their Lordships would not expect him to follow that argument with. out preparation ; indeed, anything short of a year's preparation would bare been insufficient for that purpose. Lord LANGDALE said, at the conclusion of Mr. Turner's reply, that their Lordships would take time I to consider this case, which was _one of great im portance. COURT OF QUEEIV'S BENCH, Dec. 13. G 113113 V. LONDON AND NORTA•WESTERN RAILWAY• (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of ye:,t€ rday.) It was then proposed to put in the receipts. Mr. Watson objected, and they were ultimately rejected as evidence. The witness then proved the receipt of 601. per annum, by half-yearly instalments of 30/. each, during the time the plaintiff was in possession of the stall. He understood from the late Mr. Long that the money was for rent. In 1848, Captain Iluish was the general manager of the company. Mr. WATSON now objected that there was no evi dence of a devise of land, entitling the plaintiff to pass and repass over the station, as he claimed by his declaration. The testimony which had been put in proved no such right, but rather that the case was granted to the plaintiff in consideration of 601. per annum to sell newspapers and publications in tho station. He sub mitted therefor.: that the plaintiff ought to be non suited. Mr. CHAMBEIRS, on the other side, insisied that the declaration made no such claim. It did not aver that the company devised land to the plaintiff, ncr did the,, plaintiff claim any such right. It declared simply that the company, in consideration of a certain sum of money to be paid in the way of rent, gave the plaintiff the right of way over certain premises, and with a licence to sell publications on a portiun of those premises ; an I he submitted that, befure the defendants could have deprived him of that right, they ought to have given him a legal notice, determining the leave and lic rice. Mr. BRAMWELL, on the same side, insisted that there was evidence to go to the jury of even a detni.e, since it had been proved that the plaintiff held a stall from the company under contract, which was a fixture to the freehold. The Learned JUDGE ruled that the evidence dis closed no cause of action such as that declared upon. The plaintiff's declaration alleged that the company devised a portion of the freehold, giving him a certain estate in it, but he was of opinion that the evidence faileti to establish any such claim or contract. The next question raised by the declaration was, had the defendant wrongfully converted the goods of the plain tiff. The evidence, so far from making out that count distinctly proved that they had done no such thing, inasmuch as on the night previous to the ejectment the plaintiff was requested to remove his goods, and he refused to do so. Under the direction of the Court, thererore, a verdict was taken for the plaintiff on the first and laq counts, and for the defendant on all the other counts, with leave to move the Court above for a new trial, or to amend on declaration. This decision, in point of fact, is tantamount to a verdict for the defendants. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 18. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, at Guildhall, before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Special Jury.) ILADCOCK AND ANOTHER V. GREAT WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an action brought by Messrs. Badcock, who are bankers at Taunton, to recover from the Great Western Railway Company 1 0 500/., the value of a box of specie which had been entrusted to them for conveyance between Paddington and Taunton. The pleas were, first, not guilty; second, denying that the box and money were delivered to the de fendants to b 3 carried ; and' third, that the defendants were discharged from liability by the Carriers' Act, as no insurance was paid. To the third plea there was a replication that the box and money were stolen by one of the servants of the company. Sir Frederick Thesiger and Mr. Hill appeared for the plaintiffs ; and Mr. Cockburn and Mr. Hoggins for the defendants. It appeared that the box, which contained 1,2001. in gold, and 3001. in silver, was sent, in the month of January, 1848, by Messrs. Ransom, the London bankers, to the Paddington station, for the purpose of being transmitted to the plaintiffs. One of Messrs. Ransom's clerks had the box booked at the station, paying the ordinary charge of twopence, and then saw it placed in a compartment of a passengers' carriage, which was set aside for parcels and pack ages. 'When the train arrived at Bristol it was discovered that the lower panelling dividing the luggage compartment from the passenger compart ment had been cut through, and that the lid of the box had been taken off and the contents .abstracted. Experiments were afterwards made which showed clearly that it was impossible for any one on the passen ger side to have forced the !panelling underneath the seat, or to have broken open the box, and suspicion consequently fell upon a person named Billings, who was the guard of the train, and who had charge of the parcels compartment, and he was given into custody, but there being no direct evidence against him, he was acquitted, and the company immediately dis charged him from their service. The supposition that Billings committed the robbery was strengthened a short time afterwards by his buying for 1201. the lease and goodwill of a public-house, upon which he spent a considerable sum in repairs. It appeared that Billings, previous to his being employed by the company, had been an omnibus conductor and a po liceman. Several witnesses were called on the part of the plaintiffs, and they all agreed in thinking that the box had been opened, and the panelling forced on the luggage-side of the partition. (The case had not concluded at the rising of the Court.) CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COUI?71 (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) William Hickey, 28, labourer, was indicted for the manslaughter of William earthy, by stabbing him with a knife. Mr. Ballantine defended the prisoner. The facts of the case have been recently given in the police reports. It appeared that on the Gth of June the prisoner and the deceased quarrelled and fought, and upon the former getting the worst off in the struggle, he was observed to draw a knife from his pocket and to stab the deceased on the left side, and he then ran away and succeeded in making his escape. The deceased was taken to the University Hospital, where he remained for three weeks, and was then discharged, apparently cured. He subse quently enlisted into the army, and soon afterwards he was found to be suffering from some disease of the lungs, and he died on the 12th November. The surgeons who were examined stated that the imme diate cause of death was an abscess in the lungs, but they at the same time expressed a confident opinion that this abscess was the result of the wound that had been originally inflicted by the prisoner. Mr. BALLANTINE made an ingenious address to the jury for the prisoner, and endeavoured to show that they would not be.justified in convicting him of felo niously killing the deceased by stabbing him, when the evidence made out that the death was caused by an abscess on the lungs. The COMMON SERGEANT told the jury that, not withstanding the able address of the Learned Counsel, if they should be of opinion that the evidence made out that the abscess, which no doubt was the actual cause of death, was consequent upon the wound in flicted by the prisoner, he would be, in law, amenable to the charge of manslaughter just as much as if the death had followed upon the wound itself. The jury found the prisoner Guilty. The COMMON-SERGEANT, in passing sentence, said that this nn English practice of using the knife must be repressed by severe punishment. There was no end of such cases in every calendar, and he oonsidered they were a disgrace to the country, and so far as he was concerned, he determined to put a stop to them. He then sentenced the prisoner to transportation for seven years. Johanna Brown, 21, a tall masculine Irishwoman, and Margaret Forbes, 18, were indicted for the capital offence of robbery upon William Williams. The indictment alleged that at the time of the rob bery the prisoners cut and wounded the prosecutor. It appeared that the prosecutor met Brown in Westminster, and accompanied her to a notorious brothel in Castle. court, where they were joined by the other woman, and on his refusal to comply with their demands for money, they made a most mur derous attack upon him with a Tyler and cut his head open, and inflicted severe injury upon him, and at the sane time robbed him of a halfcrown and some other money. The jury - found both prisoners Guilty. The COMMON SERGEANT said it was a very serious off Lace, and he had no alternative but to order judg merit of death to be recorded against them. The prisoner Brown upon hearing this began to bellow most stoutly, and as she left the dock she shrieked out, " Oh, shall Ibe hanged —am I going to be hanged ?" Judgm.mt of death was recorded. NEW COURT. William Tarbuck, tallow-chandler, was indicted for feloniously, with menaces, demanding of William Russell the sum of 21., with intent to steal the same. The prisoner pleaded Not Guilty. The prosecutor, who is in the service of Messrs. Lewis and Allenby, silk-mercers, of Regent-street, stated that at about nine o'clock in the evening of the Bth of this month, as he was returning home from Knightsbridge, he had occasion to enter a place of public convenience, where he saw the prisoner, who spoke to him. Prosecutor instantly left and walked away, intending to cross the park, but finding himself followed by the prisoner, he turned round with the intention of getting into the main road, again, when the prisoner came up, and catching hold of him in a most indecent manner, said "You are a gentleman, and must give me 21." Witness tried to get away, and called for the police, when two came up, and he at once stated the charge, when the pri soner threatened to give him into custody for indecently assaulting him. The constable who took the, charge said he had seen the prisoner for some long time hanging about the secluded parts of the park. When searched at the station a small packet of rouge was found in his pocket, a duplicate, and a few pence. The jury immediately found him Guilty. The prisoner, who said that the could bring clergyman to speak to his former good character, was ordered to be brought up on a future day to receive judgment. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. CLERKELV WELL. Abraham Weston was placed at the bar for final examination, charged with having assaulted and beaten his wife, Mary Weston, and caused her death. The prison:l- was also examined on the charge of having wssaultelthe sister of the deceased. The case excited considerable interest, and the court wits excessively crowded. Mr. Wakeling was retained on the part of the prisoner. Mr. William Hope Popham, surgeon, of No. 9, Tonbrid?.:,e-place, St. Pancras, was sworn.—lle de posed that he was called upon to attend the deceased on Tuefday, the 11th inst. She was insensible. She was labouring under the effects of compression of the brain, and she died on the next day. By the direction of the coroner he made a post mortem examination. There were marks of bruises on the face, and a slight bruise on the kidneys. Mr. Mallett —Were there any bruises on the .neeli? Mr. Popham—Nothing. material. Mr. Mallett—What was the came of death ? Mr. Popham—Congestion of the brain. Mr. Mallett—Might that have been caused by vio lence ? Mr. Popham—Yes. Mr. Wakeling—Might it not have been cawed by a 1 , 111? Mr. Popham—Yes; but my opinion is that it was caused by blows on this occasion. Sergeant Graysmark, 8 E, deposed to having taken the prisoner into custody by order of Mr. Wakley, the coroner, and as to the qualified verdict of the jury. The prisoner was present at the inquest. Mr. Mallett now read over the evidence of the wit nesses examined at the investigation on Monday, as Mr. Wakeling had only been called upon to receive his instructions so recently for the defence. Mr. Wakeling qttesti Jiied the unfortunate girl Coney. 1-1 , asked her who began speaking first, the prisoner or the deceased ?—She replied that the pri soner did, and he threw the hot tea in her face. Mr. Wakeling—Did she not take up a knife to I.i.n? Witness—No, it was me. Mr. Wakeling—Did you not threaten to run him through the body with a knife ? Wi'ness—l after he heat my sister. Mr. Wakeling put other questions to her, with a view to show that the deceased fell from a chair acci dentally against the stove. The witness replied that they were near the stove when they quarrelled, but it was through the blows she received from the prisoner she fell against the stove. Mr. COMBE—Did she fill heavily ? Witness—Yes, sir; he was slapping her at the time she fell, but I cannot tell whether he knocked her down or not. When she got up she was very weak. Mr. Comns—Was shn standing up when he hit her? Witness answered in the affirmative. Mrs. Geary added to her evidence, that after the death of the deceased the beadle called at the house whilst she was lying dead, and said an inquest was to be held upon the body. She met the prisoner on the stairs, when he said, " Mrs. Geary, make it as light as you can for me, as I hear they are going to have an inquest on the body of my wife." She re plied, " I shall say what I know, and what I know I will swear to." Mr. COMBE now asked Mr. Wakeling whether the prisoner would say anything in his defence. lie meant to commit him for trial. Mr. Wakeling—lf so, the best course would be to say nothing. Mr. 001113 E—Does he deny the charges ? Mr. Wakeling—Yes ; but I suppose you will re ceive bail? Mr. COMBE—Yes, but it must be very good bail. Mr. Wakeling app!ied for a remand.to carry the case over the present session. Mr. COMBS refined ; an application, he said, ought to be made to the Court. The prisoner was then fully committed for trial on the charge of assaulting the deceased, with intent to do her some grievous bodily harm, and also for as saulting her sister Sarah Ann Coney, the cripple. The prisoner was then conveyed to prison. It was stated that the poor girl Coney was in the greateA distress, and was literally starving, when Mr. COMBE humanely ordered her instant relief from the poor-box, and that every attention should be paid to her. LAMBETH. John Anderson, alias Ferguson, James Sinclair, and Daniel Fitzgerald, who have been in custody for some time on suspicion of being the perpetrators of several desperate highway robberies committed in different parts of the metropolis, were placed at the bar before Mr. Norton for final examination. The time, as well as the mode in which these des perate robberies have been committed, so favoured their perpetrators that it is very much feared the guilty ruffians will never be brought to justice. It will be recollected that Mr. Hall, a barrister, whose chambers are in Old-square, Lincoln's Inn, and his residence in Tavistock-square, stated that the person who grasped him by the throat from behind on the night of the 13th of the last month, instantly drew his head back, and the next instant he received several severe blows on his head and temples from a life preserver, or some such instrument, and all the time his head was in such a position that it was impossible he could see those about him. He thought, however, that he got a glance at a person in woman's attire. The robbery on this gentleman took place about ten o'clock, in Lincoln's Inn-fields, and nearly in front of Surgeons' Hall, and such was the savage violence of the thieves that they tore away and carried off with his pocket a considerable portion of his trousers. Si serious also were the injuries which they inflicted that Mr. Hall is still suffering from their effects. The attack upon Mr. Davis, in Cromer-street, Brunswick-square, was so sudden and unexpected, and the violence so great, that that gentleman in his evi dence stated that if the men by whom he had been attacked had even been before him, he could not iden tify one of them. Mr. Conden, a young gentleman who had been robbed in a similar manner in Wheeler's-fields, Ken nington-common, was unable from the same cause to identify any person ; but that the robbery of this young gentleman and that of Mr. Hall had been com mitted by the same parties there cannot be the slightest possible doubt. The instrument used in striking them on the head and temples left an impression of six points in the circle and one in the centre, and the marks on each were precisely the same, and therefore must have been caused by the same weapon. Sergeant Hardwick, 7 D, who has had the case in hand, informed the magistrate that he was not prepared with any further evidence against the pri soners Sinclair and Anderson, but had a charge to prefer against Fitzgerald of being a returned convict, and coming home seven years before his proper time. From inquiries he (Hardwick) had made, he dis covered that in the year 1844 the prisoner Anderson had been tried, in the name of John Ferguson, at the Central Criminal Court, for felony, and sentenced to ten years' transportation. He was sent out to Gib raltar, but, in consequence of his good conduct, re ceived a free pardon in the month of August, 1847. The prisoner Fitzgerald had been tried in the same year and also sentenced to ten years' transportation, but he effected his escape from Gibraltar three years after, and succeeded in getting home. Of the prisoner Sinclair he could learn nothing whatever. Sinclair said that since his apprehension officers from the dockyards, the prisons, and the police had been to see him, and not one of them could identify him, or say anything prejudicial to his character. Mr. NORTON asked him if he wished to give any explanation why he had represented at the lodging house in Short's-gardens that he was a pensioner, and in the receipt of ls. 11d. a day ; why also he had told one of the inmates that he had been transported, and wanted the same person to commit a felony ? These questions he might answer or not, as he pleased. The prisoner would not deny :that he had repre sented himself to be a pensioner, but said the other part of the witness's statement was incorrect. Mr. NORTON remarked that the case was one of considerable suspicion, for it appeared that on the morning before one of these murderous robberies had been committed both Sinclair and Anderson were without money, and obliged to borrow a sixpence; yet on the night of the robbery the former was found with 1/. 12-e 103-d , and the latter with 17s. Anderson said that on that day he received 3/. from his brother, and gave 1/. out of it to Sincl a ir, who, he said, was a comparative stranger to him. Mr. NORTON said that there was another circum stance which added considerably to the suspicion in this case, and that was, though three of these despe rate robberies took place within eight days, not one, he understood, had been attempted since their appre hension. However strong the suspicion, the evi dence was not such as would warrant their commitment for trial, or offered the slightest chance of a conviction. The prisoners Sinclair and Anderson were then discharged, with a caution as to their future conduct; and Fitzgerald was committed for trial for returning from transportation before his proper time. WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 19, 1849, TV 0 R - SIIIP-STRE E T. Jeremiah Donovan and Caroline Donovan, his wife, were charged before Mr. Hammill with the fol lowing attack upon a labouring man ' named David Murphy, who is now lying i n th e London Hospital in a dangerous state. A young man named Daniel Sullivan, a journey man tailor, living in Wheeler -street, Spitalfielda, stated that at half-past nine on the preceding evening he called at the house of his wife's mother, in Geul stun-court, Whitechapel, to request her to visit her daughter, and after knocking several times ineffec tually at the door, he was at length answered by the male prisoner, who lodged in the house, and who, thrusting his heal out of window, demanded the cause of his knocking. He explained to him that he wanted to see his mother-in-law, to which the prisoner replied that she was not at home, or some such answer, withdrew his head, and slammed down the window. Witness knocked again, but with the seine unsuccessful result, and was about to go a way, when the street-door was suddenly thrown wide open, and the prisoner rushed out upon him in a state of ungovernable fury, with a heavy stick in his hand, followed by his wife, who brandished a hammer in her's. Witness immediately hurried away as fast as he could in great consterna tion, but was pursued by the prisoners with nearly ;he same rapidity, and on reaching the bottom of the court, finding them close upon him, he entreated the man Murphy, who was standing there talking, to in terfere for his protection, and drew his attention to the weapon they were armed with. Murphy in stantly ran forward to facilitate his escape, but the moment he got between them the male prisoner felled him by a heavy blow on the head with the stick, and his wife, the instant he dropped, followed her husband's example by striking him several blows in rapid succession upon the head with the hammer. The man screamed out, but became perfectly insen sible directly after, and the prisoners, upon seeing the blood, which was pouring in profusion from the wounds they had inflicted in his skull, retreated into their house and fastened themselves in. The witness expressed his inability to assign any reason for the furious attack the prisoners had attempted to make on himself in the first instance, as he had never had any quarrel with either of them, and had given them no cause of offence, unless his knocking at the doer could be so considered. Police -constable 54 II stated, that while on duty in Goulston-street at the time in question, he was told that a man was believed to have been murdered in the court adjoining, and en hastening there found the man Murphy had been just raised from the ground by some bystanders, bleeding shockingly from some serious injuries in the heal, and still entirely senseless. Up;on ascertaining that the prisoners had inflicted the wounds from which Murphy was suffering, he proceeded at once to their hot's?, and took them into custody, and the injured man was conveyed to a neighbouring surgeon's, who direLlted his instant removal to the London Hospital. The witness handed in a certificate from Mr. Wyatt, the house surgeon, which described the wounds the man had received es being three severe lacerat d wounds of the scalp, and evidently inflicted with some obtuse instrument, and which were of such a nature as to preclude his attendance, with any safety, for some time. The prisoners made some rambling observations in extenuation of the facts alleged against them, and Mr. llAmmu.r. having characterised it as one of the worst cases of that description that had ever been brought under his notice, ordered them to ba re mandtd until that day week, to afford time fur ascertaining the result of the injuries the man had sustained. Harriett Goding was next charged with cutting and wounding a man named Henry Ward, who is also now lying in the London Hospital. In this case it appeared, from the testimony of a married woman, residing in the same houses, that there was extreme provocation for the offence the pri soner had commi'ted. She had been living, it seemed, for a considerable time past with Ward, who used her most cruelly. Ward came home at five o'clock on the preceding afternoon, and the instant he got in, without the slightest apparent cause or provocation on her part, exclaimed to the prisoner, " Take that, you -," and struck her such a violent blow in the face with his fist, that one of her eyes became contused and swollen immediately. The prisoner did not offer to resent this ill- usage, but remained perfectly silent, and taking a knife from the cupboard, held the cool blade of it against her eye to reduce the swelling. She remained in this position for a few minutes, when the fellow, Ward, got up again to strike her, and the prisoner, in fear of his brutality, thrust out her arm, in the hand of which she was holding the knife, to protect her face from his blows, when, whether the man staggered against th? blade, or she struck him with it inten tionally, did not clearly appear, but the result was that the knife was sent across his face, inflicting such a serious gash in his forehead that it bled terribly, and though he at first walked to a surgeon's to have his wound dressed, he was obliged afterwards to be removed to the hospitAl, and now remains there. King, a constable, proved that on the road to the station the prisoner had several times exclaimed, in a tone of exasperated feeling towards Ward, that she hoped he would die before morning, as he had always behaved in the most brutal manner towards her. She was ordered to be committed till that day week, to afford time for Ward's recovery. THE LATE CASE OF MURDER IN BARLEY-STREET. It will be remembered that, after the second ex amination of the wretched woman Sarah Draka on Saturday last, for tae murder of her child, Lewis Drake, Mr. Herring, her solicitor, made application to Mr. Long for all the property belonging to his client to be given up, in order that sufficient funds might be raised for efficiently carrying on the defence. The magistrae acquiesced in the request, and Super intendent Kinder, of the Nottingham constabulary, handed over to Mr. Herring a go!el watch anal about it. worth of silver, which were found in the possession of the prisoner wh?n searched by Mrs. Bridge at the Marylebone-lane station-house. Sergeant Whicher, of the detective police, also gave u p t o the learned gentleman the keys of the prisoner's boxes, which were then at Mr. Huth's (her late master's) house. Shortly after Mr. Long made the order alluded to, Mrs. Johnson, the woman who had had the charge of the murdered child, and to whom many pounds are still due for the care which she took of it, spoke to Whicher upon the subject of the debt; and, on the matter being nude known to the magistrate, he thought it right that a portion of what belonged to the prisoner, and which was still in her boxes, should be kept back for the benefit of her (Mrs. Johnson), whose peculiar position in the melancholy affair en titled her to much sympathy. Yesterday Mr. Herring, who was not aware that the magistrate had altered his decision in the first instance given, entered the court and addressed Mr. Long in reference to the insufficiency of the means aflorded him for defending his client, at the saw. time stating that the worth of what had been given up to him did not exceed 5/. or 6/. He sympathised as deeply as any one could possibly do with Mrs. Johnson, but it was necessary that he should do all in his power for the prisoner whose cause he was Engaged to defend. Mr. Long remarked that he could not interfere further than he had done in the affair; Mrs. Johnson ought to be looked to, and he bad given such direc tions on Saturday as would, he hoped, have the effect of liquidating her claim upon the prisoner, and she certainly should not be a loser in any way if it could be avoided. Sergeant Whicher came to the court soon after the conversation above given, and held a communication with Mr. Herring, who ascertained from him that the boxes containing the prisoner's clothing, &0., had been taken away by him (the sergeant) from Mr. Huth's premises, and that in his opinion a sufficient sum might be realised to compensate Mrs. Johnson, and also to furnish the accused with the means necessary for the employment of counsel, and the payment of other incidental expenses attend ant upon a defence on the heinous charge which had been brought forward against her. The solicitor gave this information to the magistrate, and said that he had made an arrangement with Whicher to meet him at Scotland-yard at twelve o'clock to-morrow (this day), when the boxes which were there would he opened, and the contents carefully examined. Mr. Long said he was glad to heir that the adop tion of such a course, of which he entirely approved, had been agreed upon. In reply to a question from the Magistrate, Mr. Herring said that he had examined the whole of the letters produced on the last inquiry, and had selicted two which he considered to be of much im portance; but it was not his intention to cross examine Mrs. Johnson with regard to them, as he (Mr. Long) had no doubt made up his mini to send the prisoner before a jury. Mr. Herring then thanked the magistrate for his attention, and withdrew. ABOLITION OF OATHS IN ELECTIONS OF COMMON CouseiLmEN.--In tho cnsuini,r, eic'eti( , m of Colat.o.oll Cotuxitrn-n for the city of Lender, a .!eellratir. , l Is tf) b. ma .. 10 by veleta in lieu of the oatli hereto ore taken; and in case any person shall refuse or neglect to make the same, the poll er vote of such person shall be null and void, and as soh shall be rejected and dietalorted. British • • • • .. • • • • .. Ditto Provincial.... Brighton City of London ...... Continental Consolldat. Equitable.. • • •• ... Eperial . •• •• •• Imlependent ....... Lord^n• • .... •• • • •• •• Ditto.. .......... 1)3., l'arl. Preference Plicenis United General We , ttniaster Chartered Ditto, New .... IL Bs. 67. per cent. 101. 915. pr share 1 50 s. pr share 31. per cant. 61. per cent. Gd. per cent. t. per et. Cl. 7s. Gd. v. 12s. X. s. d. 40 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 23 0 0 50 0 0 101 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0„ 50 0 8 .f. a. d. 18 0 8 20 0 I 100 o • 31 5 0 40 • 0 so • e 41 0 0 40 0 • 40 0 • 2 10 0 48 0 • 90 0 I 50 0 0 10 0 0 CJI WALES. i i •7 . Dividend Names of 1 4.), Dirldendl price j Names of r. oer U.unpanieS. 1A r per , •Companies. It I Ai ; . Price. - .1:. Annum. so , --- 4 1 4 Ashtn& Oldh 971 71. 113 Macclesfield. 100 ( 2 1. 103. 140 Barnsley •. • • 160' 121. 180 Neatk .. •. • • 100 ; 161. 340 14rkr.k&Abrg 150 1 Si. 85 Oxford.. -• • 1001 201. 150 Birmingham 35' 41. 113 Peak Forest. 78 I 31. 18s. 70 Coventry..• • 100 251. 210 Regent's.... 331 11. 2s. 11% Derby ••• • • 100 61. 63 Rochdale.... g 5 ! 41. 50% Ells,nrekChs i 133 565. 41 Somrset Coal 150', 71.108. 130 Erewash . • •1100 221. --Do.LkFd St 12 I 61. p. c. - Gran IJ unctnlloo 01. 1127 ,Stffrsl &Wore 1 4 0, 281. 403 Grand Surrey 100 21. 30 Shrewsbury.. 1 2 51 151. - Grand Union 100, 11. 103. 24 Stoarbrldge.. 145 201. 310 Grantham .. 150 - - Severn and Kennt & Avn 39 7s. 6d. 5% Wye Rail. j 26j 2 ?. 05 . - Lee Ir.& Livrp 100 301. 825 Waravickgei Leicester .•• 140 Si. 63% Birming , J 100 41. 63 Leicsir &I ., :thj 83 4/. 45 Warwick&l ,‘ I „,. 43 Loughlwrogh 142 701. 650 Napton..3 i v ° ''' Monrnouthshlloo 81. - Werestr &} 1. 42 78 3 Mutgsmrysh; 100 - - firming. Meltnlf wbry , 100 - - ,Wilts & fri6s -14 s. 9 1..T.3T Or SCOTTISH CO:72FAFFIES' PIMICONS Dividend Amount Narac of Company. per of Paid. Prim, Annum. Share. X s. d. 1 X s. d - B Ink of Scotland British Linen Company 61. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 217 Caledonian Bank City of Glasgow tank . 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 12% Elydutialo lisnk -•• • • 6% per cent. 20 0 0 10 II I 131.75. Commercial Bank - - 71. per cent. 510 0 0 100 0 0 16,6 Eastern Bank.. ••- •• 61. per cent. 25 u 0 10 0 6 8.,i E,1111' , .3....G1a5g0w Bank 61. per cent. 50 0 6 0 0 53g Exehango Bnk of Scot.. 4/. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 203 Isle of Man. Company 71. per cent. 10 0 0 7 0 0 - National Bank 6i percent. 50 0 0 II 0 0 14% Nortitol'Scotlandßank 4/.percent. 20 0 0 5 0 I 3/.08 North British Bank • • - - - - Royal Bank of Scotland 51. per cent. 100 0 0 100 0 8 127 Union Bank of Scotland 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 0 43% Western Bank • ....• • • 71. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 74 AberLeen Fire and Life 7%1.pr cent. 12 10 0 2 0 0 2 B. Accord. Lire and Fire - 20 0 0 010 0 - dritish Guarantee Ins. 41. per rent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 Ils 611 Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. pox cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1 21 Church of England Ins. - 50 0 0 2 0 0 - City of Glasgow Life CI. per cent. 25 0 0 2 0 0 27. 75 Edinburgh Life Incur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 12 10 0 i 20 East of Scotland Life - 10 0 0 015 0 93.0 d. Eng. & Scot, Law Life 51. per cent. 50 0 0 217 6 - ilercules Insurance Ce. 71. per cent. 100 0 11 10 0 0 1 - [noun Co. of .Seetlnd- Al. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 1 - Life Assoc. of Scotland 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 1 11. 7e Mercantile Life ...• National Fire and Life Si. per cent. 10 0 0 1 I 0 21s. 6d North British Inr•rur s%l.pr cent. 200 0 0 20 0 0 24 North & West of Scot. 61. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 - Scottish Life and t; uar. - 20 0 0 011 0 - Scot.M as. and G7n.Llfe - 0 0 015 0 j - Scottish Union Imanee. 6 1 A1. pr cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 233.6 d Stan lard Life ...... • . 51. per cent. 50 0 0 4 5 0 I 9% United Pep. Assurance , 51. per cent. 10 0 0 1 0 0 , 14s. IVIISCELLANEOUS. Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of Paid. Prier. Annum. Share. Z. s. d.l Z. s. d. Auction Mart.. •••• • • 21. is. 50 0 0 I - 25 Australian Azrieulturl 11. 100 0 0 1 30 0 0 16 Anglo-Mexican Mint., 11. 48. 10 0 0 10 0 0 - Ditto, half Shares.. - - 1 210 0 Canada ............. Gt. per cent. 100 0 0'32 10 0 2G Uppr Canada Bonds 51. per cent. - - - Pity Navigation .... - - - 91 Gen. Revers. & Invest. sp.c. lc be, 2/ 100 0 01 100 0 0 - Equitable Reversienry 51. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 103 Gen. Steam Navigation 11. Ss. 15 0 0j 14 0 0 25 London Institution .• • - - 78 15 0 - Russell Institution•• •• - - 26 8 0 - Peninslr& Orient.Stm. 81. per cent. 50 0 0, 50 0 0 80 Reversionary Int. Soc. 1%/. pr cent. 100 0 0 100 0 0 921 i Royal Mail Steam•• - 61 18..4. p. c 100 0 0 1 60 0 0 50 South Australian ..• • • 11. per share. 25 0 0 25 0 0 17 Van Dieman's Land.. - 100 0 0 23 0 0 2 --- -, ....... TT- T... -a1..• . .. ... 1 FOREIGN HOPS.—In addition to the exceedingly large arrivals of hops from the United States of Ame rica, the produce of the States to which we have re cently made especial allusion, importc.tions of hops to a considerabl • extent are new taking place in various quarters for the first time, from Belgium, at places other than the metropolis, the produce of that Euro pean State. The vessel Albatross, arrived at the pert of Hull, from Antwerp, has brought 24 bales, as a pore tien of Im. cargo. This is the first importation of hors into that port from abroad, the produce of any foreign country. The vessel Fortitude, arrived at Liverpool, from Antwerp. has brought 12 blles of the article, con• signed to a firm there. Arrivals of h }ps have taken place at Liverpool on recent occasions from the United tta'ee, bet this is the first importation of the kind into Liverpool from Belgium, or elsewhere, other than the States of America. The following ar.ivals have also simultaneously taken place on the same d ty at the me tropolis .from Belgluin:—The Director, from Antwerp, has brought 10 bales, consigned; and the Flecha, ar rived from Ghent, has 20 bales, consigned; and also 48 bales of the article, to (Tier, the produce of Belgium. Th-se arrivals of hops into different ports of the kit , - dem from Belgium, are, it need scarcely be remark , d, of very considerable interest and im2ortance. SPURIOUS CROWN PIECES.—A caution we gave some weeks ago in reference to a largo amount of base coin, in the shape of crown-pieces, then in course of circulation in this city, had the desired effmt of stopping th:3 eireilation for the time. We learn, howl..ver, tllet it hee; again eoternneed. The crown-piece is so well finis%ed, rind so wuch resembles the gencine meal both in no appearance an is the " rin:e," that it cannot readily be detected. The date upon it, we may mention, ie 1821.--Caledonian Mercury. PRICES OF SfIARES IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, ANI: OTHER COM PANIES' STOCK. From the Official List. rIIBLISIIED EVERY 'I YESDAY AND FATDAY EVENING. LONDON, TUESDAY, .DECEMBER 18. TO IENT-STOCIX BALICIES. Name of Company. A.astralasia .......... B7itsh North American Ceylon ............ C miretereial of London C ..... Gloucestershire ...... lonian .............. Londe and Westralnstr Ditto • • • • • • Lo don Joint-Stock ... eovincial of Ireland.. Ditto, New......... National of Ireland .. Nat. Provncial of Eng. Ditto, New. ..... South Australia • • • • • • Union of Australia.... Union c! L0nd0n..... Union of Madrid Dividend per Annum. 31. per cent. 51. per cent. 71. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. 151 per cent. 61. per cent. W. per cent. 61. per cent. 81. per cent. Si. per cent. 51. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. per cent. Si. per cent. 61. ;per cent. 61. per cent. 61. per cent. Amount of Share. £ i. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 tO 0 0 Z s. d. 40 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 13 0 0 10 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 22 10 0 35 0 0 10 0 0 22 10 0 25 0 0 2 10 0 10 0 0 40 0 0 NAVAL INTELLIGENCE. COURTS - MARTIAL. PORTSMOUTH, DEC. 18.—We are enabled to an nounce, upon what we consider the most substantial authority, that in the ensuing session of Parliament a strenuous effort will be made to alter the constitu tion of naval and military courts-martial, so as to render them more courts of equity than, as hhherto, courts of honour. In this movement the lead will be taken by Lord Brougham. The Actwcm, 26, was removed cut of the basin yesterday, after a thorough refit. First-Lieutenant M'Cai thy, of the Royal Marines, serving on board the Illustrious, 72, Captain Yates, who had oxalic acid administered to him by mistake on Friday last, is recovering at llaslar Hospital. Strong gales have been blowing from the south-west all night and day. accompanied by sharp rain. APPOINTMENTS. WOOLWICH, DEC. lB.—Midshipman—Charles J. Bullock, to the Phaeton, at Sheerness. Naval Cadet—William L. Bridges, to the Impreg nable, flagship, at Devonport. Assistant-Enginters—Richard E. Percival, to the Fire Queen, at Portsmouth, fitting for service on the Holyhead station; and R. J, Sergeant, to the Tcr. rible, at Woolwich. Commander Robert J. Le M. M'Clure, recently promoted from First-Lieutenant of the Enterprise, on the return of that vessel from the searching expedition, is to ha v e the comm an d o f th a Investigator, fitting l at Woolaich for another scorching expedition, and commissioned by Stephen Court, Scond Master, to accelerate her being made ready for sea. PLYMOUTH, DEC. 17.—The merchant barque Chebar, of Cumberland, 405 tons register, Captain Grayson, came in this morning with lots of figure head, cutwater, jibbootn, bobstays, shrouds, and all head gear, and with damage to her starboard guard boards and quarter, having been in contact, off Cape Fini,terre, with a Swedish brig, the crew of which (a ith the exception of the master) she had on board. The accident occurred in lat. 46 20 N. long. 10 37 W., on Friday morning, 14th of December instant, at half-past five o'clock. 'J he Chebar was from London, with a general cargo, bound to Bombay, and had 18 hands in all, and one passenger. She was on the port tack, under single-reefed maintopsail and double-reefed foretopsail; her jib was hauled down at four o'clock. The wind was blowing strong from west-south. west, the sea running high, and the weather very thick. It was the mate's watch on deck, and he saw the unfortunate brig just in time to prevent striking her amidships, when she would undoubtedly have gone down and all on board mu , ,t have perished. The brig was called the Hilde de Charlotte, 250 tons, Captain Jacob , on, of and from Stockholm, for Rio Janeiro and Pernambuco, with planks and iron; had a deck load, and was on the starboard tack, under foresail, mainsail, and clusereefed topsails. She received the bargee on the starboard bow and fell disabled alongside. The Swedish mate and eight men succeeded in jump ing from their brig. Captain Jacobson attempted to tbllow, but the vessels rolling off he fell between, and on their nearing again is supposed to have been crushed to death, as he was no more seen. The brig, with loss of both inaats, then swung off, but Captain Grayson immediately lowered his canvas, and exhi bited lights to catch the sight of the second mate and hrae t ands unfortunately left on board. Shortly after eight o'clock the brig was seen again, and a hole was observed in her hull on the larboard side, under neath the fore chain. The barque's boat was got out, and midway between the two vessels met the brig's boat in charge of the remainder of her crew, who were at once taken to the Chebar. The vessels had spoken each other in the Channel three days before the fatal collision. Captain Jacobson, who was 42 years of age, has left a widow and two children. It is a sin gular fact that he came out of his state room at eleven o'clock the previous evening and told one of the mates !hat he had just dreamed he had fallen overboard, and was up to his armpits in water. Both crews complain of the apparent apathy exhi bited on board a barque of 400 to 500 tons, showing Dutch colours, which they fell in w ith j us t a ft er th e second mate boarded th?! Chebar. The Dutch ship looked like a Government transport ; she was under close reefed foretepsail, doublEd reefed maintopsail, and reefed foretops::il. There were 100 people on her deck, many of whom wore red clothes, having ;he appearance of soldiers, and aft were several officers in naval uniform. The boats belonging to the Chebar were scarcely stout enough to live in the sea then running, and her master hailed the Dutchman, which had plenty of large boats, and a sufficiency of spare hands to send to the dismasted Sweee and ascertain her condition, or at least to bring off the chests be longing to the crew ; but the people on board the trans port either could not or would not understand their application. It is supposed they visited her after the Chebar left. The Dutchman was outward bound, probably from Holland for Batavia. PUGILISM. H. ORME AND H. JONES FOR 201. A-SIDE, AND CHARLES NALLETT AND THOINILS GRIFFITHS FOR 501. A SIDE.—It might, at first sight, seem to many that the heading of this paragraph is a retroversion, so far as the larger stake contend:: d for is placed second in order. But, in these days of lightness and speed, wherein velocity is power, an encounter between what is conventionally termed "big men" is t o rare as to command the attention of the chronicler. Of the twain, Orme and Jones, the scribe cm say no further than that this was, as regarded each, " a first appear ance upon any stage"—and therefore slight mistakes, errors in judgment, and too ambitious a desire to displaya cleverness not possessed, nor attainable unless by experience and practice, must be excused. The men were of the respective weights of l Ist. l lb. Orme, and llst. 31b. Jones—though, as the latter, a youth, has attained the perpendicular of 5 feet 103- inches, while Orme, with three or four yesra snore to convert his cartilage to bone, is only 5 feet 71 inches, the contrast in substance may be imagined without description. Jones was equired by Hannan and Fuller, Orme by Hazeltine and Rowe. The ground was Frimley-green, in Surrey, whither, by landing at the Farnborough station, in Hants, the spot was reached. There the Commissary-General pitched his stakes, and at a little after one o'clock the aspi rants for praise and pelf showed themselves within the hempen enclosure. The battle raged for two hours and forty-five minutes, with varied success; yet an observation or two on in its progress may nct be altogether without instruction to those who were not there. For the first four rounds, Jones, whose presiding genius was Jem Burn, got cleverly on to his man, whose iron hardy mug, brown as the late Gipsy Cooper's, and rough and ready form, threatened re taliation whenever he should get near enough. This time was not " a long time coming boys," for in the fourth round he popt in a body hit that made Jones very cautious how he again took a liberty with his head. Long and tedious sparring, with out brilliant 'points, marked the next half-dozen rounds. The 7th occupying 27 minutes, the Bth 19 minutes ; yet they here and there showed determination and courage in the exchanges of hits. In brief, Orme had his man heavily on ribs and head, till his physical power seemed to leave him, so far as hitting was concerned, although he stopped prettily, took his punishment bravely, and often threw Orme in the closes. At the 40th round, two hours and three-quarters having been counted on the umpire's watch, Hannan threw up the sponge in token of Jones's dLfeat, and Orme was hailed as con queror. Jones was liberally backed at 5 and 6to 4 till the sth round. GRIFFITHS AND MALLET; FOR 501 A SIDE.— Wohing was the battle-ground of these well known antagonists. Mallett, patronised by the Surrey men, w! - ;o inhAbit " long Southwerke," Griffiths, though a Lancastrian, backed by the " Woolwich division." They contended for 1- hour and 33 minutes, during which 73 rounds were fought. Griffiths, after the third round, taking a lead of the Borough man, and keeping it, despite all the artful dodges of the school. Mallett, however, deserves praise for the coolness he displayed in receiving punishment, and the persever ance with which be " rowed a stern wager," against youth, reach, steadiness, strength, and resolution, all of which were united in the person of the victor. The betting at beginning was 5 to 4 on Griffiths, • COURT OF ALDERMEN--At a Court of Aldermen held yesterday, a conference was agreed to with the consolidated committee of the Court of Common Council relative to the constitution of the Board of Conservators of the river ; and some of the aldermen expressed their hope that the legal proceedings between the Government acid the Corporation would be termi nated. Mr. Alderman Sidney attributed the lawsuit to the objectionable courFe of delegating matters to sub committees, and the secrecy of their proceedings. Others of the aldermen considered that the lawsuit bad been unavoidable. A report was brought up from the Pri vileges Committee on the letter of Mr. Petra, M.P., re. specting his election as sheriff. It represented that the Hon. Gentleman was justified i❑ deeling to act, he being a Member of Parliament. A report was agreed to, which recommended an application to the Treasury fur payment of the csts of prosecutions and expense of maintaining convicts. THE WESTMINSTER HOSPITAL. Yesterday a meeting of the Governors of the above hospital was held in the institution, fk,r the transaction of general business. The report - -:, , lt::ted that during the prevalence of the chokra wards for the special purpose had been kept open day and night for the reception of such patients, who had been extremely numerous, as well as several hundred eases of sla7ri.cca and premonitory symptoms. During the present year there had been 1,591 in, and 13,479 out patients, making a total of 362,647 since the foundation of the hospital. The receipts fur the year were 3 982/. 9s. 11d., whilst the. excess of experdi;ure over it:cotne was 1,6381. 5?. O i l. During the ins . quarter the receipts amount , d to 84BL, whiht the ex- Fenditurc was 1,1621., 12(inp; a deficiency of 31 4 / . lithotriptic ward has ,just been ccanplettd and fitted up for the reception of patienti, lot the treatment end cure of this delicate and difficult surgical operation. - - THE COUNTRY MARKETS. IPSWICII, DEC. 18. Them was a fair supply of wheat at market, but the conlinued wet weather has now materially affected the condition of it, and this wet day also tended to make it wore ; it sold steadily at late prices. Barley in good supply, fine qualities sold much as of late, but the second and inferior .3orts, of which a large portion of the supply consisted, were difficult to sell. There were some few• samples of beans and peas, which were bought a little in favour of the buyer. There appears to be no demand for malt. PER QUARTER. PER QUARTER. Wheat, red 3Bs to 4 tsl3eans, old Do., mixed...... 43 . 3 to 45, Peas Barley, malting 26a to 28, Oats. 1)o., siA , et Do., grimling 2os to 22- Malt R2q11:1: AVI.;RAGES FOR THE WEEK ENDING DEC. 15. Wheat 1, ° 03 quarters at 403 2d. Barley Oats Beans Peas. . . Rye . HULL, DEC. 18. Taylor and Bright's circular states: —The weather during the past fyurteen days has been the re verse of seas enable, being at times quite mild, with a considerAk fall of rain, while the latest accounts from Idutuborgh represent severe frost, and a complete closing of the navigation. There has been decidedly more firm suss in the trade pp nerally, and for the best descriptions of wheat is more money pitl; still there is an absence Uf tritioh life, and probubly will be until supplies really cease and we have general winter. At t..) day's market there was a more moderate show of farmers' wheat than of late, and the condition a good deal affected; fine dry samples brought is more money, but the trade was not brisk. More inquiry after old ft reign, but not much business resulting; the quantity (Tiering from vessel is vtry moderate, and landed parcels are held a good deal above late rates. Nothing doing in malting barley; good grinding supports its price. More inquiry for old beans, but new ones are quite neglected. Not much business passing in linseed, though we do not alter cur quota ions. In linseed cakes buyers have an advantage, but rape cakes aro more sought after at the late reduc tion. No bones all and business wanting. The following are the present prices of grain:— S. 5. s. 5. Wheat, English, red 34 to 36 Peas, white and yel. 25 28 Do. white 36 —3B Do. grey . 24 —26 Dan!zic and Ko- Linseed, Black Sea. 43 —45 nigsberg 42 46 Do. Petersburgh ... 37 42 Pomeranian and Do. Riga&Archngl. 36 —3B llambur“h . 3B 40 Do. Konigsberg .... 35 37 Danish, Helstein, Se • Per ton. Friesland ..... 3l —3 6 1 Linseed cakes, Hull 71,712 s G 3 beto.,ian and Odessa 32 36 1 Do. fine foreign Oats, English ..... 12 —1 4 1 Do. inferiorloreign 5l Os Do. I)anish.... lO Is Rapeseed Do. Friesland l5 16 Rape cakes...72s 6d to 003 Od Do. Russ. & Odessa 12 14 Tares, English oos 003 Barley, malting 22 24 Do. foreign 20s —24 s Do. grinding........ 19 20 i Guano 6/ to 91 10s Beans. Do. foreign ...... 25 —31111 ye meal 6los LIVERPJOL, DEc. lB.—Our supplies from Ireland and coastwise during the past week have been light of wheat and oats, but to a fair extent of oatmeal and flour. From foreign ports we have a large arrival of wheat, but in sigi ificant of other articles ; and from Canada we have received 8,253 barrels of flour and 500 loads of oatmeal. The (xport s in the same time have been unimportant. The trade has berm rather more lively, with a moderato business doing in wheat at lull prices. India corn has bzea in fair request, and holders have advanced their pretensions 6,1 to is per quarter. For other articles there bag been merely a retail demand at late prices. At this day's market there was a fair attendance of the town and country trade, but only a limited demand was experienced for wheat, at last Tuesday's prices for foreign, and an advance of Id to 2d per 701 b on new Irish. Oa's and oatmeal were in moderate request, ri!ld realised -.ld per 45!13, and 3d to 63 per load advance. For barley, beans, and peas there was a fair retail sale at, lull prices. Fine qualitit s of flour were held for rather more money, which checked the sale, but common runs wore quite negl.c:cd. There was not much in quiry for Indian corn, but holders were firm at 30a per qu,rter for white, and 28s Gd to 29s per quarter for prime yellow. LEEDS, DEC. 18.—There is a fair demand for good wheats at fully last week's prices, and in some instances a little more muney has been obtained, but we can qui - tte no alteration in inferior qualities. Good barley m.ilitailiS its value, as also oats and Limns. Christmas day faiiu n on Tuesday next, our market will be holden on Wednesday'. Coax, DEC. 17.—Flour—First 1256 d to 1280 d ; extra 14e; seconds, lls to 12i , 6d ; households Os to lOs 6d; thirds, 7s to El per cwt. Oatmeal 9s 6d to 105; Indian meal 656,1 to 659 d; wheat meal. 9s 6d to lOs per cwt. Indian corn 123 s 04 to 12756 d per ton. Bran 31 • Os to 3112564 per ton. Hay—Farmers 32s to 365; average 00s; dealers 35s to Ds 0,1; average 38s per ton. Straw—Farmers 15s Od to 255 Od; average ; dealers 24s Od to 30s Od; average o',!s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6d to 6ad; household loaf 5d to sad per 41b. Fresh butter, 8d to 9J per lb. Eggs —6s6dto 6s 8d per hundred. Coals-- Newport 14s; Lydney 16s ; Landore lis ; Best Neath Culm 13s per ton. Tallow 39s Od to 00s per cwt. Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. Meat —Beef aid to sd; mutton 4d to sd; veal 4d to Od; pork 3ad to 4d; bacon 7d to 8d; sausages 5d per lb. Hops SI Os per cwt. Bangor slates 31 2s 6d to 3/ 5s per ton. Bark—Barbary 71 5s to 8/ 58; Valonia 141 to 01; French 71 5s ; English 0/ per ton. Fleece Wool tOs to 12s per stone. Hemp 32/ toto/ per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 18s to lAs ; red ditto 24s to 26s per barrel ; Newfoundland 10/ Os to 12/ per ton. Timher—.'Memel, 85/ per ton ; deals, first quality, 18s; second quality, 16s per 100. Hides—Market 14s to Ms; salted 14s to 20. per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 2iel per lb. Potatoes, white lad to 9d; Minions lid to I2d ; Guano — Peruvian, 11/ 105; Ichaboe 9/ per ton ; Tar—Archangel 19s per barrel. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, DEc. 18. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market to <lay was rather better for all descriptions of shares, although the amount of business c ncluded was not very considerable. The only variations in price were—Great Western, Quarters, 11% dis. —Ditto, 171. Shares, 8 dis.—Alidland Stock, 6 per cent, 123,/,2. LIVERPOOL, DEC.' 18. STOCK ExCHANGE.—The share market was very dull tc.lay, and prices are rather lower. MANG H ESTER, Da°. 18. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The trans. ctions to-day were as follow :—London and North-Western, Manchester and Bir mingham, Quarters (C ), 1 5.16 p.—Lancashire and York shire, Fifths, 6 11-16 dis.—Ditto, West Riding Union, 6 3 4 dis. Ditto, Halves (A), 8 1 ,4 p. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 15—North Staffordshire, 9 3 / 4 dis. BIRMINGHAM, DEC. tS. STOCK EXCHANGE. —Ttiere was more business done to day, but prices were no better. Certain disparaging reports which are flying about with regard to some lines of railwat are attributed, truly or falsely, to attempts made by parties to run down prices, and by this means obtain possession of stock before the rile so confidently expected to take place at the, commencement of the ensuing year. The transactions to-cay were as follow :—Hereford (calls duly paid), 2 5 % per share—Coventry and Nuneaton, 34 p. —Midland (Bir mingham Rnd Derby), 23—Nc , rtb : - taffurdshire, dis. YORK, DEC. 17. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The ' transactions to-day were as follow:- Caledonian, 11%—Great Northern, Preference, 7,i; North Staffordshire, 734—York and North Midland, 163 A• GLASGOW, DEC. 15.—Cutton—ln the early part of the week the market exhibited a better 'Ming, and price; in some instances, advanced per lb. Since then:however, things have become dull and quiets and this advance has been lost. The market closes to-day very tamely. A good business has been done in goods and yarns at firm prices, and as stocks are light a very healthy feeling prevails in the trade. rig Iron—Our pig iron market has been rather inactive during the week, and the business done chiefly on three months' open delivery, for which 475. were paid. To' di.y mixed numbr.rs are offering at 465. 6d. cash ; and 475. throe months' open. Buyers, to a small extent, at 6d. lesr. [ADVERTISEMENT.]—For Liver Complaints, Bad Digestion, Nervous or Sick Headaches, take Holloway's Pills. —This admirable medicine acts so peculiarly on the system' that all persons suffering from general debility, nervous affec tions, liver or bilious complaints, headaches, indigestion, WO' of appetite, or any other disorder brought on by sedentari habits, should have recourse to it as a safe and certain rensell; for, however great the suffering of the patient may be, these Pill 3 will give almost instant relief, and ultimately strengthen the body and restore the impaired faculties of the mind. Tb(l are also infallible in the cure of gout, rheumatism, dropsiest and palpitation of the heart. Seld by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, London. BIRTH,F. On the 15th inst., at Knight's-place, Pembury, Kent, the wife of Commander John W. Finch, R.N., of a son. On the 15th inst ,at Southsea, the wife of Lieutenant S• 11. Poulett, of the 2d (or Queen's) Roy - al Regiment cf Foot, of a son. On the 15t11 inst., in Brunswick-square, the wife of Henri Roberts, Esq., of a son, On the 16th inst., in Porchester-terrace, the wife of Joseph Burrell, Esq , of a Eon. On the ttith inst, in Abingdon-street, Westminster, under chloroform, Mrs. Francis Fuller, of a son. On the 16th inst., Mrs. B. S. l'hillips, of Cumberland' terrace, Regent's-pack, of a daughter. On the 1i th inst., in Bedford-square, the wife of John J' B. E Frere, Esq., Commander, R.N., of a son. 0.1 the lith iust , in Mount-street, Grosvenor-square, the wife of the Rev. 11. B. blacket, of a son. ENSUILANCM COMPANIES. Name 5f C mpany. Anion .........• .• ALiance Brit. and For. Ditto Marine.• • • • •• ......... firiiisli Commercial .• Clericl,Med I; (4 en. Life County .............. Crown •. Eigle • . • • • • .... • • • • European Life ••• • . F - eemasons' Gl,ne Gmrdian •• • • • • Imperial Fire •• • • •• •- Imperial Life ..... Indemnity Marine.• • • Law Fire • ........... Law- I lie Lezal and General Life Licensed Victuallers • • Lo , ,dGn Fire •• •• •• •• London Ship Marine..• •• •• •• •• kr:A. inTlid&Gen.Life National Lean Fund.. National L1fe......... Palladium Lite Pelican ...• •• . ... caix cteet , sr Life....... Provde.nt Life Lock Life Royal Exchanze SIE) Firc • • ;-•ittro Tire ..... L r cited Kin:d,m Lziversal Life Vfzioria Life.. ... Name 01 Co7rAnuly. r.a7..t and Weit Ind'a... }lt Country Lomlon . i' , ltto F0nd5........ ........ Intto, Scrip ....... I).ttto Siuthampton •• Dividend Amount per of Az;uum. Share. 3/. 10s ill4s 6,186 bs 61. per cent. 13s.6d.prsh. is. per share pr ct.& bs. 3/. 14s. 64. 4 1 4 per cent.' Gl. per cent. 61. per cent. 51. 121 per cent. 125., 11. sh. & 1)8.1 11. 16s. lo s. 12s.per share 4%1. per ct. 51. per cent. 81. per cent. 51. per cent. 4/. p. eh. & bs 54. per cent. 11. ss. & bs. 55. 6'. per cent. 61. 10s. 11. 6s. V. per cent. 103% pr cnt. 5/. per cnt. s. d. 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 Stock. 100 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 I 5 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 100 9 0 5 0 0 Stock. 61. pr cent. 20s. per sh. 51. pr cent. 41. per cent. 4 per cent. Arn can t 1%1. pr cent. 21. per cent. Share. .6 8. d. Stock. 100 0 0 Stock. Stock. 50 0 0 Paid. Z A. d. 50 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 6 6 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 • 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 All p!d. 3 0 0 36 10 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 5 13 1 2 10 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 15 0 0 2' 0 0 2 10 A 5 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 IS 0 0 0 10 0 4 0 0 9 0 • 4 0 0 Paid, X a. d. 50 0 0 £. ti. d. 25 0 0 CO 0 0 4000 4 s. (1. 20 0 0 100 0 0 OVZS.ff. Dividend per A111111:11. BRIDGES Dividend per Name of Company. Charing-cross .. • . .. • . Sorithwrk , NIT Sub.AT, Annum. Ditto Nw of 7% p.c. 1355. per ccnt Wat,rloo .... • • ...... Ditto 011 Ann. of 81. Ditto Nw ditto of 71. Valuthnli •.. •• • Av. Name of Company. 1/. 4.c. 0/1 11. Is. 011 6~3'tA.'a"~~= East Londom...•• •• •• •• Grand Junction • • •• •• Lambeth •• • • •• •• •• •• New Rivr Lndu Brdge ............ Ws3t Mddlesex • . . Dividend per An - num. 4!. per cnt. 31. 10s. 5/. per cnt. 2!. 10s. $l. per cnt. '61.04. pr cut 0•110.3-Z.IGIXT Name of Company. AND Dividend per nnum. Amoun t Share. X. s. d G 32 12 2 50 0 0 100 0 0 70 10 3 'O s, Amount of Shiro. £ s. d. 100 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 , XE CO: Amount of Share. ;pILIVZEES. Paid. I Price Price. MARRIED. On the 13th inst.., at the rectory church of St. Marylebov e, Jan Hackett, Esq., of her Majesty's 77th Regiment. to Harriet Tayler, second daughter of the late Major Watkinlf of the Bengal Artillery. On the 15th inst., at Stoughton Church, Su'sex, Ca George Wilder, Royal Horse Artillery, to August a , young daughter of the late S. M. Clogstoun, Esq. On the 15th inst., at St Mary's-in-the-Castle, Hasting s, San;uel Moore, Esq , of Moyne-hall, county of Cavan, t ° Louisa, daughter of the late 'l'. Ne , ,bitt, Esq., R.N. , DIED On the /3f h inst., at Aberdeen. aged 77, Duncan navidsol'y Esq., of Tillyche•ly and Inchmarlo, Deputy Lieutenant Or the county of Kiecardine. On the 14th inst., at Birkfield-lodge, Ipswich, Frederick W. Campbell, Esq. On the 15th inst., at Charmouth, Dorset, Mary Ana, t he wife of Joseph Wilson, Esq. On the 16th inst , Harriet, the wife of S. Bolton Ellen' borough, Isq , of Waltham-cross, Ilerts. o On the 16th inst., at Forest-IAI, Elizabeth Jane, INTI. O Augus'us Mordan, Esq. st At Burnham Westgate, aged 43, William Rose, young c- ,, son of the late William R. Haworth, Esq., of her Maks* . Exchequer. ad On the 17th inst., in Great Turner street, Commercial - T oad Fast, Mr. lloss, formerly of her Majesty's Customs, 1 4° 3 ' don, aged 7'). : Printed and Publizh?l.l by MURDO e. 112, 6trand, Printer, at The Sun Office, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the COEUIV Wednesday, December 19, 1849,. Sold atil Pmps Übll Patent and 'V ,D And, al Phis , runp , r°r e th( Pero n , known °bac! each J 5, '4 ] Idle or tt e ; ectlntri V Paid. Paid. tai'. Price. Price, 19 60 14 _ni,i 1213 bl 228 21 Os. 5 202 205 rrice. Price, IEI% Cfto tii Pt at.. a•hr ch 'Wm Bettc Ad Which the c c titan T 1 1 E sheet In Add' e ° ,l l I , le 3 'lltter and act No Re( Th' An, Tin ALI