The Sun. — London, England, 1849-11-09 00:00:00

BANK RETURNS. (From the Lomdors dazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, zap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Not 23 of the severat Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 27th day of October, 1849:- Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Andover. Bank, Andover-Heath and Co 1.4.927 Ashford Bank, Ashford--Jecimitt and. Pomfret 11,242 Aylshain Bank, Aylaham-R. and G Copeman. - 5,534 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Riekford and Hunt .... Bildock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade BaLk, Baldock-Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell... 25,355 Barnitapie Bank, Barnstaple-Marshall and Co 11,325 Basingstoke and Odiha' Bank, Basingstoke-- ,338 Seymour, Lamb , and Co. ......... 313 Bedford Bank, Bedford-T. Barnard Bedford and Bedfor dshire Bans, Bedford- Trapp, Halchead, and Co. Bewdley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and 12,811 lrane .................................................. Bicester and Oxford shire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bi ces ter-Tubb and Co. .• •••• <.. . 12,223 .. Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Att ere:: is, 21,023 Spooner, and Co .............................. . ...... Birmingham and War wickshire Bank, 13irming ham --J. L. Moilliett, and Sons ............. 12.604 Blandford Bank, Bland'fbrd-Bastard and Oak. 648,,090 180 Boston Bank, Bost on-Garfit and Co ...... . ...... Boston 13ank, Boston-Gee and Co ................ 16.989 ltriftg viter Bank, Bridgwater-J. &J. Sealey 6,695 Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Co. 33,037 13roseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. Pritchard 18,904 'Buckingham Bank, Buckingham-Bartle tt, Parrott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Stow- Market Bank, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co. 70,757 Bant;ury Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney. 26,402 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb 33,502 Bri 6: City Bank, Bath-Moger and Son . Iledfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett and Gra nt Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor. and Lloyds . Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshira-H. A. and W. M. Harr is and Co ..................... 11,314 Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 64,962 Bridport Bank, BridportS. and W. Eury - Brighten Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Borrer .......................................... 27,510 Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington - Harding, Smith , and Co •• •••• 11,926 Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmands- J. Worlledge and Co. Brimsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove-Rufford, Biggs, and Co. 11,667 Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and 31,706 Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-11,1orris and 14,809 Saila flhertsey Wink, Chertsey-Messrs. Coate ..• 3,394 Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, 14,621 and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Pladleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank , Truro -Tweedy and Co Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Wood cock City Bank, Exeter - M ilford and Co 17,230 Craven Bank, Settle-Birkbecks and Co Christchurch Bank, Christchurch Tice, Welsh, 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-Mews. Evans Derby Bank , Derby -Smith and Co. Derby Ole Bank and Scarsdale an d High Peak Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co 24,805 Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes -Hughes. Locke, and Co 11,276 piss Bank, Diss-Oakes, Finnham, and Co 9,031 Doncaster Bank, Doncaste-Leatham, Tew, aryl Co. Doncaster Bank and Rctford Bank, Doncaster- C o ok and Co. ... 57,783 Darlington Bank , Durham Bank, and Stoc k on-Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse, Co 74,243 Dzwonport Bank, Devonport-Hodge and Nor man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchoster-Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Foster and Cap 100,998 East Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower, Hall, lad Co. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford - Sparro w . and Co. 41,080 Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co 27,732 leak enharn Bank, Fakenhatn-Gurneys, Birk heck, and Co. Farringdon Bank ant Bank of Wantage, Far rint-don-Barnes and Medley Faruliana Bank, Farnham-Messrs. Knight. Fav‘r B an Faverithatn-Hilton and CA Golalming k, Godalaning-Mcllersh and 7,798 1,221 17,974 60 6,540 21,923 5,584 10,965 4,798 I;.een ................... Grailtharn Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Ilaydon... Grlntharn Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... Ilaitings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hari l'ord and Warn Bank, tiartford—s. Adami and Co • Hull 13?.nk and Kinoton-upon-Hull Bank, Hull —3mith, Brothers, and Co. II ontingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey flarwieh Bank, 'Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co Hem"el Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead— Smith, and Whittlngstall I lonitor_ Bank, Honiton--Flood and Co. I lertfor ishire, Hitehen Bank, Hitehen—Sharples and Co. I 'eroford, Ross, and Arehentield Bank, and Ross and Asehenfleld Bank, Hereford—Morgan, 45.835 4,733 20,514 31,457 23.440 20,495 Hoskins, aul CO Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—P, A:on 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 ^,021,094 Knighton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and Ca 9,082 Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Kna!esboroug•h—Terry and Co. ..... Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, .... and Kettering Bank, Kettering—Go&n and Sons,. 8,990 Lene End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C. 11-arv:.y and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co 51,57 Ti"nion Bank, Leeds—W.Willians, Brown, and Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Rank,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt , and Co. 1. - I'v:ester Bank, Leicester—Pag,ets and Kirby 26.080 Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co 31.552 LioliFeld Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green 20.475 Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co 81,915 Lampeter Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very —David Jones and Co. Loug hb oroug h Bank, Loughborough-4iddle tons and Cradock • Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St 66.569 19,832 19,463 36,309 3,54 Barba Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. 39,508 Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jar7is and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brooklehurat and Co Nlanningtree Bank,Manninf.Y,tree—Nunn and Co Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney 15,29 Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier 8,717 Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams .. Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co 26,392 Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead 12,887 Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport W. Williams and 50n5..... Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton 22,014 Newark .'•and'filesford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury —Bunny and Slocock 21,893 Newmarket Bank, Newmarket —Eaton, Ham mond, and Son ylor and NorKilic and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Ta y lo r 26,032 13,055 4,390 8.191 13,751 Dyson Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich-:_ll ar y 1iud50n5............................... eYs and Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich —Gur neys ... 47,028 and Birkbeck ........ Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and 2,907 64,091 Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Mudge, and Co New : r _ 'um Bank, Sarum Everett , a nd 13.63.5 Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co 28,592 7 A .,,,3ank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os- Wbstry CrOkiida and Co rft*d anit,'Ortbrd—J. and R. Morrell Oxford Old Banket.)xford—Robinson, Parsons, 44 find C0.......,..,4 39,982 01,3,8ank Tonbri*, Tonbridge and Tonbridge wells Old Tonbridge and Tonbridge -Wells and Sevegoaks Bank, Tonbridge— Beeching and 544, / Oxfordshire Wit;iii,..Eka, Waney—Clinch, and Co ggg 9,763 2'5,772 11,375 9,785 8,090 _ THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING NOVEMBER 9, 1849 Average Amount. Pease a Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 39,505 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and C 0... 11,299 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank. Peter borough—Matqrs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson and White Pereurokeshire Bank, Ilaverfordwest—J. and 11,870 W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank. and Truro Bank, Penzance--Rickets, Enthoven and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Simonas and Co 27,355 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co 30,863 Richmond Bank , Richmond — Maxwell and Co 4,405 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood , Ledgard. and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, 9,489 5,458 and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Strood Bank Roches ter—Day and Nicholson 9,131 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons... 12,427 Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 13,907 Rye Bank, Rye—Pomfret and Co. Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Barking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co Ross (old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allow:1y Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co Scarborough Old Bank, f3carborough—Woodall 22,623 and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank , a nd Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Sh re wsbury—Rocke, Eytons, and Co ..... .................................. 30,229 Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sitting bourne —Vallance and Son. ................................ Southampton Town and County Bank, South- 12,568 ampton —Maddison and Pearce .................. Southwell Bank, Suuthwell—Wylde and Co. ... 14,728 St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie — Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury—Brodie and King Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp i—Atherly and Fall 9,770 4,337 4,415 ton- Y Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore., Stottrbridge Ban's, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co . ... Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Cc 13,900 Stamford and Rutlaud Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. Stourbridge Old Bunk, Stoarbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. 2,096 St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib- 1,823 16,557 son and Stuart Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs, Badcock 23,829 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and rhornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and 7,507 Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke a nd Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S 9,953 Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co. Uxbridge Old Bank, UxbridgO—Hall, Smith, and Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Allnatt & Co. Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Greenway and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox. 5,909 Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co. Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co 12,788 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 C o. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. .. 45,79' Wiveliscorebe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good rieke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester —Farley, Lavender, and Co. 9 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster —Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—CharlesFoster and s,`;'j 10,810 75,832 1,688 Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster — Everett and Co. Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton — Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co Yeovil OH Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten - York Bank. York—Swann, Clough, and Co 41,158 15,759 44,748 12,05 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westinoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford / 48,771 Baster' District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford .... ..... ........... Burton, Uttaxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington . .. Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Covntry 13,904 County of Gloucester Banking Company, e Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 20,496 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 17,946 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington 15,385 East of England. Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester. 135,236 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax 17,546 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 35,760 Hull Banking Company , Hull . 23,130 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha lifax .. Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Coin pany, Halifax Helston Banking Company, llelston 1,714 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford...- 20,275 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough - 23,025 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,173 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster . 51,833 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 51,147 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors .. ..... 10,442 Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,055 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 28,583 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bankirig 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 392,735 North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 44,848 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 67,620 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool - Pares's Leicestershire Bankin g Company, Lei - nester .. .. ....... Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth... 2,357 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 3 4 ;653 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford. 47,518 Stuckey'S Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... 41,540 Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, 9,018 1,665 19,914 29,280 Sheffield •... 20,861 Sheffield and Rotherham Joint• Stock Banking Company, Sheilield Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond .. Storey and Thoruas's Banking Company 52,130 41,355 Shaftesbury Sheffield and Retferd Bank, Sheffield ... Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton 35,037 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 12,635 Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven „ Warwick and Lek.inir_gton Banking Company, Warwick West of Englani! aril South Wales District Bank. Bristol Wilts and Dorset Bank ing C ompany, .... 72,038 Salisbury 74,304 West Riding Union Banking C ompany, Hud dersfield Whitchnrch and Ellesmere Banking c ompany, Whitchurch • ......... ..... Worcester City and County Banking Company, 9,410 3,132 Worcester..... , 5,437 York Union Banking Company, York 54,040 York City and County Banking Company, York 83,234 Yorkshire Banking Company,. Leeds P. DEANS, Registrar ot Bank Returns. lAIO4 Revenue, 09werle& iloUse, `TOT, 3,1149, FRANCE. The Ministry has withdrawn the Bill for the regulation of Public Instruction which was- intro duced by M. de Falions, and which gave the priests power of controlling the education of the peop'e. M. Rodat has presented to the Assembly the fol lowing proposition : " Art. 3 of the decree of the Provisional Govern ment of the 4th of March, 1848, suppressing the stamp duty on periodical publications, is abrogated. The laws abrogated by the said article are again brought into vigour, to be fully executed until the promulgation of the organic law on the press." M. Desmousseaux de Givre has presented a propo sition to the effect that the National Assembly shall not attend any public ceremony or send a deputation to it. The Evenement says : —" We are positively assured that the Minister of Public Works is about to bring fresh propositions before the Assembly on the subject of the Paris and Lyons Railway. These propositions will completely change the Bill presented by M. Lacrosse, and on which the committee on the budget had been called on to deliberate. The proposition is to return to the principle of working the railroad by the State." La Presse mentions that a resolution is about to be moved in the Legislative Assembly to the following effect :—" The National Guards of all towns contain ing 12,000 inhabitants are dissolved and disarmed. The army on active service is reduced from 500,000 to 200,000 men." It adds, that this resolution is to be supported on the faith f the following assertion of M. Ferdinand Barrot in the Legislative Assembly on Monday, to the effect that the National Guard is an eliment of disturbance, and if the National Guards of Lyons were organized it would be necessary to increase the garrison of that city from 10,000 to 25,000 men. A letter from Auxerre of the sth instant states that the Municipal Council of that town having been dissolved by the Prefect, a re-election had taken place, when 24 Republicans were chosen, and not one Legitimatist. The Three per Cents. closed on the Paris Bourse on Wednesday at 55f. 65c.; the Five per Cents. at 80f. 87c. ; Orleans Railway Shares, 725 f. ; Rouen, 525 f.; Havre, 230 E ; Great Northern, 427 f. 500. • Avignon, 215 f.; Vierzon, 297±. 50 c.; Basle, 102 f 1 50c.; Bordeaux, 395 f. ; Paris and Strasburg, 3551.; Tours and Nantes, 281 f. 25c. DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES: We learn from our Hamburgh correspondence of the 3d instant, that the last debates of the Schleswig h olstein Diet have turned upon the question of the quarrels between the Stadtholdership and the Administrative Commission, which was appointed on the strength of the late treaty between Prussia and Denmark. The debate led to no result whatever. In the course of the discussion it was stated by the friends of the Stadt holders that:no steps had as yet been taken toward the final conclusion of a peace, nor was it known whether a-peace was likely to be made on the basis of the preliminary convention of the 10th of July last, but that the Duchies were prepared to renew the war, if compelled by dire necessity. The financial budget for 1850 showed an income of fourteen millions and an expenditure of eleven millions, thus leaving a clear balance of three millions in favour of the Duchies. THE HOP DUTY. An account of the Duty on Hops, of the growth of the year 1849, for the undermentioned districts, distinguihing the old from the new duty Districts. Barnstaple Canterbury Cornwall Derby ..• Essex Duty. £lO 13 91 .. 87,197 10 3-1 ... 2 11 10 10 1 2i ... 35 10 3 ... 5 0 1 ... 4 6 Gloucester Grantham Hants ... ... Hereford ... ... Isle of Wight ... Lincoln ... ... Rochester ... Salisbury ... Stourbridge ... Suffolk ... ••• ... 6,622 3 6i ... 11,344 13 11 .. 2,510 1 9 ... 253 13 21 .. 59,447 18 7i 0 9 1 ... 653 7 7i ... 351 8 Oi ... 35,250 9 6 ... 1 3 3i ... 2,002 11 414 Sussex Wales (middle) ... Worcester .. £145,703 14 7} Old duty at 1 12-20 d. per lb. ... 79,791 7 11 8-20 New duty at 4 8-20 d. per 1b.... 58,976 4 4i 12-20 Additional duty of 5 per cent. per Act 3 Vic., c. 17 ... 6,936 3 1* £U5,703 14 CHARLES S. HAWTHORNE, Assist to Acct.-Gen. Inland Revenue-office, Broad. street, Nov. 8. MR. PIPS HIS DIARY. MONDAY, OCT. 27, 1849.—T0 the Zoological ' Gardens, in the Regent's-park, at 3 P.M., in time to see the Otter fed with live Fishes, which he do chase round his Basin in the Water, and dive after mighty clever. 'I hen to the Wild Beats, waiting for their Food in a terrible Rage, as I have seen others than Wild Beasts at the Delay of Dinner. Some of the Dens with Trees lengthwise in them for the Beasts to climb in ; and there Lions, old and young, Lionesses, He and She Tigers, a Jaguar, an Ounce, a Cheetah, a Spotted and Black Leopard ; and on the other side Hy tunas, and Pumas, and more Leopards, and Bears. Their Yelling and Howling for Hunger a most horrid Musique, and terrible to see the Tigers rear on their hind Legs, and dash at their Bars, and grin and glare at the Children outside. The Ramping and Roaring doubled when the Keeper come with the meat, and, Lack I how they did fly at it with Teeth end Claws, and howl and snort over it, and munch and crunch the Bones ! But one Hywna droll, the Keeper passing him by, and he, thinking he was lo go without his Meal, throwing himself on his Back, and moaning, and almost blubbering in Despair. Pretty, to see the Bears in their Enclosure climb up their Post for Buns; which the Visitors did hold to them on the End of a long Stick, and those below fighting for the Morsels that fell ; and their Clumsiness, and awkward Standing on their hind Legs, excee ling comical. The White Bear, also, swimming in his Tank, pleasant, being on the outside of his Cage. Did note a fine old Wolf and Cubs, but snarling and snapping over their Victuals, they seemed not a Haopy Family. Saw the manner of Preyirg of the Eagles and Vultures, treading on their Meat, and tearing it up with their Beaks ; the Eagles brave, but the Vultures base and ignoble. Yet fine the Sight of the Great Condor Vulture, when the Wind blew, stretching forth his huge Wings upon it; and glad, no doubt, would have been to sail away. The Parrots gay; but do so shriek and squall, that their Abode do seem the Mad house of the Place. Much takes with the Seal swimming in the Water, and waddling on his Stomach, with his Tail and Flappers, like a Fellow with his Legs tied for a Wager. Diverted by the Gambols and Antics of the Monkeys and Apes; yet almost sick to see such vile Likenesses of ourselves : and the Apes especially loathsome and ugly ; and to see the Crowd of Women and Ladies gazing at them ! With great Pleasure, , yet Horror, did view the Snakes and Lizards in the Reptile House, and glad they could not get at me ; but hoped to see the Boa Constrictor swallow a live Rabbit : but did not. Bought Gingerbread Nuts to feed the Elephant, eost me 2d., and he did please me but I wished he had been bigger; but the Rhinoceros - did give me great delight, and with Mirth heard a Countryman standing by call him the Hog in Armour. Well contented also with the Bison, that with his huge shaggy Head and Mane; Horns, and fiery Eyes, do look the most like a Demon I ever did G f see. t a e r r d t e hn Bt T ois o the Camel-Leopards, graceful creatures'; a s w on at a c n h d th t e he P R eo h p i l n e oc a e n r d os t . he T c h h e i n ld a r b e ' n st outt a h r e e p a r t, e t a t n y d D f e a e in d , s e s i n s, d p h poke g t a h z e i n A g n s i m o al i n s . ten D t idatmthaerkßseoainstes that I could hardly well gaze at them. So home, and described to my Wife what I had seen, except the Damsels, and did discourse with her of Natural History ; which the Zoological Gardens do breed a pretty Taste for among the People. -Punch. ALARMING F O I E E IRE AD AT BIRKEN LIVERPOOL, WEDNESDAY.—One of the most serious fires that has for some time taken place in this neigh bourhood happened this morning at Birkenhead, upon the premises of Messrs. Henry Foster and Co., in Cleveland•street, by ,which we regret to say that a large amount of property has been de stroyed, and a considerable number of hands thrown out of employm*'nt. About a quarter-past twelve o'clock this morning, as a party of gentle men were approaching the extensive premises of Messrs. roster, they perceived a dense volume of smoke issuing from the lower part of the building, and in a few minutes afterwards the whole of the lower part of the premises became suddenly enveloped in flames, which raged with the most violent fury, threatening serious consequences to the surrounding property. The wind was blowing exceeding strong at the time, which served to facilitate the rapid progress of the flames. As soon as the fire was perceived information was immediately conveyed to the authorities at the police•station, but the fire being nearly a mile from the station, it was not less than half an hour after the alarm was first given that the engines were able to be brought to play upon it. At this time the fire had got a firm hold, having communicated to every part of the build ing, and the flames illuminating the district round about. A. plentiful supply of water was at once found, but it soon appeared evident that, the fire had already attained too great a height to prevent the entire destruction of the building and its contents. The high wind, for it was blowing a severe gale at the time, i added to the combustible nature of the materials on I, the premises, combined to accelerate the entire de struction of the whole of the property in an in credibly short space of time. The whole of the en gines played upon the building with all possible force, but without having the slightest effect in subduing the fiery element. The different floors of the building fell in in quick succession, and in less than an hour from the time when the fire was first discovered the place was completely gutted, and the property is now nothing more than a smouldering ruin. N o person was on the premises at the time when the fire broke out, and as all was apparently safe when the place was left for the night, the origin of the fire is altogether a mystery. The fire was distinctly seen raging from the Pier-head on the Liverpool side of the water, and from the very high wind which was blowing at the time it ap peari,d as if the property in the immediate vicinity of the fire WAS in the most imminent danger. Souse narrow escapes took place amongst those present on the occasion, and in one instance a young man was knocked down by a huge piece of burning timber which had been carried away by the wind, striking him against the body. He was insensible for some minutes. The buildings and machinery are insured, we understand, in the Royal Exchange office for 5,0001., and the materials i❑ the soapery for about 2,000/. FREEHOLD LAND sOuIETIES AND THE COUNTY FRANCHISE. The general disinclination evinced by the House of Commons to enlarge itself by the creation of new constituencies, or to alter its old-fashioned character by means of an extension of the franchise to indi vidual voters, is at present so unquestionably strong, that if a change is to be effected at all in the repre sentative system, it can only be done by an energetic popular battle out of doors—a sharp struggle in the Courts of the Revising Barristers. The present season, therefore, is one of great interest to all persons having an eye either to a county or borough vets. Var►ous are the modes by which the defec tive machinery of our political representation in the lower House of Parliament is sought to be repaired ; and not the least promiment engines are the recently established institutions known as Freehold Land Societies. Several , claims arising through property acquired by their instru mentality (and especially in Middlesex) have been made during the last few days, most of which have resulted in rejection. We refer to the case of William Norris, before the revising barrister for the Enfield division of the county, whose claim was struck out, and properly so, we must admit, on statutable grounds—namely, the absence of proof of beneficial interest in the property made the subject of the claim. in so speaking, it must be understood, we take a legal view, however desirous we may be to promote and witness an extension of the franchise amongst the ?eople. We may add it is impossible, under the pre sent law, that the members of Freehold Land Societies (constituted as they are at present) can obtain the county franchise immediately on their receiving their allotments of lands. Such a property, indeed, must first be proved to be of the sufficient value of 403. yearly, and then return to the mortgagor that annual sum clear of all charges thereon. Of the legal question, indeed, there can be no possible doubt; that the value required must be one clear of all charges ; and that a property mortgaged to a Freehold Land Society, where the repayment of the incumbrance is a present, and not a future, charge, and so, absorbing the rent or profits of the estate, cannot give an immediate, though it may an ultimate, valid claim to the county franchise. The language of the Learned Judge, pronouncing the affirmation of the Barrister's decision, is too clear to be misunderstood or misapplied. "If a man re ceive 20s. v, ith one hand, and had to pay 30s. with the other, what interest in the 20s. had he left ? Under the statute 28 Geo. 3, c. 36, a man was bound to make oath that he had a 40s. freehold free of all charges. How could the voter make this declaration ? and, if not, how could the Revising Barrister say he was en • titled to be registered ?" The promoters of Freehold Land Societies should, or ought to know, that their rules, as they now stand, are inadequate to afford the object they pro mise to afford immediately to their members. These societies, however, may be so constituted as to attain that end ; and, although we are compelled to give our honest and truthful opinion of their existing defi ciencies (so far as touching an instant enjoyment of the franchise to an allottee of land), they will, of course, if their subscribers continue their connexion with them for the requisite period, obtain their desire. " Perseverance and patience" must be the motto of the poor but industrious man who seeks to purchase the elective privilege by his hard-earned pence and shillings. We can only repeat the suggestion offered in our September number, that the directors and officers of freehold land and building societies should, before the meeting of Parliament, assemble and determine as to the adoption of some decided course in the pre sent extremity; for unless freehold land societies en dow the members with the franchise—that being the leading object—they may as well be classed among the things that have been. CONFERENCE.—A conference of the managers of Freehold Land and Building Societies will be held at Birmingham on the 13th, to consider what steps should be adopted to endow the members of these societies with the franchise, the recent decision of the Common Pleas, that they could • not vote unless they possessed a clear annual interest of 405., in effect altogether disfranchising the members until their mortgages are cleared off by their subscriptions, which cannot take place for years. A full report will appear in our next.—The Reporter. NEW ORDERS IN CHANCERY The following orders relating to the practice on the common law side of the Court of Chancery. dated the 29th of December, 1848, have been amended since the last statute, by order of the Lord Chancellor and the Master of the Rolls, dated the 3 , 1 of August, 1849 ; and by which order the 11th and 12th of the general orders of the 29th of December, 1848, are abrogated and discharged. The amended orders are as follows:-- 1. All former rules and orders regulating the practice and proceedings of the Petty Thig-oa;e, so far as the same are now in force, and are consistent with the said Act of Parliament and with those orders, are to remain in full force and effect. 2. These orders as to all suits, matters, and pro ceedings pending, -or hereafter to be commenced, are (so far as the same is applicable to the state of such matters and proceedings) to take effect on the Ist day of January, 1849. 3. In the office of the Petty Bag, the office is to be ' open and closed on the same days ; the vacations are to be observed at the same time, and the clerk is to attend in the office during the same hours as are for the satne purposes, and in relation to the same matters appointed by the general rules of the Court of Chan cery in the office of the Clerks of Records and Writs, aubjEct, nevertheless, to such alterations as for some special reasons maybe at any time made by the Lord Chancellor, with the advice and assistance of the Mas ter of the Rolls. 4. The Clerk of the Petty Bag is to have the care and custody of the common law seal, and is to use and employ the same for sealing such several rits and all such documents and writings as are by the said Act authorised to be sealed with the same seal. 5. Affidavits, affirmations, and declarations to be used in any proceeding on the common law side of the court are to be sworn, affirmed, or declared be fore the Clerk of the Petty Bag, or before a Master Extraordinary of the High Court of Chancery, and are to be filed in the office of the Petty Bag. 6. Every writ, rule, or document issued or de livered out of the Petty Bag-office is to be tested or dated on the day on which the writ is sealed or the rule or document is made. 7. Every writ returned by the sheriff is to be im mediately filed, and thereupon the day and hour of the filing are to be e ndorsed on the writ. 8. The Clerk of the Petty Bag, upon receiving the re turn of the transcript of the verdict of the jury and proceedings or judgment of any court of common law upon any issue in law or in fact, is to file the same in the Petty BAg-office, and is to cause an entry to be made of such v erdict and proceedings or judgment. and such transcript is to be annexed to the or i g i na l record in the Petty nag-office, and thereupon the judgment of the court of common law is to be en tered on or annexed to the same record, in conformity with the judgment of the court from which the tran script is returned. 9. Every solicitor whose name is duly enrolled as such in the high Court of Chancery may act as an attorney in any action, suit, or proceeding pending on the common law side of the same court, and is to be therein named and treated as the attorney of the party by whom he is retained. 10. Any party changing or ceasing to employ his attorney in the course of an action, suit, or proceed ing is to cause an entry of such change or cessa , tion of employment to be made and entered with the clerk of the Petty n a g, and to cause notice of such change or cessation of employment, and of such entry, to be served on every party to the action, suit, or proceeding; and until such entry and notice shall have been made and served the former attorney is to be deemed and taken for all purposes of the action, suit, or proceeding, to be and remain the attorney of the party. 13. The proceedings and trial in an action of scire facias may take pLce and be had in such one of her Aljesty's superior courts of common law as may be chosen by the party applying to have the writ sealed. . 14. A writ of scire facias to revoke letters patent is not to be sealed-1, until the fiat of the Attorney General is filed in the Petty Bag-office; 2, until the name of some one of her Majesty's superior courts of common law is endorsed or written thereon ; 3, until a true copy of the writ and of any drawing or plans annexed thereto (to be verified by affidavit) has been filed in the Petty Bag-office. 15. If such writ has been sealed before the Ist of January, 1849, and the record of the action has not been carried or transmitted into the Court of Queen's Bench, the name of some one of her Majesty's superior courts 'of common law is to be endorsed on the writ, and a memorandum thereof entered with the clerk of the Petty Bag office before any subse quent proceeding is taken in the action. 16. The trial and any proceedings in an action of scire facias are to take place in the court of com mon law, the name of which is endorsed or written • on the writ. 17. A bond of indemnity against costs to be in curred in the prosecution of an action of scire facias may (if so desired by the Attorney-General) be taken in the name of the clerk of the Petty Bag, but the same is not to be deposited or filed in the office of the Petty Bag unless the intended obligers, and the sums for which they are to give security, be named by the Attorney-General. 18. A bond of indemnity filed or deposited in the Petty Bag office may, at the request of the Attorney- General, be put in suit under such circumstances and upon such terms and conditions as the Lord Chancellor or the Master of the Rolls may approve of. 19. An appeal is to be entered by or on behalf of any defendant who has been summoned by the sheriff within eight days after the writ of scire facias has been returned and filed. The clerk of the Petty Bag office is, until further orders, to receive and take the several fees which are set forth in the schedule hereunder written, and is to account for the same, and pay the amount thereof into the Suitors' Fee Fund, in the same manner, and at the same times as the clerks of records and writs receive and pay the fees received by them in their office. (Here follows the schedule of fees above referred to.) LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 8. HUBERT v. MORRIS.—JUDGMENT. This appeal from the Vice• Chancellor of England was argued before his Lordship about a year ago, and stood over for judgment. The object of the appeal was to deprive the defendant of anything but pauper costs. It appeared that the plaintiff filed a bill against the defendant, who appeared to it, and obtained an order to defend in forma pauperis. Subsequently the plaintiff abandoned his suit, and obtained an order for the dismissal of the defendant, which the Master certified should be upon payment to him of paupers' eosts. The defendant, conceiving that he was entitled to "Dives" costs, as he had succeeded in the suit, applied to the Vice-Chancellor to send the matter back again to the Master to review his certificates upon the basis of full costs. His Honour took this view of the matter and ordered accordingly, and the present ap peal sought to discharge that order. The LORD CHANCELLOR this morning gave judg ment, and observed that in the report of the case by Mr. Simmons it was stated that he had acquiesced in the decision of the Master, which was a mistake. His Lordship then alluded to the facts of the case, and referred to the authorities, which he said were not easily to be reconciled. The course, howeVer, which appeared to him consistent with principle and reason, and also'With justice, was, that no party should be permitted to profit by the poverty of his opponent. In the present case the person who had instituted the suit had shown his inability to maintain it, and he should not, therefore, be doing justice if he did not award Dives, or full costs, to the defendant, who had virtually succeeded in the suit. LEWIS V SMITH. The LORD CHANCELLOR then delivered a judgment in this case, which was argued before him on the 10th of November, 1848. His Lordship affirmed the decision of the Court below on three of the points raised, and decreed that the defendant should pay the costs of the appeal. ROLLS' COURT, Nov. 8. DUGDALE V. DUGDALE. Lord LANGDALE delivered judgment in this case. The testator, on the 17th of December, 1839, made his will, by which he devised to the plaintiff, William Stafford Dugdale, 2,0001, to be divided amongst his next of kin, paternal and maternal. The parties were unable to discover who were the next of kin, and prayed for a reference to the Master to ascertain them. The amount of the fund was now, with inte rest, 2,563/. 3s. 4d. The Master found that Charles Bald win was the only next of kin on the maternal side. The present petition was for the costs of establishing the respective claims of the parties to the fund, and the question was, whether the next of kin were en titled to any costs for making out their title. The fund could not have been distributed without its being ascertained who were the next of kin. He (Lord Langdale) thought that the estate was liable to the costs of the inquiry, and the money for that purpose must be raised. VICE CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 8. (Before Sir L. SHADWELL•) SAWYER V MILLS. In this case a gentleman named Mills devised certain real property at Egham, in Surrey, to three trustees (his son , ) upon trust to sell and invest the proceeds in stock, arid accumulate the dividends until the youngest chill of his deceased daughter attained 21, and then to divide the whole among the children, not exceeding 2 3001., and should it exceed that sum, the surplus to such as his sons as should be then living. The estate was not sold, and the suit was instituted, the bill stating that the trustees were accountable for the rents, and ;Jetting forth an equitable mortgage of the plaintiff's share, and on other property to his aunt, Mercy Sawyer (now dead), for 2,7001., and another for 1001. to one Cutler, on which Mercy Sawyer's executors made a claim. The bill stated that the plaintiff had a claim against Mercy SAwyer exceeding her mortgage in amount, which was, therefere, only the consideration of the mortgage, as would appear on accounts taken, and if it did so appear, that it should be delivered up. The bill was filed against the trustees and the other parties interested, charging breach of trust in not having sold, for a sale, and to take the accounts of the mortgages as well as the estate. The youngest child of the testator's daughter had attained 21, and the trustees were ready to divide the 2,300/. under the will; but, as the plaintiff's share was mortgaged, and that mortgage questioned, a motion was now made on behalf of all the defendants (except Cutler) to dismiss the bill against all the de fendants except Mercy Sawyer's representatives, such defendants offering to pay the costs up to and includ ing this application, and to pay the plaintiff's share into court. ➢ir. Craig appeared in support of the motion ; Mr. Stuart and Mr. Toulmin, contra; Mr. Bethell ap peared for other parties. The VicE-CHANCELLOR said that it was the simplest thing possible; there was a dispute, and, if the plaintiff were to pay the defendants what they asked, there would be no question ; but that was not the case. lle did not understand that there was any intention of paying Cutler, and therefore it was a mere experiment. The motion must be refused with costs. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 8. BELL, PUBLIC OFFICER, V. WELCH. This action, which was brought by the plaintiff, a public officer of the National Provincial Bank of England, against the defendant, upon a guarantee bond, was tried at the last sittings in London, before the Lord Chief Justice, when a verdict was found for the plaintiff for 1,0001. Mr. Sergeant CuANNELL moved, with the leave of the Learned Judge, for a rule to show cause why a nonsuit should not be entered, or why the damages should not be reduced by 1791. 10s., or why judg ment should not be arrested. It appeared that a Mr. Pinney, jun., got an advance of 1,0001. from the branch bank at Blandford, where he kept an account, upon giving a guarantee for the repayment of it, signed by the defendant and another person. The ver dict was not denied, and one of the grounds urged on behalf of the present application had reference to the indistinct nature of the guarantee. Upon the point of reducing the damages, it was contended by the Learned Counsel that they should be reduced by 1791., the amount paid into the bank by Pinney subsequently to the sum secured by the guarantee becoming due. The COURT granted a rule. MASTER V. BARRETTI. This action was tried before the Lord Chief Justice, in Middlesex, when a verdict was returned for 701. Mr. Sergeant BYLES moved, with the leave of the Learned Judge, for a rule to enter a verdict for the defendant. This was an action in as sumpsit upon a promissory note for 651, drawn by the defendant, and made payable to his own order. The note was as follows:—" Three months after date I promise to pay to my own order the sum of 651.—J. A. Barretti." Under the writing, in the body of the note, was written " payable at Messrs. Walter and Pebber's," and on the back of it the endorsement "J. A. BArretti." The note was paid away in a gambling transaction. The main points relied upon in making the motion were that the declaration was wrong in describing the note as payable generally, when it was only payable at Messrs. Walter and Pebber's, and that as the note was paid on a gambling account the transaction was illegal. The COURT, however, refused to grant the rule. SMITH V. HAMILTON. Mr. Sergeant BYLES also applied in this case, which was tried before the Lord Chief Baron in London, and in which a verdict was found for the defendant, for a rule to show cause why there should not be a new trial. The motion was made on 5,470 29,323 26,104 16.862 14,030 18.62 6,096 8,237 3,845 185 4,389 8,97 7,023 8,308 17,022 7,240 22,493 7,223 affidavits, and on the ground of surprise. The action was brought to recover 1,5501. under a policy of in surance in the Sun Fire-office, the house of the plaintiff having been destroyed by fire. A person named Kapatiek had been employed by the plain tiff to make out the claim, which he set down at 1,500/., but when called upon to give evidence at the trial he turned upon the plaintiff and said that the goods destroyed were not worth more than 9001., and that he had been induced by plaintiff to make out the fraudulent claim of 1,5001. Having been thus taken by surprise, they were unable to call witnesses in order to contradict his statements. The result of the verdict would be entire destruction to the plaintiff; he was a young man just entering upon business, and if he lost the sum of money he claimed, he would not only lose all, but his cha racter also. The COURT granted a rule. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS, Nov. 8. (Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge, and a Bench of Magistrates.) John Johnson, a young man of respectable appear ance, was indicted for stealing the lock of a door, of the value of 103., the property of Ilenry French ; and in a second count the prisoner was charged with having entered a certain house with intent to steal. Mr. HORRY appeared on behalf of the prisoner. It appeared that the prisoner had been found in the louse, No. 1, King's-square, Goswell-road, which at ,he time was untenanted, at two o'clock in the morn- ing of the 234 of the last month. At the moment he was discovered the prisoner was in the front par lour, and from the door of that room he had taken off the lock. Upon his being searched a key was found in his pocket which fitted the street door of the house; and. he also had a screw-driver in his pocket. Prior to this a kitchen copper, as well as a quantity of lead, had been stolen from i the house. Mr. IoRRY said that the line of defence he had to take was, that on the day preceding the morning on which the prisoner had been found in this house he had been drinking to an unusual excess, and had quitted his house, No. 117, Britannia-street, City road, at half-past twelve o'clock at night, for the purpose of obtaining more liquor. He soon found, however, that all the public-houses in his own neigh bourhood were closed, and he went strolling on until he arrived at Goswell-street, where he expected to find some house open. Whilst looking about he observed several men leave the house in which he had ultimately been found, and fancying at the moment that it was a house wherein his sister lived, he entered it, but had not been there many minutes before a policeman made his appearance and took him into custody. On the part of the prisoner he was instructed to say that he was a most respectable young man, and for five years had the management of the Mogul Tavern, in Drury-lane, and had also been in business on his own account as the landlord of the King's Head, in Gravel-lane, Southwark. He accounted for the pr Boner having had the key which had been found upon him in his possession in the following manner :—The prisoner took some pre mises at No, 41, Munster-street, Regent's-park, of a Mr. Frew, a baker in Marylebune-street, upon which he had laid out 1801. in fitting them up as a beer shop, but the publicans in the neighbourhood bad me morialised the Earl of Carlisle as First Commissioner of the Woods and Forests, as the property was Crown property, and the result had been that the Noble Earl had refused to permit a beer- shop to be opened in that locality. Upon this the prisoner com menced an action against the landlord to recover back the money he had laid out upon the premises, and had retained the key, under the impression that so long as it was in his custody he was in the legal possession of the house. The prisoner had a wife and child, the former being the daughter of a barrister, whilst her brother had married the prisoner's sister. The truth was that in this matter the prisoner, when in a state of intoxication, had gone into the house in question. The landlord of the prisoner now gave him a most excellent character, and went on to state that on this particular night he had been " extremely tipsy," and had gone out for the purpose of purchasing some spirits. The house in which the prisoner had been found was about three-quarters of a mile from Bri tannia street. The Learned JUDGE, in leaving the case to the jury, said it was somewhat strange—and that was the awkward fact in the case—that no satisfactory expla nation had been given in respect of the possession of the key. It was, moreover, not a little singular that a man should in the dead of the night, and in a state of intoxication too, stroll by accident into a house where he was found taking the locks off the doors, and that in his pocket should be a key which would open the street-door of that particular house. In his opinion it was preposterous to imagine that a drunken man would wander three-quarters of a mile from his own home at such a time of night for the purpose of get ting something more to drink. The jury had heard the evidence, however, and if they thought that the prisoner had removed the lock with the intention of , carrying it away, they would find him guilty. Die jury gave a verdict of Guilty. The Learned JUDGE then said there could be no doubt but that the prisoner, however respectable he might have been, had fallen into reduced circum stances, and had also, he feared, become an associate of those who were not the most honest persons in the world. The prisoner denied the latter inference. The Learned JUDGE said he would either postpone passing sentence, in order that further inquiries might be made about the prisoner and his circumstances, or he would at once pass the sentence of four months' imprisonment, with hard labour, upon him. He would do just that which the prisoner wished. The prisoner, after considering a minute, said, " I may as well have it now."—(Laughter.) The Learned JUDGE thereupon sentenced him to four months' imprisonment, with hard labour. John Fitzgibbon, alias Maloney, a deserter from the 10th Hussars, was indicted under the following cir cumstances : The prosecutor, who spoke with the utmost diffi culty, in consequence of the frightful effect of the injury he had received, stated that upon the 31 inst. he was at the Orange public-house at Colney-hatch with several friends in the same room with the prisoner, who was a stranger to them, when in the course of conversation he assumed a very dictatorial manner towards them, and in the end demanded silence that an Irishman should sing. The prose cutor at once said that he would endeavour to obtain silence, when the prisoner accused him with interfer ing with what did not concern him, and on the in stant pulled off his coat and .began an attack upon him. The prosecutor resisted this violence as well as he could, but in the struggle he was thrown, and the prisoner fell upon him, uttering at the moment a loud yell, but quickly rose again with his face much smeared with blood, and calling the attention of the company to what he was about to do, then spat out of his mouth something, saying, "D. your eyes, look there." The prosecutor was then assisted to rise, when it was found that the whole of his under lip had been bitten off. It was this lip which the prisoner had spat out of his mouth. The company were so much disgusted with the act, that they on the instant took him into custody, and eventually handed him over to a policeman. The lip, which had been preserved in spirits, was now produced. The prisoner, in his defence, said that he was drunk at the time, and did not know what he was doing, but that as it had been sworn that he had done this act, he supposed it was true. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty. The Learned JUDGE said that he had never heard of a more savage, or ruffianly, or cowardly act. It was even worse than the gouging system which had been practised in America. A sergeant of the 10th Hussars here stepped for ward, and said that the prisoner was a deserter from that regiment, and that when he was released from the imprisonment which he 'night have to suffer under the present conviction, he would have to undergo a court-martial trial for his desertion. The Learned JUDGE then sentenced the prisoner to imprisonment and hard labour for six months, adding that he was not at all sorry to hear th a t a man who was such a disgrace to humanity would eventually be further punished by the military au thorities. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-S7'REAT. An elderly woman, named Rochester, alias Ann Gately, was charged with obtaining 2s. 6d. from the Rev. Henry Hutton, Rector of St. Paul's, Covent garden, by false and fraudulent pretences. Another woman, named Robson, was charged as an accom- plice. The system by which the imposition was effected is very generally practised by the mendicants of the metropolis. A short woman, answering the descrip tion of the second prisoner, called at a lodging house in Hart-street, Covent-garden, about a week ago, and inquired for a person by some name invented for the occasion. She was informed that no such person lived there. She then questioned the landlady as to the lodgers in the second floor back, pretending that she was in search of a poor family, and fancied that they resided there. The landlady immediately gave her every particular as to her second-floor lodger, who was a widower named Lorrnan, having been only recently left with a family of small children, the eldest of whom was a girl of fourteen. Upon get ting this information the woman disappeared, and communicated the details to Ann Gately, who usually dressed as a widow, and on Tuesday, the 6th inst. , waited upon the Rev. H. Hutton , at his residence in Hen riett a-street, to ask for some relief in the name of Lor man. She stated that he was her son-in-law, and had been lately deprived of his wife ; that he had six young children, and that the eldest daughter had been suffering from an attack of the cholera; that it was necessary to remove her from the Middlesex Hospital to the Convalescent Hospital, for which purpose they required the sum of 45., but had no means of getting it. The Rev. Gentleman referred to his book con taining a list of the deserving poor in the parish, and, finding that the prisoner's account of Lorman's family and the recent death of his wife was correct, he gave the prisoner 2s. 6d. from the relief-fund at his dis posal, and promised her more on further inquiry. Lorman stated that he never saw the prisoners before. Gately was not related to him, and his chil dren were all in good health, and had never been in either of the hospitals. Reid, the parish beadle of Covent-garden, proved that he had seen Gately join the other woman, after leaving the Rev. Mr. Hutton's residence, and when they were given into custody he saw Gately throw away a piece of paper, which he picked up, and found to be a sham certificate of the death of Lorman's daughter, from cholera, in the Middlesex Hospital. Mace, the chef usher, informed the Court that Gately had been several times convicted of similar offences, and suggested that one of the officers of the Mendicity Society should be sent for, but The prisoner Gately expressed her anxiety to save his Worship the trouble of sending to the Mendicity Society, and at once admitted that she was an old offender, upon which Mr. HALL committed her for three months' im prisonment. In the absence of sufficient legal evidence to iden tify Robson with the transactions of the other priso ner, she was acquitted._ CLERKENWELL. Charles Corbey, the young man wbo stands charged with having attempted to murder Mary Ann Noble by cutting her throat with a razor, was again placed at the bar on remand for further examination, when the court was crowded, and considerable interest was evinced. _ The prisoner appeared melancholy and perturbed in his mind. He stood at the bar, stared wildly about him, and said nothing. Sergeant White, 9 G division, produced a certifi cate from the surgeon who attended the injured young woman, which pronounced her not to be in immediate danger; but she was quite unable to attend to give her evidence against the prisoner. He was again remanded for further examination, and was conveyed to the House of Detention in the police van. John Boardman, an elderly man, a master shoe maker, residing at No. 15, Trinity-street, Islington, was placed at the bar charged with having violated Mary Ann Southey, a girl eleven years of age. Ile was fully committed for trial. THE CONDEMNED PRISONERS IN HORSEMONGEWLANE GAOL. It being suspected by the authorities of Horse monger-lane gaol that Maria Manning might do some violence to herself on hearing her fate on Wednesday evening, it was thought advisable to have an extra woman in attendance upon her. Accord ingly Mrs. Randall, the woman searcher of the South wark police•station, was sent for that night to assist the two other women in watching her. Mrs. Randall attended upon her during the several lengthy exa minations at the police-court, and Mrs. Manning seemed very much attached to her. As soon as she was introduced to her in the cell, she seemed much pleased, and conversed freely with her on several sub jects. The unfortunate woman:still asserts that she,is innocent, and will not be executed, and that some,in fluential ladies will intercede for her in high quarters. Yesterday she wrote two letters, and believes that the contents will have the effect of saving her life. On being told that he legal advisers had done all they could for her, she stamped her foot on the floor, and exclaimed in a violent manner—" Done all they could Why, they have done nothing; they and everybody else in the court decided upon hanging me before I was tried." In alluding to her husband a few minutes after. wards she said, " Ah, he is a vagabond. I never said anything about him. He knows who murdered poor O'Connor, and can tell all." She refuses all religious consolation, and pays little attention to the Rev. Mr. Rowe, the chaplain. She has been visited by a charitable lady, who attempted to instil into her mind the awful position in which she stood, and implored upon her to offer up her prayers to her Maker ; but she listened with a deaf ear, and as soon as the lady had left the cell she entered into conversation with her attendants as unconcernedly as if she was free from crime. She eats heartily and sleeps well, but if any of her attendants would converse with her all night she would sit up and join them. During some allu sion to her attorney (Mr. Solomon) and the counsel who defended her she became much excited, and, clinching her fists, exclaimed, " Oh, if I only had them here I'd serve them out. They might have acquitted me if they had done their duty." She, however, seems very confident that she will be set at liberty, and has no idea that the sentence of the law will be carried into effect. Her unfortunate husband is quite dejected. He is completely emaciated, and unable to eat anything. Yesterday morning he desired to have an interview with his attorney, Mr. Binns, as he had some important communication to make to him. He particularly requested that a special order should be obtained for him, and at his desire one was got and forwarded to Mr. Binns, who will attend at the gaol this morning. RAILWAY SHAKE MARKETS. BRISTOL, Nov. 8. STOCK Excneeran.—The transactions to-day were as fol low :—Great Western, Quarters, 11% dis.—Ditto, 17/. Shares, dis. —Midland Stock, 48. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 8. STOCK EXCHANGE. — The share market was dull to-day at the quotations. The transactions were as follow : Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire (late C. and B.), 6 per cent. till 1851), 13—Caledonian , Preference , 8 /. Is. 3d.-- Edinburgh and Glasgow, 30—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Consol. Fifths, 61. Ils. 3. dis. Ditto, 321. Shares, 10% dis. —London and North-Western, 114—Ditto, New Quarters, 1 ls. 3d. p.— Midland, Halves, 21 1 , 2 dis.—Shrewsbury and Chester (N. W. M.), Preference, guaranteed 8 per cent., 141. 18s. 9d. York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Pur chase), 6 per cent. till 185( , , 5 dis. MANCHESTER, Nov. 8. STOCK Excn.exoE.—The transactions to-day were as follow :—Manchester and Birmingham (C ), Quarters, 1% p. North Staffordshire, 9 1 4 Manchester and Leeds, Fifths, 6 1 4 dis. Caledonian, 12 tA—Esat Lancashire, 13,4 c.—Ditto, Quarters, 314—Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 6 5-16. Edinburgh and Glasgow, 30%—Sheffield, Preference,lo 1-16 —Eastern Counties, 7. BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 8. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The only transaction to-day was-- Shrevvsbury and Birmingham, Preference, Scrip, 21. Is. 3d. p. YORK, Nov. 7. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow:—York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 17 1 % Great North ern, 7 1 / B —North British, Halves, 4 3 / 4 York and North Midland,'l9. GLASGOW, Nov. 7. STOCK ExcumaGE.—The transactions to-day were all follow :—Glasgow and Greenock, Preference, 7—:?..:cottish Central, 1614. STRANGE DISCOVERY.—Three days ago, as some men were digging out some foundations in tee riie de Vincennes, at Belleville, they discovered a human body in a perfect state of preservation. The teeth were all perfect, as well as the h a i r O R th e h ea d, an d th e d r ess, which was an uniform, sufficiently preserved to show that the body was that of an Austrian officer. The commissary of police went to the spot, and, from inquiry from some old men residing near the spot, he ascertained that in 1814, some days atter the surrender of Paris, IL young officer of the allied troops, when passing by that spot, was attacked by some Frenchmen, who killed hint by a blow of a hammer on the head, and buried him on the spot where he fell. It was found on examination that the skull had been broken in, as if by some flat weapon. The age of the person appeared to be about 23 or 24 years. The most surprising part of the affair is that after a period of 35 years the body should have remained in such a state of pre servation . It was re interred in the cemetery of Belleville. WEYMOUTH AND ROYALTY.—We have received information from an influential quarter that it is the inten tion of her Majesty to purchase forthwith the Gloucester Lodge,: formerly the favourite residence of her royal grandfather, with a view of spending a portion of each summer t t this delightful watering place. —Poole Herald. lADVERTISEHENT.]—THE EARL OF ALDBOROUGII AND HoLLoway's PILLs.—An astounding cure by this miraculotul medicine, arter every other means had failed. See extract from Mg Lordship's letter, dated " Villa Messina, Leghorn, Feb. 21, 1840. Professor Holloway—Sir : I beg to acquaint you that your pills have ef fected a cure of a disorder in my liver and stomach which all the most eminent of the faculty, at home and all over the continent, had not been able to effect; nay, not ever the waters of Carlsbad or Mr rienbad. (Signed) " ALDBOSCMGII." These wondorfhl pills will ! cure any disease of the liv er or stomach.—Sold (also Holloway Obitmont) at Professor Holloway 's Establishment, 244, Stra.nd, and by di medicine vendors throughout the civilised world. 81R7113. At Glocester-place, Portman-square, on the sth inst., the lady of Major H. C. Gosling, Madras Army, of a son. On the 6th inst., at Peckham, Mrs. M. Marshall, jun., of a daughter. On the 6th inst., at Myddelton-square, the wife of the Rev. F. Mac Cartby, of a daughter. On the 6th inst., at Glocester-place, Portman-square, the wire of R. Rodger, Esq., of a son. On the 6th inst., at Filby-house, Norfolk, the wife of the Rev. C. Lucas, of a daughter. On the 6th inst., at Westbolrne-terrace, Hyde park, gar dens, the wife of C. Lyall, Esq., of a son. )4ARRIED. On the Ist inst., at St. James's Church, Hull, Lieutenant - Colonel Wellesley, commanding the 81st Regiment, at that place, to Jane Alalet, eldest daughter of Thomas Hayden; Esq., of Hull. DIED. On the 411 inst , at Hamilton-square, Birkenhead, Che shire, Anna, widow of the late Commander Percy Dove, R. N., aged 85. On the 4th inst., at Bruton-street, Berkeley-square, Frank Sherwin, Esq , aged 59. On the 4th inst., at Clifton, the Rev. Henry H. Arnold. 8.A., aged 61. On the sth inst., at Walmer, aged 46, Francis Hayls Wol laston, son of the late Venerable Archdeacon Wollaston. On the sth inst., at Boxted-hall, Suffolk, George Weller Poley, Eso., aged 67. - London: Printed and Published by MIIRDO YOUNG , No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 1 1 :1 strand, in th , .. Precinct of the Sgvov, in the count,' Middle ox Friday, November 9, 1849.