The Sun. — London, England, 1849-12-24 00:00:00

- 14 --A QUEEN'S BENCH.--)THIS DAY.) (Sittings at Guildhall, before Mr. Justice DILE and a Special Jury) ALLEN V. DREW. This was an action to recover compensation in dam ages from the defendant, for the injury which the plaintiff had sustained in consequence of having been given into custody at the instance of the defendant. The plaintiff is a manufacturing chemist at Bow, and the defendant is a member of the firm of Drew,, Hayward, and Co., wholesale druggists, in Bush lane. The parties had had transactions together for some 'ears to the amount of 4001: or 500/. a year. The business transactions generally took place between their wareheusemen. On the 6th of September the plaintiff received an intimation from Bristol that a cask of tartaric acid would shortly be reqUired. The plaintiff and his foreman communicated upon., the matter with the foreman of the defendant, a man named Ferrers. He was eked by the foreman of the defendant where he could get what he wanted. He replied that he could no: tell - him where he could get it, but that he would order a cask for him if he thought proper. Shortly after the cask was ordered, and 60s. 'was paid for it by the plaintiff, through the lands of the foreman of the defendants, Ferrers. The plaintiff sett the cask to Bristol., In the succeeding March the firm of which the defendant is a member fou'id that their foreman had- been robbing them. They ascertained that the cask in question, instead of coming from the manufacturers, had come out of their own warehouse, and that the foreman had appropriated the money to his own use • believing that the plaintiff knew that Ferrers had stolen the cask, and that he had feloniously received, he was given into custody, and taken before the Lord dayor at the Mansion-house. He was remanded, but was admitted to bail. In a week or ten days he was brought up again, and dis charged. For the plaintiff,it was shown that he was taken ill shortly after, which was attributed to the charge made again it him. Ferrers was charged with the offence at the old Bailey, and convicted, but in con sequence of having given evidence against the plaintiff, only received a nominal punishment. Sir Frederick Thesiger was for the plaintiff, and the Attorney-General for the defendant. The defence set up and relied upon by the Atior ney-General: %as ; that there w..s a reasonable ground of suspicion against the plaintiff, and that the defendants were perfectly justified in acting upon it. The jury, after a hurt consultation, found a ver dict for tae plaintiff— Damages, 1001. }.LEADING, GUILDFORD, AND REIGATE RAILWAY.—( rms DAY.) -An extraordinary -general meeting of the pro prietors of.; this railway -v. as held this day, for the purpose of authorising the areetors to raise addi tional funds, eith , rby bond or mor4 aie. Mr. Alder man Saloiro is, chairman of the board of directors, in the chair. The advertisement convening the meeting having be n read, a report was submitted to the shareholders, wh ch stated that the capital authorised to be raised by the company was 800,0001., disided into 40,000 shares cf 201 each, with pow r to borrow a furth r sum of 266,6661. By an agreement with the South. Eastern Company the sum of 600,0001., or 151. per share, had been raised in the shape of calls, upon which that company guaranteed interest at the rate of 5 pi r cent., while 50,000/. had been raised on debenture, the `.ll`.erest on which the South-Eastern Company also I aid. The proprietors were aware, no doubt, that in reference to the extension of the line from Gres ham to Dorking, the hands or the directors had been tied no .1w tt:E; existence' of the Direct Ports mouth Company, but as that company was about to be dissolved, this company would shortly be in a position to complete VIA portion of the line. An attempt had been made by the Direct Portsmouth C.Ympany, in conjunction with the London, Brighton, and South Coast Company, to make a line from Epsom to Leatherhead, which would have been highly prejudicial to this undertaking; and it was, there fore, a source of gratification to the board that one of the Direct Portsmouth shareholders had called in the aid of • the Court of Chancery, and defeated it. The debentures were at present limited to 50 0001., and it Was now proposed to issue 150,0001. more. The report concluded by stating that the direct() a had deemed it expedient to employ Messrs. Quilter and Cu., the public account ants, to audit the accounts from the commencement of the undertaking. The CHAIRMAN stated that the additional funds were required to enable the directors to comply with the request of the South-B-s ern Company to give them some further station room for the purpose of carry in on their goods traffic, and developing the general traffic of the districts which this line accom modsea I. lie, th re oe ; begged have to move that the directors be authorised to raise a further sum not exceeding 150,000/., in addition to the sum of 50,0001., at such :a' e of interest if they might thinkfit. •Mr. JOHNSON asked if it would not be better to call upon the sharehol lers to pay up the remaining Si. per share, rather than by going. into the money market for the 1, - • 000/. The CHAIRMAN did not know whether the lion. Proprietor speke the sense of the meeting ; but he would tell him at once that the subject he had adverted to was under the consideration of the board, but it had not been finally decided. Mr. TITE asked if the. 600,0001. referred to by the chairman had been called up. The CHAIRMAN replied in the affirmative. Mr. TITE would be glad to know, then, in the event of the shareholders raising the additional 200,0001., would the South-Eastern Company he liahle to pay them 5•I per cent: on that sum-toe. The CHAIRIHAN was afrai i not. By the agreement the S uth Eastern Company En ranked 51 per cent. on 600,0001., and if any snore money were required it was to be raised by debenture, at as cheap a rate es possible. Mr. TITE observed that the South-Eastern had made rather a bad bargain with them, and it was only an act of justice that they should raise this money for them at the cheapest possible rate. He asked what necessity there was for employing a public accountant. The CHAIUMAN replied that had the matter stood as between the directors and their shareholders they should not have thought such a step necessary. , Mr. SMITH trusted the directors would take care that no more money would -be borrowed than was absolutely required for the Reading, Guildford, and Reigate Railway. He hoped no money would be raised by this company for the purposes of the South- Easterniine. The CHAIRMAN said the duty of the directors was defined by the agreement, and money could not be born) ved for the purpose tuggeeted by the Honour able Proprietor. Mr. HBNRY had heard it whispered out of deors, that it was the intention of a portion of the directors of the South-Eastern Company to repudiate the ageament. 'if e CHAIRMAN said, so long as a living could be made c n the Stock Exchan4e by r rising or depressing property, so long, would such unfounded rumours get afloat. Mr. TITE asked if the lease,had been signed ? Tne CHAIRMAN replied no; hecau3e the works were not yet fully completed. Mr. MACGRECOI, the chairman of the South Eastern Comrany, said there was no foundation whatever for the supposition alluded to by the Hon. Proprietor (M.s. Henry). The agreement, he could assure she proprietors, was as binding as any that had ever been enforced in a court of law, and it would be kel t with perfect good faith by the company over which he had the honour to preside. Mr. KEELEY thought it would be more advisable that they should raise the money themselves. The CHAIRMAN said the shareholders were still liable for an additional Si. per. share, and the board 1 ad it now under consideration whether it would not be better to recommend the shareholders to get rid of the debentures by paying up the SZ. per share and getting their lease signed. A PROPRIETOR wished to know what interest would be paid on the additional Si per share ? The CamamaN did not think they could reason ably expect more. than the marketable rate of interest, say 4 per cent. Mr. LEWIS was present at the last meeting, when the Chairman told them that the 50,0001. then autho rised to be raised would be amply sufficient to meet the wants of the company, and he was somewhat taken by surprise at finding that 150,0001. more would be required. The Cuatasdats said he gave that information upon erroneous data respecting the works but if the share holders would, have confidence in him and his board, which he would undertake to say was the most holiest in the kingdom, he would undertake that the air r ho!ders should corne out of the concern with a Tee fit in theirpo-;k-ts. It they had raa that , confi dence, why, the best thing the sherehold. rs could do :was to change their chairman, and try what another (would do for them. • Mr. CAaIRN would never consent to ply a fur :ther call of 5/ vir share, to lend the South - Eastern :Compeny t 4 ,fr cent., and thereby reduce his in .tareA from 5.; to 4 per cent. He looked at the shares as 151. share s, and :he directors hail no power to raise .any additional call upon thenn. : The Cuesumee warned the proprietors that they ..were only married to the South-Eastern Company by :it little bit of parchment, and as it eels said to be an easy feat to drive a coach and four through an Act of Parlianient, might it not he done with equal ease through an agreement like their own. Mr. CARDEN thought this observation came with very bail taste from the chair, after what had been said by Mr. Macgregor, and again insisted that they bad no power to raise any further calls. 1-1 ft NUN, Mr. JOHNSON asked what interest would be paid on the call if it were made ? The CaAramAN really could not answer that question, but, if they liked, the shareholders should have the agreement read. The agreement was accordingly read, from which it appeared beyond all doubt that the directors had no power to make the call. It distinctly necifled that all money required beyond 600,000/. already called up must be raised on debentures. A PROPRIETOR wished to know if something could not be done in the way of reducing ti e managing ex penses of the company. The CHAIRMAN said it was his anxious wish, indeed it was the object dearest to his heart, to wind up this cone.rn and hand it over to the South-Eastern Com pany in a flourishing condition, and it might hereafter be proposed, that the direction of this line should be amalgamated with the direction of the South Eastern Company. The resolution was then put and carried unani• mous . ' v. IVIr. - 'l l ern moved a vote of thanks to the chairman, which was seconded, and afterwards carried unani mously. The - CHAIRMAN, in acknowledging the compliment, stated that he and his brother directors contemplated shortly calling the shareholders together to consider the propriety of ,their clubbing together to lend this money to the ;:outh-Eastern, at 4 per cent, and thus get into a position to have their lease signed and sealed. The meeting then broke up. IRELAND. (PROM OUR CORRESPONDENT.) DUBLIN, SUNDAY EVENING.—The weather to-day was exceedingly fine ; but the sudden mutation which took place last night, from extreme cold to almost summer warmth, has been the subject of much re mark. Early this morning the temperature became colder, and continued so throughout the day, with a brisk north westerly wind. Having heard that in many of the threatened localities, the people were leav ing their domiciles, I proceeded to• day to Sandy mount, and the vicinity, and found that, although some timorous people left, the migration was by no means to the extent stated. Several families from the neighbour hood of Clontarf and Dollymount having taken lodgings for the formidable ensuing week in Dorset street and other high and-dry localities. The groat majority—and I don't doubt but they are right—are making fun of the whole matter. The Protectionist movement still goes on, though lazily and without much apparent gain. A circular was issued on Friday, to the landowners and farmers of the County Cavan, to obtain names to a requisi tion, calling on the high sheriff to convene a county meeting, o tition for protection, and a repeal of the navigation-laws. This will be an important meeting; for Willem Sharman Crawford, that admirable Mat landlord and respected English Member, is determined to oppose the Farnhams and the John Youngs on their own ground, and to tell them the something that is wanted besides protection. Mr. Crawford has a considerable property in Cavan and the neighbouring county of Meath. The Cork Reporter of last night contains a meeting held in Bandon on Friday. It is not of much importance, save, from the fact of O'Neill Daunt, the quondam Member for Mallow, a Re pealer, and for a long time private secretary to O'Connell, taking part in the proceedings. A long letter will appear in the papers to-morrow, from the Rev. John Doran, P.P., of Loughbrickland, Cavan, in which the Rev. Gentleman, who has just returned from the United States, is far less wholesale in his advice to emigrate than is the Reverend Mr. Maier, of Carlow, who has never crossed the Atlantsc. The Reverend Mr. Doran advises all people engaged in trade—tradesmen, &c.—who can obtain ccmf rtable food and raiment, and useful education for their clli!dren, not to emigrate for any foreign country ; and to the farming classes he says, let those stop at home who can subsist there, and who have not " their own and their children's toil and sweat uselessly expended in maisitaining the pampered luxury of their taskmasters." This is wholesome advice. Hundreds, to my knowledge, who could do well at home, but who ran away during the emigra tion mania, now rue the day they deserted their island home." tiON'DOW; unparalleled danger; and the proceedings being thus terminated, the records of the transaction were signed by the following pc rsor.s :—Archduke John, Witt genstein, Jochmus, Dttmold, Mer k, Kubeh- Kuban (Austrian Commissioner), Schonhals (Austrian Commissioner), Itadowitz (Prussian Commissioner), Dr. Botticher, (Prussian Commissioner). PRUSSIA AND AUSTRIA. The following is the substance of the Prussian re joinder, dated 12th of December, to the Austrian protest, against the Assembly of the Erfurth Parlia ment. Austria had entered her protest :--- " 1. Against the convocation of a Parliament, as in opposition to the Federal Act of 1815. _ "2. Against any resolution the Parliament might in - future pass. "3. Against the Prussian league, and the attempt to substitute that league in the place of the Germat Confederacy without the consent of all the members of that Confederacy ; and "4. Against the dangers which might possibly accrue from the convocation of a Parliament, which Austria protested she would employ all her available means to oppose." The Prussian rejoinder reviews these objections to the Prussian League with great deliberation. The legal ground on which Prussia and her allies stand is brought forward by an examination of the right which Prussia derives from the old federal law, and by the practical proof of various alterations which that federal law has undergone. Prussia is, therefore, entitled to claim the right to continue on the path of a necessary historic development, for that path she Cannot leave without great misfortunes for and injustice to Germany, especially since the Prussian policy is at peace with the essentials of the Confede ration, and with the rights of the Austrian empire. The very Federal Diet, by its appeal to the National Assembly, and by its recognition of the Central Power, tended to produce a still more sweeping unity of the German nation. The Prussian dispatch proceeds to state that the forcible execution of the Frankfort election of an Emperor might have been a bribe to any Government but that of Prussia. By the accession to the league of almost the whole of her dominions, awl by the common assent of all the members of that league, Prussia has coma to be the greatest German power, while Austria, by the declara tion of the 27th of November, 1848, and by the Con stitution of the 4th of March, 1849, chose to take an isolated position in which she (Austria) declared it was her intention to remain until at the side of renovated Austria Germany, too, had completed her regeneration. And since the majority of the repre sentatives of the German people—since the majority of the German sovereigns offered Prussia the Imperial Crown, it was not an ambitious whim. but it was the duty of Prussia, after refusing the Crown, to lead the nation to the goal to which their aspira tions were directed. The majority of the German States, placing their confidence in the firmness of Prussia, joined the League of the 26th of May, and the Prussian Government was called upon to fulfil, not vague and indefinite promises, but to redeem a definite and substantial pledge. "But if (continues the dispatch) the Austrian Cabinet has really apprehensions that the convocation of a Parliament should threaten the public order and tranquillity within the territories of the old Confe deration, and since that Cabinet, anticipating what we consider an improbable and remote contingency, declares that it will oppose these dangers with all avail able means, we feel called upon to say, that we have no such fears, and that we consider the convocation of a Parliament as the surest means to prevent another revolution, but we also protest that in the case of real dangers threatening the public order and tranquillity of Germany, we should think it our duty to give the Austrian Cabinet our unlimited and hearty Co. opera lien for their instant suppression. We are sure that our allies will gladly join us in so meritorious, an un dertaking." The memorial which accompanies this dispatch, and which contains an elaborate disquisition on the federal aw as it was and is, concludes with the following résumé :-- "The League of the 26th of May, and the Confe deration intended by that League, are not in contra diction to the law and organization of the German Confederacy. But even if that law were in all its parts in its former force, there would be no legal right to oppose that League and that Confederation. Ni ow, the old federal law is obsolete in all those parts which relate to the Confederation as a totality, and to the relations of the individual members to the politi cal body—that law exists now only in its chapters on international law, in the alliances of the Governments, in the purposes of these alliances, and in the rights and duties of the members. A new law is to be created in the place of the obsolete law. That new law ought to be formed with consideration to the League of the 26th of May. The united Governments 'nave a right to demand elbow-room for their League. They would not on any account force anybody to join them, but eiey will not allow anybody to prevent them from forming an alliance for their own benefit and to the conclusion of which they are fully entitled." BANK OF FRANCE. The fo!loing is a return of the situation of the Ban of France on Dec. 20:— ASSETS. Cash and ingots Ditto in branch banks Bills past due ••• Bills fallitz due in Paris, of which 16,323,046 f. 70c. are from the branch banks ... ••• .•• ... ?ills in the branch banks ..• ••• Advances on coins and ingots... ... Ditto by the branch banks ... Ditto on French public securities ... Ditto by branch banks... ..• ••• Ditto to the State on Bons du Tresor... Ditto on the loan of 150 millions ... oan of 3,000,000 f. to the city of Mar seilles Advance to the department of the f▪ .293 375,196 92 . . 129,965 700 0 ~. 143,081 89 41,366,736 91 74,263,122 0 4,543,700 0 327,234 0 18,775,514 40 2,010,319 0 50,000,000 0 50,000,000 0 Seine Rentes of the reserve fund ... itentes, disposable funds ... investments of the new branch banksin the public funds ... ... ... Hotel and furniture of the Bank ... Real property of the branch banks ... Interest in National Discount Bank ... Ditto branch banks ... Bills protected at Paris ... ... Ditto at the branches ... Expenses of administration of the Bank Ditto of the branches ... ... Miscellaneous ... 1,075,000 0 3,000,000 0 10,000,000 0 42,529,988 13 12,826,541 39 4,000,000 0 2,919,586 0 200,000 0 230,000 0 2,345,319 36 1,879,04630 821,327 18 823,932 0 3,797,345 61 E 749,518,690 79 CENTRAL GERMANY. Letters from Frankfort of the 20th give the part culars of the ceremonial observed on the-resignation by the Archduke John of the office of Regent of Ger many. The following is a translation of the protocol of this important transaction : " Done at Frankfort, in the palace of his Imperial Highness the Archduke and Regent Joule, this day, the 20th day of December, 1849. " WI a eas h's Imp .r . sal Highness the Archduke and Regent Joust has repeatedly expressed a wish to be enabled to resign the office of Regent of Germany ; and whereas certain negotiations for the creation of another organ of federal and central power have, on tl a 31st of September, 1849, terminated in a conven ion between the respectise Governments of Prus sia and Austria; and the German Governments having notified their adhesion to the said convention; and his Majesty the King of Prussia having appointed his Lieutenant-General (Baron Radowiiz) and his President (Dr. Botticher) ; and his Majesty the Em peror of Austria having likewise appointed Charles Baron Kfibek Kuban a Privy Councillor to his said Imperial Majesty and the Field-Marshal-Lieutenant Charles Baron Schoebals. to act as members of the Federal Commission as created by virtue of the Con vention aforesaid; and the said Commissioners having been identified by an examination of their respeo ive warrants, his Imperial Highness the Archduke and Regent John has invited the said Commissioners to receive and to testify to his resignation." Dr. Mettemus acted as clerk to the Commission. At one o'clock p.m. on the 20'h of December his Imperial Highness the Archduke Regent entered the CoUncil-room, accompanied by the gentlemen forming his Cabinet, viz., the President of the Cabi net and Secretary-at-War, Prince Saki- Wittgenstein- Berleburg ; the Minister of Foreign Affairs and First Lord of the Admiralty, Mr. Jochmw; the Minis ter of Justice, of Home Affairs, and of Commerce, Mr. tmold ; and the Minister of Finance, Mr. Merk. Whereupon the Commissioners of the two Govern ments produced the convention which was concluded between the Governments of Prussia and Austria on the 30th of September, together with the declaration of adhesion of the German Governments; excepting the Governments of Oldenburg (although there is a promise of assent) and of Luxemburg; the adhesion of the King of Holland, who has declared his ad heion to the convention as Duke of Limburg, being preaupposed for his Duchy of Luxemburg. These documents and the warrants of the said Commissioners are added to the minutes. His Imperial Highness the Archduke and Regent condescended to make the following declaration : " . Gentlemen,—You are aware that I have long wished to resign my office. But since when I took that office the Federal Diet pronounced its own disso lution, and since the National Assembly tollowed its example at a later period, I saw that I could not yield to my' inclination without breaking the bonds which contain the German States, thereby surrendering Germany to danger and to all but ruin. "My duties compelled me to remain until another organ for the discharge of the common business of the ccuotry should have been created. That moment is 'ccm,.. The two bearers of my power were the totality of the German Government and the German National Asiembly. My feelings compel me to give my sincerest thanks to them for their co-operation;and assistance. "The- National Assembly exists no longer. That Assembly hastened on its own end by 'overstepping its kg al limits, and by making the widest strides in a false direction at a time when the course of events was such that the slightest deviation from the legal side of the question must necessari!y lead to certain ruin. " The decline and fall of the National Assembly is a lesson to the German people. It shows that there is but one way for our constitution—the way of calm and intrepid - progress and of a conscientious respect for justice and law. " After the dissolution of the National Assembly, I could resign my office only to the totality of the Ger man Governments, and Austria and Prussia have concluded a provisional convention, which the other members of the Confederation thought proper to accept. " Pursuant to my eventual consent, which I gave on the 6th of October, and according to paragraph 7 of the said convention, I resign my office 03 Regent, and I resign the rights and duties of the Confedera tion into the hands of their Majesties of Austria and Prussia. " I have the consciousness of having faithfully laboured to exercise my power for the glory and the welfare of the country. " Success has not yet crowned the .endeavour to surround that country with other constitutional bonds, to insure and strengthen its greatness and power. But the old bonds are preserved, and peace is. secured. But I shall not be able to look with pleasure on the time of my adwiniAration until the futurity of the country is secured by a more' lasting union. But my cores on the subject of that union are lightened now that I see the subject under protection of two of the most powerful among the German Govern ments. If these two will act in harmony, if they will cleave to tt.eir right, and thus lead the way, the other Governments may safely follow them as their leaders, and success will cro wn th e wor k. g• • Germany May profit by experience, and may her fates, by the assistance of Almighty God, he brought to a prosperous issue by the harmony and the patriot -imn of the German Peinces, and by the good s pi r it of the nation." After his Imperial highness had finished his speech, the Austrian Privy Councillor, Baron Kubek, replied to it by thanking his Highness for the intre pid manner in which the Archduke had executed the important functions of his office during a time of "LIABILITIES. Capital' ... • . f. 67,900,000 0 Ditto of the Branch Banks ... 23,350,000 0 Reserve fund 10,000,000 0 Ditto of the branch banks ... 2,980,750 14 {eserve•immobiliere ... ... 4,000,000 0 Notes to bearer, in circulation 363,588,800 0 Ditto of the branch banks ... 67,134,350 0 Ditto to order (post-bills) ... 1,531,133 0 Account-current with Treasury creditor 79,241,325 67 Various accounts current 77,517,895 13 Ditto in branches .„. 27,202,270 0 Bills payable at sight ... ... 4,758,500 0 Ditto at branches .1,510,603 0 Bills of the branch banks payable by the Bank ... ... 7,363,321 49 Ditto of the Bank payable by branches . 4,322,253 0 Dividends payable ... . . ... 246,303 75 Liquidation of the Algiers Bank ... 155,647 99 Discounts, interest, and expenses 3,613,355 19 Ditto branch bunks ... 2,038,115 0 Re-discounts of the last six months ... 143,693 49 Ditto in branch banks .. ... 296,471 0 Miscellaneous ... 323,902 94 f. 749,518,690 79 Certified by the Governor of the Bank of France, D'ARG OUT. We find by the foregoing account that the cash in, hand has increased within the week by 3,000,000 f. The amount of commercial bills discounted has decreased by 900,000 f. The protested bills have diminished by 110,000 f— The bank notes in circulation have decreased by 500,000 r. The balance to the credit of the Treasury has increased by 5,000,000 F. The sundry credits have diminished by 2,500,000 f. TAT TERSA LUS-Tll IS EVENING. Six o'CLocK. CHESTER CUP. 50 to 1 agst Lismahagow 50 to 1 sgst Dough 50 to 1 agst Essedarius 50 to 1 agst Lady Evel) n 66 to 1 agst Velox 100 to 1 agst Hotspur 100 to 1 agst Raby 100 to 1 agat Thringarth 100 to 1 agst Cockermoulh 100 to 1 agct Giselle 100 to 1 agst Chatterer 100 to 1 aght Idle Boy DERBY. 8 to 1 on the field 16 to 1 agst The Italian 20 to 1 egst Voltigeur 25 to 1 agst Sweetheart 30 t , ) 1 agst Mayors 30 to 1 agst William the Conqueror 30 to 1 agst John o' Groat—taken 50 to I agst Windhound 66 to 1 agst Yew Tree The others as on Thursday last. The next batch of convicts under sentence of trans portation will be forwarded to the new settlement at Perth, Western Australia. - ...410MIOZZ - 4111114, • • _ 4 moNDAY EV' .0 INa, , yogi 13 474 'V .IC4 ir-I. .Bil v-i e v • - 1 fq •-, Qs -, . ............_ _.........„........_,..........._ ___, IN TERESTIYG AUTOGRAPHS PRICE OF SUGAR. AND MSS. The r.7erage price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, conl. puted from the returns made in the week ending llccemb , er is', 1819, is 255. sd. per cwt. Lsst week, on Thursday and following days, the well-known Winston collection of dramatic MSS. was brought to the hammer by Messrs. Puttick and Sampson, of Piccadilly. The sale excited much interest in the dramatic world, and there was considerable anxiety to examine, and in some cases to repurchase, letters long since forgotten by the writers, whose altered circumstances and position at the present day contrasted in many cases very re markably with those under which these letters were penned. Rarely ever has there ben amassed such an amount of material for petty scandal as in the memo randa and letters composing this collection, and which we are gratified to know in many cases re turned to the possession of the individuals to whom they related, doubtless for immediate destruction. We cannot help thinking it is an obvious abuse of confidence to preserve, index, amplify, and leave, even to the chance of impertinent curiosity in a public :ale-room, letters written in an unguarded moment, or on matters never inttnded to be brought to the notice of a third party, revealing p3rti culars the publicity of which can effect no good ob ject, but may create much ill-natured remark and private heart-burning. The collection now referred to affords ample occasion for these remarks. Did we suspect that every hasty letter we pen may one day form an item in an auctioneer's catalogue, there is at once an end to freedom in. epistolatory intercourse. With regard to the muniments, so to speak, of the great patent theatres, also forming part of the collet tion, there must have been great carelessness exer cised in their custody, else we cannot understand how they have been separated from the archives of the theatres. The collection, on the whole, brought goal prices. We may mention a collection of letters,lee., of Edmund Kean, lot 451, which sold for 8/. 15s. ; lot 477, Vice-Chamberlain Coke's papers relative to the King's Theatre, 1706-15, which sold for 12/. 10s. ; lot 672, the original MSS. of the Rejected Ad dresses proposed to be spoken at the opening of D rury• lane Theatre in 1812, 91. A collection of engraved dramatic portraits closed the sale, and appeared to produce high prices. On Monday the same auctioneers sold Mr. Mitchell's small but interesting collection of autograph letters. From the catalogue we extract the fallowing as amongst the most interesting lots, with the prices at which they sold :—Lot 14, letter of Lord Brougham on Parliamentary Reform, sold for 1/. Lot 21, letter of Cinq Mars, sold for 11. ss. Lot 53, a short note of Haydn, sold for il. 9s. Lot 75, a letter of Moses Mendelssohn, sold for il. 10s. Lot 89, a letter of Smollet, the historian, sold for 31. 17s. 6d. Lot 105, a letter of Voltaire, sold for 1/. 16s. Several letters of Lady Hamilton, and a curious document, being a a bill for her funeral expenses, amounting to 281. 10s., sold together fur 81. 4s. Lot 140, a letter of Mrs. Jordan, sold for 1/. 13s. The sale concluded with fifty letters of David Garrick, which were sold singly, and for the most part were bought by Mr. Colburn, the publisher. In one of these letters, written on the night of his first appearance in London, he says— "My mind has always been inclined to the stage. • • . . . Last night I played Richard the Third to the surprise of everybody, and as I shall make very near 3001. per annum of it, and as it is really what I doat upon, 1 am resolved to pursue it." This interesting series of letters sold at high prices, amounting in the whole to about 1101. LAW *INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUE.EIV'S BEIVCII, Dec. 22 (Sittings at Nisi Priu3 at Guildhall, before Justice EnLs and a Special Jury.) HAYWARD V. COOMB4 AND ANOTHER. This cause, which commenced on Thursday, con- Mr. tin ued on Friday, and was terminated at a late hour hour on Saturday evening. The main question at issue, it will be recollected, was whether the late Mr: Saville Godfrey, formerly of the firm of Godfrey, Searle, and Co., boatbuilders, was of sound !mind from the llth of January, 1843, to the 25th of April in the • same year, when he executed certain deeds, the cause of dispute in these proceedings. The following brief summary will give a complete idea of the case. It appeared that the plaintiff by marrieV was re lated to the deceased, who retired from business in the year 1825 having made a considerable fortune. He was a bachelor, and the father of the pla'mtiff was his nearest relative. One of the defendants, Amy Sarah Coombs, was the sister of the plaintiff's father. In 18'27 Mr. Godfrey went to reside in the family of Coombs, and he was extremely partial to Mrs. Coombs. Mr. Godfrey made his will on the 18th of February, 1842, and by that will he bequeathed hie furniture to Amy Sarah Coombs, but he left the rest of his property to three trustees, who were directed to pay the rents of two-thirds of the property to Amy Sarah Coombs for life, and to her husbmd if he survived her, with remainder to the children of that marriage. The testator directed the other third of the rents to be pail to the plaintiff for life, and to his wife, if she survived him, with remainder to the children of the marriage. In default of issue of both marriages, the property was devised to the heirs of the testator. En the year 1845 a writ de lunatico inquirenlo was issued against him, and the jury found that he had been of unsound mind from the '29th of April in that year. On the 28th of May, 1849, the testator died, at 74 years of age, and it then appeared that the deceased had not revoked his will, but that on the 15th of April, 1843, he had executed four leases of property, producing 3201. a year; and it was alleged that he had, on the sth of May, 1843, invested 1,0001 stock in the joint names of the defendants. It was now contended that, at the time Mr. Godfrey had done these acts, he was not in such a state of mind as to make them valid—that his manners had changed in the early part of 1842—that his mind was then affected by delusions of the most extraordinary kind, and that he continued in that state until his death ; that he was quite unable, in the year 1843, to manage his own affairs, and that he was induced to execute the several instruments now at tempted to be set aside, by the influence which the defendants exercised over him. Mr. COCKBURN, Q.C., for the defence, addresed the jury, and said he would prove, by indisputable testi mony, that the deceased, Mr. Godfrey, was of sound and disposable mind, capable of managing his own affairs, within the period of the issue, which the jury had now to try, namely, from the 11th of January, 1843, to the 25th of April, in the same year, and that no undue influence had been exercised over him, by the defendants, to induce him to execute and sign the deeds in question. He would show that at the time he executed the will (which was not disputed), 1842, and prior to that period he had had conversations re specting the disposition of stock, and those deeds under which it was transferred, and that in executing them in 1843, he but carried out that intention. They had it in evidence that he was subject to fancies before the year 1842, at least before the da'e of his will in that year; yet that he, was of sound mind when he made his will, was not disputed. Seeing that per sons who were afflicted as Mr. Godfrey was, with a softening of the brain were, accordin g to the medical testimony, favoured occasionally with lucid intervals, and of sound and disposable mind, was it not, he (Mr. Cockburn) would ask, as likely that he was so at the time in question, in 1843, and that he then knew what he was doing, as in 1842, when he made his will, which was not disputed, and prior . to which he was proved by evidence to hive fancied that the Chartists meditated setting fire to property, and to have closed his shutteis in apprehension of an event which at the time had no foundation. On behalf of the defence, the Learned Gentleman called witnesses, and amongst them Mr. Withall, who had been in the habit of seeing and constantly con • veiling and transacting business with the deceased, and they all concurred in stating that his mind was perfectly strong and healthy until the year 1845 ; that at the time of executing the documents he perfectly well understood what he was about, and was then a shrewd and intelligent man. Mr. Sergeant Weexeiss, in reply, made an ener getic speech, and availed himself of every circum• ,tance in the evidence to show that Mr. Godfrey was not of sound mind at the time in question. He therefore urged that the verdict ought to be for the plaintiff. Mr. Justice Ertas summed up the case, and stated that two questions were submitted for the considera tion. of the jury —first, whether, on the 15th of April, 1843, when certain leases were executed, Godfrey was of unsound mind, so as to be insufficient for the government of himself and his property ; and, secondly, whether, on the 11th of . January, and on certain tether days in the year 1843, when Godfrey bought or transferred certain stock, he was of unsound mind, so as to be insufficient for the government of himself and his property. The jury were at liberty to find any one of these transactions valid and the. others void, if the evidence should lead them to that conclusion. There was no question that admitted of greater gradation than the question of soundness or unsoundness of mind. It they were of opinion that he had mind enough to know and will the act, they would, he supposedelse of :opinion that he was of sound mind, sufficient for the government of himself and his pro perty.. The party who sought to impeach these acts had the burden of proving the unsoundness of mind. The Learned Judge then read over the important parts of the evidence. The jury retired, and eventually returned a verdict for the defendants on all the issues. LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY. (Continued from our Third Editi n of Saturday.) The re election of the committee was then entered upon. After a good deal of discussion, a resolution was passed appointing the committee, to consist of the following gentlemen :—Mr. H. Currie, M.P ; Captain R. D. Mangles, M.P. ; Mr. Sergeant Clarke; Mr. Hutchins; and Mr. East. Mr. D. W. WIRE then . moved a vote of thanki to the Chairman, which was agreed to, and Mr. CHAPLIN having briefly acknowledged the compliment, The meeting then dispersed. SAFETY AND COAIFORT IN THEATRES : THE NEW OLiMPIC.—With respect to construction, the main walls are 3i bricks thick up to the pit; three bricks above. The gallery aid box floors are framed with girders, 12 inches by 12 inches, one end into granite corbels in walls, the other end supported by iron columns, four inches by five inches diameter. To prevent the thrust inwards, from the great inclination of the floors (the gallery timbers rising three feet in five), the ends of the girders have been secured by iron ties and granite bond, six inches by four inches, built in the wails, flush outside, and the whole floor is framed on the principle of a hori zontal truss, with abutments from the longitudinal walls. There are two fire-proof (stone) staircases to the gallery one for entrance and both for exit, already referred to. There are also two ways out of the pit, and separate way from stalls and boxes, so that the house may be cleared in a few minutes. The whole of the entrances, passages, &c., including staircases (slate) to the-private boxes and slips, aro fire-proof. The floor of lobby round back of boxes is of slate on pugging. The house is ventilated by an air shaft over the chandelier through the roof, a large ventilator through the roof at the back of the gallery, a tier of Semi-circular windows between gent ry floor and ceiling. There are also air flues in all the walls, communicating with various parts of the house, and four internal air shafts from the back of the pit and boxes through the roof; the upper part of each of these shafts is rarified by gas burners, which at the same time light the back of gallery.—Builder. HONOUR TO BRISTOL.—The new cathedral at An tigua, dedicated to St. John, has been completed in two years. from the designs of Mr. T. Fuller, architect. There was cot aoy contractor, but the men were paid ant the building works carried out by Mr.W.Rone, of Bristol, who gave the greatest satisfaction to the architect and all parties concerned. There were a few English workment sent out, but the greater portion of the work was performed by the natives. The building accommodates 2,200 persons. The windows are filled in with thick glass, in large planes, supplied by Messrs. fix and Williams, of Bristol. The three east windows were made in England, filled with stained glass by Mr. Willement, of London. The pulpit, read ing-desk, bishop's throne, and stalls, were made of mahogany, carved in Britol; the font was also sent out frem Bristol. The organ was made by Mr. Walker, of London.—Bristol Journal. that means will be forthcoming, out of which Mrs. Johnson will be paid cvay farthing. In the first place, however, we must ascertain what you can pay her. Mr. Herring—l will pay her the 4/. at my office, Mr. LONG—I will not lose sight of your case, Mrs. Johnson, and I have no doubt that the remainder of your claim will be made up. Of course you will be paid your expenses, and in the end I trust—indeed I do not doubt-4ou will find that you have not sus tained any loss. Nothing now remains for me, I believe, but to ask the prisoner one or two questions, which iam bound to do in every such case, under the provisions of a recent Act of Parliament. Ad dressing the . prisoner, the magistrate then pro ceeded ;—Having heard the evidence read (the depositions were read on Saturday fast), do you wish to say anything in answer to the charges? You are nA obliged to say anything ; but whatever you do will be taken down in writing, and may be used in evidence against you hereafter. The prisoner answered, in a low tone of voice— Everything is in the power of my attorney. The Chief Clerk—Do you say that everything is in the power of your attorney ? The prisoner—l do. The magistrate then fully committed the prisoner to Newgate for trial • and the'procoedings, which lasted a few minutes only, terminated with his expressing once more his satisfaction at Mrs. Johnson's conduct in this melancholy affair. . . Tfifi COUNTRY MARKETS. MANCHESTER, .DEC. 22. Throughout the week there has been an absence of activity it the demand for but holders continued to er.hibit ranch firranees, the previous currency was fully maintained in the moderate businees passing. The same remarks apply to oatmeal. Into Liverpo.)l and Runcorn the imports of oatmeal from Irelaud considerably exceed those of any preceding week during the present season; the supplies of oats hence are likewise liberal, and tolerably fair of flour. From abroad the arrivals of wheat and flour are large, but only moderate of other articles. At Our market this mornin,g no material change was observable in the state of the trade. The transactions in all articles were on a very limited scale, but there was no anxiety mani festi:el to press sales, and late prices were steadily ad her. .d to. READING, Disc. 22.—Wheat, per quartet', 30s to 50s ; barley, 25s to 295; oats, 16s to ; beans, 30s to 335; peas, 303 to 325. Fat hogs, Ss to 8s 3d ; porkers, 8s 3d to 8s 6d per score. Poultry—Geese, each, 5s (dto6s Od ; fowls, per couple, 3s Od to 3s Gil ; ducks, per ecuple, 34 Cd to 3s Gd ; butter, per lb, Is to Is Id; eggs, 19 to 12 for Is. DA LiEITH, DEO. 20.—The relative wri;:cht per lour bugle's of the three prices of wheat weri, 18st Qlb, 17st 71b, and l7st 31b. Oats. list 10ib, llst 121 b, and lOst 81b Barley, 16st Oil►, Isst 91b, and 14st 91b. Peas and beans, 19st 31b, 18st 71b, and 17st 7lbs. Qrs, .£1 0 0 £1 12 0 4:1 10 '0 . 018 4 0 II 8 010 0 Best. Current. GORHAM v. THE BISHOP OF EXETER. (From the Western Times.) The arguments on the case of the Rev. George Cornelius Gorham versus the Bishop of Exeter have been brought to a coneltpion, and the High Court stands adjourned for judgment on Monday. The exciting topics of the locality prevent us from taking that review of the proceedings which the importance and gravity of the case would demand. The ques tion is one of the gravest that has ever come before a judicial tribunal, not so much for the facts in dis pute as for the consequences likely to follow. Mr. Gorham, as our readers well know, is a most learned and pious clergyman, a man of high attainments, and of the strictest probity from his youth up. Fearless in character, honest of purpose, a profound divine, and a determined controversialist, he was the very last man that our right reverend and respected dio cesan should have grappled with. The old gentle man, however, a glutton at disputation, seems to have been unable to let the chance escape him of having a row, and although he had at the time a great case of controversy actually in hand—namely, whether it was for the public benefit that his perversion of facts should be proved—still, that was not enough for him—he could not let the opportunity slip, and he was soon up to his neck in the hot water of the Baptismal Regeneration " row." Mr. Gorham was presented by the Crown to the living of Brampford Speke. He had to give up St. Just, and thereby to sacrifice some 2001. a year to accept it. The bishop offered no ob jection to the change, but, as we have heard, rather encouraged the rev. gentleman to proceed therein. At a later stage in the proceedings he expressed a belief that he had a right to examine the rev. gentleman. This, it was reported at the time, he did not appear to press, till the rev. gentleman intimated a doubt of his power! That was sufficient. " Then I will examine you !" and as we have heard and believe, this great controversy, which has occupied the tri bunals from Doctors' Commons to the Palace of West- Inferior. 283 Wheat ...... 8:0 Oats ...... I 2 6 0 19 6 0 16 6 33 Peas and Beans 1 10 0 I 6 6 1 0 0 Average of wheat 34s Id. ABERDEEN, Disc. 21.—Crain—Oats 13s 6d to 14s, 401 b per bushel ; oats, new, this Od to OOs; foreign oats, (Os Od to 0 )s Od per qr.; barley, I 8s to 19 s Od, 52Ib s p er b us h e l ; bear, 18s to 193, 521bs per bushel ; wheat. 40s to 45s ; oatmeal, 1156 d to 12s 6d per boll ; flour, 33s to OOs per sack. Provisions—Beef, tid to 8d per lb ; mutton, ditto, 6d to 7d ; veal, ditto, 6d to 7d; pork, per lb, 4d to 6d; lamb, per lb, Od' to Od; tallow, pe' stone, 4s to 4s 6d ; potatoes, per peck, 10d to Is Od ; hay, I.er cwt, Os to Os ; rabbits, each, 6d to 8d; hares, each, Os to Us Od ; grouse, per brace; Os to Os ; butter, per lb, 7d to 8d ; eggs, per doz, Is to Is 2d ; cheese, per cwt, 18s to 235.; hens, per pair, 3s Od to 3s 6d ; chickens, ditto, is 8d to 2s Od ; ducks, ditto, Is 8d to 23 ; ducklings, ditto, Os Od to Os Od; turkeys, each, 4s to ssCd; geese, ditto, 4s to 4s 6d; butter for exportation (present cure), per cwt, OOs to 525; eggs , wholesale price, per dozen, Oi to 7d ; 41b loaf, 6d ; 21b loaf, 3d ; pork, per stoke of 141bs, 3s 6d to Os Od; pork fine, small, 5s 6d to Os Od ; pork large, 3s 6d to 4s 3d; ship pork per barrel of '204 lbs, Os to Os. Meal—Oatmeal, Is 2d to is 3d; barley dust, 7d to Od ; psasemeal, Is 9d to Os Od; sids, 6d to Od ; bearmeal, is 2d to Os , flour, ls 8d to is 10d ; barley, per lb, lid to 2d; barley flour, ls ld to Cs Od. iIUNTLY, DEn. 18.—This being the day of a cattle market here, we had a gool many samples of grain shown, rind several sales made, at the under noted prices, delivered hero, viz.:e—Common oats, 401bs per bushel, 12s to 12s 6d per quarter; bear, 52 do. do. 163 to 16s 6d do. Oatmeal, per boll of 1401bs, lOs to 103 3d. -GLASGOW, DEC. 20.—At our market to-day the num bers were —oxen, 798; sheep, 3,030. The supply of cattle in the market was large, which caused the sales effected to bo in favour of the purchaser. Beef down fully 2s per cwt. on best quality. Best ox beef 484 per cwt., second quality from 42s to 44s per cwt. Bulls, cows, and interior animals, difficult to sell, and prices same as last week-30s to 403 per cwt. Sheep much about the same as last week. Best wethers sid per lb., 4.1 to 44-4 current, old ewes 3d to 3id per lb. At the close of the market several lots of sheep remained unsold. Dimmer, DEC. 21.—There was but a moderate supply at our corn Market to-day, with a fair demand for every description of grain at priceS of Tuesday, and in some cases distillers oats and malting barley brought an ad vance of 3d to 6d. Rather more business was done in Indies corn, but without change in price. White wheat, 18; to 235; red ditto, 173 6,1 to 224; barley, 1 is 6d to 14s 6d; oats (old). 9s to 10; 6:1 per brl.; oatmeal, lOs to 1 ls 6d; seconds flour, 12s 6.1 to 16s per cwt.; Indian corn, '26s to 30s per 4801bs. CORK; Dee. 21.—We have a few arrivals of foreign grain. The supply of home grown is tolerably good, the receipts for the week amounting to:—wheat, 2,837 brls at 16s to 22s per brl; barley, 2,997 brls, at 8s to 113 8d per brl; oats, 6,131 brls at 7s to 9s 3d per WI In the green market wheat has maintained its value. Barley, however, has rather given way in price, while oars have manifested an upward tendency. We have had little business pas.,ing either in prepared Irish or foreign wheat, and prices remain without alteration from our quotations of last week. A few parcels of superior grinding barley have charged hands at late rates, but malting sernple are scarce and eagerly looked for. Owing to the high pretensions of holders, who are very firm, but little business has been done in oats, on which an advance of 3d per barrel was sought to be established. It' the prices of last week were eubmieted to, a fair amount of business might have been done. We quote minster—was precipitated, not so much through a care for the principle involved, as to vindicate the official power and prelatical dignity of our right rev. friend. A most worthy beginning, truly, of a question which is to rend the Church asunder. We pass over the harsh and unfeeling conduct displayed by Bishop Phillpotts towards his worthier brother, and shall leave the case itself at present, merely adding that the question really is whether the Articles of the Church are to govern the ritual, or whether the latter is to prevail over the law of the former, and thus contra• vene the foundation of the Church as by law esta blished. Bishop Phillpotts' love of strife has done a pretty thing for the Christian Peace and Protestant Faith of this realm. (From the Hull Advertiser.) The decision of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, in the case of the Rev. Mr. Gorham against the Bishop of Exeter, is looked for ward to with immense interest by Churchmen of all classes. We are under great apprehension that it will satisfy no party. The real question is, whether the Church of England holds the doctrine of baptismal regenera tion ; but the one which will be decided is the right of the Bishop of Eieter to compel an ordained priest, previously charged with the care of souls, to undergo a fresh examination before presentation to another living. The opinions of laymen upon such questions are of very little moment; but it has often struck us as exceedingly strange that there should be any doubt among well-rend men as to the baptismal doctrine held and professed by the Church , of England in her Canons and Articles. It goes hard with us to take the same side as the Bishop of Exeter, but upon the doctrine of Baptismal Rege neration, " Our Henry," as the Western Times familiarly designates his Lordship, is truly orthodox. We know that there is a large party in the Church who hold the same opinions as Mr. Gorham, and it is a singular fact that among them are the present Archbishops of Canterbury and York, but that does not in the least affect the vital truth of the question. Whether the doctrine of the Church of England upon Baptism be Scripturally right or wrong, is a matter with which in these columns we have nothing whatever to do. We pre sume not to meddle with the religious convictions of any Church, or any member thereof ; but we feel no difficulty in giving our opinion as to the exact doc trine taught by the early Fathers of the English Church, and set forth in the Canons, Articles, and Book of Common Prayer. prices 9s to 9s 3d pt , r brl free on board. We ha;ls . improved demand and experience a very free sale for ell descriptions of foreign flour, but Irish continues to be neglected, and complaints respecting its working quali- . ties rather increase than otherwise. We have no altera tion in prices. The demand for Indian corn has 21 90 improved, and more business has been done in the article. Tue enhanced terms, lookicl for by holders, have, how ever, tended to check business. We quote prices 6/12s 6d 6/ 15s per ton. Inlla.l meal is not a very free sale. Flour—First 12s 6d to 13s Od ; extra 14s Od seconds, 11s to 12s 6d ; households 9s to lOs 6d; thirds, 7s to fis per cwt. Oatmeal 9e 6d to 10s; Indian meal 6s 6d to 6= 9d; wheat meal, 9s 6d to lOs per cwt. Indian corn 125 s Od to 127 s 6d per too. Bran 31 Os to 3/ 12s 6d per ton. Hay—Farmers 16s to 375; average 32s ; dealers 3 ato 40. Od; average 00s per ton. Stiaw—Farrnell 16s Od to 25s Od ; average 245 ; dealers 25s Od to 28s 0411 average 00s Od per ton. Bread—Wheaten loaf 6(1 to 61d; household loaf 5d to sid per 41b. Fresh butter. 8d to 9J per lb. Eggs —6s 6d to Qs 8d per hundred. Coals--- Newport 15s; Lydney 17s ; Landore 15s ; Best Neatb Culm 14c per :ton. Tallow 39s Od to 00s per cwt. Whisky, 25 o. p., 5s 9d per imperial gallon. Meg —Beef 4,1 to sd; mutton 4d to sd; veal 4d to 0(1; pork 3id to 4d ; bacon 7d to 8d ; sausages 5d per lb. Hops 81 Os per cwt. Bangor slates 31 2s 6d to 815 s per ton. Bark—Barbary 715 s to 81 bs ; Valonia 14/ to 01; French 71 ss; English 0/ per ton. Fleece Wool 10s to 12s per s tone. Hemp 32/ to( 01 per ton. Fish— Scotch herrings 18s to 19s ; red ditto 24s to `26e per barrel • Newfoundland 9 Os to 111 Pe r ton. Timber = Memel, 85/per ton ; deals, first quality, 1854 second quality, 16s per HA Hides—Market 14s to 1 8 1; , salted 14s to 20e per cwt ; calf skins 2d to 20 per I °' Potatoes, white 7id to 9d; Minions lld to 12d; Guano...." Peruvian, 111 lOs; Ichaboe, 9/ per ton; Tar—Archange l f 19s per barrel. RAILWAY 6i-iAtua, MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, DEC. 22. Srom ExcaANGE.—The transactions t -day were as fol. low: London and • North-Western, 110 1 ,4 Ditto, I Quarters, es. 9d. p.— Jitto, Fifths, 45'" Ditto, Halves, 22% dis.—South-Eastern and DoVer ( 50 ' 4), 61. Bs. ',id. INDUSTRIAL PAUPER EDUCATION. (From the Hull Advertiser.) The eloquent Rector of Althorpe, in Lincolnshire, the Rev. James Aspinall—whose name stands on our list for a bishopric—came well to our assistance at the annual soirée of the Beverley Mechanics' Insti tute on Wednesday, upon the important question of industrial pauper education. Though the social obligation of bestowing a careful course of industrial training upon pauper children may come " self recommended" to such excellent Christian clergymen as the Rev. Mr. Aspinall, we can assure hitn he would find the proposition the reverse of general, if he were called upon to propound it before the sapient board of guardians charged with the management of the poor of Hull. We are therefore exceedingly grateful for the assistance which he has rendered us, by volunteering his powerful support of the principle of industrial training for the pauper children of this district. Nor would we be selfish in this respect. We can assure our Rev. Friend that he cannot render a more important service to society, and more especially to the more helpless of his fellow-crea tures, than in opening the eves of many of the best supporters of mechanics' institutions to the importance of training up pauper children in habits of industry. The subject in his hands would prove a most attrac tive one. Touched by the Ithuriel spear of his genius, the truthfulness of it would glow with do effulgence which would attract thousands of in terested beholders. What a subject of local pride— of laudable congratulation, it would be to have an Industrial Pauper School in the neighbourhood of Driffield, capable of containing all the pauper children of the unions of Hull, Sculcoates, Beverley, Driffield, Bridlington, Patrington, and . Skirlaugh I And yet when we proposed the establishment of such a school in the Hull board of guardians, we could only find twelve supporters out of thirty five members present. From this Mr. Aspinall will see that the world is not so advanced in true knowledge as he gives it credit for—and that it is really a very important thing that such projects are receiving the support of such Christian philanthropists as the Right Hon. M. T. Baines, M.P., Lord Ebrington, and himself. Uncon sciously, perhaps. but at the same time most pro videntially, the Rev. Mr. Aspinall has opened fur himself a new door of usefulness in connexion with the National Education Movement. We entreat him not to close it again. The question of the industrial training of pauper children, on the scale of magnitude proposed by us, is one compara tively new. It is also one which he is singularly well qualified to adorn and illustrate in the happiest manner. " Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such are the kingdom of Heaven," was the admonitory language of the great Head of the Church, and ever beautiful in the mouths of the Christian ministry. We are glad that our friends in Beverley have had an opportunity of hearing one of the eloquent addresses of the Rev. Mr. Aspinall. They will now be able to judge of the class of bishops we should have if Lord John Russell were to consult us on the question of episcopal preferments. Instead of select ing men for mitres because they had written dull theological treatises, read by nobody—as the Arch bishop of Canterbury confesses he is in the habit of doing—we should select men for mitres who, in their path through the world, left a trail of moral and intellectual light behind them, as Mr. Aspinall has done, and is still doing. It really is disgraceful to a Whig Government to remain apparently blind to the claims to promotion in the Church of such a clergyman. MANCLIESTER, DEc. 22. STOCK EXCHANGE. --The transactions to-day were al s r follow :—Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding Union) , dis.—Manchester and Birmingham, Quarters (() ), 114 —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire (Grimsby 6 u, Shares, 7 1 / 2 —Ditto (121. 10s. Shares), 2 n.—North t ! taffora: shire, 9 13.16 n. dis.—South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4 ) , Scrip, 6% BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 22. S roc' EXCHANGE.—The only transaction to•day London and North-Western, titl, E . YORK, DEC. 21. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were I° follow:- Great Northern, 71/ —Nurth Staffordshire, 7%1 York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Newcastle Extension)' M. Bs. 9d. NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, DEC. 22. STOCK EXCTIANOE.—The transactions to-day were 83 ,, follow :—Caledonian, 11—NeWcastle arid 66 Noe . ' British, 31. bs. GLASGOW, DEC. 21. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The transactions to-day were 85 follow: —Dundee and Perth, 10—Edinburgh and Per th , „,., 1 ' l . 9d.—Glasgow, Dumfries, and Carlisle, 4iB—Glasgow, marnock, and Ayr, 43%. A MODEL CITY.—The city of Utica, New York, dues not owe a single cent. of public debt, and hes money in bank, besides taxes due and collectable. It has an abundant supply of water brought into the houses of the citizens, fresh from the mountain slump. It is lighted by gas of pure and excellent quality; has the best ap- pointed and most effective fi . ro department of any city of its size in America; and is the only city in the state w Inch wholly escaped the ravages of the cholera last summer.—New York .Herald. A SAFE BET FOR BOTH PARTIES.—TWO bloods r gr a cently entered a tavern in New York where they b i n frequently resorted, and, calling for suppFe and 01 ,3 bottles of champagne, informed their host that they ) o d. laid a wager of su c h a re p as t as t h ey h i d ordered, ¢°a had agreed to refer the question to him. They hoP e o he would wait for his pay until the decision, and tt e d charge his amount to the loser. The landlord assent a and they sat down to a hearty supper. When they " 4 finished, mine host had the curiosity to ask what vt'd the nature of the bet, and was not a little chagrill o when he received for answer that it orignated in a d i le pute as to the direction the brick meeting-house steePo would take should it ever fall. The one bet it WOO fall , ast, the other west. ROYAL ARTILLERY, WOOLWICH DEC. 0 ... r 0 Captain A. Bonn's Company, 2d Battalion, and capto Gainbier's Company, of the same battalion, arrived 1 / 4 head -quaiters here yesterday evening from Dublin, gl a immediately marched t o b arrac k s. M a j or Mee's 'Cli; parry, Bth Battalion, a t prc sent at D over, and CaP_„t% Hill's Comp an y, o f t h e same b attal i on, at Wee d on 0 ." 1 „ Pembroke, w,ll b e re li eve d ear l y i n t h e ensu i ng rnoil o r in order that the first eight companies on the roster foreign service may be at head-quarters ready for em barkation on the shortest notice. 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Ps spel 69,:,0rnb S EA japital IC Dearing a •f further Applies OfAces of on the nu Immed advantag g - 1N A' 17 _ . Botanic ri transoare dle,, I. g and GOs. y 1 .4d.p 20.8 d .; Boating w, Warehous Court (Int ofrars tho linen and be (trefel a° II N Chemists, mast ON PliY flrw Zdit by r,gt , the celsive tE With rcritf L. PERR fbrd-stree' 2 ), Pnt , :sxr Ptar:e,V, PALT I. OrgaTlC, nri • PANT .11 a , n , :e, and (mid 17 , 0 , 1i1y rilnstrated FART II t he I , ritna: . el r treat Ztlgraving rI "s a rim ',fated. T eader's nt9 y, dtißs. Tl the who,: TatCoa eg tervyri h T rernely, fa' 1 , 01 /4g, erap l'u Certai n rcn 'ion or the !lett'''. of V: 6i , Packet . ' llOl the "tnce oai 'en tul 13 1 4 FROM THE LONDON GAZETT OF FRIDAY. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. H. Solomon, J. Smith, and J. D. Galer, Birmingham, grocers and tea dealers, Dec. 19, H. Solomon, a certifi cate of the first class," and J. Smith and J. D. Galer, a certificate of the third class, three months from this date —T. V. Bowater, Birmingham, factor, Dec. 10, certifi cate of the second class—H. Green, Liverpool, iron monger, Dec. 13, certificate of the first class, after 21 days from Dec. 15—G. Smith, Liverpool, merchant, Dec. 20, certificate of the first class, after 21 days—J. Ashworth, Bury, Lancashire, gardener, Dec. 18, certi ficate of the first class—J. Purr, Manchester, cotton and woollen card manufacturer, Dec. 18, certificate of the first class—W. Maude, Bolton le-Moors, innkeeper, Dec. 18, certificate of the first class—W. Amor, Whitstable, coal merchant, Dec. 19—L. Guilleaume, Berners-street, Oxford-street, manufacturer of arti ficial flowers, Dec. 17, certificate of the second clae —II. Paterson, Notting-hill, livery stable keeper, Dec. 13, certificate of the third class—C. Abbott, Lower Edmonton, rcarket gardener, Deo. 19, after six months—J. Ford, Richmond, victualler, Dec. 18, certifi cate of the third class—J. Delf, Drury-lane, linendraper, Dec. 18, certificate of the third class—H. Regless, Martin's-lane, Charing-cross, woollendraper, Dec 18, after 21 days—J. Mullett, Tiverton, Devonshire, grocer, Dec. 20, certificate of the second class—J. J. Cartwright, Wakefield, Yorkshire, corn merchant, Dc c. 18, certificate of the first class, after 21 days—R. Raby, Preston, Lan cashire, hatter, Jan. 11. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. - _ W. Hyde and R. lloldsworth, Liver pool, shipbrokers —J. W. Browne, H. Williams, and S. Branscombe, Liverpool, hide factors—Mary Bessell and E. L. Allder, Chertsey, Surrey, linendrapers—J. Fiora and I). Christie, Manchester, merchants—A. Alker and S. Alker, Wigan, Lancashire, linendrapers—W. P. Mar getson and E. Phillips, London-street and Wapping wall, Middlesex, provision merchants—E. .Busby, Susanna Clack and Mary Clack, Oxford-street, ladies' ready made and child-bed linen warehouse keepers—Mary Anr Bates, Margaret Bates, and D. A. Cooper, Huddersfield, Yorkshire, watchmakers—S. Stewart and A. B. Wilson, Clement's•lane, engineers—W. Porter and C Porter, Stone, Staffirdshire, joiners and builders—Mary Anne Gaskill and T. H. Scales, Sunderland, milliners—J. Griffiths and W. Griffiths, Bristol, carpenters—J.Brooks and T. Birch, Chorlton- upon- Medlock, Lancashire, common brewers—R. H . Right and J. S. Benifold, Brunswick-place, City-road, schoolmasters—J. Rice and Mary Ann Thompson, Brighton, child-bed linen and juvenile clothing makers—A. Luck, J. Bouch, and T. Coath, Bread.street, Cheapside, Manchester ware housemen (so far as rega-ds A. Luck.) INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. Thomas Woiingtot,Ynrbage, L icestersbire, grocer. William Cooper, Barnard Castle, Durham, cabinetmaker, John Ridehalgh, Halifax, woolcomber. Joseph Wdebaigh, Halifax, coal merchant. Joseph Malliuson, Mytholm, Yorkshire, butcher. John Thacker, North Kyrne, Lincolnshire, farmer. James Griffiths, Hereford, milkman. Win. Henry Maddoas,*eymouth, theatrical manager. Thomas Ramsden, Oldham, hairdresser. Wiliam Smallridie, Bristol, beer retailer. Simon Jones, St. Alban's. William Moore, Brislington, Somersetshire, kerper in attendance on insane persors. James Hamer, St. Thonaac=thc-Apostle, DeNonshire, tinman. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. J. Findlay, Coatbridc;e grocer, to m( et Dec. 28 and Jan. 18, at one, wi t hin Drummond's Hotel, Airdrie. P. Buchan, Peterhead, printer, to meet Dec. 27 and Jan. 17, at one, within Heudry's Star lon, Stirling. H. Gair, Tullich, Ross-shire, farmer, to meet Dec. 27 and Jan. 24, at tw; lye, within Munlochy Inn, Munlochy. A. Smith, Dumbrockfield, Strathblane, Stirlingshire, bleacher, to meet Dec. 27 and Jan. 17, at three, within the Red Lion Inn, Falkirk. P. Hughes, Newton Stewart, draper, to meet Dec. 26 aid Jan. 16, at twelve, within the Galloway Arms Inn, Newton Stewart. _ A. Burnes, Montrose, writer, to meet Dec. 27 and Jan. 21, at two, within the British Hotel, Dundee. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Dec. 22. (Sittings at Nisi Prins, at Guildhall, before the LORD CHIEF BARON and a Common Jury.) The Court was occupied during the greater portion o: the day with the case of " Johnson v. Boulcott," which possessed no feature of interest, the only question !Ring as to 1611., which it was alleged belonged to a bankrupt estate. The Learned Judge thought there was no evi dence to go to the jury, and accordingly a verdict under his direction was found for the defendant. ASPREY V. DELAHAY. The plaintiff was an attorney and solicitor, carrying on business at Furnival's Inn, and the defendant was a gentleman residing in Hertfordshire, and the action was bl ought to recover 3001. upon a mortgage dated 25th November, 1842, and interest at the rate of 51. per cent. The defence was that the deed was for 4001., while, in reality, the debt was only 3001.; and this being so, it was contended that the deed was a corrupt bargain and con trivance to get more than 51. per cent. interest, and thus to avoid the operation of the usury law. The CgIEB BARON, in summing up, said there could be no doubt that interest above 5 pe? cent. was illegal where the security was upon land, but the present deed was free from any defect whatever, and no evidence had been given of usury, therefore their verdict ought to be for the plaintiff. The jury accordingly returned a verdict for the plaintiff-3001. debt, and 1051. interest. Mr. Watson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Cham bers fur the defendant. MURDER IN lIARLEY-STREET MARYLEBONE POLICE COUR P. COMMITTAL OF THE PRISONER. Sarah Drake was finally examined on Saturday before Mr. Long, on the charge of having destroyed the life of her male child, aged two years ; and in consequence of its being understood that her final examination had been appointed for this morning, the avenues to the court were thronged at an early hour with a somewhat large concourse of people. The prisoner having been placed in the dock shortly before one o'clock, _ _ _ Mr. Herring, her attorney, addressing the magi strate, said that in consequence of what fell from his Worship at the last examination, on the subject of his having an opportunity of perusing the letters to which reference was then made, he had had that opportunity, and he begged to inform his Worship that Sergeant Whitcher had paid him every attention in examining those letters which he considered ne cessary or material, as affecting the interests of his client. He wished also to state, with reference to the proceedings of the day, that by the advice of the counsel who had been retained on her behalf, he would reserve whatever defence she had to urge. Hr. LONG—Under the circumstances I think that that course is the proper one. 'What is the amount of the debt owing to you, Mrs. Johnson P [lt will be remembered that it was Mrs. Johnson who had had charge of the child, and her claim was for the care exercised by her towards it.] Mrs. Johnson---:The amount is Dl. 7s , your Wor- ship. Mr. Herring—Sergeant Whitcher and myself have looked over the things beler•ging to the prisoner as well as we could. There are a. great many articles of various descriptions, but they consist mostly of wear ing apparel. Looking at the' value of them, and con sidering what they are, as your worship has asked Mrs. Johnson the amount of her claim, I may as well state at once that, though not legally bound to Pay her the money,.l will myself pay her 4/. at my office, upon the delivery of the property. lam glad to have to say that Mrs. Johnson has expressed hlr entire ap , proval of the offer, and I am satisfied that all who have any feeling in this business will contribute to make up the balance to her. Mr. LONG—Mrs. Johnson has acted very properly in the affair, and I cannot entertain the slightest doubt MARRIED. ri TY ° of On the 20th inst., at St. George's, Hanover-square , to • Richard Eyre, Esq., of Shaw-house, Berkshire, eldest obeil the late H. Eyre, E:q , f Botleigh-grange, Hants, to 1 4° Catherine, eldest daughter of the late C. G. Parker, Springfield-place, Essex. DIED. 13`" At Sevonoaks, on the 15th inst., the Rev. Thomas Whte, M.A., aged 51. 1 TO' On the 9th inst., at Brompton, Major-Genera oge4 C. 8., aged 77. At Boulogne sur-Mer, in France, on the 19th lust° f 69, Lady Ouseley, relict of Sir W. Ouseley. On the 2 'th inst., at Grove house, South Lambeth, e 9 Mtus, aged 65, sister of the late C, Esq. , ' painter to his late Majesty George IV. pl London: Printed and Published by MURDO YO 6 0 0 o. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, Intl r trand, in the Precinct of the Shyly , , n the Ow" Middleamr. Monday, December 24, 1849, - RIRTHS. On the 13th inst., at Co% es, the lady of W. CO* surgeon to the Queen, of a son. Os On the 18th inst„ at Sudbury Rectory, the lion. bi ll. E. Anson, of a daughter. Jef On the 11:th inst., in Portland-place. the lady of F . nings, 14:sq., of a son. - o f ° On the 20.11 inst , in Bruton-street, Lady Burghley' son and heir. - ---"" ,~_