The Sun. — London, England, 1842-12-14 00:00:00

Zbirb 72bition THE FUNDS=(C. ,OSING PRICES.) FUNDS. !India Stock — pm I Ditto Bonds .... 47 pm Ditto Old Annuities ... Ditto New Annuities... Ex. Bills, 1,000/ 2d. 51 pm Ditto 5001...... 53 pm Ditto Small 52 pm Bank Stock for Acct. India Stock for Opg... Consols for Opg. FUNDS. Portuguese, 5 per cent. Ditto,a‘Tew Ditto 3Bi Prussian, 5 per cent. Russian, 5 pei cent — Ditto, Metallic . Spanish, 5 per cen t l9 Ditto, Deferred 10i French, 5 per cent --f. —c, Exchange f. —c French, 3 per cent —f. —c. Dutch, 21 per cent. 52;1 Ditto, 5 per cent. 101 BRITISH Bank Stock 172 3 per Cent. Red. 941 3 per Cent. Con. 95 3; per Cent. Red... 100; New 3; per Cent... looi New 5 per Cen' Long Annuities to expire Jan. 1860 ...... 121 Oct. 1859 Jan. 1860. FOREIGD Austrian, 5 per cent. — Belgian, 5 per cent loli 3razilian Bonds 69i Buenos Ayres 6 percen t 23i Chilian, 6 per cent. 73 Colombian, 6 per cent — Ditto, 1824 2lB Cuba Bonds, 6 per cent BO Danish, 3 per sent. Greek, 1825, 5 per cent. Mexican, 5 per cent 3lB Ditto, 6 per cent. 1837 Peruvian, 1825,6 per ct. SHADES. Edinburgh and Glasgow (50 paid) ... 48A Great Western, (65 paid) Ditto New Shires (50 paid) . Ditto Fifths ( 4 paid) ...... London and Brighton (50 paid) London and Blackwall ( paid) London and Birmingham (90) . ..... .. 1 9 0 Ditto Quarter Shares (25 paid) 491 London and South Western (4116 s 10d pd) 62 Midland Counties Railway (100 paid) Northern and Eastern (45 paid) Ditto Scrip ( 5 paid) North Midland Railway (100) _ _ 62 _ . . Paris and Rouen (20 paid) ......... ...... 26 South Eastern and Dover (50 paid) Ditto Scrip (20 paid) SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, FROM THE EVENING , PAPERS OF THIS DAT. GLOBE.—Attention has been drawn of late by some of our Contemporaries to the subject of blas phemous and immoral publications, which, it seems, are exposed for sale to a very great extent in the metropolis, without any sufficient means being taken to check so monstrous an evil. When the party now in power were in opposition, they used td cry out against the Government on account of its alleged apathy to the propagation of Socialist principles, though the result leas proved that the Whigs exercised a sound discretion in leaving the sect to the insignifi cance from which it was temporarily raised by the pious efforts of the Bishop of Exeter. The evil of Socialism was one which carried within itself the elements of self-destruction,; and to leave it to itself was, therefore, the surest, and probably the shortest way to get rid of it. Since the Bishop of Exeter has left it alone, its publications have been discon tinued, its establishments have been broken up, and its founder or chief has withdrawn from the scene of his folly. It is, however, a very different matter with regard to the blasphemous and immoral publications, which are thrust with impunity beneath the observation of the public. They are not only calculated to„,plunge the vicious still lower in degradation, but to contami nate the weak-minded, and to offend those who are incapable of feeling anything but disgust for the outrage against religion and morals, which the vendors or exhibitors of the publications alluded to are daily allowed to perpetrate. It is cer tainly the duty of the authorities to stir them selves against a nuisance of so amazing a character, and one which does not confine itself to the haunts where those who have evil inclinations may go in search of it, but which is openly forced into the sight of the well-disposed portion of the commu nity. Our readers will probably have noticed a police report, in which the son of one of the Vice-Chancellors was charged with having given way to a very natural impulse, in breaking the windows of a shop in which two blasphemous placards were shamelessly exhibited. The Magis trate inflicted no fine, but the gentleman paid the amount of the damage, and was congra tulated on havin' done an act which would probably lead to a prosecution of the individual whose windows he had broken. This is all very well ; but is it right that a foul and disgusting nuisance should be left unpunished until a private individual, giving way to a very creditable feeling of irritation, proceeds to a lawless act, of which a breach of the peace might have been the consequence, and by which he might have become involved in a very serious dilemma ? We do not think. that the respectable part of the public should have no other protection against annoy ance from blasphemous publications, than to go about breaking windows in order to attract the attention of the persons whose duty it is to put an end to the nuisance. STANDARD.—We have unusual gratification in directing the attention of our readers to the proceed ings yesterday at the police-office, Bow-street. It has been observed with pain by all well-disposed in habitants of the metropolis, that the number of shops opened for the sale of blasphemous and impure publi cations has greatly increased during the last five or six years. As the character of the periodical press through all its denominations has improved, the improvement has been counteracted in its effect by the increase of these. odious repositories of im piety and filth. One of the worst of the abomi nations, if not the very - worst, is situated in 'Holy well-street, Strand. Several attempts have been made to eradicate this fames of moral pestilence, but the supineness of policemen, the timidity of Magis trates, and, above all, ti le inefficiency of the libel law so powerful to aid spec/ slating swindlers against honest and solvent men, hat utterly powerless to resist desperate paupers wt , .rring upon society, have caused all these efforts to ' fail. Yesterday the abomination was attacked in t/ me right way—attacked par voie de fait. Mr. Lewis Knight Bruce, son of the Vice- Chance llor (and the father of such a sonjis to be envied), passing th] sough Holywell-street was shocked ky the display several atrocious insults to the Majesty of Heave n, in the window of the den of blasphemy to whi c h we have referred. He instantly commanded the si mopkeeper in attendance to remove the abominable papers. That person refused, and upon the refusal P dr. Bruce broke two panes of the shop-window, an d succeeded in carrying off one paper. In the attempt to secure a second he failed. He th en surrendered to a policeman, and was by him, at he inst ance of the vendor of bias - phemy, b roug h t 1 xlfore M r . Jardine, the Magistrate at the time Ines. ;ding: at Bow -street. Mr. Jardine having heard the Klase, and examined the paper seized by Mr. Bruce,mo at justly complimentedthatg entl m an upon his conduct, 'declined t o i mpose any fine urn e h d h t n, and impounded • I .:he mo ney which he was o exact for the broken glass, with a significant hint, that o if the proprietor of the blasphemy shop should come to demand it, h a would be prosecuted for the offence of which he wc•uld thus furnish evidence against him self. Thus, a. mode is pointed out by which the doJtestable trade of these corruptors of the minds of the young and ignorant may be e promptly supp resse d at a trifling post. Several years ago, a gen tleman—for the honour of Israel let it be told—he was a Jew—broke a window in the shop of the then notorious Carlile, for the purpose of causing to be removed a disgusting cari cature of tl.e Almighty.:For this, Mr. Levy, the gentle man in gtestion, was fined, though, as we remember, in a small sum, and, like Mr. Bruce, required to pay for the broken glass. Unfortunately, the imposition of a fine .;.n the case stamped Mr. Levy's act with ille gality., and deterred others from imitating his excel, ent example. Accordingly, the caricature of the dmighty continued to be exhibited for many years —as, long, indeed, as Carlile kept a (shop in Fleet stre et. Mr. Jardine's decision yesterday is a most inai t )ortant step in advance of the decision in Mr. Ise vy's case. It virtually determines that blasphemy is a sufficient provocation to justify the resenting it by fe .rce, and leaves the blasphemer to seek his remedy for the civil injury. QUEEN'S BENCH.—(THIS DAY.) (Guildhall Sittings at Nisi Prius before Lord DEN MAN and a London Common Jury.) JENNINGS V. WEAVER. This was an action brought by the plaintiff against defendant to recover damages for an alleged false im prisonment. The defendant p!eaded a justification. Mr. Jervis, Mr. Humfrey, and Mr. Kerselma, ap peared for plaintiff, and Mr. Whately and Mr. Pea cock, for defendant. The defendant was a carrier at Croydon, and the plain tiff was an errand-boy in his employ. On the 4th of March the defendant had given plaintiff into custody for hav ing obtained the sum of 6d. under false pretences, and plaintiff had been taken to the station-house and locked up all night. The next morning he was taken before a Magistrate ; on that occasion, a Mr. Russell, an attorney, who had been at different times employed by defendant, attended on behalf of plaintiff, and said that the charge was so trifling that defendant did not - wish to to press it, and the Magistrate per mitted it to be withdrawn. It appeared from plaintiff's statement that he had summoned defendant for wages before defendant had given him into custody. For d e f en d ant it was contended that plaintiff had been employed by him to deliver a parcel to a Miss Eades, the proper charge for which was I s., and that plaintiff had charged Is. 6d. for it, keeping the 6d. for himself, and for thus obtaining the 6d. the plaintiff had been given into custody. Mr. Russell, the at torney, who had attended before the Magistrate, on behalf of plaintiff, stated that he had previously seen defendant, and had induced him to forego the prose cution, on the express un.derstanding that no action should be brought for :imprisonment. The Jury fouil for plaintiff—Damai ;es, is. MITS/ORDINARY CASE OF CONSPIRACY.--TRE QUEEN V. SPILLER, GORDON, JIOLT, AND MBYTES. The defendants in this case, who were four . in number, were named Spitler, Gordon, 'Li t , and Skeytes. They were indicted for conspiracy to gether to subject a person named Havers to the costs of certain legal proceedings, without his knowledge or consent, by entering an appearance for him in a cer tain case of Gordon v. Havers, without his knowledge, and also for conspiring to induce a person named Fogg to make a false affidavit of the service of a writ of summons, and other proceedings in a case of Gordon v. Havers. Mr. Thesiger, Mr. Clarkson, and Mr. Bodkin, con ducted the prosecution. The defendant Spiller, who is an attorney, conducted his own defence. The other defendants did not appear. The prosecutor, Mr. Havers, is a tanner, carrying on business in Bermondsey, and also occasionally dealing in corn. In 1840 defendantjGordon had pur chased some acorn of Havers, and had given a pro missory note in payment, which, however, he had not taken up when it became due. Before the note be came due Gordon asked Havers to sell some bricks for him, which Havers consented to de, and several thousands of bricks were accordingly sent to be dis posed of by Hervers for Gordon. Hervers sued Gordon on the note, and Gordon set up as a de fence that Hervers had purchased the bricks, which Hervers denied. At the trial Skeytes, an other of the present defendants, was called to prove this set off. The Jury, however, returned a ver dict for llevers for the amount of the bill. Gor- don was soon after arrested at the suit of Hervers ' and kept in prison until he had paid the debt and. costs. On his liberation from prison, Gordon deter mined to be revenged upon Hervers, sought out a person named Fogg, a man sunk in the lowest depths of poverty, and, by bribing Fogg highly, he induced him to enter into his schemes. Fogg declared his readiness to swear to the service of a wait on Hervers without serving him so, that, to use Gordon's own expression, " Hervers might be snapped up in j udg ment," witout having any notice that proceedings were pending against him. Fogg and Rogers, who had introduced him to Gordon, thereupon went to Mr. Garry, and instructed him to issue a writ in an action of debt against Hervers for the re covery of the bricks. Mr. Garry told them that an action of debt would not be, that the action must be in trover, and that a demand must previously be made, which demand Mr. Garry drew up, and which was served upon Havers by Fogg. Mr. Garry was no further employed in the transaction, but the parties went to the defendant Spiller, who issued a writ which was given to Fogg, who made an affi davit of service, without having ever served it. The same trick was played with regard to the declaration. All the proceedings were conducted without Havers knowing anything about them. Judgment was signed against him by default, and a writ of inquiry before the Sheriff was issued and delivered to Fogg, who swore to the service, Skeytes having been previously sent to ascertain that Hervers was at his country house, in order to prevent the possibility of Hervers proving an alibi. The writ of inquiry came on for hearing before Mr. James, the Secondary, when Skeytes was called on as a witness ; he swore that the bricks were in Herver's possession, and a verdict was entered for Gordon for 8621. Aca sa was im mediately issued, and Hervers was arrested, and an application was made to Lord Denman to discharge him. On that occasion Gordan told Fogg that he must make an affidavit to meet the affidavit of Her vers. Holt, the clerk of Spiller, preseuted an affidavit .ready engrossed, to Tegg, for his signature. Fogg signed the affidavit at the desire of Holt, but he was too ill to go to the Judge's Chambers whereupon Holt endeavoured to induce a man named Humber to take the affidavit, signed by Fogg, to go to the Judge's Chambers, to state that he was Fogg, and to swear to the affidavit. Humber refused to do this, and Fogg was subsequently taken to the Chambers in a cab, and swore to the affidavit. Fogg was the principal witness, and his evidence was fully corro borated in all its material parts by other witnesses. On his cross-examination by Spiller, Fogg distinctly admitted that Spiller had been kept in ignorance of his (Fogg's) proceedings throughout the matter ; that he (Fogg) had always told Spiller that the writs had been duly served, as he had understood it was in tended that Bpiller should be kept in the dark. Mr. THESIGER stated that Spiller had given up to the prosecutor all the papers connected with the case, and had withheld no information that it was in his power to gice. _ _ The defendant Spiller addressed the jury, and con tended that the evidence of Fogg, so far from impli cating him, completely exonerated him ; and with re gard to his connection with Holt, he begged to state thal he had dismissed Holt long since. Lord DENMAN interrupted him in the course of his address, for the purpose of intimating his opinion that there was no case against the defendant Spiller. The Foreman then said the Jury regret that Mr. Spiller should have been so mixed up with parties of the character of those who have given their evidence here to-day. but they find him Not, Guilty. The defendant, Holt, who was in Court, was called forward and asked what he had to say in his defence. Holt stated that he was quite taken by surprise, as he had understood that it was not the intention of the prosecutor to offer any evidence against him, and therefore he had not instructed Counsel. He had in- strutted Counsel on an indictment for subornating of perjury, to take a technical objection to the indict ment, but on the present occasion he had been taken completely by surprise. Lord DENMAN—AII this had better be brought before the Court by affidavit. Defendant Holt—Your Lordship does not order me to be detained now ? Lord DlNMAN—.Certainly not. The defendant Holt having said he was desirous to meet this case on its merits bowed and left the floor of the Court. Lord DENMAN then summed up the evidence, and ;he Jury returned a verdict of Guilty against Gordon, [Jolt, and Skeytes. STATE - OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of this day.) MAxcunsna.—The market has become considerably more quiet during the last few days,—a fact for which the advanced period of the year may perhaps suffi ciently account ; business being generally inactive on the near approach of Christmas. Yesterday the de mand for all descriptions, both of goods and yarn, was limited ; and a slight tendency to a decline of price was manifest in some counts of yarn, and in nearly all descriptions of goods, except 40-inch shirt ings, the manufacturers of which are so generally working to order, that very few goods are brought on the market. The actual decline, hewever,_was very slight, and was by no means submitted to,' us€,he bulk of the spinners and manufacturers, who ge9, ol Ally hold with confidence for a revival of activity in the market after the Christmas holidays. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, MONDAY, DEC. 12. —The demand for flannels is rather abating, and some what fewer have been sold at former hrices. The coarser qualities have met with the most ready sale. Very little has been done in the wool market, on account of the dealers attempting to obtain an advance in prices ; but ure r s in ar t e hi n s ot th a e b y le h t a o v a e i n ve ot it s , u w c i c tzo eed u e t d o , bastatihneinmgamnounfaecy or their goods. A NEIV WAY TO RAISE THE WIND.—We call ----- ,ne attention of our able contemporaries of the daily !Dress to a new and ingenious system of extortion lately sprung up, and now being practised by some " Chevaliers d'lndustrie," most suc cessfully, and to a very considerable extent. A real or pretended claim for a large amount is made against some company that has been dissolved within the Statute of Limi tations, the names and addresses of all the share holders are obtained, and where threats o f legal proceedings have failed numerous actions have been commenced. The demand,vary ing from 500/ to 2,0001., frightens , the poor defend ant, who, rather than run the risk of an action, (so und i en s fied asthe and so law re ignorant is sp t e h c e tin vi g jetimoin tstockcom- panies usually, asto the proceedings of the company he has so unfortu natelyor taken a few shares in), compromisesfor . o 100/. Thus, by the assistance of an unprincipled at torney, an enormous sum may be raised. If, how ever, the defendant is determined not to be imposed upon, and resists, the suit is most frequently aban doned. We give these hints to our friends now, be lieving that where any plaintiff has been proved to have been guilty of this system of extortion, even if he had a just claim, he would put himself out of court by his own irregular proceedings.—Raihray Magazine. A CHAPTER OF ACCIDENTS.—About eight o'clock on Saturday night last, the utmost alarm prevailed in the town of Abingdon, Berkshire. It appear s , that a short time previous to the above hour, the Cheltenham van, on arriving near the market-place, unhappily broke down, and the body, with its contents, falling against a small house on the road-side, did consider able damage to the frontage, and the unfortunate driver of the van very narrowly escaped being killed on the spot ; as it was, he sustained a dreadful fracture of the thigh, together with other serious injuries, and lies in a very deplorable state. Several articles of various descriptions, which the van had contained, were strewed about the road, and before they could be removed, a tandem, driven by two Oxonians at a rapid rate, came in col lision with the heterogenous mass, and an upset was the consequence. The driver fortunately escaped un hurt, but the groom, who was seated behind, was thrown with considerable force to the ground, and when picked up, it was discovered that his right arm was fractured between Zhe elbow and shoulder joints. The vehicle having got entangled with the wheels of the van, was shattered to atoms, and the shaft horse much injured. A few days previous to the above, a female lost her life near the same sport, by being driven over by two persons driving tandem; they, however, have hitherto managed to elude detection. : ERRATUM.—The amount paid per share in the Protector Life Assurance Company is only 11: instead of 2/., as it has been quoted inadvertently for some time past in our list. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 14, E 842 LAW INTELLIGENCE. ROLLS' COURT, Dec. 13. Several short causes and unopposed petitions were disposed of in the early part of the morning, after which was resumed the part-heard cause of TILE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. LORD CARRINGTON. This was an ex-officio information, which prayed for a declaration that the lands of the defendants at Humberstone, in Lincolnshire, were chargeable under the will of Mathew Humberstone, bearing date March 14th, 1708, with the payment of two annuities of 41. and of 401. respectively, to the curate or minister for the time being of Humberstone, upon the per formance by him of the services, as by the will di rected, of preaching every Sunday a sermpn in the morning and another in the evening, and readings divine service, and also during the week days of teaching the boys of Humberstone the English and Latin languages, writing, arithmetic, the casting of accounts, &c. In the yeak 1792 the estate was pur chased by the late Lord Carrington, subject to those annuities, and it was contended, therefore, that the property . was still liable to the charge. This view of the case was supported by Mr. Pem berton and Mr. Blunt for the Crown ; Mr. Cooper and Mr. Lovett on behalf of the vicar and master, Mr. Gedge. It was opposed by Mr. Teed and Mr. Oliver, who appeared for the trustees of the will of the late Lord Carrington, and by Mr. Green, who ap peared for the present Lord Carrington. The arguments were brought to a close to-day, and Lord Langdale delivered his judgment. His LORDSIIIP said the late Lord Carrington had purchased the property in question, liable, under the will of the testator, Mathew Humberstone, to the annuities mentioned in the pleadings, and which were made payable to the schoolmaster of the place for the time being. One thing was clear—namely, that the testator had intended that the curate and schoolmaster should be one and the same person, and the annuities were annuities not to the curacy, but to the school. The construction of the will was not now a question raised with the Court. Shortly after the death of the testator the cause came before the Court, and in the year 1755 a decree had been made establishing that the annuity of 401. was on a footing different from that of the 4/. annuity which had been devised in a part of the will subsequent to that refer ring to the 401. annuity. This latter annuity was to continue to be paid till a sufficient cause for its sub traction had arisen, and on the person bound to pay it, there rested an obligation to show the Court that there were good grounds for subtracting that annuity. The decree thus made had been confirmed by a subsequent decree. Afterwards a recovery was suffered, and the entire ownership was parted with subject to all the eharges on the estate and this charge among the rest. At the time the pro- . perty was sold it was supposed that the portion of it charged under the will was not liable till the sale of another estate, mentioned in the pleadings, had been effected. The conveyance re viled the will, and he must say, as to the words "during pleasure," that he very much doubted i!any one could say that the testator left that pro iision at the caprice or will of the casual ov6er of the state. The testator had willed the property upon trust :xpressly for the payment of those annuities. It had oeen said that Lord Carrington had been taken by surprise. That might be the case. But he (Lord Langdale) would not on that account withhold the annuity with which the property had been for ever charged. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. DEDIIAM SCHOOL. In this cause, which had been already discussed at considerable length before the Court, Lord LANGDALE decreed a reference to the Master, to inquire and re port if the trustees of the estate had died, who was the survivor, or who was the heir or devisee of the survivor, or in whom the legal estate vested. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Dec. 13. )Sittings at Nisi Prius, at the Guildhall, in the City of London, before Lord DENMAN and a London Common Jury.) RICHES V. TWENTYMAN. The plaintiff in this case is a builder, and the de fendant a gentleman residing in Avenue-road, Re gent's-park. The action was brought to recover 401. Bs. 6d., alleged to be due from defendant, for preparing estimates for the building of a house. Mr. Jervis and Mr. Humfrey conducted the case for the plaintiff, and Mr. Crowder and Mr. Thomas for the defendant. It was admitted that Riches had prepared the estimate ; hut, on the part of the defendant, it was contended that Riches was given distinctly to under stand that the estimate was to be prepared gratui tously, as the building was to be competed for, so as to give defendant the opportunity of accepting which contract he might think proper. This was denied by plaintiff, who contended that he had been expressly employed by Mr. Twentyman to prepare the estimate, without any reference to any competition for the contract. The work had been done in 1840, but no demand had been made, nor had the present action been brought, until May 1842. The Jury found a verdict for the defendant. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Dec. 13. SMITH V. GORDONS.-FALSE IMPRISONMENT. The Court was occupied the whole of the morning with this case, which in its general bearing is of an unusual and somewhat important character. It was conducted for the plaintiff by Mr. Sergeant Tal fourd ; and Sir T. Wilde appeared for the defendants. It appeared that the plaintiff, in 1833, was captain of an East India trader, the Frances Charlotte, and in that year received from the defendants a letter of credit for 1001. upon their agent at Hobart Town, Van Diemen's Land. On touching at that port, the credit was duly honoured by the agent, Mr. M'Laughlin, who on payment of the 1001. received from plaintiff a bill of exchange drawn upon a merchant in London, named Kane, his owner, on whose behalf the letter of credit was given for the necessary disbursements of the ship at Van Diemen's Land. This bill of ex change was to be remitted to Messrs. Gordon, and in such cases it was the practice of Mr. M'Laughlin to have the bill drawn in three parts or duplicates, en dorsing each of them ; and to remit one by the first ship, another by a second, and to retain the third. On this occasion the first part was put on board the ship Rifleman, which is supposed to have been lost on the passage, not having been heard of since 1838. The defendants having informed their agent in the colony that the bill had not been received, he remitted the second part, which, however, he had forgotten to endorse; but this did not reach England until 1835. When the defendants sent the bill to the house of Kane for acceptance he could not be met with ; and, after considerable delay, the defendants took out a writ against Captain Smith, and arrested him on board his ship at Sheerness, in his cabi n , a t e i g ht o'clock of the morning on which his vessel was to sail with convicts to Van Diemen's Land. Smith, who was well known at Sheerness, where he possessed pro perty, paid the amount of the alleged debt and costs into the hands of the Sheriff, and the case proceeded to trial, when the defendants failed to establish their claim as against him. The present action was ac cordingly brought for that arrest, as unfounded and malicious, considerable stress being laid by the plaintiff upon the fact, that the defendants postponed the arrest until the morning when he was about to sail ; whereas they could have arrested him any day for months before in London, and the manner and time of the arrest were calculated to have a very bad effect upon his officers and the convicts under his care upon the ensuing voyage. The defence now was that the ground of action against Captain Smith was real and bona fide, and that the defendants had waited to the last moment in the hopes of obtaining their money without harsh measures. The Loup CHIEF JUSTICE said that, although the defendants had not made out their claim in the action against the plaintiff; yet that did not show that they . had not su c h reasonable ground as would justify them in the steps they had taken. But he thought that, as the bill had not been duly presented or accepted, they had not such reasonable ground ; and it would, there. fore, be for the Jury to conside r w h ether they were actuated by malicious motives, and w h at compensa tion the plaintiff was fairly entitled to. The Jury then retired to consider their verdict, and, after some deliberation, found for the plaintiff—Da mages, One Farthing. PREROGATIVE COURT, Dec. 13. MEDOWCROFT V. HIIBININ. This case involved a nice point of law. The tes tator in the case was a Mr. Medowcroft, the father of the plaintiff, who was married by banns many years ago—in 1815. His name, however, was entered wrongly in the church book, " Widowcroft" instead of Medowcroft, and in consequence of that error, in the following year a suit for nullity of marriage was commenced in the Consistorial Court of London, and the nullity pronounced for by Lord Stowell, who con sidered the proceeding a fraudulent one. In the course of time Medowcroft died, and notwithstand ing the judgment of the Court against her marriage, the lady who had been married to him took out let ters of administration as his widow. Since that period, however, information has, it i s a ll ege d, reac h e d the ear of the plaintiff—the issue of their cohabitation —that the judgment of the Consistorial Court had been given on false facts ; that there had been fraud and collusion in obtaining it ; that the directions sent to the parish clerk, or rather his daughter, who entered the name in the church book, gave the correct name without error ; that there had been no fraud in giving the names, and as that was the sole ground of ord Stowell's decision, that decision might be re versed by the Court; the son might be considered as the legitimate issue of a legal marriage and probate granted to him. The interest amongst the parties is naturally much increased by the circumstance, that under the will of an uncle, the plaintiff, if pronounced legitimate will be entitled to 80,0001. An allegation on his behalf was this day offered, in which the facts of the case are stated. The proofs o f th e va lidity of the marriage, on which the Court is asked to reverse the decision of Lord Stowell, are mainly assertions of the wife, who since the death of Medoycroft mar tied, and is now the widow of Mr. Hubinin, a Lieu tenant in the navy ; and who declares that the names were correctly sent to the parish clerk, and assertions also (including a dying declaration) of the parish clerk's daughter, who entered the names into the church books, that in her belief the name had been accurately sent, and that the error had occurred through her carelessness. Other facts are stated in support of this view of the case, but the declarations of Mrs. Hubinin and of the clerk's daughter were mainly relied on. Thus much for the mere circumstances of the case, but the grand point in dispute is the question of law whether a Court of Probate could incidentally set at defiance and overturn the deliberate and direct judgment of a spiritual Court, given as to the validity of a marriage—a subject especially within its juris diction. Dr. Addams and Dr. Robinson opposed the ad missibility of the allegation ' • and Dr. Phillimore and Dr. R. Phillimore supported it. Sir H. J. FUST would take time to consider the important question of law which was raised upon the admissibility of this allegation ; but as to the facts pleaded in it, he feld bound at once to state that the allegation required very material alterations. Upon these being made, the Court would decide the grave and important question of law which had been raised upon it. VALTRASS V. MALTRASS, This was a suit as to the validity of a will made subsequently to the operation of the new Will Act (1838) by a resident of Smyrna. The will was holograph, and signed by the testator, but it was not attested, and the question was whether, under the law applicable to residents at Smyrna, situated as this testator was, the paper was or was not valid ? In the allegation now offered for admission, it waspleaded that, according to the Turkish law, no wills were allowed to be made by Turkish subjects, but that their property was divided amongst their relatives, ac cording to a fixed and regular proportion. But a very material difference also arose as to the fact whe ther the testator was or was not an English, or whether a Turkish subject. What was his history ? To com mence, as most histories commence, with the father— his father was a man, who, eighty years ago, left this country for Smyrna. He there obtained a situation as clerk to the mercantile house of Leigh and Co., and, by industry and perseverance, subsequently be came a partner in the firm. He there married, and several childre4 were the issue. Of these the testator was the eldest, and when six years old, was sent to England to obtain those advantages which an English education can alone afford. At the age of fourteen he returned to Smyrna, became clerk in the house of his father, and following in his steps, subsequently was the principal. For many years he there resided, and, without again visiting England, breathed his last in the same town in which he had drawn his first breath. Was he then an English or a Turkish subject ? Against the validity of the paper it was contended that of necessity the testator was either a domiciled subject of Turkey or of England—that if he was a subject of Turkey, then he was not entitled to make any will, and that if he was a subject of England, then the present paper was not a valid paper, and must be rejected. _ _ . Dr. Pnluamoam opposed the admissibility of the allegation, and her Majesty's Advocate and Dr. Phil limore, jun., supported it. The COURT, adopting the arguments of the former, thought that neither under the Turkish nor the Eng lish law could the paper be a valid will, and therefore rejected the allegation. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec. 13. IN RE WHITMORE, WELLS, AND COMPANY. The bankrupts in this case were the well-known bankers of Lombard-street, against whom the fiat issued in the month of July, 1841. The aggregate amount of debts was stated to be about 260,0001., out of which a dividend of 6s. in the pound had been paid up to the last meeting. The assignees had proved against the estate of Daventry, Ryle, and Co., of Manchester, for the enormous sum of 220,0001., on behalf of the bankrupts, when the above firm of Daventry and Co. became insolvent, but of this sum only ls. 6d. in the pound would be available for the estate. This day being appointed for de claring a further dividend, a sum of 2s. more in the pound was announced, making in the whole Bs. in the pound paid to the creditors. Several affidavits of debts were tendered in Court, which were informal, when The LEARNED COMMISSIONER observed that he felt strongly inclined to reject those proofs, because the parties tendering them neglected to comply with the rules as pointed out by the New Bankruptcy Amend ment Act. He wished it to be publicly understood that in all cases henceforth he would require the strictest compliance with those rules, and when such was not the case he would undoubtedly prohibit the admission of the proofs. CRIMINAL COURT. CENTRAL OL D COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) The charge against Patrick L. Strachan, agai ns t whom a true bill was found at th e l ast sess i on for misdemeanour, having been called on , an d t h e de fendant discharge o f hi s recogn i zances, applied gin te the Court t o or d er t h at t h ey Mr. PAYNEnota p pear i i ) might be estreated. Mr. CLARKSON, on behalf of the defendant, wished the Court would not accede to the application, as he pwliazedcertiorari had been ap nworditouobft, informed for, and would,t h a that a be granted. Mr. PAYNE said it was usual to give notice to the prosecutors of the intention to apply for a writ of certiorari, and they had not received any such notice. The RECORDER thought that many cases were re moved from this Court, which, if the Learned Judges who granted the certiorari were aware of all the facts, would not be so. He was of opinion that this was the proper Court for the trial of such offences, and no more fair tribunal could be found, in asmuch as the Jurors were selected from all parts of the county. The defendant was then called upon his recog nizances, and no answer was returned. The RECORDER inquired the amount of the bail, and he was informed that the defendant had entered into his own recognizances in 5001., with two sureties in 501. each. The bail were then called, but they, also, were nol ;o be found. The recognizances were then ordered to be estreated NEW CO URT. : THE WESTMINSTER LOAN SOCIETIN—Aaron Smith and John Shiels, late Managers of the West minster Joint-stock Loan Society, surrendered upon an indictment for conspiracy in charging a person of the name of Boast of felony. M se r c . utn Clarksonio,and Mr. and Mr. Bodkin appeared for the prosecution, B a llantine and Mr. Huddlestone for the defendants. Mr. CLARKSON said the facts of the case were briefly these. The prosecutor was a person who had frequent bill transactions with the Westminster Loan Society. In the latter part of last year differences arose be tween them ; some proceedings were taken before Mr. Henry, at the Union-hall police-office, Boast being the prosecutor. • On one occasion that Boast visited the defendants, he by accident dropped a bill of ex change, drawn up by himself, but whth was not ac cepted or indorsed. Subsequent to this, a bill of exchange was taken by the defendant Smith to a iv , Captain Cole, who had ofte n l en t th e p rosecu t or hi s name, and was his intimate f r i en d. Smith produced the note with the signature " R o b er t C o l e " a tt a ch e d, and said, is that your writi ng ? an d h e sa id a t once that it was not. Smith then said, " Oh, then it is a forgery," and went away. Next day the prosecutor in for gery, and committed for t r ial. The Grand Jury, how th e i v s e c r, as i e gn w o as red g theen in custody on a charge of bill and this indictment was therefore instituted agai ns t th e d e f en dants. Several policemen w ere ca ll e d t o urove th e f ac t s as they occurred at the police-office. Captain Robert Cole stated that he lived in the Kennington-road. The prosecutor was his friend, and was a surgeon, residing in the Blackfriars-road. The bill produced was not signed by witness, and the signature, "David Boast," was not the signature of the prosecutor. _ Evidence was then tendered, showing that malice had existed on the Part of the defendants aga i nst t h e prosecutor, and on one occasion Shiels said he would transport Boast, if it cost him 20,0001. - David Boast was called and corroborated the evi dence of Captain Col e. On cross-examination he admitted having been a bankrupt four times, and once passed through the Insol vent Court. His debt s i n the first ba nk ruptcy amoun t e d to 8,000/. He did not know that any dividend had been paid. In the beginning of this year he went out of the way. It was not because a charge was made against him of forgery. Would not swear that he had not been accused of forgery. Would not swear that he had not accused a person of adultery with his own wife, that person being now in the closest intimacy with him. Declined saying w h et h er h e h a d lived in adul try himself. His wife was li v ing, but he did not live with her. He had be en marr i e d 26 years . The CoMMoN would be better for all part i es if t h e case were with drawn. SERGEANT here suggested that it the Learned Counsel consulted together for some time, and Mr. CLARKSON said h e wou ld , on the part of his client, withdraw the i n di ctment, if , a promise were mad e t h at uo f ur th er proceeding s should be taken. on the other side, Mr. BALLANTINE said he would promise that no further proceedings should be taken. The COMMON SERGEANT said he did not think the case could be made out if proceeded with. Mr. CLARKSON said he felt it to be his duty to state that he did not entirely rest his case on the evidence of Boast, which the Jury might think doubtful, after the disclosures which had been made. The COMMON SERGEANT—I think it not a very creditable affair to any of the parties. Mr. Alderman FAREBROTIIER—And to show what we think of it, we will allow no expenses. The case was then withdrawn, and the defendants liberated. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET. A young man, of gentlemanly appearance and ad dress, named Lewis Knight Bruce, and who, it was said, was the son of Sir James Knight Bruce, was placed at the bar yesterday before Mr. Jardine, charged with having wilfully broken two squares of glass, value 4s. each, in a window in Holywell-street, Strand, under the following circumstances : George Clerke, an errand boy in the service of a person named Patterson, whose house in the above named street has of late become somewhat notorious in consequence of blasphemous placards being exhi bited in the shop window, stated that he was inside the shop about one o'cicck in the afternoon, in the act of serving a customer, when he saw the defendant standing outside and smearing the glass with dirt, which he picked off the stceet with his stick. He instantly went out to desire him to desist, when he smashed one of the panes against which a paper was exhibited with the stick he held in his hand, and then took out the paper, at the same time telling witness to remove another placard from another part of the window or he would smash that also. The defendant here said he unfortunately did not succeed in possessing himself of the second placard. Witness then took the second paper from the win dow, which the defendant tried to snatch from him, but did not succeed, and having followed him to a pastry cook's shop in the Strand, he called a constable and gave him into custody. The defendant said he had merely retired to the pastrycook's to give a gentleman some refreshment who had expressed his disgust at the abominable ex hibition. Witness, in continuation, said his master vs as from home at the time, and the defendant told him if he (witness) was a little taller he would smash him with his stick. Each pane was worth 45., which was the price paid for them when they were broken on a former occasion. Pierce Rice, a fruit-seller, 52, Holywell-street, proved he saw a mob round the opposite window, in consequence of the defendant talking about the blas phemous placards, which he said he would ha ve t a k en down, but upon the last witness saying his master was not at home, the defendant then said—" I shall take them out myself." He then deliberately lifted up the stick and gave the window a good tap, eo as to break it, without, however, doing any further in jury ; and having torn down the placard he handed it to another person in the street, and the defendant subsequently tore it up. After remaining for some time asking for the police, that the boy might give him in charge, as there was no constable at hand, de fendant walked away into the Strand. The boy ac cordingly followed to look for a constable, and witness having seen the occurrence, thought it his duty to come forward and give evidence. The defendant said he would feel much obliged if the Magistrate would read the placard. Mr. Burnaby, the chief clerk, having placed the fragments together, laid them on the bench for the Magistrate's inspection. The defendant assured the Court that the contents of it were mild comparatively with the others which were exhibited in the other parts of the window, and in the interior of the shop, for they were of such an awful character as to make the hair stand on end of any person who read them. He was actuated by a laudable disgust in the part he had taken in the matter, and he had no hesitation in declaring he would have thrashed the master of the house had he met with him. He was glad at what had happened, as it would bring the matter to an issue, and particularly as he saw some poor ignorant persons drinking in such putrefaction ; yes, it could be called nothing but a horrible putrefaction, and he considered he was but doing a duty he owed to the public in destroying such exhibitions. He was passing by chance on his way to his father's, and not being able to restrain his feelings before he committed the act, he was not prepared with any witness. Whatever the damage was, he would willingly pay if the Court thought proper, but he would again assure the Magistrate, that the placard produced was holy and righteous, compared with the other which still remained in the shop. Mr. JARDINE, having read the placard, said he was not at all surprised at the course the defendant had taken, and for which every excuse might be made. He was exceedingly glad Mr. Bruce had acted in such a manner, because it helped to bring the matter im mediately into Court, for which the public ought to thank him, as through him there would be no diffi culty in bringing the case home to the parties who published such placards. He hoped Mr. Bruce would have no objection to lend his assistance in following up the prosecution, and for what he had done he would inflict no fine, but direct that he should pay for the damage he had done. Mr. Bruce immediately paid the money, and Mr. JARDINE requested him to m ar k th e pieces of the bill, in order that he might identify them on an other occasion. Mr. Bruce complied with this request, and was about to leave the Court, when Mr. JARDINE told him that he had ordered the money for the windows to be paid into Court, in order that the proprietor might come and fetch if he dared. Mr. Bruce said he should have great pleasure in giving all the assistance in his power, in order that the ends of justice might be compassed, and having thanked Mr. Jardine for his kind attention to the case, he withdrew. DEXTEROUS CAPTURE OF POACHERS. A very short time ago, consequent upon a well-laid train, two of the most audacious poachers in this dis trict were captured at Washington, in thii locality. Information having been obtained by the constituted authorities here, that two of the most notoriously des perate characters that have infested this range for some time past were prowling about near at hand, their lurk ing-place was ferreted out by our active rural policeman and assistants ; but from the daringly reckless charac ter of the gang it was deemed advisable to delay any attempt to capture until a strong force was mustered, for which purpose a messenger was dispatched with the intelligence oftheir being found out, and, at the same time, a request was made to the agent of the Perthshire Game Protection Association here that a strong force might be dispatched without loss of ti me . Accord- ingly, the recruiting party of the 93d Highlanders, stationed here, consisting of a sergeant and three pri vates, were sent off to the scene of action without a moment's loss of time, and very soon thereafter joined the policemen. After stationing a part of the force round the house to render futile any attempt at es cape, the sergeant and his men went in and demanded if those they were in pursuit of were within ? and were answered by the inmate in the negative ; but, of course, discrediting this st a t emen t, th e i r warrant was produced, and a search determined on, which proved unsuccessful in the first instance, but on their entering another apartment, in which was a closed-In bed, and on casting a glance in that direc tion, there the two delinquents were seen snugly ensconced, enjoying a very sound and no doubt refreshing sleep, as it appeared from the head of game stowed in a closet in the room that they had had a pretty hard, as it was certainly, a suc cessful day's sport. The soldiers went close to the bed, presented their fire-arms, and demanded them to sit up in bed and allow themseives to be handcuffed. which they had no alternative but to submit to, although accompanied by a good many threats and shrugging of the shoulders. On their being band cuffed, a search was made in the room ; and in the closet above referred to were found two double barrelled guns, both barrels of each gun loaded, six pheasants and five hares, procured of course by illicit means. On their being secured, they were ordered out of bed, unshackled, and requested to dress, which they did, and were then marched off to' this town, where they were kept in custody all night, and sent off to gaol next morning. —Perth Advertiser. In Scotland, therefore, where, as we learn from the report of the Renfrewshire meeting, people must starve or break the law, poaching seems by some classes to be considered tantamount to murder. If these men, instead of having killed a pheasant, or snared a hare, had slain a fellow-creature, what stronger lan guage could be used than that of this paragraph, and what more vigorous measures could be taken than to call out the military to apprehend them. Does the Com mander-in-Chief tolerate such an employment of soldiers ? Does the community submit to an income tax that an army may be kept up for the protection of the landlords' pheasants against starving men ? We have not of late met with many paragraphs more pregnant than this with the conviction that there is something essentially wrong in our political regula tions.—ED. Sun. FALL OF A GRANARY.—On Thursday evening, about twenty minutes past seven o'clock, the people residing in York-street were startled by an extraor dinary crash, accompanied by a simultaneous shock, as if produced by some subterraneou3 convulsion. On inquiry, it turned out that the alarm had been pro duced by the fall of a grain store, situated to the rear of the elegant and substantial bonding warehouses in York -street. The building which was thus unexpec tedly levelled with the ground, was of considerable extent, being four stories in height, and about forty six feet in length, and, at the time the casualty took place, contained a large quanity of grain. The loss we have heard estimated, altogether, at between 4,0001. and 5,000/. ; upwards of 2,0001. will, it is stated, be required to restore the building. Fortunately, no person was injured.—Glasgow Paper. ANTI-CORN-LAW MEETING AT LINCOLN. A meeting was held in the Guildhall in the city of Lincoln, which was crowded, on Friday, the 9th De cember, called by the Mayor, in compliance with a requisition signed by 378 of the inhabitants. 'The MAYOR stated that he would not interfere with politics, and a Mr. Hodson (a working man) was called to the chair. The meeting was addressed by a Mr. AKULL, who moved the first resolution, and ended by thanking the Anti-Corn-Law League for their exertions in the cause offree trade. lie pledged the meeting to sup port the League, and invited Mr. Cobden and other gentlemen to visit Lincoln. ......,...... Mr. isiZuToN gave the following valuable statistical infornuttion : Debtors in the Felons. Flour per City gaol.stone. 1834 1835 1836 ............ 30 1837 s. d. 1 10 1 8 2 0 2 4 Total. 1839 . 1840 . 1841 . 1842 . 29 48 27 .... 51 50 ..... 68 2 8 3 4 2 10 2 10 Total... 154 203 2 91 The usual number of applications for nightly shelter in the Union until lately were 6, i. e., about 80 per quar ter. The Governor of the Union remarked, whereas the old applicants were regular trade beggars—those who now applied were intelligent, well educated artisans, and that he had derived much valuable information from them. Mr. N. further stated, that supposing the number of families in Lincoln at 2,000, they would consume yearly 312,000 stone of flour, the cost of which, at the low average of 1834 to 1836, would be 28,6001., but at the high average of the last five years, 42,900/. ; that the people of Lincoln had, therefore, paid 100,0001. more the last four years than the pre vious for flour alone ! And that, even supposing all this 100,0001. had been spent with the tradesmen of Lincoln, they would only realize the profit, say one fifth, of what had been taken from them. After more valuable local information, showing that wages had not increased since 1834-5 proportionately with the rise in flour, an earnest address to the working men, and an expose of the intimidation attempted to deter the men of Lincoln from joining the League, Mr Norton sat down amidst vehement cheering. The resolutions were carried. Mr. MURRAY delivered a very racy, eloquent, and pointed address, and at the conclusion of his speech, a vote of thanks was proposed to the Chairman and Mr. Murray, and the meeting separated. THE CANADIAN FLOUR TRADE. According to the "American Almanac" for 1843, the aggregate amount of the crops of grain and potatoes in the United States last year, is equal to 755,200,000 bushels, or 42k bushels to each in habitant, man, woman, and child. As this is con siderably more than double the amount per head which Great Britain produces, the people of the United States have not only enough for themselves, but a considerable surplus for export. With us the grand difficulty is, how to get a sufficient supply of food at all times ; with them the chief difficulty is, how to dispose of their superfluous produce. So long as our sliding scale exists, it would be unrea sonable to expect them to send any considerable quantity of corn direct to England ; but we perceive from the American papers, that a brisk traffic in grain and flour is going on between the United States and Canada, from which we shall, no doubt, reap some benefit; although much less than we should do, were our ports thrown open to the admission of wheat and flour, direct from the United States. The following extracts from the New York Herald, of November 19, will show that the Canadians are anticipating a brisk trade in flour with Great Britain : " The average price of flour in this country is now 3,75 dollars a barrel—lower than it has ever been. On the lakes, large quantities of breadstuffs are crowding forward to market. Vessels of all kinds are in demand, millers are active buying wheat at 40 to 70 cents a bushel, and the great western intercommunications are alive with waggons loaded down with grain. Vast quantities, comparatively speaking, are going to Ca nada, vast quantities are given to cattle, vast quantities are storing, and vast quantities are seeking a market. There is no colouring in this. Everything indicates the great yield of last year. " FLOUR AND WHEAT SHIPPED FOR BUFFALO. Years ending Flour bbls. Wheat bush. October, 1838 39,463 215,600 )9 1839 50,922 203,120 77 1840 101,076 163,320 77 1841 87,272 247,656 1843 144,079 378,945 " The aggregate of this month was greatly re duced, perhaps twenty-five per cent., in consequence of many boats taking the Niagara river route to Black Rock, instead of the canal, which they were compelled to do for want of sufficient water between Buffalo and that place. " As an evidence of the magnitude of the operations in the Buffalo grain market, we would mention the fact, that, of the immense amount of wheat received within three days ending 11th instant, not over 40,000 bushels remained unsold. This, for the opera tions of two days, in the most unfavourable weather, will probably challenge competition with the grain market of any other city in the Union, and perhaps in the world. " This indicates that America will soon be the gra nary of the world. If it were not for tariffs, we could now supply Europe with at least five millions barrels of flour, worth twenty-five millions of dollars—one hundred and fifty per cent. more than we ever ex ported. Will our farmers think of this ? Let them ponder well on protective tariffs." From another part of the same paper we learn, that some 50,000 bushels of wheat had been sold at Buf falo within a few days, at the average price of 624- cents., about 20s. per quarter. The greater portion of this would no doubt be purchased by Canadian millers, who, after converting it into flour, will send it to this country as Canadian produce; the - duty on flour from our British possessions being only 3s. per barrel at present, while on foreign flour it is 12s. per barrel. We perceive that the general average price of wheat in Great Britain, for the week ending Decem ber 3, is 48s. 6d. per quarter, which is just about 30s. below what it was four years ago. Making eery reasonable allowance for the abundance of the late harvest, and also for the falling off in the con sumption of flour, owing to the general poverty of the labouring classes, we cannot help thinking that the depressed condition of the market is in no small de gree owing to the belief of the farmers that, what with the importation of United States corn through Canada, and what with other changes which may be made at no distant period, the days of agricultural protection are at an end. Manchester Guardian. THE CORN -LAWS.—A public meeting of the Lam beth Chartists was held last evening at the Britannia Tavern, Waterloo-road, to take into consideration the propriety of calling a public meeting of the friends o' Reform, relative to the Conference about to be holden at:Birmingham. After the special business of the meet ing was disposed of, Mr. J. Daws rose to call the at tention of the Chartist body to the conduct of certain persons calling themselves Chartists, who made it their study to go about disturbing meetings called for the purpose of repealing these obnoxious laws, which deprived the working man of food for his family. He need but to mention that he meant the Corn-laws— (Hear, hear)—and he was sure no upright Chartist would sanction any opposition to a body of men oppos ing laws so unjust and ruinous. He could assure the Chartist body that such interference had injured the progress of a reform in the franchise more than all the acts of a despotic Tory Ministry, and would sub mit the following resolution to the meeting :—" That this meeting fully deprecates the conduct of those persons who have hitherto interfered at meetings called for the purpose of lecturing on the Corn-laws, or on any other subject, and consider such inter ference as a serious injury to the cause of Chartism, and wholly incompatible with the cause we advocate —freedom of public opinion." The resolution was then seconded, and carried unanimously by a very crowded meeting. COLLEGE LIFE.—We are requested to state that " College Life," by J. Hewlett, M.A., late of , WTor cester Colleg e , O x f or d, au th or o f " P e t er P r iggins,' " The Parish Clerk," &c., in 3 vols., is published this day by Mr. Colburn, of Great Marlborough-street, and may now be had at all the libraries. Mr. Col burn has also just published the following popular new novels :-1. Phil - was Quiddy, by John Poole, Esq., author of " Paul Pry," &c., 3 vols. 2. The Naval Club, by M. H. Barker, Esq. (the Old Sailor), author of " Tough Yarns," &c., 3 vols. 3. Self-Devotion, or the History of Katharine Randolph, by the au thoress of "The Oaly Daughter," edited by the author of " The Subaltern," &c., 3 vols. 4. The Nabob at Home, by the author of " Life in India," &c., 3 vols. 5. The Czarina, an llistorical Romance, by Mrs. Hof land, S vols. 6. Masaniello, an Historical Romance, edited by Horace Smith, Esq., 3 vols. 7. The Ma ncevring Mother, by the authoress of " The History of a Flirt," 3 vols. a. The School for Wives, by the authoress of " 'Temptation," 3 vols. The Semaphore of Marseilles contains the follow ing article :—" Barcelona, Dec. 4.—The treaty of commerce has just been signed by Espartero. The English 1-nd him 160,000,000 reals, and he gives them in exchange the entrance of the port of Barce lona for the introduction of their goods, with which they will soon inundate all Spain." French editors are verily a strange people, SIR WILLIAM NOTT. It may not be generlly known out of Carmarthen. that the father of the gallant General, the fame of whose glorious achievements in India will occupy as bright and distinguished a page in our military annals, was a very respectable innkeeper in this town, (Carmarthen). The hostelrie of Nott, mine host of the Ivy Bush here, was a well-accustomed one; and Mr. Nott, brought up well his three sin, :Me* ungest of whom, William Nott, is tho so,clior Dor uneg on whom her Majesty, a few days since, bestowed the Grand Cross of the Order of the Bath. A sur viving elder brother of General Nott is now residing at Carmarthen. General Nott, when a lad, assisted in husbandry operations, ploughing and harrowing with his own hands ; so it may be said, in this case literally, that the ploughshare was exchanged for the hero's sword. Carmarthen is justly proud of having given birth to so great a General, who is also believed to be a very amiable man. A corre spondent supplies the following anecdote :—" Soon after the landing of the French at Fishguard, last war it will be -remembered, almost all the inhabitants 0 the different towns in Great Britain formed them selves into volunteer corps. There was one at Cow bridge, commanded by a Major Bevan. The present General Sir Wm. Nott was at that time at school there, under the tuition of Mr. Thomas Williams , master of the mathematical academy at that town. The boys, on field days, generally got a holiday; and it happened on one occasion, when the corps was out firing ball-cartridge at a mark, that some of the boys asked permission of Major Bevan to be permitted t o t r y th e i r skill also. Th e Major good-naturedly complied, and desired some of the men to load a few muskets for the lads. When the boys began to fire away, up comes s, Mr. Thomas, of the Cross, a n attorney; he endeavour ed to take a musket f rom one o f th e young gentlernept; which Nott perceiving, he immediately went to th assistance of his schoolfellow, and wrested the P iet* from the attorney. Hi g h words ensued, and youn g s Nott took off his c oa t t o fi g ht, th ou gh the man a sort of elephant, as bi g aga i n as himself, but Wta t he . officers interfered and stopped the fight. Nott Nos w e' ways considered hi g h- sp i r it e d, an d i n this case it as the general opinion th a t h e wou ld have thrash ed his man had he been permitted. Young Nott was ins sidered as_the he ro o f th e school, and the j unior took shelter under his w i ng i n all their little difficlav ties."—The Welshman. REDUCTION OF THE SUGAR DUTIES.---T" T 114" WITH BRAZIL —For some time the West India inter est have been l a b our i ng t o secure as good terms as possible for themselves in that change of the sug. duties, which h as now b ec O me i nev it a ble, and, acorn. ing to the account given by the Manchelter Guarflgi. of the futur e ra t es o f duty on pl an tation and Brazi lian sugar, they ha ve succeeded even beyond their bore s ' so far as their own produce is concerned, whatever WI may have done with regard to Brazilian. Th e futu re ... duty on plant a ti on sugar, it is stated, is, to be r 16s, Pe r cwt., which i s l ess than what the West Indians Wel,`l willing to have bargained for, namely, 2d. per lb ; an that on Brazili an i s to be 30s. The former is a re: duction of Bs. on the existing duty (which is 245. P!:`, cwt.), and also on the duty under the Bill propos7. by the Whigs ; an d it w ill cause an immediat e ins ' of upwards of a million and a quarter to the re venue. The expected duty on Brazilian su g e . is a reducti on o f 6s. per cwt. beyond what wa proposed by the Whi gs ; but as it will open a neo y; f branch of trade, and reduce the selling Pric e ;0 sugar to about 50s. per cwt., it will probably such a stimulus to 'consumption as will very se e _ . make up for the loss in the duty on plantation suga r. The substitution of a duty of 30s. per cwt. on Brazi lian sugar will doubtless be a great improvement 01l the present prohibitory system, though even that rat of duty is much too high, as it will compel eve % person who buys a hundred weight of sugar to pal di _ premium of 14s. to th e W es t I n dia planter, in an o f tion to the 16s. which he pays for the parpesese revenue, and the 18s. or 20g. which he pays to o thetf grower and import e r o f th e ar ti c le. So fully d West India planters reckon on an important alte rs i ; tion being made in the sugar duties in the next sess io n of Parliament, that at the opening of the Jamaica Legislature last month a Committee was endeavour to obtain a suitable differential dutYdil: favour of British plantation sugar. They will h i° o i t have the conscience to ask more than Governme, appears to disposed to give, which is a differential thnli, of no less than 14s. on a duty of 165., that is, 87 P e appointed cent.—Leeds Mercury. held SUICIDE.—Mr. Carter, the Coroner for Surrey, the an inquest at half-past one yesterday afternoon , at of York Hotel, Waterloo-bridge-road, on the body Louisa Caroline Smith, a fine girl of 16, who It ter° nated her existence on Friday , night last. e P t : peared, from the evidence of her mother, a resP e , able widow, residing at 16, Charles-street, Osic'B•7l; street, that the deceased had, for sometime past/ be g e h e serving in the house of an invalid lady, w hence had been discllarged for some acts of petty theft; - 0 , spending the money thus got, by pledging the Pr t perty, 111 theatres and other places o f amtls el l e : She had been attach e d t o a respec t a bl e young ' —n d the son of a m as t er t a il or , i n t h e W ater l o o-road, sri they had for a considerable time been keeping cornP"):; Latterly, ho wever , h e d roppe d h er soc iety, and thl treatment preyed very much upon her kept her always desponding. She frequen tly, Tinfic:rns. sequence, threatened to destroy herself. Las!, business, day afternoon witness went out after sonle." 00 h e r leaving deceased at home with the children' Louisa had Loin return, the elder child told her that riot spirits, anc.i. She did 11 gone out, and taken 2s. sd. with her. n ext dal' return home that evening, but she was se en i n the by a person in the New Cut, Lambeth , andWest evening of the same day by another party near n in minster Abbey. Next morning, a young' r a te ' rloo dre-dging machine, at the south side of a „Ince, bridge, picked up h er b o dy, and, from the app eBl statethe it could not hav e b een more than five or six hours i river. Verdict—" C omm itted suicide whil e in a " of temporary derangement." jYe FATAL ACCIDENT AT CARN BREA. Cllr' have very great pain in havingto announce the . ou.,loss rence of an accident at these mines , attended oft to one of the miners, and very serious n° t ection injuries to a great many others ; besides a deS.',,r . to of property variously estimated at from B v,v, l _ , 1,0001., the principal part of which loss all fal iv is its understand, upon the labouring men. Ther e ban ge large shed on the mine, in which the men c i, an d grou nd ' their clothes previous to going under again when they leave work. The apartme n : , : is; about 150 feet long and 12 feet wide, withi n the ,")40 but as there was a row of lockers, or cupborrwas each side of about two feet in depth, the sne°,,., o f narrowed to eight feet. There were nearly . 4 r u p these cupboards, in which the miners lonkeuvider, their wearing apparel, tools, candles, and I . ° fifty On Wednesday morning, about forty ni o der men were in ' the place, preparing for going Jo hn • ground, when a young man of the name of door , Waters, whose locker was very near was pouring out gunpowder from a palter of s e P or ri • dred cask into a small canister, which he WaS under ground, his candle which he had gal , u n no r n the iron pipe above him, fell, or dropped a spark the powder, and produced a terrible explosio. ,"..,hen appears to have been shattered so much, th 3 v " the c e his remains were collected it was only frorn th t tainty that no other person was missing a d been could be known to be his. His father, wh o d ba by the standing near him, was also so much injure d live to explosion, that it was doubtful if he w°u N , here h e reach his home in Crowan Church-tow n : v an ars ex plosion was immediately removed. The to have set the lockers on both sides of the explosio n ns c on g stantly in a blaze ; and as there was distributed s a m v ery them upwards of 10 cwt. of gunpowder, large quantity of candles, the flames spread s occasioning a constant succession of explosiose n yera. Of might be heard for several miles around. ~) mu' the men in endeavouring to escape were tool ' , tilated.— West Briton. On the 9th inst., at the Grove, Hi ghgate, BIRTHS. r Smi, of a son. th Mrs. the 10th inst., at Guildhall, J. Temple , of a sorb On the 10th inst., at Orsett House, Mrs. George Iliac°. nachie, of a son. t J. On the 11th inst., at Coptfold Hall, Essex , the lady °- A. Hardcastle Eh' in sq., of at a daughter. I On the 11tst., Heath Lodge, Iver, Mrs. A' .Ed wards, of a son. On the 11th inst., at Greenwich, the lady Lemuel rock of bank, Esq., of a son. On the On inst., at Clapton, Mrs. Franc l2th Ms. Georg e K. Francis Toulmin, ° a daughter. ____..--------- MARRIED. On the 20th of September, at Trincomalee, Edmund Ole; Esq., Royal Engineers, to Catherine Beverley, third dau g hte of Henry St. Hill, Esq., Ordnance Store-keeper, of that place. On the 13th inst., at Christchurch, St. Marylebones C at las Brooke Bidwell, Esq., R e gistrar to the Mixed Com mission Courts at Sierra Leone, t o A m elia Isabel, third daughter di. Finden, Esq., of Dorset-pl ace , Regent's-pa DIED. On the 30th ult. at St. Omer, Eliza, eldest daugh ter of J. Clements, Esq. On the 3d inst., at Whitehead's.grOve, Chelsea, the infant daughter of Mrs. R. Bevan. On the 7 t h i ns t., the Rev. W. Waldegrave Park, of Ince Hall, Cheshire, youngest son of the late Hon. Mr. Justice Park. On the 9th inst., at Birmingham, the Rev. R. Kell, aged 82 On the 10th inst., at Reading, C. R. King, second son of the Rev. Isaac King, Rector of Bradenham, Bucks. On the 10th inst., at Brighton, Margaret, widow of Alex ander Macleod, of View-field. On the 11th inst., Caroline, youngest daughter of J. Tremayne, Esq., Heligan, Cornwall. On the 11th inst., at Gravesend, Jeremiah Dennett, Esq. On the 13th inst , Mr. Robert Carrick , of St. Ann, Black friars, aged 86. On the 13th inst., at Hitchin, Hertford, William Curling* Esq., aged 81. on the 9th inst., at Rouen, Lieutenant Philip Charles Mur ray, of the 36th Regiment Bengal Native Infantry, third son o the late James Wolfe Murray, of Cringletie, London: Printed and Published by M U R DO YOUNG, of No. 112 .Strand , at The Sun Office, No. 112, Stra"'` n the County of Middlesex, Wednesday, December 14, 1542. 2 3,1