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LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec. 14. (Before Mr. Commissioner FORBLANQUE IN RE NATINE. The case of this bankrupt, a stockbroker, of Copt hall-court, has been frequently before the public, under the head of Guildhall Police Court, upon the charge of non-surrender and embezzlement. Ile to day came before the Court in the custody of Forrester, the officer, upon the question of surrender. Mr. LAWIMANCE, for the bankrupt, cited several cases to show that his (the bankrupt's) surrender might be taken as a matter of course, upon his presenting himself, the spirit of the bankrupt law always being to afford a locus penitentim. Mr. HILLEART, for the assignees and creditors insti tuting these'proceedings, urged that no good reason had been shown why the bankrupt's surrender was not taken on the day first named, and that it could not now be taken. The 28th of September was the day originally named, and the excuse for his non attendance was, being detained abroad through iliness, he being, as alleged, at that time in constant communication with his clerk, with the view of getting rid of his estate. The alleged cause for not returning to England was the seeing certain reports in the newspapers that legal proceedings had been instituted against him. ; Mr. LAWRANCE objected to any letter being put in, written by the bankrupt subsequently to the 28th of September. 1l is Hortoust would put out of consideration every thing subsequent to that date. George Ingall, a clerk,' formerly in the employ of the bankrupt, proved going to Boulogne on the 29th of July; afterwards saw him there, and took him a release to execute.. II id` had frequent ccminu nieations with him, and believed his liabilities to be about 30,0001. Mr. LAWRANCE said the bahltrupt was in court, and • e. might be examined. His HoNouse—Not till 'after the question of sur render is decided. Mr. HILLEARY said there was not even a medical certificate of 2i surgeon at 'Boulogne, which might have been easily obtained, to show the bankrupt's in ability to surrender. There was no ground for sup. posing that e lie was now willing to make a full dis closure of his estate and effects, and his past conduct had been fall of design and fraud. The expenses o the crecliters prosecuting ,at Guildhall were already 701, Forrester s fee,alone'being 451. ; and the present was a pOceseling for the purpose of cutting the ground from under the prosecuticn. The case was now just on the eve of trial, and to accept his surrender under such eitcunistences would be a dangerous precedent. The hankrnpt only sought this mode to extricate himself from a fix. Toe creditors would sooner have this man exposed and punished, as a - warning to other stockbrokers, than receive any paltry dividend the estate might pay. Mr. LAWRANCX said that the new Act had supplied an important deficiency in the old Act, by giving the Csinmissioner. a discretion of accepting the bank rupt's surrender at any time. There could be no doubt tht the present opposition was more with a view to the pending indictment than any bmefit to the esta!e'. Ile declared that the French authorities had bsesi ineruced to give this man up, in consequence of tithe rep're?.entations.. The bankrupt, if allowed to surretfrier, was ready. to be examined at once. The COMMISSIONER, in an elaborate judgment, during which he reviewed the decisions of the Court of Chancery upon this ve..}tion, and the spirit, po licy, and enactments' of the numerous bankruptcy sta:utee, expressed a cl6cided opinion that the bank rupt was nos entitled to a concession of the prayer of his petition, having, in the opinion of the Court, wilfully absconded, and wilfully avoided surrender ing to his Hat. No medical certificate of ill-health had been produced ; the voyage from Boulogne to England was a short and an easy one—one which even an invalid might undertake. Some time ago a bankrupt, who had absconded to the Cape of Good Hops and was outlawed, obtained an order from the Court of Review to surrender, but he (the Commissioner) reluaed Wet upon that criler, considering that the bankrupt had in absconding necessarily contemplated the consequences of his conduct, and had thereby committed an act of bankruptcy. It was essential' that that portion of the bankruptcy law. Which related to non surrender, awl which had been greatly mitigated (frem the punishment of death to transportation for seven years) should be strictly maintained. The act of bankruptcy in this case was the absconding to Boulogne, and that act was, in the opinion of the Court, wilful. The surrender was not voluntary, nor was there a tittle of evidence to support the plea of illness. Another reason for not acceding to the prayer of the petition was that a prosecution before another Court had been 'instituted, and it'ltat the custom that one Court should do nothing which could bias the proceedings of another Court one way or the other. Mr. LAWEANCR quoted the opinion of an eminent judge from a note in " Rose's Bankruptcy Cases," in which a prosecution was prevented and the fiat super seded, because it was shown that the non-surrender of the bankrupt arose from ignorance or accident. The COMMISSIONER, after some further observations, decided upon dismissing the petition. The petition was dismissed, but notice was given that the bankrupt would appeal from his Honour's decision. IN THE BANKRUPTCY OF THOMAS GILL. Gill was a commission agent in Castle-street, Leicester square. This was a meeting for the choice of assignees. Mr. Ogbourne, accountant, was appointed trade assignee. (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN.) IN THE BANKRUPTCY OF HENRY ALDRICH. The certificate of this bankrupt, who had been before the Court in 1889, was suspended for two years, for reckless trading and imperfect book-keeping. Aldrich was a coal-merchant in Ipswich. He owed upwards of 2,0001., and had 1671. for his creditors. FROM. THE LONDON GAZETTE , OF FRIDAY. FOREIGN-OFFICE, Dee.:ll. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. Joseph Hitler as Consul, in Dublin, for the French Republic. The Queen has also'been pleased to approve of Mr. Edward Wallerstein as Cowtila General, in the United Kingdom, for the Republic of Guatemala. WAII OFFICE, DEC. 14. Ist Dragoon Guards—Cornet Robert Thomas Thom- Sea to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Arkwrikht, who retires, rec. 14. • 7th • Drrigeon Guarils—Captain Charles William Thampson. from the 14th Light Dragoons, 'to be Cap tain, eice.P. S. Thompson, who exchanges, Dec. 14. 12th Light Dragoons—Daniel Fitzgerald Gabbett, Gr nt., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Durant, promoted, Dec. 14. • 14th Light Drageons—Captain Pearson Scott Thomp ern, from the 7th Dragoon Guards, to' be Captain, vice C. W. Thompson, who exchanges, Dec. 14. Scots' Fusilier Guards—Ensign and Lieutenant Francis Fortescue to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice the Hon. E ,K. W. Cek-, who retires ; William Coutts Keppell, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Fortescue, .Dec. 14. 2d Foot—Lieutenant Simon Fitz'irrbert Jacson, from half-pay, Unattached, to be Lieutenant, vice Faulkner, promoted, Dec. 14. 4th Foot—Quartermaster Thomas Knott to be Ensign, without purchase, vide Gordon, removed to the 61st Foot, Dec. 14. 6th Foot—Robert Lind, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice price, deceased, Dec. 14. I4th Foot—William Cave, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase,.vice Dotleworth, who retires, Dec. 14. 18th Light Daegnona--Lieutenant Richard Heaviside, toile Cap's'.", by purchase, vice Custer, who retires; Cornet the Hon. Algernon Arthur Sidney Annesley, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Heaviside; Clement Jekyll Smith, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Annesley, Dec.'l4. 17th Foot—Richard William Cradock, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Heigham, promoted, Dec. 15; Theodore Henry Brinckman, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Geneste, appointed to 24th Foot, Dec. 15. 27th Foot—Lieutenant Arthur Mowbray Jones, from the 75th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Mostyn, who ex changes; Thomas Maguire, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gordon, who retires, Dm 14. 29th Foot —Serjeant-Major Edward Carter to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Draper, who resigns, Dec. 14. 35th Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel John Flamank, from half-pay, Unattached, to be Major, vice Tennant, promoted, Dec. 14; Brevet-Major James Fraser to be Major, by purchase, vice Flamank, who retires ; Lieu tenant William Rangy Goate to be Captain, by pur chase, vice Fraser; Ensign Richard Lane Warren to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Goate, Dec. 14. 43d Foot—Hugh Robinson, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wrottesley, promoted, Dec. 14. 46th Foot—Alfred Henry Waldy, Gent, to be En sign, by purchase, vice Pigott, who retires; Richard Llutllyn, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Meurant, appointed to the 83d Foot, Dec. 15. 48th Foot—John Bedingfield, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Hall, promoted, Dec. 14. 55th Foot—Charles John Ryland Bedford, Gent., to be Ensign, by pur chase, vice Hume promoted, D ec . 14. 57th Foot—Alexander Lester Copland, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Bland, promoted, Dec. 14. 58th Foot—Ensign George Henry Wynyard to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hay, deceased, Sep t . 19, 1848; Ensign Arthur Cooper to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Wynyard, whose promotion, by purchase, has been cancelled, Dec. 14. 63d Foot—Lieutenant Arthur J. Le Grand to be Adjutant, vice Walmsley, who resigns the Adjutancy only, Dec. 14. 64th Foot—David Mortimer Murray, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Grylls, promoted, Dt c. 14. 65th Foot—Charles Astley Miguel Servantes, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Drought, promoted in the 53d Foot, Dec. 14. 67th Foot—Frederick Edward Gauntlett, Gent., to be Ensign, without purch3se, vice Dillon, appointed to the 74th Foot, Dee. 14. 70th Foot—Major Trevor Chute to be Lieut: nant- Colonel, by purchase, vice Bigge, who retires; Captain Edward l'reeruan Edwards to be blajor, by purchase, THE SUN, vice Chute; Lieutenant Howe Hennis to be Captain, by purchase, vice Edwards; Ensign James Adam Rae to be Lieutenant by purchase, vice Hennis, Dee. 14. 73d Foot—Lieut. John Thomas Cochrane, from the 33d Foot, to be Paymaster, vice John Court, who retires upon half pay, Dec. 14. 74th Foot—Frederick Bennell Thackeray, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wilson, promoted in the 3d West India Regiment, Dec. 14. 75th Foot—Lieut. Thomas William Mostyn, from the 27th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Jones, who exchanges, Dec. 14. 85:h Foot—Lord John Henry Taylour to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Browne, promoted in the 7th Foot, Dec. 14. 87th Foot—Lieutenant Albemarle Dewar to be Cap tain without purchase, vice Rich, deceased ; Second Lieutenant Jasper Lucas to be First Lieutenant, vice Dewar, Sept. 5 ; Colour-Sergeant John Wall to be Se cond Lieutenant, vice Lucas , Dec. 14. 92d Foot—Edward Charles Buller Elphinstone, Gent. to bo Ensign, vice St. John, promoted, Dec. 14. 97th Foot—Ensign Charles Edward Stainforth to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Webb, who retires; Mat thew Brinklay, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice E. K. Jones, piomoted, Dec. 14. 3d West India Regiment—Ensign John Maryon Wilson, from the 74th Foot, to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Addison, who retires, Dec. 14. Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment—Captain Francis Hawtrey Cox. from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice Brevet Major Weyland, promoted, Dec. 15. UNATTACHED.—Lieutnant Francis Hawtrey Cox, from the Royal Canadian Rifle Regiment, to be Captain, without purchase, Dee. 14. Commissions by the Lord-Lieutenant of Carrearthenshire. To be Deputy•Lieutenants—Daniel Prythe rch, Esq., Henry Lewis Edwardes Gwynne, Esq., Theme.; Davies Lloyd, Esq., John Lloyd Price, Etq., Lewis Lewis, E,q., Winiam Peel, Esq., John Williams Morgan Gwynne Hughes, Esq., Richard Janion Nevill, Esq., Walter Rico Howell Powell, Esq., William Davys Harries Campbell Davys, Etq , George Meares, q. WHITEHALL, DEC. 10. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Dobree Norwood, of Ashford, in the county of -Kent, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor his appointed Edward - Norwood, of Charing, in the county of Kent, Gent., to he a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, DEC. 12. The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Butler Fel towe3, of Caine, in the county of Wilts, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Cotirt of Chancery. B ANKRUP Thomas Kenley and Joseph Leonard Ketsley, tan. nest, Church-street, Black friars-road, and IV Staffordshire, to surrender Dec. 26, at one, aad Jan. 22, at eleven, at the Court of Bankraptcy. Stansfield, offici,l assignee; Wright and Bonner, London-street, Fenchurch-street. Joseph Shelford, butcher, Standon, Hertfordshire, Dec, 21, at hal'-pest one, and Jar. 22, at twelve, at the Cour: of Bankruptcy. Stansfield, official assignee; G. and C. Smith, S,:uthampton- buildings. Thomas Rowan, draper, Cambridge, Dec. 24, at half • one, and Jan. 29, at half-past twelve, at the Court of B.lnkruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street; Catlin, Ely-place, Holborn. R..bert Ilanashar, miller, Lofts, Essex, Jan. 1, at one, and FA. 5. at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Sambrook-court, 13ssinghall street; Isaacson and Alderson, Narfoili •street, Strand; Messrs. Isaacson, Newmarket. Edward and John Williams, milers, Dudley, Worces rshire, Dec. 31 and Jan. 28, at half past ten, at the Birmingham District Court. Whitmore, Lffiaial assignee, Birmingham; Morgan, Birmingham. William Randall, shoemaker, Bath, Dec. 28 and Jan. 25, at twelve, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, offs dal assignee, Bristol; Heilings, Bath. Thomas Hart, baker, Cullompton, Devonshire, Dec. 18 and Jan. 15, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court. [hoz 1, t fficial assigner, Exeter; Terrell, Exeter. William Puleston, draper, Wrexham, Denbighshire, Dec. 2; and Feb. 1, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool; Evans and Son, Liverpool; Buckton, Wrexham. Joseph Gr.y, market gardener, South Preston, Northumberland, Dec. 20, at eleven, and Jan... 22, at twill* at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Type; Laws and Glynn, Newcastle upon-Tyne; Leadbitter, Staple , It.n. DIVIDENDS. At the Court, Basinghall - street. C. C. Butterfield, Petersfield, Hampshire, banker, D. c. 20, at balf-past two—W. Hardwick, Great Russell street, Bloomsbury, laceman,' Jan. 18, at eleven—T. Turner, Northampton, boot maker, Jan. 18, at eleven— 11. C. Brown, Winchester, builder and surveyor, Jan. 18, at eleven. In the Country. G. Hawkins, Bristol, victualler, Jan. 13, at eleven, a the Court, Bristol—R. Owen, Manchester, tailor and draper A jan. 8, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester—J. Brown and A. Urquhart, Manchester, carpet warehouse men, Jan. 4, at twelve, at the Court, Manchester — J. Green, Birmingham, and Thavies Inn, Holborn, whole sale jeweller, Jan..?B, at twelve, at the Court, Birming ham. PAYMENT OF DIVIDENDS. W. Bishton, Parkfield, Staffordshire, Ironmaster, 213. on any Thursday, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. Christie, _Birmingham. G. Schofield, Rastrick, Yorkshire, manufacturer, Is. 4d., on Tuesday, Dec. 11, or any subsequent Tues. day, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Hope, -Leeds. T. Boyden Golborne and A. A. Dabbs, Liverpool, wine merchants, 14d., on Wednesday, Dec. 19, or any subsequent Wednesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool. W. W. Bulley, Liverpool, merchant, 1 7-16 d. on Wed nesday, Dec. 19, or any subsequent Wednesday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Morgan, Liverpool. G. W. M'Arthur Reynolds, Wellington-street North, publisher, 4a. sd., on Saturday next, and three subse quent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane, City. T. Allen, Birmingham and Sheffield, warehouseman, 55., on Saturday, Dec. 15, and three subsequent Satur days, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurch-lane, City. G. Davis, jun., Ishara, Northamptonshire, worsted spinner, 34. 4d., on Saturday, Dec. 15, and three subse quent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Groom, Abchurchilane, City. T. IL May, Little Britain, baker, 31, on Saturday, Dec. 15, and three subsequent Saturdays, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Edwards, Sambrook - court , Baainglall street. W. Owen, Aberdorey, Merioneth, maltster, 2d., on Thursday, Dec. 20, or any subsequent Thursday, be tween eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. J. Turner, Oldham; Lancashire, cotton spinner, Bs. 7,3., on Tuesday, Dec. 18, and every following Tuesday, be ten and one, at the office of Mr. Hobson, Manchester. J. B. Davis, Newton-abbott, Devonshire, ironmonger, 7s 6d., on any Tuesday or Friday, between eleven and two at the office of Mr. Ilirtz-1, Exeter. J. Mitchell, of Feock, Cornwall, merchant, ls. 7d., en any Tuesday or Friday, between eleven and two, at the office of Mr. Hirtzel, Exeter. J. Austin, Clist Hobiten, Devonshire, builder, 10V., on any Tuesday, after D; c. 18, between eleven and three, at the office of Mr. nirtzel, Exeter. NOTICES OF CERTIFICATES. At the Court, Basinghall-street. Jane Bolton, Pall-mall, tailor, Jan. 4, at twelve—J Rob( rtsou, Kidderminster, clothier, Jan. 11, at twelve — J. Coulson, lxilton, Kent, victualler, Jan. 4, at el: yen R. P. Burton and G. Bulpin, Dublin, drapers, Jan. ' at one. In the Country. W. Ponting, Caine, Wiltshire, nurseryman, Jan. 16, at twelve, at the Court, Bristol—J. Carter, Bristol, victualler, Jan. 10, at eleven, at the Court, Bristol—G. Boddington, Birmingham, chemist and druggist, Jan. 9, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—Elizabeth Harris Ryder, Birmingham, jeweller and pawnbroker, Jan. 9, at twelve, at the Court, Birmingham—E. Ryder, Birming ham, jeweller, Jan. 7, at eleven, at the Court, Birming ham—G. Roberts, Tanyclaadd, Denbighahire, coal and ircnmaster, Jan. 7, at eleven, at the Court, Liverpool. CERTIFICATES GRANTED. N. Cobb, Colchester, upholsterer and cabinet maker, certificate of the second class—A. Viner, Bristol, hop merchant and commission agent, certificate of the second class, 3 months from Dec. 7—T. llollyman, Clevrdon, Sornersetshire, butcher, after 2 months from Sept. 7—W. Newton, Bath, builder, certificate of the second class, after 21 days from Dec. 10—A. Brown, Mount street, Whitechapel, draper, Dec. 12—J. Upton, Wandsworth, corn dealer, certificate of the third class, Dec. 12—P. Walker, Stockport, cotton waste dealer, certificate of the first class, Dec. 10—Mary Bell Shoolbred, Manchester, cotton manufacturer, certificate of the first class, Dec. 10—J. Morris, Tettenhall, Sta fordshire, butcher, certificate of first class, Dec. 11—G. Webb, Tamworth, Staffordshire, wine merchant, certifi cate of the second class, Dec. 11—W. Shaw, Deeds, cer tificate of the third class, after 21 days from Dec. 10— J. Armitage, J. Armitage, W. H. Armitage, and C. Armitage, Almondbury, Yorkshire, woollen cloth mante -1 facturers. certificates of the first class, after 21 days from Dec. 7—E. Yates, Leeds, veterinary surgeon, certificate of the third class, after 21 days from Dec. B—W. Eddi son, Halifax, Yorkshire, fancy woollen manufacturer, certificate of the third class, after 12 months from Dec. 7 —E. Raisbeck, Dewsbury, Yorkshire, ironmaster, certi ficate of the third class, after 21 days from Dec. 10—A. Dunn, Holderness, Yorkshire, attorney and solicitcr, certificate of the third class, after 21 days from Dec. 12 —J. Reim, jun., Dudley, Worcestershire, printer and bookseller, certificate Jan. 4—E. Lord, Rochdale, flannel manufacturer. certificate, Jan. 4. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. Ann Fell and Hanna Fell, Edwarci's-terrace, Kensing ton, milliners—J. Sowden and J. Wagstaff, jun., War rington, Lancashire, cotton spinners—J. Noble and T. Walrnsley, Preston, Lancashire, maltsters—S. Ulman and S. Andrews, Ilterne, Lancashire, artificial flower manufacturers—J. Derbyshire and J. Walker, Man chester, &palters and commission agents—Frances Tubb and J. T. Bricknell, Plumber street, City-road, leather sellers—W. Hutchinson and J. Wilford, East Temple-chambers, Fleet-street, and Tonbridge Wells, stone merchants—J. S. Mawdsley and G. Jager, Liver pool,‘ sugar refiners—J. C. Quick and S. Sampson, Fen church-street, wholesale tea dealers—C. T. Christian, J. Matthowe, and P. A. Reynolds (as far as regards C. T. Christian) Cornhill, Bishopsgate-street, and St. Martin's place, Trafalgar-square, East India, army, and general agents—C. G. Maclea and J. 0. March, Leeds, York shire, ironfounders and machine makers—W. B. Gilson, B. B. Wheatley, and W. W. Boulton (as far as regards W. W. Boulton), Manchester, steck and scarf manufac turers—J. Kirk and T. H. Kirk, Howden and Selby, Yorkshire, chemists and druggists—H. Smith, W. Pare, J. Finch, jun., E. Finch, and T. Willey, Irish Engineering Company—H. Smith, E. Finch, and T. Willey, Liverpool, engineers and irontounders. INSOLVENT PETITIONERS. John Simpson, Stafford, fruiterer. William Boulding, Frampton, Lincolnshire. Thomas Pinchbeck, Sibsey, Lincolnshire, farmer. Tnomas Marriott, Tamwor th, market gardener. John Watts, Birmingham, butcher. Joshua Wood, Balstou-heath, Worcestershire, bedstead maker. George 03mond Edmonds, Birmingham, ale and porter dealer. James Truman, jun., New Lenton, Nottinghamshire lace maker. William Feat, Isle of Thanet, poulterer. John Taylor, Stalybridge, Cheshire. John Lewis, Llywell, Brecknockshire, boot and shoe maker. Charles Barton, Market Rasen, Lincolnshife. Thomas Winter, Newton Abbott, Devonshire, baker. Charles Chambers, Sr. Margaret, Leicester. Thomas Hammond, Ealire, Southampton. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. D. Whyte, Aberdeen, tanner, to meet Dec. 19 and Jan. 9. at one,within the Lemon Tree Tavern, Aberdeen. F: Macrae, 'leanly, merchant and shipowner, to meet Dec. 19 and Jan.- 9, at twelve, within the Caledonian Hotel, laverne'ss. H. R. du V. G. 14luirhead, Old Monkland, Lanark shire, to meet Dec. 31 and Jan. 11, at twelve, within the Star Hotel, Glasgow. H. Wilson, Hamilton, Lanarkshire. grazier and cattle dealer, to meet Dec. 21 and Jan. 11, at twelve, within the Hamilton Arms Inn, Hamilton. W. Bogle, Glasgow, merchant and auctioneer, Glas , o. ow, to meet Dec 21 and Jan. 10, at two, within the 'cluck's Head Hotel, Glasgow. PRICE OF SUGAR. The average price of Brown or Bluscovado Sugar, com puted from the returns made in the week ending L'ecember 11, 1819, is 245. 3,4 d. per cwt. rturb 92bition TIIE MURDER in HARLEY-STREET . MAIIYIEBONE POLICE COURT. (THIS I)AY.) Sarah Drake, the woman charged with the murder of Lewis Drake, her own child, eged two years, was again brought before Mr.• Long, this afternoon, at the Marylebone Police court, to undergo a re-exami• nation. She is about forty years of age, with a some what ugly expression of features—was respectably dressed, and seemed deeply impressed with the awful nature of her position. 7 She held a white handker chief to her eyes, and appeared to be crying during the whole of the inquiry. Being in a weak state of health, she was accommodated with a seat at the request of her solicitor. The singular circumstances attending the dispoial of the child after its murder, and the fact of it having been insinualcd that this was not the firit offence of this nature the woman has committed, have invested the case with a good deal of interest, and some time before she was.placed in the dock the court was thronged with eager levers of the horrible and mys terious, while the various approaches to it were equally besieged with well dressed people, including many females, who were unable to obtain admission. llerring, the solicitor, attended to watch the case for the prisoner. Mr. boNG sail the first thing to be done was to read over the deposition , , to give the prisoner's soli citor an opportunity of cross-eLlnining the wit- TIC sses. The depositions of the two officers who arrrste the prisoner were read over and signed withou an observation. It will be remetnbered that Thomas Kinder, the superintendent of the Nottingham constabulary, at East Retford, deposed to the finding of the bax ut North Leverton, containing the body of the child, while Sergeant Whitcher, of the detective police, 27 A, spoke to the arrest of the prisoner at the residence of F. Huth, Esq., 33, Upper Harley street, in whose service the prisoner had lived as housekeeper and cook, when she asked him how he knew that she had murdered her child. Mary Anne Wignell, the housemaid in the same service, stated that the prisoner entered upon her situation on the Monday wet k previous to the first examination, and a few days afterwards a woman named Johnson called at the house in Harley-street with a child, which was never seen to leave it again. George Glass, the butler, wrote the direction for the box, and the footman took it to the station at Euston square. The female searcher of the Marylebone police station spoke to a conversation she had with the prisoner on the night of her arrest, in the course of which she con fessed having murdered the child. This was the substance of the depositions. The first witness examined to-day was Mrs. John son, the female who had brought up the child. She deposed as follows :—My name is Jane Johnson. I am a married woman, and my husband is a policeman, living at Shirely-common, near Croydon. I knoa the prisoner at the bar. It is two years next January since I first saw her. She was introduced to me through a Miss Harrington, who lives at Chelsea, and I agreed to take the child to nurse fur six shillings per week. The money was to be paid, and all communication on the subject of the child was to pass through Miss Harrington. At this time the child was called Lewis, and was about three months old, and I was to bring it up as my own. At the end of the mouth the prisoner canoe and paid me 245. for the support of ;the child. After that I received three letters from her, which she signed with the name of Jarine. I have fourteen letters in all, but with the ex ception of those I have named they are signed with the name of Mary Drake. In time the child was taken ill, and at the request of the prisoner, who stated that its father was a Catholic, it was baptised by a Roman Catholic clergyman as Lewis. I then understood that the prisoner went to Northampton, where she remained till August, when the prisoner came over to my house and proposed to take the child away to got it into a Catholic institu tion in France, where its father had been s brought up. She owed me at this time 11/. 12s. She then took the child away, and I did not expect it would return again. I went with Mrs. Drake to the Croydon sta tion and she paid her passage to Dover, and went away by the train, taking the child with her. This was on a Friday morning. On the following Saturday, between eleven and twelve o'clock, she came to our house in a cab. I was in bed at the time, but got up and again received the child. She tokl me she had been to a doctor, and he had ordered the child medi cine for water in the head, and it would not live long. She said she would not take him away any more, it I would but keep him, and I said " Very well ;" and she gave me 113. in liquidation of the old debt. 1 told her that I would keep him for ss. a week from that time, and she agreed to that. I did not see her again, but received several letters from her at diffe rent times, enclosing various sums of money. On the 27ili November 1 received the letter I now pro. duce, dated the 26th of November, which 1 believe to be in the prisoner's handwriting.—(The letter stated that she was going to Madrid with a family, and as she could not afford to maintain the child any linger, it was to go on the parish.) In consequence of that letter I went to Edward street, Dorset-square, to try and hear where she had gone. From intormation I received there, I went to Upper Harley-street, but I did not know the number. This was on the 27th of November, in the evening, but I did not succeed in finding the prisoner. On the 28th I went again and found her at Upper Harley street, at the corner of the New road. I brought up the child with me, and I saw the prisoner in the housekeeper's room. She said in consequence of what she had heard the night before, she was not going abroad. I said "don't say that, for I believe you had no intention of going." She replied "I think the family have put it off till April or May." She said she thought the child was looking very much better, and had got stout since ske saw it last. I said he was quite well and a very hearty eater, and I could not keep it any longer, as it was the second time she bad deceived me. She asked me to take him back again for a week or so till she could get soma one to take care of him. I told her no; I must leave the child with her. She was at this time indebted to me 91. 10e. She took off the hat end coat of the child, and then came to the street door with me, where I told her that my husband intended to summon her for the money. I went up the area steps, and she called after me to know huw much it was. I s told her, and then left. t day was Thursday. I saw her again on thelVlday in the housekeeper's room, and she asked me if I had received her letter. I told her no, and said I have brought the child's things with a note in it from my husband, and also the bill. She said very well, I will look at them by and by. She said she had got the child out to nurse without any one knowing it was here, at a friend's, who would lend her the money. I then went home and there I found a letter from the pri • sour, which I now produce, stating that she would pay the money in January. Last Saturday morning I went down to North Leverton where I saw the body of a child, which I am quite certain is that of the child I brought up and received from the prisoner. 1 saw some of its clothes—the same it had on when .1 left it with the prisoner. I can swear to them (the clothes were produced and identified by the witut ss. I had been in the habit of calling the child by the name of Lewis Drake. The Solicitor who appeared for the prisoner, pest. poncd his cross-examination till he had had an op portunity of reading the letters. Mr. LONG agreed to this, observing that it was impossible the case could be tried at the next session. Mr. WILLIAM HALL, of South Retford, deposed as follows :—I am a coachman, driving a coach from Newark to East Retford. On the 30th of November Ireceived a box, to be taken by my coach. I got it not from the station at Newark, but through a Mr. LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 15, 1849. Gil!straps, who has an omnibus running to the rai!way. I took it to the White Hart, Retford. I left' Newark at half Tast two, and reached Ret- Fortescue shirts have also been in demand at a considerable advance, in anticipation of cutting the lode at a very important point. By Wheal Beset report we find, the mine is in a highly productive position. A new aid more power ful engine is to supersede the present one. At Wheal Seton account a dividend of 51 per share was declared. The operations in September and October gave a profit of 6231. 9s. 6d., which, added to balance from last account, allowed the above dividend, leaving to credit 2221. Bs. The mine has consider ably improved of late, with every probability of further improvements being made. During the last two months about 1,220 tons of ore have been sold, and the profit anticipated for the next account is esti mated at about 1,8001. _ _ ford at half-past four o'clock. The box now pro• duced is the box. The direction new produced is that which was on the bex when I received it. The directon is " Theophilis Burton, Nt r:h Levorton." North Leverton is six miles from ltetford. •, • Whham Drake deposed as forows:—l live at Harle , phite, in Nottighamshire, and am a shoemaker. The prisoner at the bar is my sister, and as far as I am aware she is a single woman. I hsve a married sister living at North Leverton. Her name is Bur toa. Her husband's name is Theophilis Burton. On the 30th of November, by the direction of Mrs. Burton, I went to the White Hart at Retford, and received the box now produced. I saw "Theophilis Bul-on" upon it. It was between eleven and five o'clock in the evening. The direction produced I believe to be the same. I took the box to my sister's -hou=e at North Leverston. She received it from me, but her husband came in afterwards. Burton and m y self opened the box in another room; we found inside of it the body of a dead child. I saw a letter in my sister's hand, which she gave me to read., I know the handwriting. My siitcr burnt the letter. One of her children cried for it, and then she threw it At Whe.,l Tremayne account meeting a dividend of 10e per share was declared, leaving a balance in hand of .117/. 13s. lid. The mine is looking re markably well. At the Mineral Court meeting the accounts showed balance against the mine of 428/. 12s. 2d. during the operations of five months, ending in October. A call of 31. per share was made. Lady Greville, with her usual liberality, has signified her consent to reduce .the dues to 1 18th. The reports of Captains Webb and Dale represent the mine in a very promising position. At the Tavy Consols meeting for September and October the accounts showed a balance against the urine of 2301. 16s. 41. The ore bills due, and rue . 'yet at Maturity, were more than sufficient to discharge the , (l6bt, but to meet the expenditure of the current two months, it would be necessary to make a call of ss, per share at the next meeting. A vo'e of thank. , was rassed to G. Strode, Esq., the freeholder, for his generosity in remitting the bAlance of dues. The report presented by the agent encourages the share holders to entertain a hope that the nine would soon be in a position of meeting the costs. At the Wheal Mary meeting the accounts showed a balance against the mine of 9121 161. Id., and a call of 10. s. per. share was male. At Wheal Concord meeting a revolution was unani mothly adopted, that the purser furnish an account current of the receipts and payments of the mine from the commencement of workings, and the meet ing was adjourned until it be ready for consideration. At the Herodsfoot adjourned meeting, the mine wrcs divided into 512 shares, instead of 256, as for merly; and a call of 21. 10_i. per share wits made, to pay oft' the liabilities. Shares of the following mines have changed hands durirg:the week :—Devon Great Consols, East Wheal Rose, Tiecroft, Bedford United: South Tamar, Devon and .Courtenay, Trethevy, Tamar Consul., East Buller, Trelawny, TreviFkey and Barrier, South Basset, Tremayne, Mary Ann, Trehane, Stray Park, Bwich Consols, Heignston Downs, East Tamar, Wheal Russell, Wheal Fortescue, West Wheal Jewel, and Treleigh. In foreign nines the transactions have been chit fly confined to United Mexican, Copiapo, and St. John del Rey shores ; but some few bargains have been etf,.cted in Imperial and National Brazilian, Alters, Linares, Australian. and Nerth British Australasian .hares. _ into the fire. It was a short letter. There was no name. It ran thus .—" There will be a box left for yen at Itetfond ; please to fetch it as soon as possible "- I do not knoW the handwriting. Thea; hilisi Buiton, the husband referred to by the lest witness deposed as follows live at North Lever ton, and am a blacksmith. MY wife is the sister of the prisoner. I re:aived a letter oil'Friday, the 30 h of November last. The Asper now produced was the envs!ope of the letter. It bears the Londan and Itetford post-marks. My wife destroyed the letter, hut the contents were as has been stated. Ido not know the handwriting. It was to this effect : There will be a box at itetford on Tuesday ; fetch it away as soon as possible. On the same day the last witness brought me a box, wl ich I opened with a chisel, and found it contained the body of a dead child. The next morning I gave the box and its con tsnts to a policeman. Edward'Sinith, the policeman, depesed to receiy• ing the box from the last witness. The box and the a rani:Tr now produced are the same I received. It contained the dead body of a male child. The direr tion I found on Gingley- hill, about a mile and a half from! he residers: of the last witness. The child was naked, with a handkerchief round its neck tied tight. There were bruises on the left tem ple and 1-ft ear, which must have been inflicted by a severe blow. The clothes which I now produce were found in the box. They were all shown to Mrs. Johnson, and are the same that she has sworn to to day. The child was quite fresh in appearance. Mr. Francis Blsgg, surgeon, of South Retford, deposed as follows :—I am a surgeon, and have been in practice since 1830. On Monday, the 3d of Dec , I was called in to see the body of a child at the Royal Oak,l North Leverton. The body was lyi ng on a table. It was a male child, from eighteen months to two years old. It appeared to have been dead but a very short time ; I think it could not have been dead more than a we, k, and perhaps not so long. I examined the child. I observed great lividness in the face, particularly in the eyelids, which were swollen ; also the tongue, the breast, and between the teeth; the hands were c!enched ; the nails were blue. I observed a contu sion on the left side of the forehead ; there was also a bruise on the left car. I performed a post mortem examination, and on the scalp I discovered extensive blows or bruises on the upper portion of the left side of the head, which must have been inflicted by violence with s nue blunt instrument. On removing the skull I discovered corresponding masks on the' left membrane of the brain. On turning back the outward membrane I found a considerable quantity of extravasated blood on the,left hetnisilPre of the brain, and the brain generally was congested. I then opened the body, took out the stomach, and found rather more than half a pint; of fluid i it r-sembling gruel; also vend small portions of meat undigested. The stomach was perfectly healthy, as where the whole of' the abdominal viscera. On opening the chest I fe and the right lung completely collapse 1 ; the left lung, we h. the exception of the lower portion, was in the same state. In the lower portion of the left lung I found a small quantity of air. A hand kerchief was tied round the neck which inflicted some injury on it. These were all the appearances I observed. The violence on the head, no matter how it was produced, was in my judgment sufficient to cause death. The state of the neck, in my opinion, indicated that such a pressure had been used in tying the handkerchief that might have produced death. Sergeant Whitcher deposed to having found on the premises in Harley-street some white handker chiefs, marked in iiik" S. Drake," which correspond with the one found in the box. He had also received a bunch of keys from the prisoner, one of which unlocked the box. • Mary Ann Wignell identified the box and wrapper as belonging to the prisoner, having seen them in her room. She slept with the prisoner. The prisoner was then remanded till next week. From the Barossa Range Mint s, letters have been received, dated 11th June and 9th July, reporting operations as progressing very satisfactorily ; 40 tons of ore had been raii(-d at the Bremner, and 15 more would be ready for shipment in two months. Thp per centage of copper was 25 for 25 tons, and 16 for 15 tons ; the latter would be smelted there. Th(- wet season made the roads all but impassable, and rather delayed work at the mines. At the Lyn(!och Valley Mine. the ground was hard, and recourse was had to blasting. The quantity of ore raised there was above 30 pir cent. COURT OF COMMON COUNCIL. The Court met yesterday, and after the transaction of some routine business the following report of the Committee of Health was read : " We, whose names are hereunto subscribed, your special committee, appointed on the sth day of July last, to consider the means necessary to be adopted with rela tion to the cholera, do hereby certify that on the 13th day of September last we were summoned by the Right Lion. the Lord Mayor to attend his Lordship forth's iih at the Msn:ion•house, for the purpose of receiving a communication of urgi nt consequence from the Board of Health appointed by her Majesty under the authority of the Act of Parliament conferring upon the Board the general superintendence of arrangements in resp , ct of the public health, during the prevalence of cholera, or other epidemic, or contagious disease. Your committee immediately obeyed his. Lordship's summons, and. were informed byhis. Lordship that having received a very forcible representation from the Government Board of Health concerning certain arrangements they dei m- d necessary to he adopted within the city, he had, by the advice of till City Solicitor, reqaested the Board in a matter of so much moment to put the communica tion, which bad been orally delivered,: into writing. that it might be laid in official form before your cow mitts e ; and your committee do further certify that a written communication from the Board of Health was THE ARMY AND NAVY. (From the United Service Gazette of this dsy.) REDUCTION IN THE ARMY.—The plan proposed for a diminution of the strength of the troops is, we hear, to abandon the West India colonies as military stations, which will relieve and place at the disposal of the authorities at home, six regiments of the line. We strongly deprecate such a measure, and trust that it may never be carried into effect. The local colonial Governments might find the means of forming colonial corps for the protection of their lives and property ; but this would be inadequate to meet any sudden broil or commotion which might occur amongst the black population, or on the occasion of a practical attempt to land and plunder the inhabitants. Buccaneering in full force would return to those shores, and the islanders wouli be in a perpetual state of excitement and alarm. Major-General Thomas Banbury and Major• Gen. J. W. Aldred have respectively succeeded to the Unattached Pay of twenty-five, shillings per diem. The services of the former were limited to Surinam, Holland, and the American war. The historian is silent as to the war service of the latter officer. THE COLONELCY OF THE 80TH FOOT.—As DO one really knows who is to succeed to a vacant Colonelcy until the Commander-in-Chief an nounced it himsolf at the Horse Guards, we make ,a point of abstaining from lending oar selves to the tdle rumours born of the wishes of General Officers and their friends. We cannot, however, Shut our ears to the current on diti, and therefore, we may mention that club gossip and cer tain convictions of what ought to be, point to Major- General Douglas Mercer, C. 8., as the probable suc cessor to Sir E. K. Williams. _ _ Captain Tulloch, lately returned from an inspection of the pensioners resident in North America, is at I'ilbury Fort forming the local companies as convict guards for embarkation to Australia. The ship Eliza sailed from Gravesend on Thurday, with the first company for that colony. STAFF or IRELAND.—Major-General his Royal Highness the Prince George of Cambridge, having proceeded on leave of absence to attend the funeral of the Queen Dowager, Colonel Cochrane, the Deputy-Adjutant General, has taken the com mand of the Dublin District. Major• Gen. Wemyss, e. 8., having arrived in Dublin on leave of absence, Colonel Sir Michael Creagh, K.H , has assumed the command of the Athloe district. Captain Seton, 74th Highlanders, Deputy-Assistant Quartermaster- General, has proceeded from Dublin to England, on leave. _ _ MEDICAL STMT.—Staff Assistant Surgeon Touch, embarked in medical charge of the detachments in the ship Waverley at Cowes, on the 14th instant, to Malta. Assistant Surgeon Deakins, 3d West India Regiment, having exchanged with Staff Assistant Surgeon Manners, that officer will embark in medical charge:of the detachment of the 97th Regiment, in the ship Prince Albert fur Jamaica, and after wards join his regiment in the West Indies. Staff-Surgeon slspleton is on leave of absence from the depot battalion at the Isle of Wight, to 30th Dec., 1849. ORDNANCE DEPARTMENT.—Lieutenant Oxenden, late of the 43d Light Infantry, has been appointed barrack-master at !long Kong. MINING INTELLIGENCE. (From the Mining Journal of th's day.) The share market continues firm, and an active in quiry is still made for most of our leading mines. Several regociations, which were pending last wee k, have since come off. The present prosperous position of the mine generally, and the apparent firmness of the metal market, with the advance in tin and lead, affords every encouragement for safe and remunera tive investment. Devon Great Consols continues in request, and business:deing in them. Condurrow, South Frances, South Tolgus, Tre bane, Mary Ann, .Carn Bren, and East Wheal Rose among the several mines in request. Tincroft is represented to have improved since our last, both in the shaft and 90 end, which is now worth 401. per fathom. Several transactions have been done. Tamar Consols is increasing her returns; the profits from the mines and the smelting department averages nearly 1,0001. per month. A dividend of 11. pee share may be anticipated next month. Heignston Down is reported to have improved, especially in the 35 fm. level, where they have a lode worth full 301. per fm. Shares have been dormant for some months, and buyers are now to be found at an advanced price. The profitable and improving. position of Bedford United, and the progressive im provement in South Tamar have caused several large transactions during the week. of the committee that the public and the corporation are under the deepest obligation to that gentle man for his zeal and industry in exploring the :sbutles of mis?ry and ni,b, and in fathoming to their depths the causes and means of propagating epi demic and contniuus disease, as well as for the ability, Firmness, and courage with which he has given his opi nions to tiro world in a form calculated to awaken scnsble apprehension and to lead to their mitigation and relief. And your committee cannot close their report without expressing tht it opinion in the strongest terms, snd their conviction as the result of information they have received in the progress of their labours, that it is the paramount duty of the corporation to appoint some permanent committee, composed of representatives of the several wards of tie city, to devise and carry into execution at me broad and comprehensive measures for improving tho s,mitary state of the city and the condi tion of the humbh r closes of its inhabitants; and for this purpose we tire o! opinion that your committee should be dissolved. " All e hich is respectfully submitted to the judgment • of this ion. Court•" The report was ordercd to be printed. After the transaction of some other business, the Court adjourned. ROWING HATCH. OXFORD V. CAMBRIDGE. This mites came off this afternoon, which, after a very spit iled contest, was won by Vie Oxonians. IRELAND. (Faom OUR CORRESPONDENT.) DUBLIN, FRIDAY EVENING, DEC. 14.—The Case of Catherine Devine: ag4inst Captain WManus, which had been five days on trial, concluded this afternoon, at half•past three, by a verdict for the plaintiff-3501. damages, and sixpence costs. The announcement of the verdict was received with great satisfaction by a crowded court. The jury were in consultation only 45 minutes. Not a point has been reserved for the defendant. t;ariey This morning's Freeman contains a correspondence of immense length between the Very Rev. Dr. Spratt and Mr. J.P.Connell, and the Very Rev. Dr. Spratt and:Mr.:Maurice Leyne, on the:subject of the proposed junction of the Repeal Association and the "Irish Allance." The clergyman above named has been making strenuous exertions for the amalgamation of both sections of Repeaters, but it seems without sue seas, notwithstanding the fervent desire expressed by both for an union. The summary of the negotiation is this : Dr. Spratt suggested that there should be a con ference of the Conciliation Hall and Alliance Repealers, and that this conference should consider the terms of union. To this proposition the Alliance acceded, and appointed a deputation, composed of nine members, to meet a similar number from the committee of Conciliation Hall. The latter, however, through Mr. J. O'Connell (who is the entire committee himself) declined to meet the Alliance in conference, until they (the Alliance) should unreservedly adopt the " peace policy " of the Association. Mr. Leyne, on the part of the Alliance, declared their willingness to accept the fundamental rules of the Associa tion "as founded in 1840," but not what is generally called " the peace resolutions of 1846," which Mr. Leyne designates an " unhappy document. Mr. Leyne likewise offered to refer the matter to Dr. Blake, R. C. Bishop of Dromore, Dr. Spratt, Robert Holmes, barrister, and Sir Colman O'Loghlen, to prepare a fundamental rule to keep the new agitation: within the limits of the Constitution. Mr. J. O'Connell, in reply to the propositions of his "misguided and unfortunate relative," says that if the Alliance party be sincere in their avowed wish to have a perfectly legal organization, they can have no difficulty in adopting of the resolutions of 1846 (which reserve "physical force" fur self-defence), and the adoption of which he makes a sine qua non. Co the matter rests—both only agreeing to differ, and apparently, as far from union as ever. The fact is, neither party is sincere, for the self-interests of both are antago nistic, in .a. way I need not explain just now. So far as this question of " union " goes, reason lies on the side of John O'Connell, for pugna cious gentlemen, of such as: those we bear of, by the last arrival, of 'boxing in the streets of New York; and who, by the way, were amongst the most respectable of the party—would scarcely stand tamely the supremacy which John O'Connell apes, in sadly ludicrous imitation of his father. But this correspondence is marked with a slander upon vir tuous misfortune—a dastard stab at fallen greatness, which I did not think John O'Connell capable of uttering or inflicting. I could scarcely believe my eyes when I read the following passage in his long letter closing the correspondence, and in reply to Mr. Leone's proposition : --- "I shall not waste time with the totally and Judi. criously unfounded assertions in his letter, as to the pre eminence of the seceders in education, property and intelligence; and as to their carrying with them the opinion of the country, Neither shall I trifle with you by discussing Mr. Le3ne's heroics about Tell and Washington, to whose mimes he certainly does not do much honour in associating them with those of the un settled, vacillating, and dreaming Lsmartine, the mock Rousseau of his day ; and the knave and terroist, Kossuth. And the republication of the document of 1846 will answer,:aufficiently for all right-minded men, the strained referesces to America, Belgium, and poor —poor Poland!—more enslaved by the distractions caused by a small faction among her own children than by the power of Russia." Such is the competition amongst the steamers at this station, and the lowness of fares, that immense crowds of poor people are leaving, even in this cold tempestuous weather, for Liverpool. Feeling curious to know the fares, I inquired at one of the offices this afternoon, and found that the Dublin Company were charging ls. 6d. each for deck passengers, without changing the cabin fare; whilst the Waterford Com pany, who have put on boats to annoy the Dublin one, is carrying deck passengers at one penny per head, cabin 2s. 6d., horses ls. each, pigs 3d. a piece, and other freight at a similar preposterously low figure. THE FUNDS (THIS DAY).—Three per Cent. Consols, for Opening, 914 i; Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Stock, 97i I; Midland Great Western, and Royal Canal, 23j 24; Dublin and Belfast Junction, 5i 6; Great Ssuthern and Western, 34; Ditto, Preference, 4 p. ; Wicklow C o pp er Mi ne , 91 ; D u bli n Consumers' Gas, 5 laid before us, in which a system of house to house visitation within the city was strongly pressed upon the corporation, and the committee was likewise attended by Mr. R. D. Grainger, the medical superintending in spector of the General Board of Health, by the orders of the board ; and that gentleman, in very forcible lan guage, and by arguments the most convincing, supported by facts within the range of his owe personal observa tion, and others to a sindler import, verified by medical men of high authority, placed the subject before us in such a light that your committee concurred with the Lord Mayor in opinion that we dared not encounter the serious responsibility of delaying, for a single day, to carry into execution, to the best of our means and judg ment, the duty which this communication had cast upon as. We immediately gave direction to Mr. Simon, the officer of health, instructing him to retain the assistance of a sufficient number of qualified medical men to under take the required service; and having regard to the im portant benefits conferred upon the public in the year 1102 from the unity of action produced by combining in one body the medical men attached to the board with the medical officers connected with the various parishes within the city, the Officer of Health laid before u s a scheme for this purpose, which we thought expe dient to adopt, as uniting a large amount of efficiency with a due regard to an economical expenditure of the corporation funds. By this arrangement, which was in force from the 13th of September to the 12th of Octo ber, when the cholera was reported to have sub,ided, the constant service of eleven competent medical officers was obtain( d, whose duty it was daily to visit the inhabitants of the several houses within their allotted district, under the immediate superintendence of the medical officers of the respective unions, and subject to the general super vision of the Officer of Health of the city. Upon the medical officer of the union the duty was devolved of visiting at all hours of the day and night ell cases of cholera and choleraic diarrhea', which were brought to light by the system of domestic visitation within their renectire districts; they likewise prescribed for and supplied to the poor all re quisite medicines, and they also made up the prescriptions of the medical visitors and furnished every applicant with all necessary instil tines, free of cost, to the parties visited. In order to secure unity f action, and to obtain accurate information upon every point necessary to be known to enable the Officer of Health rightly to direct the powers and agencies placed at his command, the medical officers of the union daily attended him in consaltatior, to com pare the results of their experience, and to desire means the more effectually to discharge their respective duties under his superintendence. And we do further certify that we caused a notification of these arrangements to be made to the inhabitants throughout the city; and being anxious to avert any exaggerated apprehensions which this unusual step might otherwise occasion, we caused an address to be issued to the inhabitants, in white we familiarly explained the causes and objects of the course about to be adopted, and invited the co- ope ration of all classes. And we do further certify that at our weekly meetings we were attended by several inha bitants of different parts of the city, complaining of nuisances prejudicial to health, and tending to the spread of cholera and other epidemic diseases; and this committee not having neon invested by law with similar powers to those which were devolved upon the City Board of Health during the visitation of the cholera in the year 1882 we were unable to grapple with those evils in the manner we should have desired to do if they had fallen within the scope of our authority. The clearing of the shores of the Thames at the outfall of the several sewers within the limits of the city having been specially committed to us by your Hon. Court, was duly executed under our orders; and we annex to this report a certificate of the City Archi tect as to the cost of constructing works permanently to abate t 1 a noxious and offensive nuisances occasioned by the discharge of the fetid contents of the sowers upon the shores of the river at low water. From the information we received during the progress of our labours, we are of opinion, and do recommend, that it should be com mitted to ono of the committees of your lion. Court to abate the nuisances in the way suggested by the City Architect, or in some other effectual form. We do fur ther certify that we have had our attention especially directed by the Officer of Health to the injurious influ ence of the crowded state of the burial-grounds within the city upon the health of the inhabitants; we are deeply impressed with the necessity there exists for the application of an effectual remedy for this evil, which we believe can be to otherwise removed than by a legal prohibition of further interments in the city. We have been invited to consider a project, suggested some years since, for the corporation to proviee a suitable piece of land, in the vicinity of London, which (as has been since effected by the city of Oxford) might be rendered available for all the city parishes for the interment of their dead, to which the canon low rights of parishes might attach, subject to all the privileges of the parochial officers, both lay and ecclesiastical. This subject of intramural interments is very fully and ably treated by Mr. Simon, in a report laid before your committee, which was also submitted to the Commissioners of Sewers, who have caused it to be printed. We abstain from doing more than invite the attention of your Hon. Court to an early considera tion of the matter, being of opinion that its speedy set tlement is of deep importance to the health and comfort of the inhabitants of the city. We do further certify that the insufficiency of the water supply, Ile existence of ill-ventilated slaughter-houses within the crowded parts of the city, and the wretched state of the dwelliegs of the poor, have been shown to us to be the fruitful causes of disease amongst the AWFUL FATALITY IN A FAMILY.—About two years ago a boy, named Jones, in the employment of Mr. Robert Grier, of Quatsford, rear this town, was sent to lead a horse, and it is supposed that he tied the halter round his waist. Tho horse teak fright and ran away, dragging the poor fellow after him, gallopping across a hop-yard, jomping two gates, and killing the boy in stantly. Ate.ut six weeks ago a brother of this lad was killed by falling down among a team of horses and the waggon wheel passing over his head, leaving a wife and two children to lament his death. Aco her brother, in the employ of T. France, Dq., of Marley Hall, was taking a lot of turkeys home in a cart on Tuesday last, when they made a noise which startled the horse, and ho gallopped (ff. The boy, in endeavouring to stop him, was knocked ('own by the shaft of the cart. The wheel going over his chest and head killed him on the spot. Thus three fatal accidents of a similar nature have oc curred to three brothers within two years. It is but justice to say that they were all honest and industrious young men,— U'crcester Journal. - - A Pnouric lIEN.—A chicken the property of Mr. F. Lee, Allendale, Northumberland, which was hatched about the latter end of April, was discovered on the 9sh instant to have brought out SeVtlitC€ll birdli upon sc , me planks on the attics of a cart shed. The u.other of the same brQught wp twouty-six bir d s SCO,SOP.— Car lisle Journal. Lhabitants, which, though commencing with the THE COUNTRY IVA R KETS. humble, who are mere immediately subject, dto their WAKEFIELD, DEC. 14.—The arrivals continue liberal influences', are prepigated and extended to all classes of of all articles. During the week country markets have the community. All these topics are likewise treated ger:o..lllly made at me advance in prices, which has its with great force and ability in the report of the Officer ia uerce today, and we have a moderate business of. Health, to which reference has been already int:de. pa , s i pg at an i m p r ovement of is per quarter. No change Your committee would have re juiced if it had been in the value of barley; the common qualities aro still within the scope of their rowers to have applied even a very unsaleable. Ows and shill ng sell slowly at late partial remedy feit some of these evils which it is the prices. Beans offered freely. opinion of your committee may be, and ought to be, mi•igated, if they cannot be entirely redressed; but your commute were advised by the City Solicitor that the law did not give them any jurisdiction in these matters. Your cemnait tee are, however, happy to find they are all under the inves igation of other bodies connected with the corperation, and our committee hope that this in vestigation will lead to a partial remedy, and give rise to legislative measures for their entire removal. "In the course of your committee's operations they have expended 6131. 15s. 3d., for which they have fi ono time to time drawn upon the Chan.ber. This sum does not icclude any remuneration for the professional ser vices of the eleven medical officers of the union cngsgesl in the visitation. In the absence of all knowledge as tv the amount and durwion, of the labours that might be required of them, we were unable to make any previous atreugement es to the quantum of remuneration to hich they would be entitled; but since notice has been ins, reed on the zummons for this Hon. Court recom• mending an allowance of 20 guineas to each of the medical officers, other facts have come to our knowledge which have induced us : to recommend the sum of 30 guineas. „ " Your compitteo have further to express their un qualitlid admiration of the conduct of Mr. Simon, the Officer of Health of the city of London, who, withoet professional fee, and without your committee having any claim upon his services, spontaneously devoted . o their Uses his valuable time and energies from the first day of their appointment to the close of their labours. "To the per onal assiduity and professional charanr and ability of Mr. Simon the public are in.debfed for tt e admirable arrangements for house to house visitation, by wh'ell the rersonel and locul knowledge of the medical . officers of each union, in combination with the labours of medical men specially appointed for that service, were productive of the must beneficial results. " Among the numerous reports made by Mr. Simon to your committee, there is one general report which has obtained our comnest attention, but as this report was made to ,h. Commissioners of Sewers as well ac to your committee, and as the Commissioners are by law em powered to deal with many of the evils therein described, we refrain from discussing its details. It would, however, ha unjust to Mr. Simon, if µo did not, in this our closing report, express the opinion New. Old. WHEAT, per qr. 601bs per bushel s. s, a. a. Sufluik, Essex, and Kent, red 40 to 43 40 to 43 Ditto, white 45 48 45 48 Norfolk and Hunts., red ... —4O 39 —4l Ditto, white ... ... 42 —45 43 —46 • Lineoloshire and Cambridge, red ... 35 —3B 38 41 Ditto, white ... .. 42 —45 42 44 Yorkshire, red .., 38 38 40 Ditto, white 42 45 42 45 Dantzic and Kcnigsburg, white .. 43._ 46 42 —45 Lowerilaltie and llamburgh, red... 38 40 28 40 111edlerranean, red ... 34 37 BARLEY, per quarter of 8 bushels:— Norfolk and SutlOlk... 27 30 Lincolnshire and Yorkshire .. 23 —26 Scotch ..• ••• ••• Grinding per 30 stone ... 2') —2l —— Foreign ... 23 —25 -- BEANS, per quarter of 8 bushels 631b:— inali, due 29 —3O 20 —32 Ticks , ... 28 —3O 28 —2l ForeiAn ... • ... ... 27 —29 26 —3O OATS, per stone Mcaling . 94 to 101 Eli to 101 Feeding ... 8d to 94 8d to 9d Foreign —d to —d 84 to 94 SHELLING, per load of 2611 b ... 21 —23 20 —22 MALT, per load of 6 imperial bushels 32 35 PEAS, per Imperial Quarter Blue and white boilers Grey and Feed [VATS. ARM Qrs. • „.. ... 15,007 • ... 4 301 677 ans... 469 28 - :30 --- 25-27 --- Qrs. Ripeseed - Shelling ... ... ... 213 Linseed .. .. 21 Malt ..• ... • • ... Flour ... ... ... as ••• ". 'eas Tares Ltvenroon, Dec. 14.—The arrivals from Ireland and cnstwise inee Tuesday have been on a limited scale, and Item Canada we have only received 500 loads of ()aunt al and 2,712 barrels of flour. From foreign ports a fair su; ply of wheat has come forward, but small of other articles. The exports in the same time have been unimportant ; The trade, without being brisk, has evinced considerable firmness, and several parcels of wheat have changed hands at lug prices. The weather has been cold and damp during the past few days. At this day's market there was only a middling attendaece of the trade, but a fair business was done in wheat at the full prices of Tuesday for foreign old, and an advane of hl per 70lb on Irish new. Oats and oatmeal met with a moderate retail demand, at late rates, as did barley. beans, and peas. Geod qualities of flour were in rather snore request, but inferior descriptions were extremely difficult to move. Indian corn was again slightly dearer, and 28s 61 was refused for prime American yellow. EXETER, DEC. 14.--Cattle Market—The supply of bullocks to-day was very small, as is always the case the week after the fair. The few fat bullocks driven in sold at 85 to 9, per score; cows and calves, 91 to 131. Birreners, es 6(1 to 5s 61 per score. Butchers' calves, 5J to 51d. There was a good supple of sheep, most of them lit for the butcher. Ewes, about 4id per lb; wethers, sd; and for a few small prime articles, 51-el per lb was obtained. There was a tolerable supply of at 're pigs, but the demand was not brisk. Pork Carcases-- The supply was about equal to that of last week, but the sale of large pigs was very dull. Prices ranged from 61 to 7s 31 per score. Pannier—Turkeys, 4s 6d to 6s 6rl each; geese, 4s 6d to 6s Gd ditto; ducks, 4s ed to 5s per couple; fowls, 2s 9d to 4s ditto; pheasants, 56 6d to 6s per brace; partridges, 2s 6d to 3s ditto; wood cocks, 4s 6d to 5s ditto; snipes, is 2d to is 6d; wild ducks, 4s 64 to 5s ditto; teal, 2s to 2s 6d; widgeon, 36 6d; hares, 2s 61 to 3s each; rabbits, 10d; roasters, 4s to ss. Butter, lldto Is per lb; eggs, 12 to 14 for 1s; potatoes, 8d to 9d per score; turnips, 3d to 4d ditto; onions, lelb for is. Corn Exchange—One remains pta tty near the same as that of last week. Wheat is selling at 4s 10d to 5s 2d per bushel for the best samples, and on the sshole the trade is rather firmer. The quotations fur foreign wheat is 40s for red, and 453 for white, but this must be considered nominal, and in consequence of the continued depression in English whew, most of the foreign has been withdrawn from the market, the holders being unable to effect a sale. Barley, 8s to 3s 31 per quarter; oats, is 9d to 23, Fine flour, 273 to 293 per sack, the ruling figure being 28s. BItIbTOL tR MARKET, DEL 14.—We have only' to repo-rt a moderate amount of business this week, but prices are well sustained. Refined goods of all descrir tions met a good sale, at rather improved rates. Runs and molasses are without alteration .—Bristol Mercury. RIPON, DEC, 13.—White wheat, 5s 3d to 5s 6d, red do 4s 3d to 5s 3d; beans, 4s 3d to 48 9d per bushel; barley 24s to 26s ; oats 14s to 22s per quarter. SCARBOROUGH, DEC. 13.—Red wheat 4s 6d to 5s Od, old ditto 5e 31 to 5s 9d per 5 stones; white oats 74d to Bd, black ditto 7d to lid per stone; making barley 21s to 23 1 4 grinding barley 19s to 21s per quarter of 32 stones; super fine flour 35s to 365, seconds ditto 29s to 305 per sack Or 20 stones. WE'IVERBY, Dec. 13.—White wheat 15s Od to 166 03, red ditto 133 6d to 14s Od; barley 228 to 141; beans 13s 63 to 14s 63; oats, 84d to 9d. Beef, 5s to 6s; mutton, 5d to 6d. KNARESB^ROUCII, DEC. 14.—Wheat, 4s 3d to 5s Od; beans, 46 31 to 5s 61 per bushel; barley, 24s to 265; oats, 163 to 20s per quarter. NORTIIALLERTON, DEC. 12.—White wheat 5s 6d to 6s 03, red ditto, 4s 6d to ss; oats is 6d to 2s 3d; beaus 3s 6d to 4s Od, barley 2s 6d to 3s Od per bushel. MORPETII, DEC. 12.—At our corn market this day COAL MARKET.—YITATE/WAY. Bate's West Hartley... 16s Oct Hetton .... 193 ? ti Buddle's W. Hartley.. 16s 6,1 Haswell 193 ~ Carr's Hartley Chester Main l6s 6d Russell's Hetton ..«.. 1 96 °cl. Holywell Main ... l7a 3d Stewart's North Percy Hartley.. 16s Od Caradoc ..... Ord's Redheugh Ravensworth'sW.Hart 16s Od Whitworth 153 .-, West Hartley I sd Windsor's Pontop.... . 15s Od ' St. Helen's Tees - 3d Wall's End, &c. rises ...... .......... Hilda l7s 6d Cowpen Hartley Washington Lambton Primrose Belmont _ 18s 6d WhitworthCoke ...... 215 Od Ships at ni market. 43. RAILWAY 611 it MARKETS STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market to .day was inactive' The only variation in prices was—Midland Stock, 48* LIVERPOOL, DEC. 14. STOCK ExcmiNcE.—The share market was very dad to day. The transactions were as follow:—Lancashire Yorkshire, Consol. Fifths, 6/.135. .d. dis. —London and Nor t e Western, 112!4—Ditte, New Quarters, 94 p.—East Lao t o , shire, Preference, Quarters, 7 1 / 8 Midland, 49 -- WZlfi Halves, 21% dis. Reading, Guildford, and Reigate, 13 —South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4), 61. Bs. 9d. c. MANCHESTER, Dice. 14. SO STocK EXCHANGE. --The transactions to-day were if follow :—London and North-Western, Manchester and i l d . mingham (C ), Quarters, 1 thp. Manchester, She and Lincolnshire, Eighths, 2 1- [6—Ditto, P re f er ence, C - ranteed 7 1 / 4 per cent., 9 9-16 c.— Ditto, Grimsby, 121. I 'l6 2 % —Grimsby Dock, 49-16 C a l e d on i an , P re f ere nce, 8 1 1 " pet - Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 6% dis. —Ditto, ° I ) Riding Union, 20!., 6 1 72 dis. South-Eastern (No. ' Scrip, lA. BIRMINGHAM, DEC. 14. ~0011 STOCK EXCHANGE.—There is really nothing doing - ' l3 cl our Stock Exchange. Transactions are at a stand-still; 1106 for some months to come, except privately, there is 13 hope of improvement. YORK, DEC. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were le follow : Caledonian, 11 1 ,4 2 Midland,49 4—York, ffeWc ol and Berwick (Newcastle Extensicn), 11%. GLASGOW, DEC. 13. STOCK EXCHANGE.— The transactions to-day were follow :—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves (NO. Ill.3s.—Monklands, 11. THE POOR-RATES IN SOMERSETSHIRE.•-*At al Glastonbury large cattl e mar k e t di nner , on M° l 2 - es last, Mr. Ralph N ev ill e state d th a t th e poor-l e j, in the Wells Union had very considerably dunisiflot In the parish of Meare they were 1501 less tbs i ° t he year, and in Glastonbury they were 301 . less, sn' e n eto union-house was inhabited by one-fifth loss of Psur than lastlyear. BIRTHS. On the 13th inst., Mrs. James Johnston, of Botolpirl" 1.00 of a daughter. A.scle ls On the 12th inst., at Tooting, the wife of A. W. Ga" — Esq., of a son. MO' On the 12th inst., at Liverpool, the wife of John Oubrey, Esq., of a daughter. 04'' On the lath inst., the wife of Bonamy Dobree, jun° of a son. i John's, On the 13th inst., at. Upper Hamilton-terrace, St• do wood, the lady of M. J. Soares, Esq., of a son. soil' On the 13th inst., Mrs. Watts, of Colt man - s t re et, o_f__!..„." MARRIED. c 1 0" On the Fth inst., at St. Mary's, Islington, George. --* Afel o Esq., to Ellen, y( tp , gest daughter of the late J. ri Esq., of Funtingdon, Sussex. e? - 0 it On the 11th inst., at Cheltenham, William T. Fo rb )(- 0 J of the late Lieutenant-General Alexander Cosby a c fP' Lieutenant, R.N., to Mary Susannah, eldest daughter 0 C. Bacon, Esq., Commander, R N. ,tert min- On the 12 h inst., at St. Jawes Church, Nes t —„glft - David Steel, of Spring-gardens, to Harriet, second clB— the late J. Barett, of Sackville street, Piccadill-' v 1. 116 DIED On the 9th inst., at Juniper-hill, Mickleham, Su rr la t c "/ Hon. and Rev. Sir Henry Leslie, Bart ., late Ch"; - e i ss George 111 youngest son of Jame Cotie'coorr Bottles, and ' Sir Lucas Pepys, Bart., of George 111. 1; 8114 On the 9th inst., at the Shrubbery, Northfice" Physician to th e Major Pardoe, aged 71. -rrish eP- On the 10th inst., in the Harrow-road, M iss Gordon, aged 73. Esq' 0 On the 12th inst., at Derby, Mellor HetheringtotiPtiorre On the 12th inst., Caroline, daughter of Henry """ E5.q., of Bloomsbury-Square. 1COV ) ill' Lt , ndon: Printed and Published by idUBDO /40 , i t No. 112, Strand, Printer, et The S un Offlem , Strand, in the Precinct of the Savor. in the emp ty 111idet_emeri. Saturday, December 15, 1849.. new wheat sold from 28s to 38s, old ditto, 42s to 44a ; barley, 18,8 d to 225; oats 13s 4d to 18s 8d per qr. 1111YL, DEC. 11.—We had a crowded market to•dtsly and all kinds of grain met with a further reduction fro the prices of last week. Wheat, 12s; barley, gi i ° 8s 61; beans, 8s 6d to 9s; oats, 5s per bobbet. LLANRWST, DEC. 11.,--We htid another poor fair to . day. The cattle and horses brought forward were almos t unsaleable, there being no demand. There was a grea t number of pigs shown. Large fat ones fetched about 3i per lb., live weight. For stores sud sucking pigs ther e was but little inquiry, and at very low rates. L `' _ I a nd the ilitere E Ila nd), B ,dge new x an Inifned E ntertain f ree.—lic NOY] patent IL o after i viged, -..441 e, an, .ec.i, FITE !'ALtTlor he t4 e t fon 'er ' Atility °rail Eid t N am rs Aroof7sait s o:Z„? th bedti-6' k p g th Publi u . s Nati 111 11 4 'rar , e 116 : rail 001 br 1 bag. pert --.. Least