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LAW INTELLIGENCE. SHERIFFS' COURT, Jan. 3. (Before Mr. Under-Sheriff BURCHELL.) CRIX. CON.-110GFITON V. WIGNEY. This was an action to recover compensation for criminal conversation. Judgment was allowed to go by default, and a writ of inquiry was executed to assess the damages. Mr. H. F. HODGSON opened the pleadings. The plaintiff was Henry Hoghton, who complained that the defendant, Clarence Wisen.!y, had seduced his wife, Louisa Josephine Hoghtor... The damages were laid at 10,0001. Sir F. THSSIGEN stated the case. He never rose to perform his duty in a case like the present without feeling oppressed at the degradation of the injured party, who was compelled to expose the cruel wrongs be had suffered. Every one could perceive that it was by the act of the adulterer that the happiness of the husband was destroyed, and yet it was the husband who had to detail his wrongs, knowing at the same time, as they:all did, how utterly weak, how entirely powerless the law was to afford an adequate redress. By taking adultery out of the list of penal offences, and making it a matter on which an action WAS to be brought to recover compensation, they were apt to lose sight of the enormity of the offence. The miserably imperfect remedy afforded by the law was to give pecuniary satisfaction to the husband, who had to endure the degradation of coming before a jury and submitting to what was galling to every honourable mind—exposing the wrongs he had suffered. It was impossible not to know that there were feelings and affections deeply seated in the heart, and only more deep and lasting because they were kept secret. Before the law would permit the marriage contract to be dissolved - the injured one was required to lay bare the wounds of his heart, :not to the soothing hand of friendship, but to the vulgar gaze—wounds which it would have been his desire to conceal. Among the multiplied miseries produced by the act of the adulterer, it struck him as not the least painful that the husband should he obliged to come into court or to allow the deliquent to escape. With the feelings he had ex pressed, he would bring the facts of a very painful case before the jury. The plaintiff, Mr. Hoghton, now only twenty-eight years of age, was the eldest son of Sir Henry Hoghton, Bart. In 1842, on the plaintiff coming of age, he became entitled to con siderable estates in the county of Lancaster. He be came acquainted with the subject of the present action, Miss Louisa Josephine Saunders, who was only seventeen and possessed of great personal attrac tions, under the care of her mother. Mr. Hoghton followed her to Boulogne in June of the same year, proposed and was accepted. It was due to Mrs. Saunders to say that on account of the youth of her daughter she objected to the union until two or three years had expired ; her scruples were, however, over come, and in August of the same year Mr. Hoghton returned to make arrangements for the marriage. Mr. Hoghton had made a liberal settlement on his wife, as " pin money" 2001. a year, and if she survived him a jointure of 1,5001. a year; for the children, other than the eldest son, who would be entitled to the family estates in Lancaster, 10,000/. in case of one child, 20,0001. in the event of two, and 30,0001. in case of a third child. The marriage took place on the 14th of August, 1845, with the consent and approbation of all parties. The young couple pro ceeded to the continent, where they remained some time, and in June, 1846, Mr. Hoghton purchased an estate at Hafod, - , in South Wales, of the Duke of Newcastle, whither they went to reside. They were visited by families in the neighbourhood, and lived in great affection. Mr. Hoghton was a kind and in dulgent,husband ; his wife had his entire confidence ; and when he was ill and visited another place she tended him with the most affectionate solicitude. In the spring of 1847 they returned to their seat, and, whilst alterations were made, came to London. They resided at the Brunswick Hotel, Hanover-square, and afterwards at Mivart's, until the fatal acquain tance with the defendant, and which led to the pre-. sent action. The defendant was the son of a gentle man who was formerly a banker at Brighton, and he was an officer in the service of the East India Company. It seemed that on April the 9th, a day which would always be re membered as the one before the Chartist demonstra tion occurred, an arrangement had been made between Mrs. Hoghton and Mrs. Pugh, the lady of the Member of Parliament for Montgomeryshire, to go to Greenwich. On arriving at Hungerford-stairs, the defendant, who was unknown to Mr. Hoghton, presented himself. He was introduced by Mrs. Pugh, and having, as was understood, missed his party, he was invited to join their party. On the next day he called on Mr. Hoghton, and they drove about to notice the Chartist demonstration. On the 17th of the same month Mr. Hoghton was called into Lan caster, and his wife was lett, visited by her mother and sufficiently protected. It would be impossible for him to trace the parties throughout their course until the fatal consummation. It would appear that the defendant met Mrs. Hoghton in the Park and Kensington-gardens, and the man servant observed assignations made to meet at the Zoological-gardens and other places; and here he (Sir F. Thesiger) ought to pause. It was not in the power of the defendant to say that he had committed his crime by any sudden temptation, but it was an act deliberately settled to effect the seduction of the plaintiff's wife. After Mr. Hoghton's return to town nothing occurred to awaken his suspicion. It would appear, however, that the defendant, by his arts, so prepared and so perseveringly applied, had so woven his chain round the unhappy woman, that he was soon after wards enabled to carry her off, never to return to that home and happiness she had once enjoyed. It was on Wednesday, the 21st of June last, this fatal step was taken. The family was to leave town on the 21st of June. Preparations were made, and on the morning of the day before Mrs. Hoghton's maid was allowed to go to Bristol. Mrs.:Hoghton had in formed her husband that he had an invitation to dine that evening with Sir Archibald M`Clav, and that she would go to a friend at Langham-place to tea. The invitation to dinner was for the 21st of June, and whether it was designedly represented by Mrs. Hoghton to be on the day before he would not stop to inquire. After Mrs. Hoghton was set down at Langham-place the carriage returned to take Mr. Hoghton to dinner, when the mistake was discovered that the invitation was for the day following. Mr. Hoghton desired his servant to drive him to the University Hotel, Suffolk-street, where he would dine. The servant had his suspicions ex cited, and he hurried back to Mivart's, and his sus picions were confirmed. He hastened to his master, and on their return it was toe clear to be doubted that Mrs. Hoghton had eloped with the defendant. Mr. Hoghton was deeply affected; he could not re main another night at Mivart's, and removed to an other hotel. He consulted his solicitor, and it was ascertained that the parties had left by train for Dover and had gone to Ostend, afterwards to Brussels and to Wiesbaden on the Rhine, whither Hirst, the servant, and LMadbetter, the police-officer, found them passing as Mr. and Mrs. Wilmot. They remained some time on the continent, and afterwards returned to Lon don ; and on the 20th of October last the guilty pair , embarked for India, where they had now probably arrived. He (Sir F. Thesiger) had not yet dune with the painful details. Mrs. Hoghton was in the family-way by her husband, and in a few short months the union would have been strengthened by the birth of a child. What were now the prospects of the child ? Hearts warmed with love would have received it, but now the hands of a guilty mother would be the first to hold it, and its first home would be amidst guilt and shame—the tenderest offices stifled, and the first smile of innocence bring to the remembrance of the mother the misery she had brought on herself and her helpless child. Could anything compensate the plaintiff for the loss he had sustained ? Twice the amount limited by the decla ration would be no compensation. He (Sir Frede rick Thesiger) asked himself what will be the pallia tion offered for such atrocious conduct? Would it be attributed to excess of " love ?" If that sacred name r_a Prostituted to cover a guilty passion, then might co mmon robber j us tify his conduct by his desire to gratify the indulgence of his passion for plunder. Again, he asked himself what excuse could be offered, and he remembered the ample settlement made by the plaintiff on his wif e; she having no fortune of her own, 'and it bad suggested itself to him that it was the desire to possess the fortune of the woman that the defendant had seduced the wife. The jury could only afford pecuniary satisfaction for the irreparable injury, and it would be urged that he was unable to pay. But was that any excuse for his conduct ? The action was for the great injury inflicted. Al though the duty of the jury was to compensate, and not to punish, if their verdict should seriously a ff ec t the defendant, it would perhaps make him, as 'well as the partner of his guilt, feel, though he could not sufficiently atone, for the atrocious injury he had inflicted. Mr. John Wilson Patten, M.P.,. the Rev. Arthur Truman ; Mr. Flowerden, steward to the plaintiff; Mrs. Pugh, the lady of Mr. Pugh, M.P.; George Hirst, the servant; and a Mrs. Newman, were called on the part of the plaintiff, and established the prin cipal facts detailed by Mr. Thesiger. The marriage settlement was put in, after an objection to its ad missibility on the part of the defendant. The witnesses described the affectionate terms on which the plaintiff and his wife lived. The servant said he did not mention his suspicions because he thought it would make his master and mistress unhappy for life. It appeared that a Mr. Thompson had uttered some slander against Mrs. Hoghton, and a criminal infor mation was filed, and he was abroad. The circum stancei made no alteration in the affections o f th e Mrs. Newman , who resided i n Welbcck rreet, p h roved that Mrs. Hoghton and the d e f en d ant resided s her house under the name of Wilmot. J e her judgme Airs. Hoghton months advanced in pregnancy, Mr. PETERSDORFF (with whom was Mr. Prentice) addressed the Court on the part of the defendant. His Learned Friend had with his usual force intro• duced topics to call; sympathy and commiseration not only in favour of the plaintiff, but to show the in adequacy of the law to afford redress for the wrong committed—observations which he was sure the jury would dismiss from their minds, and proceed to a calm consideration of the case. He appeared on the part of Lieutenant Wigney, not to justify his con duct, but to confess his transgression, and to urge circumstances in mitigation of the large amount of damages sought to be recovered. The action was not to obtain large damages, but with a view to ulterior proceedings, to enable the plaintiff to obtain a divorce. The defendant was a young man, only 23 years of age, and without abusing the claims of friendship, had yielded to a sudden temptation. Sir F. THESIGER—Not a sudden temptation. Mr. PETERSDORFF ventured to say a sudden temptation, and the evidence proved it. Only a few weeks hid elapsed before the elopement. What object could the plaintiff gain by large damages, sur rounded as he was by wealth ? Money he did not want, and could it be imagined for a moment that if they could be paid he would touch one penny of the sum awarded by the dishonour of his wife ? What effect would large damages have on the defendant ? \Vas he not already ruined—barred from future ad vancement ? Accompanied by this woman, how could he rise in his profession ? As to the motive imputed to the defendant, that he had looked to the settlement, he would ask what evidence was there on the subject; and could it be supposed for a moment that Mrs. Hoghton had been so lost to shame as to inform the defendant of such a circumstance ? The Learned Counsel asked the jury not to award such an amount of damages as would render the defendant an exile for life, or, if he returned, consign him to perpetual imprisonment. The Learned UNDER-SHERIFF, in leaving the case to the jury, told them, in apportioning the amount of damages, to be guided by the evidence given. A re mark had been made on the absence of members of the family to prove the terms on which the parties lived ; but the jury would remember that several per sons had been called who had opportunities of observ ing them, and there was no necessity further to harass the feelings of the family. As to the motive sug gested, about the settlement inducing the defendant to seduce Mrs. Hoghton, there was no evidence on the subject; and with respect to the amount of da mages, and the plea urged on the part of the defen dant, that the plaintiff was a wealthy man, the jury would consider whether it was not a reason for in creased damages, because what was a large amount to a person in other circumstances was not so to a man possessing ample stores. He had often felt, with Sir F. Thesiger, the state of the law on the subject of adultery, but as it now stood the jury could only award a pecuniary satisfaction. With regard to ulterior proceedings to obtain a divorce, the jury had nothing to do. All they were required to do was to assess the damages, and he was sure they would do so in a manner to satisfy the justice of the case. The jury retired for a quarter of an hour, and on their return assessed the damages at 3,0001. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Jan. 3. (Before the CHIEY COMMISSIONER.) IN RE JOHN D'MONTE ARBUTHNOT. This insolvent, who had been connected with the " turf," again came before the Court. His case was reported in our paper on the 16th ult. Mr. Sturgeon again appeared for a Mr. Wood, and Mr. Cooke supported. It appeared that within the last few days the insol vent had been made a bankrupt, and the Court on that account dispensed with the attendance of a Mr. Green, who was required to appear. It was elicited, in the course of the examination of the insolvent on the present occasion, that he had lost 1,0001. at billiards-6001. on one occasion, and 4001. on another. His Homourt addressed the insolvent in a very im pressive manner. He had frankly answered the ques tions, but his frankness would not save him from shame and degradation unless he eschewed his former , vices and applied his mind to some honest calling. The insolvent was discharged. IVESTMINS7 ER COUNTY COURT, Jan. 3. (Before D. C. MoTLAN, Esq., Judge.) SLY V. BRYANT. This was an action to recover "advanced rent," as it is called. The defendant occupied a first floor and a work shop, belonging to the plaintiff; for the first he p aid ss. 6d. per week, and for the second B.s. per week. For some cause, not explained, the plaintiff rose the former to 7s. per week, and the latter to 12s. The defendant refused to pay the increa'ed demand, but regularly paid the old rent, and the plaintiff now sought to recover the advance, as she termed it. 'The JUDGS said the' law was too clear upon the subject for her to recover. By the 4th of George 11. the right of a landlord to charge double rent, or an advanced rent, was confined to cases where the tenant in possession held for the term of his life, lives, or years. The Act was not at all applicable to weekly tenants ; and Lord Ellenborough had gone so far as to doubt whether it could be applied to tenants hold ing for six months. He must direct a nonsuit. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. Joseph Barley, 32, carman, was indicted for the wilful murder of Lewis Canstett, otherwise known as Lewis Lewis, by driving a loaded coal-waggon over him. The prisoner was charged by the coroner's in quisition with the offence of manslaughter arising out of the same transaction. Mr. Clarkson prosecuted, and Mr. Ballantine de fended the prisoner. From the statement of the Learned Counsel for the prosecution, and the testimony of several witnesses, it appeared that the occurrence which formed the sub ject of the inquiry, took place just before nine o'clock in the morning of the 16th of December, in Night ingale-lane, near the St. Katherine's Docks. It ap pears to be the custom for a number of labourers to assemble every morning, before nine o'clock, at the different warehouses of the dock, to try to obtain employment, and that they occupy nearly the whole of the carriageway, their object being to front the gate when it is opened, and endeavour to catch the eye 'of the foreman who has to engage them, and on the morning in question, about a hundred and fifty men, among whom was the deceased, had assembled in front of the F warehouse gate, waiting to be engaged. The prisoner, who is in the service of a coal-merchant named Green, was coining up Nightingale-lane, towards East Smith field, driving a loaded waggon drawn by three horses, and when he came up to the men standing at the F gate, an altercation took place between them and the prisoner, on account of his having driven, as they said, too close to them. The consequence of this was, that after the waggon had proceeded a short distance, the prisoner stopped it, and returned to the men, taking off his coat, and throwing down his whip, to fight. Immediately upon the prisoner doing this, he was attacked by several of the labourers, and was knocked down three times with great violence. He got up, said he would have no more fighting, put on his coat, took his whip, and proceeded with his waggon. At this moment, it seems, there was a call for la bourers at the next gate, lettered D, and the whole of the men who had been waiting at the F gate imme diately rushed to answer the call, and before the waggon had come up, they had again formed them selves across the road, as they had done in the first instance. The prisoner proceeded on with his wag gon, and, according to the evidence of one of the witnesses, he exclaimed that he would do for some of the - at the next gate, if they did not get out of the way. He then drove on, and when he came up to the body of labourers the waggon went through them, when deceased was knocked down, and the near fore wheel passid over his head and the hind wheel over his body, and the result was that he was killed instantaneously. It was admitted the la bourers who were waiting to be employed were in the constant habit of blocking up the road every morn ing, and that there were continual squabbles with the carmen and others, who had occasion to pass the spot, and also that the deceased and his companions could have easily got out of the way of the waggon if they had chosen to do so. It likewise appeared that the prisoner was driving at a very slow pace, and that in order to avoid the crowd of labourers, he must have driven his waggon complet e ly across to the other side of the road. Mr. BALLANTINB, in his address to the jury for the prisoner, said that it WAS idle and absurd to charge him with the offence of wilful murder under such circumstances as had been laid before them, and said it was perfectly clear that the only question was, whether the prisoner was guilty of manslaughter in having by culpable negligence caused the death of the deceased, or whether the whole a ff air was not the result of accident. According to his instructions the prisoner had in the first instance been insulted most grossly by these men, who had assembled and were creating a great nuisance, and stopping completely the traffic of the road, and when he resented the insult that WfiS put upon him, he was most brutally ill treated. Finding that he was used in this way, he endeavoured to proceed to his business, and he was again interrupted; but he submitted that even accord ing to the showing of the witnesses for the prosecu tion, the unfortunate result that took place was solely attributNl to accident, and that the prisoner ought to leave the bar without any imput a ti on upon hi s character. Evidence was then adduced, the effect of which was clearly to establish the statement of the Learned Counsel. It IV4 shown that the prisoner was driving steadily, and that when he arrived at the D gate h e was coe,pelled to pass through the crowd, and at the instant the waggon got opposite the door ,, it was sud denly closed, the effect of which was to force the crowd back, and the deceased, who was the outside man, was thrown under the waggon, the prisoner being at the time near to the fore-horse, and with his back to the waggon, and was not even aware that the accident had happened. It was also shown that while passing through the crowd the prisoner moved his shaft horse by means of op whip, so as to keep his vehicle away from the people as much as possible, and prevent it from doing them , any injury. A police constable was also called, who proved that one of the witnesses who had deposed to the fact of the prisoner having made use of the threat that he would do for some of them if they did not get out of the way, was not present, and that he admitted to him that he knew nothing whatever of the transaction. • The Jury stopped the Learned Counsel as he was about to call witnesses to I speak to the character of the prisoner, and intimated their opinion that the charge was not made out. Mr. Justice PATTESON remarked, that certainly, according to the evidence of the witnesses for the defence, the occurrence was purely accidental. The jury said this was their opinion. Mr. CLARKSON said that the prosecution was not instituted from any vindictive feeling, and the only object of the inquiry was to ascertain the truth. , After, therefore, what had been stated by his Lord ship, and the intimation given by the jury, he felt that he ought not to address the jury in reply. The jury then returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Mr. CLARKSON applied for the expenses of the pro secution. Mr. Justice PATTESON said of course they would be allowed—it was a very proper case for inquiry. James William Ludlam was indicted for stealing a quantity of bank notes and gold, amounting alto gether in value to 3450/., the property of Charles Butler. Mr. Parry prosecuted, and Mr. Ballantine defended the prisoner. The circumstances of this case have been reported within the last few days in the police reports. The prosecutor is a beer-shop keeper in Brandon-street, Lock's-fields, and the robbery in question was com mitted on the night of the 16th December, about seven o'clock, by some person getting into the bed room window, and breaking open a drawer which contained the money. The chief evidence against the prisoner was that of a female named White, who swore that at the time the robbery must have been committed she saw the prisoner jump from the win dow of the room. None of the money appeared to have been traced ; but there were other circumstances tending to confirm the evidence of this witness, who spoke to the prisoner's identity, which left little doubt of his guilt. The jury, after a good deal of deliberation in the box, retired for nearly half-an-hour to consider their verdict, and at sevenpo clock they agreed to a verdict of Guilty. The prisoner loudly asserted his innocence, and declared ithat the prosecutor knew he was not the man who committed the robbery. The prosecutor said he knew nothing of the sort ; and he also denied most positively having sent three men to the house of the prisoner to communicate with him upon the subject of the robbery. A police constable informed the Court that he had taken the prisoner into custody in 1847, when he was about to commit a robbery, and found fourteen skele ton keys and a crowbar in his possession. Mr. Justice MauLE then sentenced the prisoner to be transported for ten years. The 'prisoner was identified by another licensed victualler, named Wiggins, as the person who had stolen between 601. and 701. from her house on the evening previous to that on which the robbery at Mr. Butler's was committed. NEW COURT. (Before the RECORDER.) Isabella Jennings, aged 26, married, was indicted for stealing a quantity of plate and other articles, Talued 2001., the property of Cranstoun George Ridout. Mr. Payne prosecuted, and the prisoner was un defended. It appeared from the statement of the Learned Counsel for the prosecution, that th• prosecutor is a gentleman residing in Wimpole-street, and that the prisoner at the bar was sister to a girl who lived in his service at the time of the robbery, which was effected under the following circumstances : In August last the prosecutor went out of town, leaving Elizabeth Rogers (the girl alluded to) in care of his kouse, which contained, amongst other pro perty, a large quantity of plate, which was carefully packed away in a closet. Upon the prosecutor's re turn to town in the early part of October, he found that the plate closet had been broken open, and its con tents abstracted ; and the account given of it by the girl Rogers was, that some one bad effected an entrance, and committed the robbery. This the police at once found to be a falsehood, and the result was the apprehension of Rogers a man named John Jennings, and Elizabeth his wife, all three of whom were tried and convicted at the November sessions of this Court, but upon whom judgment had been respited. Those prisoners were related to the present one, the two females being her sisters, and the male her bro ther-in-law, and also brother to her husband. Since the conviction of the three prisoners in November, the female Elizabeth had made statements which led to the apprehension of the prisoner at the bar, who was aware that the plate bad been stolen, and had pawned a part of it. Isabella Jennings, who was brought up from the interior gaol to give her evidence, deposed to the pri soner being her sister. Shortly after the prosecutor left town, she (witness) went to live with her un married sister, at his residence in Wimpole-street, where she was visited by the prisoner Isabella, who, although not present when the plate closet was broken open, was aware afterwards that the robbery had been committed, and on the 22d of September accom panied herself, her husband, and Rogers, to the shop of Mr. Gray, a pawnbroker, in Fleet-street, where she pawned a portion of the stolen property. James Avant, the manager of Mr. Grey's busi ness, proved the prisoner to have pawned the portion of the property alluded to. The prisoner did not offer anytl'iing in her defence, and the jury found her Guilty on the second count included is the indictment, namely, the receiving. The other prisoners, Elizabeth Rogers, John Jen nings, and Elizabeth Jennings, were then brought up to receive judgment. The RECORDER, in passing sentence, said that the Lord Chief Justice, before whom the first trial had been gone through, had marked down the sentence he wished to be passed upon the prisoners tried be fore him, which was, that John Jennings be trans ported for fourteen years ; Elizabeth Rogers to twelve months'gimprisonment and hard labour; and Elizabeth and Isabella Jennings to fire months' im prisonment.. James Wright, 13, Owen Tierney, 16, were in dicted fur stealing a handkerchief, the property of James Joseph Morris, from his person. A man named Webb, who stated himself to be a bill- sticker, stated that,he had watched the two pri soners for some time, the elder one hiding the younger from view whilst he tried several persons' pockets, and when near the Surrey Theatre Wright committed the robbery, and hid the handkerchief in his bosom, where it was found by the police. Other conclusive evidence having been given, the jury found Tierney Guilty, Wright having pleaded Guilty. _ . As his Lordship was about passing sentence, Mr. R. G. Ibbett, of Fleet-street, one of the jury in waiting, begged to direct the attention of the Court to the fact that he had heard the witness Webb ex amined in a civil case in the Exchequer Court, and that in the course of cross-examination he (Webb) had admitted that he acted as a sort of spy to the police, and received a small stipend from them for his services, and principally lived upon that and the ex penses he obtained for his attendance as a witness; and that he had been instrumental in bringing a great many offenders to justice. He also admitted that he had been several times in trouble for felonies, and had been convicted. _ _ Webb being re-called, denied that he was in the pay of the police, or that he had ever been convicted. Inspector Scott, of the II division, intimated to the Court that the statement made relative to Webb having: been convicted was true, but denied that he was regularly in the pay of the police. Jenkinson, a constable of the G division, said that Webb had been pointed out to him as a convicted felon. Webb then admitted that he had been in trouble, but that it was nine years ago, but again denied that he was a spy for the police. It was, however, satis factorily shown to the Court that he had, when ex amined in a case tried at these sessions, admitted having been employed by the police to assist in getting up cases. The RECORDER said it would have been more sa tisfactory had the jury known the character of the witness before they had returned their verdict; but there was abundant evidence without him ; if, how ever, the jury differed with him, he would re-open the case. The foreman of the jury said he would sooner be lieve the prisoner than the witness Webb. Another juryman said the case was abundantly clear without him. Tierney having again denied being in company with the other prisoner, The RECORDER again examined the police, who proved his guilt beyond a doubt. Ar. Jonas, the clerk to the gaol, said both pri soners had been convicted at this court; Wright upon more occasions than one. The RECORDER then, sentenced Wright to twel ve months' imprisonment and hard labour, and Tierney to three months. Alexander Ford alias Powell, aged 27, a druggist, was indicted fir forgery. Mr. Bodkin protieented, and the prisoner, who 'THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 4 , 1849.7 is a gentlemanly-looking young man, defended himsolf. The facts of the case (which occupied the Court a considerable time in hearing, and have been recently fully before the public) were these. Tne prisoner (who is of good family, and has been brought up to the medical profession) on the 7th of July called at the shop of Mr. Springwiner, a dealer in bottles and chemists' fittings, and having informed him that he was about taking a chemist's business of a person known to Mr. Spring winer, looked out a quantity of fittings, which he requested might be put by for him. He then produced a bill from a country union bank, drawn upon Messrs. Spooner and Attwood, the Lon don bankers, for the sum of 12/. 45., and purporting to be signed by John Williams, which he requested Mr. Springwiner to pay into the bank for him, and give him (prisoner) a cheque upon his banker for the amount. This Mr. Springwiner refused to do, but said he would obtain payment for the bill if prisoner left it with him, which, after some hesitation, he con sented to do. Mr. Springwiner having sent the bill to Messrs. Attwood, they denied having any account in that name, but on searching through their accounts found they had given credit to the amount of 1001. to a Welsh clergyman of that name, imagined it to be his, and, therefore paid it. The prisoner, however, never expected it would be paid, for ho nevercalled on Mr. Springwiner any more, but sent him a letter requesting the return of the bill. This of course was not done, and nothing more was heard of the prisoner until he was taken in custody for a similar offence, when leaving Winchester gaol, where he had been imprisoned as a rogue and vagabond. The evidence not leaving any doubt of the pri soner's guilt, the jury at ,once returned a verdict of Guilty. It was then proved that he had been convicted in August, 1846, for uttering a forged instru ment for the payment of 101., and was ordered to be transported for seven years, and which, by the interference of his friends, was commuted to two years' imprisonment. There was then a great number of charges against him, and some for forging Bank of England notes. He was, however, no sooner out than he began again, and towards the autumn of the past year was apprehended at Newport, Hants, and lodged in the jail there, from whence he effected his escape—but a description of him being telegraphd to Hull, he was retaken, and subsequently placed upon his trial for the offence and acquitted. The authorities, however, down there committed him as a rogue and vagabond, and sentenced him to two months' imprisonment in Winchester jail for having broken prison and which place he was leaving when taken upon this charge. There were several other charges against the pri soner, who was ordered to be transported for ten years. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. _ MANSION-HOUSE. John Brennan and John Cronin were charged with having robbed a lady of her purse. The prosecutriz, who is the wife of a gentleman in the Bank of England, had gone round to pay her tradesmen's bills on Saturday, and so nicely had she provided for the occasion, that upon discharging the demand of the last creditor, she put exactly 3d. into her purse. In passing along Cornhill she was followed by the two prisoners, one of whom had a coat slung across his arm, and in an instant they whipped the purse out of her pocket. The action was a perfect specimen of skill; but two officers, Funnell and Wardell, who have a very extensive knowledge of the fraternity, and had been observing the prisoners for some time, seized them and the lady's property upon them. The officers said they had known the prisoners as common thieves for some time, and Cronin had been lately discharged from a prison in which he had been confined three months. They (the officers) had seen many clever instances of sleight-of-hand, but the neatness with which the purse had been taken exceeded all they had before witnessed. The prisoners were committed. The LORD Maroc said that the generous public were responding to the calls of distress at the present very severe season in a manner that did honour to their feelings. He had on that day received 51. from " Beta," and 11. from a lady, for the poor-box. WORSHIP-STREET. A respectably-dressed man, named Samuel Collins, described as a cigar-box manufacturer, was placed at the bar, charged w ith having feloniously intermarried with one Anna Maria Hornblower, his first wife, Esther Isabella Collins, being then and still living. The prisoner, who was proved to have been mar ried to the first wife in 1843, was given into custody at the instance of the second, who stated that about three years ago she became acquainted with the pri soner, who passed by the name of Smith and repre sented himself as a single man, and that after visiting her repeatedly at the house of her father, where he was received as her future husband, he proposed to her that they should he privately married by license in the country, and that when the time arrived for an open acknowledgment of the fact to her friends she should be at liberty to do so. She therefore accom• panied the prisoner down the Eastern Counties Rail , way to a town in Essex (the name of which she did not positively know, but minutely described the church), where they were married, in the month of August, 1547, and immediately after the conclusion of the ceremony she returned to her father's house in town, and, being earnestly enjoined by the prisoner to keep the marriage a secret, long did so, until she some timq,afterwards accidentally discovered that the prisoner had another wife living, when she imme diately tore up her certificate in revenge for the prisoner's base conduct towards her, apprised her parents of the position in which she was placed, and gave instructions to the police for the prisoner's ap prehension. A sergeant of the N division deposed to apprehend ing the prisoner at his house in Prince's-street, Hag gerstone, and that upon communicating to him the nature of the charge against him he at once acknow leged the first marriage, but positively denied there were any grounds for charging him with the second. When called upon for his defence, the prisoner re peated the same statement he had made to the officer, declared that the second wife's testimony was no thing but a pure fabrication, and said she had been induced to make such a charge solely by jealousy and vindictive feelings towards him. The MAQISTRATE, however, saw no reason for discrediting her testimony, and ordered the prisoner to be remanded, to afford the police an opportunity of tracing out the church where the prosecutrix so positively alleged that the marriage with her had taken place. William Smart, who stood remanded upon the timepiece and a large quantity o the property of a poulterer charge householdrg a a me d e oGfrsotveeasl,inrg a furniture, esidin in Poole-street, Hoz ton, with whose wife the prisoner had also ahsconded, was then brought up for final examination. Some further evidence was now gone into to prove the prisoner's instrumentality in the removal of the property, and the depositions having been taken the prisoner was fully committed for trial, bail having been refused. _ As soon as the case had been disposed of the pro secutor's wife made an earnest appeal from the wit ness-box to induce a more favourable interpretation upon the prisoner's conduct, but, finding the Magis trate's mind made up, she then, with the greatest coolness imaginable, besought him to compel her husband to make some permanent arrangement for her future support, as she was entirely without the means of subsistence. The MAGISTRATE, however, told her that after the heartless profligacy she had exhibited in the whole of her conduct, he was astonished at her audacity in making such an application, and ordered her instantly to stand down and quit the court; which she very reluctantly did, but waited outside till the prisoner was transferred to the van, when she repeatedly kissed her hand to him, the gaoler ..refusing to allow them to converse together. LAMBETH. man, who gave the name of Henry A young Wilson, was pl ace d a t th e b a r before Mr. Elliott, an d charged on suspicion with stealing a surplice, a pulpit cushion, and other articles from some church or chapel. Police -constables Thomas Cannon, 50 P, and W. Woodward, 157 P, deposed that about two o'clock on that afternoon they stopped the prisoner in the Brix ton-road with a large bundle, and, on questioning him as to what it contained, he instantly dropped it and walked away. They, however, soon secured him, and on examining the parcel they found it to contain a clergyman's surplice, the furniture of a pew, two cushions,' one of Palmer's patent lamps, a set of fire-irons, and other articles, and all those things they (the officers) were of opinion had been stolen from some church or chapel. The pri soner refused to give any account of himself, beyond saying he had recently come from Brighton. He, however, added, they should learn a little more about him if they took him to this court, as his history was well known here. The prisoner, who declined giving any account of himself or the property found in his possession, was remanded until Tuesday next. Edward Stone alias Ginger, a notorious member of the " swell mob," was charged with being con cerned with two others not yet in custody with breaking into the house of a widow lady named Tinkin, in Leipsic-road, Camberwell, on Sunday evening last, and stealing therefrom two valuable watches, the one gold and the other silver, two gold chains, brooches, rings, and other property belonging to that lady. From the evidence adduced it appeared that on Sunday evening • last Mrs. Tinkin and a young lady residing with her left home about half past four o'clock to take tea with a friend in the neighbourhood, and on their return, about a quarter before eight, they discovered that during their ab sence the house had been entered by thieves, and the property before-mentioned stolen. The thieves, it appeared, ,had first tried to get into the house by ! means of skeleton keys, but the doer having been double locked, they could not manage it in that way. They then broke a piece of glass in the parlour win dow, sufficient to enable them to undo the fastenings and throw up the under sash, and thus they accom plished an entrance. The pris=oner was identified as being one of the three persons seen coming from the house, and who effected the robbery, by a little girl who lives next door to the prosecutrix.—The prisoner was remanded. THAMES. On Tuesday evening, as Mr. Tvrwhitt, the presid ing magistrate, who sat for Mr. Yardley, was about to leave the bench, three masters of foreign ships, who were accompaLied by Mr. Bonom, complained of a gross outrage on the flig of Schleswig-Holstein under which they sailed. Mr. Bonom said, there were two ships lying in the South West India Dock, and another in the export West India Dock, named the Lucia, a schooner, Captain Bomholdt; the Elbe, galliot, Captain Pe ters ; and the Pax, Captain Hanck, all belonging to the port of Blankanese, in the duchy of Schleswig- Holstein, and sailing under the flag of that place. The masters and crews of some Danish vessels in the river took offence at the German flag being hoisted on the Schleswig-Holstein vessels, and came on board and ordered the people to strike their colours, and on their refusal to do so hauled them down, partially destroying the flags, and carried away the shreds. Mr. TYRWHITT—Did they proceed from ship to ship and do this ? Mr. Bonom replied in the affirmative, and said, the Danes made a good deal of noise, tore down the Schleswig-Holstein flag and ill-used every one who obstructed them. A man on board the Elbe protected the flag he was sailing under, and endeavoured to prevent the Danes carrying their intentions into effect, on which the Danes knocked him down and gave him a black eye. The colours were then hauled down amidst loud cheering on the part of the Danes. The people of Schleswig-Holstein and the Danes were equally under the Danish Consul, the duchy still forming part of the kingdom of Denmark, and the Consul was anxious that such an outrage should net go unpunished. Mr. TYRWHITT was surprised that the Danes and the people of Schleswig-Holstein should extend their quarrels to a neutral port. Mr. Bonom was as much astonished as his Worship at the proceedings of the Danes, who acted under an erroneous impression that the vessels of Schleswig- Holstein ought to sail under the Danish flag instead of belonging to the duchy; but whether that was so or not, no one had any right to interfere with the complainants, who were justified, as he conceived, in hoisting any colours they pleased. Captain Bomholdt said, if he had been on board his vessel he would have sooner lost his head than his flag, and there would have been bloodshed. The other captains said, advantage was taken of their absence by the Danes to seize the flags. Mr. Bonom said that ,such proceedings, if perse vered in, would end in bloodshed, which the Danish Consul was most anxious to prevent. Mr. TYRWHITT saw no occasion to issue warrants, and said that the best.course to pursue was to apply to the Thames police, and point out the alleged offenders to them. He supposed the police had power to enter ships. Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, said the Thames po lice had the power to do so. _ _ _ Mr. TTRWRITT then directed Mr. Bonom and the German captains to apply to the Thames police, and they at once proceeded to the station in Wapping, when the superintendent refused to act in the matter, on the ground that no officer saw the assaults com mitted, and there was no reason to suppose the Danes carried off the flags with a felonious intent, but only to display their national feeling on the subject, and to make it appear that the Schleswig-Holsteiners were still the subjects of Denmark. Under these circum stances the German captains consulted Mr. Pelham, the solicitor, on the subject, and that gentleman went before Mr. Arnold, of the Worship -street Court, who presided in the absence of Mr. Ballantine, but owing to the absence of the principal witness, who was beaten by the Danes in defending his flag, the application for assault warrants could not be made, and all the parties were directed to attend this day. The ringleaders in the affray were Clemens Gorgenson, and Adlipsum Elipsum, of the Betsy and Susannah, and Carl Emil Schmidt, of the schooner Soceridden. The crews of the vessels under the Schleswig-Holstein flag have taken measures to pre vent any further surprise from the Danes. Henry Samuel Chester, a porter in the employ of Messrs. Druce and Broadhurst, upholsterers, of the Baker-street Bazaar, and 200, Regent-street, was brought before Mr. Arnold, charged with stealing silk damask and silk and worsted damask, value 401., and a quantity of carpeting and other property, be longing to his employers. Two men, named Thos. Armcut, sen., greengrocer, of 10, Tenter-street, and Thomas Armcut, his son, formerly a dock labourer, were remanded on Thurs day for further examination, and upon that occasion a man named Wall, a commission agent, of 42, Great Chart-street, Hoxton, who was previously in custody as a particeps criminis, was examined on the part of the Crown, and he proved receiving several parcels of silk damask and silk, and silk and worsted damask, from the Armcuts, which he sold for them on com mission to several upholsterers who carry on an extensive business, and whose reputation is deeply involved, they having purchased the damask at less than half its real value. The Armcuts were remanded, and yesterday Chester, who was appre hended on the previous night, was placed in the dock. It was proved by Mr. Fray, who manages the business of Messrs. Druce's branch establishment in Regent-street, that Chester had been in their em ploy three months, and that 100 yards of damask, the average value of which was about ss. 6d. per yard, carpet►, and other property, had been since missing. The solicitor for the prosecutor prayed that Chester might be remanded until the day the Armcuts were to be brought up, and said he expected that more persons would soon he in custody on suspicion of being concerned in robbing Messrs. Druce and Co. Mr. ARNOLD said, the request was a reasonable one, and remanded the prisoner. It is an extraordinary fact that while Mr. Fray and Cobley, the police-constable, have been engaged in tracing Messrs. Druce and Co.'s property, and look ing after the thieves, they have brought to light several other robberies of Manchester warehousemen and others in the City, and the parties are in custody. HAMMERSMITH. On Tuesday, just before the close of the Court, Lady Boothby (Mrs. Nesbitt), who was accompanied by one of the Misses Macnamara, her sister, entered the Police-court, followed by a decently dressed young Iri , hwoman, and claimed the attention of the Magistrate, under the following circumstances : Her Ladyship said that, as she was just before walking along the Great Western• road her attention was drawn to the young woman, who was standing outside the door of the Hammersmith Workhouse. On asking why she was standing there, she said she had been applying for admission, being in a destitute state, but had been refused, being teld that the work house was quite full, and there was no room for her. She also stated that she had applied on the previous night, and had then been refused, and had conse quently been compelled to sleep in a ditch at the back of the workhouse, where she must again sleep that night if not admitted. As (her Ladyship remarked) the rate-payers paid so largely out of their pockets for the support of such institutions, she thought some thing ought to be done for the poor woman, and had thought it her duty to bring the case under the notice of the Magistrate. The young woman, in answer to questions by Mr. Beadon, said she had been in this country about a twelvemonth, and last lived in the neighbourhood of Whitechapel. The night before last she slept in Whitechapel workhouse, but was turned out the following morning, when she came out into that neighbourhood to see if she could get into some em ployment. Policeman, 92 T, had applied with her at the workhouse that afternoon, and heard her re fused. Mr. BEADON then directed Bradshaw, one of the summoning officers of the court, to take the young woman to Mr. llaskard, the relieving officer of the Fulham Union for llammersmith, and see that at tention was paid to the case; on which her Ladyship, having thanked Mr. Beadon for his attention, left the court. ST. THOMAS'S HOSPITAL. A conversazione was held at this hospital last evening, at which un address was delivered by Mr. Grainger on the sanitary question, especially as it is connected with epidemic cholera. Mr. Grainger stated that it had been satisfactorily determined by the researches of the Me tropolitan Sanitary Commission (in whose labours he has taken an active share), that the cholera closely follows the habitat of fever, and that the districts which, before the arrival of the cholera, had been the seats of fever were those in which the cholera seized the greater pro portion of its victims. As in fever, so also in cholera, a medical man could at once put his finger upon the districts which would become the seat of cholera, by selecting those districts in which pestilential ditches, bad sewerage, an.l ill-constructed and over-crowded houses most abounded. There could be no doubt what ever that the introduction of sanitary measures effectu ally checked the progress of typhus and continued lever; and so little contagious was fever of this kind, in his opinion, and that of almost all the intelligent coun try practitioners who saw and treated it in a pure at mosphere, that it was to be expected in the course of human progress and civilization that t)phus and conti nued fever would ere long be eradicated. The cholera appeared to be capricious in its progress, but in reality obeyed the known laws of an epidemic, and not of a con tagious disease. It not only followed the same habitat as fever, but it attacked the same classes of the commu nity, and even persons of the same age, the greater por tion of cholera patients being, as in fever cases, between 20 and 40 years of age. In St. Petersburgh, out of 23,000 persona attacked with chelerts 17,000 were be tween 18 and 40. The district in the city of Hamburgh which suffered most from cholera in 1832 was burned down at the great Ere in that city. Previous to that event it had been the embouchure of many of the city drains and ditches, but at the rebuild ing of the city subsequent to the fire this district was thoroughly drained, and the sewers had since been most plentifully supplied with water. The result was, that although this district in 1832 had furnished the chief proportion of cases within the city, not one in ten of the recent cholera cases had occurred in that quarter. Here it was clear that nine-tenths of the cholera in Hamburgh had been eradicated by sanitary improve ments. Having at some length, and by a great va riety of instances, supported his position that the cholera obeyed the known laves of epidemic ditease, Mr. Grain ger adverted to the ravages of the cholera in Scotland, and showed that there were special reasons why it should rage with greater severity in Coatbridge and Glas gow than in other places, in consequence of the pesti lential ditches, noisome smells, and over crowding of the houses in those towns., In Glasgow there had been re turned 120 to 140 cases per day, and probably many more had not been reported. The hear,e was moving through the streets of Glasgow as through the city of the plague, and a great number of the higher ranks had fallen vic tims to the disease. Mr. Grainger then alluded to the diarrhea, twitchings in the legs, and other,premonitory symptoms of cholera, which he said usually attacked the whole of the population where the cholera was rife, and which he had discovered bad extensively prevailed in the district of Whitechapel when the cholera was at its height. This was the curable state of the disease. After some observations on the treatment and pathology of cholera, Mr. Grainger congratulated his audience on the growing public interest taken in sanitary improve ment, as evinced by the fact that the inhabitants of 90 towns had already applied for the provisions of the Public Health Bill to be extended to them, and con cluded his very able address amid loud applause. NA PAL INTELLIGENCE. Captain Buckle arrived to-day and took up his com mission to the Centaur steam-frigate, which is preparing for the pendant of Commodore Fanshawe, C. 8., in the new steam-basin. The Echo steam-tug proceeded to Cowes this morn ing, with a flat-bottomed boat in tow, to embark the troops in the Appoline, and also to tow that vessel back to Spithead, where she is to embark 100 convict pri soners for Bermuda. She was anchored at Spithead this afternoon. Sixty seamen riggers, in charge of two warrant offi cers, left this dockyard this morning for Woolwich, by the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway, to bring round the Arrogant, 46 gun frigate, to be com missioned at this port. Mr. Macdonald, the Asbistant- Master Attendant of this dockyard, did not accompany the party. __ The Excellent gunnery-ship, Captain Chads, C. 8., is again and has been for some time overmanned. She will send a draft to the Centaur, and another to the Arrogant, in a few days, which will cause a few vacan cies. It is bad policy that the Admiralty do not either increase the Excellent's accommodation, or establish gun nery ships at the other ports. Men of the valuable cha racter of seamen gunners (all " A. B.'s") are not always to be picked up, and an emergency might arise which might fearfully develop the want of wore schools for seamen of the kind in question. A draft of the 97th Regiment, under Lieutenant Rey nolds, embarked this day at Cowes, in the Apolline freight-ship, as a convict-guard to Gibraltar. Wind E.N.E., fresh breezes and dark hazy weather. PLYMOUTH, Jam. 2.—The Apollo troop ship was com missioned yesterday, by Lieutenant Stiddeford. Workmen have been put on the Sanspareil, to convert her into a block ship; she is to be lengthened forward 13 feet, and aft 7 feet below, and 5 feet aloft. The troopship Java ' from London fiv Ireland, and the brig Marintint-r, of and for Valparaiso trom Ant werp, were off the Start yesterday morning. Wind E.S.E., stiff breeze. The Prussian ship Jupiter, with timber for the dock yard, came in this morning from Dantzic. The merchant brig Jane and Margaret, Captain Gor don, arrived this morning from Oporto, with wine for London. On the 23th of December, in let. 48 4 N., long. 6 30 W., she fell in with the long-boat of the brig Emily, and took out the brig's crew, ten in number, in cluding the master. The Emily, Captain Hindson, of London, foundered on the 25th December, in let, 46 N., long. 8 W., on her passage from Newcastle to Messina with coals. Captain Hindson and his people have been placed under the charge of the agent for tt.e Shipwrecked Mariners' Society, by whom they will be gratuitously forwarded to London. Wind E., blowing strong, WOOLWICH, JAN. 3. -Z-The Admiralty flag was hoisted half-mast high on the flag-staff in Woolwich Dockyard to-day, in consequence of the intelligence of the death of the Earl of Auckland, G.C.8., First Lord of the Admiralty. The decease of his Lordship is uni versally regretted by all ranks in the nary, and by all classes in the dockyard. The flags of the Fisgard and the other vessels in commission have all been lowered to half their usual height in respect to the memory of the deceased head of the Admiralty. The Doterel, Holyhead steam-packet, Master-Com mander John Grey, was paid off at this port to-day. The Monkey steam-vessel, Master-Commander Wm. Bryant, got her steam up to-day, and proceeded to Blackwell, to bring to Woolwich 60 riggers, sent up by railway from Portsmouth to navigate the Arrogant steam-frigate to the latter port. The Arrogant steam-trigste, 46 guns, will proceed down the river on trial on Friday morning, and will re main at Greenhithe during the night. She will proceed to sea on Saturday, and it found to answer, will go to Portsmouth direct, where she is to be commissioned by Captain Fitzroy. The Ba,ilisk steam-vessel is to have a preliminary trial to-morrow, and will leave at 7 o'clock A.M. for that purpose, preparatory to her being tried ,with the Niger steam-vessel. The Janus steam-vessel, now fitted with the engines formerly in the Sydenham steam• vessel, is ready to be taken out of the basin, and when found perfect on trial is expected to be commissioned for service on the Medi terranean station. The Firebrand steam-vessel is in the East Dock, and it will take some time to complete the extensive .repairs she is now undergoing. The Sampson steam-vessel is in an adjoining dock to have her defects made good. The Vesuvius steam-vessel is in King William IV. dock, having considerable repairs to be effected before she will be again ready for sea. The liecla steam-vessel is now nearly ready for sea, and will be taken out of the basin in a few days. The Black Eagle steam-vessel, Master Commander S. B. Cook, has had her funnel taken out, and she now re mains in the inner basin, under the factory crane, to have her requisite repairs effected. The Hermes, Prometheus, Gleaner, Jasper, Torch, and Ariel steam vessels are in the inner basin; and the Myrmidon, Flamer, Advice, and Cnaron, in the outer basin, awaiting their turns to be made ready for sea. The Black Prince, 72 guns, if in the basin, no work men being employed upon her, as was intended, to con vert her into a convict ship, as it was found on receiving estimates for the work required that it would cost a con siderable sum—it is said about 12,0001.—t0 render the vessel ready for the reception of the convicts. Mr. Voules, the superintendent of convicts, was subsequently engaged in ascertaining if an eligible situation could be obtained for the erection of a convict prison on shore, which might be erected at a much less expense than the cost of two convict ships, ono for the Dockyard and ano ther for the Royal Arsenal, and a spot has been named, but not decided upon, on property belonging to Mr. Roupel, to the east of Mr. Roff's wharf, which would an swer the purpose very well. In the event of its being de cided that a land-prison should be erected instead of a hulk-prison, so liable to the decay of the timbers, owing to being alternately wet and dry twice a day on the rise and fall of the tide, it is intended to have a small steamer for conveying the convicts to the Dockyard and the Royal Arsenal night and morning, and it will also save a great amount of time now loit in going out in boats to coal-vessels and other works in which the convicts are employed on the river. A land-prison would also prove preferable to the hulks, as the refractory convicts would be better classified in confinement, now that it appears that they will be employed to a greater number than they have been on Government works, the laborious employment being performed much cheaper by the con victs, when under proper inspection, than by labourers, besides making the convicts a profit instead of a burden to the country—an object of importance when economy is so requisite in the public establishments, and savings expected to be made in every department. THE COUNTRY MARKETS. BASINGSTOKE, JAN. 3.—Corn--The fine seasonable weather has already much improved the condition of the wheats offered this day for sale; the supply was but moderate. All of dry qualities, whether pitched or offered by samples, made fully the prices of this day week, millers and corn-dealers purchasing the chief part. A few very fine samples of old white, weighing 64 ibs per bushel, made 56s to 58s per quarter; new ditto, 53* to 553; ditto best old red made 181 per load, or 528 per quarter; indifferent at from 81 to 101 do. Flour as last week. Bread, 13d the gallon loaf. Barley was readily sold for steeping at last week's prices; grinding do. rather lower; some bright Chevalier (weight 56 lbs per bushel) sold at 34s per quarter; second-rate ditto 32s ditto; best grinding 275 to 18s ditto; inferior 26s to 28s ditto. The malt trade inactive. Barley meal at from 15s to 16s per sack of 10 score pounds. Oats varied greatly in price; primest white Scotch or potato sold at 248 to 255 per quarter, second rate ditto 22s ditto; good hea►y black ditto 20s ditto; Farmer's feed at from 175 to 18s ditto. Beans (old weight), 651bs per bushel, 38s to 40s ditto; new ditto, 631bs weight, 348 to 366 ditto; Egyptian 3 Is to 33s ditto; some poor, for splitting, 308 ditto; fine white peas for boiling were in good demand, at 44s per quarter; sccond rate ditto 40s to 425 ditto; best grey 384 to 40s ditto; 'hog peas 365 ditto. New tares 8s 9d to I Is per bushel; old ditto 8s to 85 6d ditto. Indian corn 32s to 358 per quarter; some Indian corn meal offered at 18s to 19s per barrel of 1961b5. Rye meal at from 78 to 95 per cwt. English linseed cakes 121 to 131 per 1,000. Clover seeds, fine white, 36a to 42s per quarter; second rate 30s to 32s ditto; red clover 36s to 383 per quarter; second-rate 32s to 34s ditto; linseed for sowing 60s per quarter, for crushing 465 to 50s ditto. • Pigs: a moderate supply, prices for le in stores as last week, small ditto Is per head lower; some remained un sold; fat hogs for bacon, 103 to 10s 3d per score pounds; for cutting-up porkers, 10s 6d ditto. A few cows, heifere, and lean calves, which were of dull sale; fat calves, 10* 661 per score. Hops: several growers from Farnham and Alton were at the market this day offering best Farnhams at from 5l 10s to 61 per owl; rather dis coloured at 51 to 51 lOs ditto; those of 1847 at 41 to 4/4s ditto; Alton's and Crondall's were offered at from 5/ to 5155 ditto; Sussex awl Odihams at 41 15s ditto; inferior !ditto, 31 to 3/ lOs ditto. Tr a d e ra th er b etter f or good 'qualities. GLOUCESTER.—On Saturday our wheat market was in an unsettled state, and only retail parcels were sold. English samples brought about last week's rates, but free foreign was is to 2s per quarter lower, while there was rather more inquiry fur wheat in bond at former rates. Barley, oats, and beans were nominally unaltered in value, but next to nothing doing in either article. WORCESTER.—On Saturday there was a limited sup ply of wheat, and the sales made were at the currency of this day se'nnigbt. Barley nominally unaltered. Oats were fully as dear, and tine qualities inquired for. Beans a slow sale, at former prices. Peas very difficult to sell. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JAN. 2.—There were in the market to-day 77 ~asks cairn. al, each weighing 28016 imperial, whereof 68 sold thus:- 12 at 20 at Il 9s Od i 7at . 8 at A vurage price of the whole, 118 s 5d 10 -12ths. 10 tacks flour, whereof 3 sold at 335, 2 at 31s, and 1 at 30s; 4 sacks barleymeal, nhereut 1 sold at 265; 3 sacks peaserntal, whereof 1 sold at 22s 6d; 25 sucks pot barley, whereot 23 sold thus:- 1 at ll 108 Od I 2at ll 6 s 6d 3at ll 9s Od lat ll 6s Od 2at ll 7s 6tl lat ll 5s 6d 1 at ll 7s Od 12 at ll 5s Od 2 sacks brosemeal, whereof 1 sold at 295. DUBLIN, JAN. 2.—We had a very short supply, but an extremAy dull market, at our corn exchange to-day. We have no alteration to note in prices of last Friday. White wheat, 23s to 275; red, ditto, 20s to 265; barley, 12s to 17s 6d; oats, 9s 6d to lis 6(1 per bri.; oatmeal, Ils to 12s ; bakers' iluur, 15s to 18s per cwt.; Indian corn, 32s to 355, per 4801bs. BELFAST, DEC. 29. —Graln—The supply of grain at this .morning's market was moderate, and was taken pretty freely at }esterday's rates. Monday, Jan. ',— Grain—The supplies since Friday have been small, and prices keep firmly up to those of that day. Wheat, 95 to lOs 3d; barley, 5s 6d to 7s; oats, 5s 4d to 61 3d; and oatmeal, 9s 3d to lOs 6d per cwt. Pork in small supply, and prices firm from 37s to 46s 6d per 1201 b. COAL MARKET..IESTEADAY. Buddle's W. Hartley.. 15s Od Belmont IP. 6d Carr's Hartley Chester Main l6. 6d dell Davison's West Hartley 15s Od Lyons lBs 3d Hasting's Hartley l4a Od Hetton „,.. l9. Od Holywell Main lss Od 1 Haswell l9. 3d New Tantield l4. Od Jonassohns ...... ...... 16s 3d Ord's Redheugh South Pontop ........ 13. Od Russell'. Hetton Tanfield Moor .... l4s 6d Shotten Tanfield Moor Bates... 1:3. 6d,Stewart's 'Townley l4s Od Whitwell Wiudsor's Pontop ..... 13. 6d Benson Wylam .. . .. l3s 9d Caradoc ..... West Hartley Wall's End, &c. Hartlepool l9. Od Acorn Close Be wicke and Co Brown's l6s Od Adelaide Tees Clarke ... Clennell l6B Od,Richardson's Tees l6s 6d Framwell Gate ...... ... 17s 6d Seymour Tees Habburn l7. 3u fees Heaton H arton Killingworth l7. 6u DirwentwaterHartley 143 6d Riddell's ..... ... ...... Walker Eden Main Lambton Primrose RAILWAY SHA.ltth NIARKETS. BRISTOL, JAN. 3. ,- STOCK EXCHANGE. —The shares today showed evident signs of improvement, and, the holidays being over, there was a large attendance, and a good business done. Great Western, Quarters, were done at 2% to 2% dis.—Midland Stock, which commenced at 87 1 4, left off at 88—York, New. castle, and Berwick (G. N. E. Purchase), at 5-16 p.—South Devon, Preference, at 13% per share. LivEßrooL. JAN. 3. SToca Excuktvors.—The sales are—Birmingham and Oxford, 25—Caledonian, Preference, 13s. 9d. c. p.—Great Northern, 94 dis. ex int.—Ditto (A Shares), 5 1 4 'ex int.— Lancashire and Yorkshire (late Manchester and Birming ham), 194 dis. Ditto, Quarters, 5 1 4 dis.—Ditto, Fifths, dis. —Ditto (late West Riding Union), Fifths, 4% dis. London and North Western, 126—Ditto, Fifths, 5% p.— Ditto, New Quarters, 2/.35. 9d. p.—Ditto (Leeds and Dews bury), 41% Ditto, Halves, 20:4—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 104 Preference, Ili. 6s. 3d.—Midland Stock, 87 1 ,¢—Ditto, New Halves, 67i ex int.—North Staf fordshire, 3 1 ,Q dis.—North-Western, 81. 13e. 9d.—Scottish Central, 26—Shrewsbury aid Birmingham, 9L 12s. 3d. Shares (B), dis. ex int.—Ditto (Shrewsbury, Oswestry, and Chester), 6 dis. es int.—Ditto, Preference, 8 per cent. guaranteed, 14—Sonth-Eastern and Dover, No. 3, 22 1 4 — Ditto, No. 4, Thirds, 7% dis.—York, Newcastle, and Ber wick (G. N. E. Purchase), 1 4 1 p. ex int. MAN Cif E - STEII., JAN. 3 STOCK EXCRANGE.—The sales are—South-Eastern and Dover, No. 4. 7% cum in. —Ditto, 7.16 ex in.—Caledoni an , Preference, % ,p.—North Staffordshire, 3% di s .—L eeds, Fifths, 2% dis.—West Riding Union, 4% dis.—Sheffield, Preference, 11 3-16—Manchester and Birmingham ( A and B Shares), 2%—Sheffield, No. 1,6% dis.—Dovers, No. 2, 10 dis.—Leeds and Thirsk, 22. BIRMINGHAM. JAN. 3. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The following are the day's quota tions, there being very few transactions:--North British, Thirds, 4%—North Staffordshire, 3%—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (A), 6—Ditto (B), 33/4. YOKE, JAN. 2, Broca ExcHawoz.—The business transacted to-day was as follows :—Eastern Union, Class B (late I. and B.), 6 Great Northern, 91. Ils. 3d.—North Britis;), Quarters, 3/. Is. —York, Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E. 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[ADVERTISEM ENT.]—Bad Legs of Fourteen Years Duration Cared by Holloway's Ointment and Pills.— Mrs. Priscilla Waters, of Peutney, near Lynn, had been a dreadful sufferer for upwards of fourteen years with bad legs, which several of the faculty had tried to cure, but without success; her digestion WAS much impaired, and at times she was quite incapable of attending to her household affairs. As the medicines which she had been taking afforded her no relief, she was recommended to try Holloway's Pills and Ointment, by the use of which she was completely cured, and for more than twelve months past silo has been able to attend to her domestic duties, and could, if necessary, walk 10 or 20 miles with ease.—Sold by all Druggists, and at Professor Holloway's Establithment, 244, Strand, London. , THE GOLDEN LECTURBISHIP.—We are requested to state that Mr. Dale has not yet resigned what is called the "Golden Lecture," and that the emoluments are not 500/. per annum, but a small sum above 400/. per annum. The Rev. Mr. Gurney is not, nor will he be, a candi date; he resigned all pretensions to it when he received the appointment of St. Mary's district church, Mary.. lebone. BIRTHS. On Christmes-eve, the lady of the Rev, H. M. Scarth, Prebendary of Wells, and Rector of Bathwick, Bath, of a daughter. On the 28th ult., at Eton, the wife of the Rev. John E. Yonge, of a daughter. At Moy-hall, by Inverness, on the 28th ult., Mrs. Mackin tosh, of Mackintosh, of a daughter. At Cranford Vicarage, Suffolk, on the 30th ult., the lady of the Rev. G. F. Pooley, of a son. On the 3 Ist ult., at Cheltenham, the wife of G. R. Steven son, Esq., of a son. On the 31st ult., at Winchester, the wife of the Rev. T, E. W. Bloomfield, of a son. On the 2d in 1., in Chester-square, the wife of P. Fred. O'Malley, Esq., of a con. MARRIED, On the 2d inst., at St. John's Chapel, Edinburgh, Frederic J. Goldsmil, Esq., 37th Aladr is Grenadiers, to Mary, daugh ter of Major-General G. M. Steuart, late commanding the Northern Divis:on of the Madras Army. On the *2-d inst., at the Abbey Chapel, Romsey, Mr. John Walkden, jun., of Lawrence-lane, to Anne, second daughter of C. Godfrey, Esq., Romsey. On the 2d inst., at 'Hendon, Middlesex, Cohn Robertson, Esq., banker, Plymouth, to Harriette, eldest daughter of the late Rev. Robert Grier, of Walpole, Suff, lk. DIED At Perth, on the 29th ult., Robert B. Coulson, Esq., late Captain in the Grenadier Guards. On the 29th ult., Mary, the wife of Charles Hay, Esq., of York- t errace, Regent's-park. On the 29th ult., at Southampton, aged BG, James Fisher, Esq., formerly Lieutenant-Colonel of the 62d Regiment. On the 30 , h nit., at Craven -street, Strand, Captain W. Graham, Paymaster 72d Highlanders. He was a native of Dumfries , hire, and had served in the army 43 years. On the let inst., at Moorgate-street, aged 37, Mr. Charles Fenton. On the Ist inst., aged 83, at Bourton, Gloucestershire, the reside- ce of her nephew, Sir James Buller East, Bart., M P., Dorothy, I.st surviving daughter of the late Joseph Chaplin Hankey, Esq., of Fenchurch-street, London, and Old Hall, East hergholt, Suffolk. On the 2d inst., at Chesham• place, Belgrave-square, Sarah, relict, of Arthur, first Earl of Mount Norris, aged 86. On the 31st ult., at Lower Phillimore-place, Kensington, Mary, the wife of Mr. W. Barry, late of Great Titchfield street, Marylebone. On the 31st ult., at Margate, Mr. J. Pickering, aged 73. London : Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand. Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112. Strati J, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county of Middleoex, Thursday, January 4, 1849. • I