The Sun. — London, England, 1856-03-28 00:00:00

ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HOME CIRCUIT.—KINGSTON, MARca 27. (Before Mr. Baron Alderson and a Special Jury.) BURST V. THE SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an action to recover damages for injuries re ceived by an accident alleged to have been caused by the negligence of the defendants' servants. Mr. Bovili, Q.C., Mr. Lush, and Mr.Honyman, were counsel for the plaintiff ; Mr. E. James, Q.C., and Mr. Woollett, appeared for the South Eastern Company. The accident that was the subject of inquiry took place in December last, at the New Cross station of the North Kent line. It will be remembered that in consequence of the negligence of the men employed at the switches the points were not in a proper state, and the train was in consequence turned off the line in the siding, where it came into collision with some empty carriages. The plain tiff, who is the captain of a merchant vessel, was one of the passengers, and he received very severe injuries, a portion of bone being taken from one of his legs, and one of his feet having become paralysed ; and, according to the medical evidence, it is very doubtful whether he will ever recover the use of it. _ _ _ - - -- ---- - -- --__ _ Mr. James — addressed the jury in mitigation of da mages, and The learned Judge having summed up, the jury, after a very short deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff ; damages, 750/. THOMSON V. THE SOUTH-EASTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an action of a similar character to the last. Mr. M. Chambers, Q C , Mr. Lush, and Mr. Hannan, were for the plaintiff ; Mr. E. James, Q.C., Mr. Bovill, Q.C., and Mr. Woollett, represented the company. The plaintiff in this action was a highly respectable young lady, who at the time of the accident had the ma nagement of an extensive millinery establishment at Wal lingford, in Berkshire. The accident occurred on the even ing of the 12th September near Reading, and it appeared that while the train was on its way to that place an en gine came in an opposite direction upon the same line of rails, whether wilfully or not was never ascertained, as the driver was killed, and there was never any satisfac tory explanation of the matter; the consequence was that a most fearful accident occurred, many of the car riages of the passenger train being literally smashed to atoms. The unfortunate young lady, who was in one of them, received most serious injuries ; she kept her bed for four months, and, according to te evidence of the surgeons who attended her, would never, in all pro bability, be perfectly restored to health. When the evidence had been partly gone into, an ar rangement was made by which the defendants consented to a verdict for the same amount of damages as in the last case—namely, 7501. _ _ These causes concluded the business of the assizes. WESTERN CIRCUIT.—Eornx, MARCH 26. DARING BURGLARY. Joseph Quinlan, 16, was indicted for hurglariously en tering the dwelling-house of Was. Shakerly, at Cam borne, on the 25th June last, and stealing a chair cover ing, and also with cutting and stabbing the said William Shakerley with intent to do him some bodily harm. Some excitement was produced in court by the youthful appearance of the prisoner who was charged with such a serious offence. It appeared that on the night of the 25th June prosecutor was aroused from his slumbers by a noise he heard in the house ; on going down stairs he saw the prisoner coming towards him with a lighted candle. Prosecutor caught hold of him, and there was a struggle between them. On a light being broaght, pro secutor took the prisoner into a room, who then snapped a pistol at him, but which did not go off. Prosecutor screamed " Murder," when prisoner attacked him with a knife, and inflicted several severe wounds upon him. The prisoner was eventually secured, when he said he bad broken into the house to get money. On the prisoner was found two pistols loaded with small shot and a knife. Prisoner had entered by the warehouse window in front of the premises. There was a considerable quantity of blood on the floor of the room. Guilty. Death re corded, but which simply implies imprisonment during her Majesty's pleasure. The prisoner had escaped from eastody on a previous charge. John Bray, 23, and John Stuthriclge, 16, were charged with stealing 1 cwt. of tin, value 21., the property of W. Bray and Joseph Stoneman, on the 19th Jan. last. It appeared that the prosecutor was the brother of the elder prisoner and brother-in-law of the younger, all of whom resided in the parish et Luxulian, and were mining agents. Samples of the ore found in the pri soners' possession were said to correspond with the ore, a portion of which had been stolen from the prosecutors. The prisoners, however, contended that the sample pro duced corresponded with the ore in a mine with which they were connected. They were, however, both found guilty, and sentenced to 5 calendar months'impri9onmeat. !Bust not find her guilty of concealing the birth, in order to escape the responsibility of finding her guilty of murder. The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of wilful murder against the prisoner. The Chief Justice, in passing sentence, said his duty was most painful, but at the same time plain and simple. It would rest with others, in whose hands the merciful prerogative of the Crown was vested, to take the pri soner's case hereafter into consideration ; he could only pass upon her the awful sentence of death. The prisoner, who had suffered throughout the pro ceedings from a fit of trembling, to which, it was said, she was continually subject, heard the dread sentence, .vhich was pronounced in the usual terms, without making any exclamation, and was removed in a kind of stupor. THE MURDER BY A GERMAN LEGIONARY. Hans Hansen, 34, described in the calendar aaa stock ing weaver, late a soldier in the German Legion, was then placed at the bar, charged with the wilful murder of Chas. Jacobi, at Maker. Counsel for the prosecution, Messrs. Coleridge and Yonge ; for the prisoner, Mr. Stock. The facts of this case have lately appeared at conside 'rable length in The Sun. The prisoner and the deceased man, Jacobi, were pri vates in the Jager regiment of the German Legion. The last time deceased was seen was in company with the prisoner, about 8 at night. They were then seen in com pany by two or three witnesses, ranging in time from 6 to 8 o'clock, after which no one ever saw the man Jacobi alive. Both parties were much intoxicated whey last seen, and prisoner was carrying a large stone under his arm. The next morning• the corpse of the man Jacobi was found in a field, with fractures and contusions about the head ; near the corpse, in a hedge, a large stone was found with blood and hair upon it, and also a militarycap, the prisoner having lost his. The prisoner returned to his barracks on the night the murder was committed, long after the proper hour—he ought to have been in the bar. racks at 8 o'clock, whereas he did dot reach there till 12 o'clock, and then in a most excited state. There was a great deal of blood on his hands, and his clothes were stained with blood. Prisoner was asked on different caeca lions to account for the blood, and he gave two accounts of it quite inconsistent with each other—one of them not at all probable or likely. On another occasion, before the prisoner could be at all aware of the death of Jacobi, if he had been innocent, he said, " I did not kill Jacobi." This was said in reply to a statement which had no re ference whatever to the death of Jacobi, and the pri soner had no reason whatever to suppose he was 6harged with the crime. Witnesses were canal who proved these facts, and one also spoke to the altered demeanour of prisoner when he returned to the guard-nom on the night of the murder. His conduct was quite different from what it usually was when he was drunk ; he scarcely spoke, and luoked quite wild, and when they spoke of Jacobi, he cast his looks on the ground. On the following morning he neither ate ncr drank. Mr. Stock, for the prisoner, made an able speech, commenting on the improbabilities of various portions of the evidence. His Lordship then summed up, and The jury, after five hours' deliberation, returned a verdict of Guilty. The Judge, amidst most profound silence, delivered sentence of death in the usual form. The prisoner was much agitated throughout the pro ceedings, and on hearing his sentence his countenance turned exceedingly pale, and he was removed reiterating his innocence of the charge. NORFOLK CIRCUIT.-- BURY ST. EDMUNDS, March 27. (Before Chief Justice Jervis.) CHILD MURDER. Elanta Mussett, a married woman, was charged with the wilful murder of her male infant, at Nayland, on the 29th of February. Mr. Couch appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Dasent, at the request of the learned judge, undertook the defence of the prisoner. The prisoner is the wife of a labouring man at Nay land, and for some time before the 29th of February bad been observed by her neighbours to be in the family way. She did not deny that she was enceinte, and stated that she expected to be confined in May. On the afternoon of the 29th of February she went for Mrs. Pressney and Mrs. Oakes, two of her neighbours, and requested them to clean ep the house. From what they observeil, Mr. Penn, a local surgeon, expressed his conviction, after examining her, that she had been <levered of a child. She at first denied it, but afterwards opened a box and produced the dead body of an infant, which she said was still-born. It was a full-grown child, but had sustained severe injuries on the head. The principal questions for the jitry were—first, whether the child was horn alive ; and secondly, whether the injuries observed on it were inflicted intentionally or accidentally. The medical evi dence was, therefore, especially important. Mr. Fenn, surgeon, was examined, and having de- scribed the injuries on the head, the state of the lungs, heart, &c., he gave it as his opinion, formed after a most careful investigation, that the child had been laid clown, and direct violence applied to the lett aide of the head. The injuries might have . been caused by the old brick found by the police the house with blood and hair upon it. The prisoner asserted that the blood and hair were those of a rabbit which she had killed, but he (Mr. Fenn) had carefully examined them with a microscope, Ste., and found they presented a marked differenc e to those of a rabbit. On the whole, he was decidedly of opinion that the child was born alive, and came to its death by violence. Mr. Duncan, another surgeon, gave similar evidence. He believed death was caused by part of the parietal bone being driven into the brain. The injuries were too great to have been produced by a fall. Further evidence was given to show that the prisoner had not provided any baby clothes, and Pickiss, a county police constable, produced a shelf, brick, and piece of wood, which had been alluded to in course of the trial. Mr. Dasent, for the defence, remarked strongly on the absence of any apparent motive for the murder, It was an undoubted medical fact that many women were affected in the most extraordinary way, not only during their confinements, but during the whole period of gesta tion ; and perhaps the prisoner, suffering under intense agony, and unattended by any one, might have accident ally and unintentionally injured the child. She appeared to have behaved with decency and propriety in all the re lations of life ; her husband seemed to have been fond of her, and it was notorious to all the gossips of the neigh bourhood that she was enceinte ; what reason, then, was there to induce her to murder her own offspring ? The Chief Ju , tie,, in summing up, said he was sure the jury would be only too glad to take this merciful view of the case, but there were unfortunately some very serious facts against the prisoner. If the jury believed that the child was horn alive, and that the unfortunate prisoner killed it, then whatever might be the conse quences they must find her guilty of murder ; if they thought that it was barn dead, she would be guilty of the offence of concealing the lirtb. At the same time they THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, MARCH 28, 185 6. POLICE INTELLIGENCE—March 27. BOW-STREET.—Mr. limas Francis Richards, a young man now practising as an attorney in Southamp ton-buildings, was placed at the bar before Mr. Henry, charged with defrauding his late employer, Mr. James Fluker, of 10, Symond.'s-ion. Mr. Ballantine conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Hawkins the defence. The defendant was formerly an articled clerk in the prosecutor's office, and during the absence of Mr. Fluker in the long vacation of 1854 was entrusted with the con duct of certain taansactions in connection with the affairs of the Caudle Union Brewing Company. Shortly after this the defendant left his situation, and had since com menced practice in the neighbourhood of the prosecutor's office. It was stated that there had been constant and serious differences between them ; and defendant's coun sel attributed to this circumstance the alleged discovery by the prosecutor, only a few days since, of the dishonest act now charged against him ; but, on the other baud, Mr. Fluker denied all animus in the matter, declaring that the transaction in question only came to his know ledge three days ago, when his books and papers were being examined. He then discovered, for the first time, that the defendant appropriated 261., by deducting that amount from a sum of 3001. which he had been directed to pay into Messrs. Dixon and Co.'s bank—the amount deducted being a claim for interest received by the de fendant, but never accounted for to his employer. The defendant's receipt for this sum was put in, but several difficulties arose in the prosecution of the case, in conse quence of the absence of a Mr. Hutton, who was con nected with the brewing company, and had disappeared " for pecuniary reasons." It having been stated, how ever, that the obstacles could be removed by the evidence of other witnesses, who might be summoned to attend on a future day, the examination was deferred for a week. The defendant was admitted to bail, himself in 2001., and two sureties of 100/. each. A private soldier iu the 96th Regiment of Foot, named George Nolan, was charged with stealing 101. from Ser jeant Clare, of the same regiment. The prisoner and the serjeant lodged in the same room. The prosecutor slept out one night, and on re turning to his apartment the next morning missed two 51. notes from .his box. The prisoner was suspected and given into custody, and subsequently, by the exertions of Serjeant Smith, of the detective force, one Of the missing notes was traced. He found that the prisoner had purchased a pair of boots of a Mr. Lewis, of Brewer-street, Golden-square, tendering a 51. note in payment, which Mr. Lewis got changed at a neighbour's, named Cribb. Mr. Henry asked Lewis if he put any questions to the prisoner respecting the note ? The witness replied that he did, and prisoner told him that the 51. note was part of some arrears which had been paid to him at the War-office for Crimean service. Mr. Henry said it would be very desirable if trades. men and others who received notes in this way would require persons tendering them to write their names and address on the back. No honest person would refuse to do this. Mr. Lewis said he generally did so, but the prisoner's statement about his services in the Crimea disarmed him. Mr. Henry—l suppose he has never been to the Crimea ? The prosecutor—Oh no, sir. He is in the recruiting service. Mr. Henry (to the prisoner)—lt is very disgraceful to you to make these false representations—seeking credit for alleged services in the Crimea, whtn you have never left the country. The prisoner—What would be the use of us chaps in the recruiting service, your worship, if we could' n t t e ll a lie or two ? It's only by lies that we can do anything. There's la* recruits to be got without lying. Mr. Henry—That excuse will not avail you in this case, for you were not recruiting when you told Mr. Lewis the falsehood about the arrears due to you for Crimean service. The prisoner, who did not deny the charge, was com mitted for tzial. WORSHIP-STREET.—Robert Marsh, a private le the 3d Middlesex Militia, and Joseph Reid, a young man employed as a pew opener at Hampton Chapel, Hack ney, were charged with being concerned in stealing four communion cups, value 121., under the following circum stances Mr. Timothy Edward Le Beau one of the trustees of the chapel mentioned, has a residence immediately be hind the building, and was sole possessor of the commu nion service, to which, on the first Sunday in every month, the prisoner Reid had access, for the purpose of convey ing it to and fro. The property was locked in a box, which, in turn, was kept in prosecutor's bed-rosin, and one day, while engaged in cleaning the windows, he ob served to the servant-maid, " Oh, that is the place where the plate is kept." Subsequently he questioned her as to its value, and what pawnbrokers would lend on it. When required on the Ist of March the cups were mis sing, and Mason, 25 S, somewhat singularly became ac • quainted with the fact that Marsh was mixed up with the robbery, and proceeded to the head quarters of the 3d Middlesex Militia at Hampstead, where he found the prisoner, who, before Colonel Wood, admitted that he ktew something of it, but denied being the right man. Francis, 227 N, a very active officer, who had charge of the case, meanwhile discovered that one of the cups had been sold to a watchmaker in Gray's-inn-road, who, in turn, had disposed of it to Mr. Benham, successor to Mr. Sirrell, the refiner, of Barbican. Read admitted that he had disposed of it to the watchmaker for 175., but it was sworn that 1/. 15s. odd was the paid price. Mr. Benham described the appearance of the chalice offered him for purchase as being manifestly destroyed and battered for some particular purpose, and not from wear • he refused to purchase or melt it ; but a day or two afterwards, during his absence, one of the authorised servants of his establishment bought it of Mr. England, the watchmaker in question. Both prisoners protested their innocence, Reid denying that he had ever admitted to the officer Francis having sold the cup. A former conviction was proved against Marsh for felony in 1854. Mr. Hammill fully consmitte4 them for trial at the Middlesex Sessions. Marsh—l say that we ought to be sent to Ne;vgate and have a fair trial, and not to Middlesex. WESTMINSTER.—Georgians Chalton, the wife of a coffee-house proprietor at Knightsbridge, was placed at the bar charged with feloniously assaulting and wound ing her husband with a poker. The complainant, whose heal was covered with linen cloths, said that his wife had been before committed from this court for stabbing him, and had undergone 6 months' imprisonment for the offence. She so earnestly pro mised to conduct herself well for the future that he was induced, on the day of her discharge from custody, to take her back to live with him. That was three months ago, and nothing material had occurred between them up to the previous night. Prisoner's sister and some friends had come up from the country to visit them, and, at his wife's request, he took them on Wednesday to some places of public amusement, and went to fetch them from the house of a friend where they had been staying the previous night. On his return home he found his wife quarrelling with her sister, who had previously arrived, and in such a violent state that she beat her sister and tore her bonnet off. Prisoner then seized the poker and broke several panes of glass. He tried all he could do to appease her, but uselessly, and then she in- flicted a couple of desperate blows on his head with the 1 poker, and he was conveyed to the hospital to have his bead dressed. He did not wish is press the charge if pri soner would leave him, and accept a separate mainten mice. Mr. Paynter said be could nut permit the withdrawal of so very serious a case against so violent a woman, and remanded her fur a week. SOUTHWARK.— Mr. Joseph John, &Wee, a trades man, residing at No. 74, London-road, was summoned by the Board of Works for St. George's, Southwark, 'under the 83d section of the New Local Management Act, for unlawfully breaking into a sewer in York-street, London-road, without the consent of the vestry of the said parish. Mr. George Hamblin, the clerk of the works, stated that a few days ago information was received by the board that the defendant had, without asking their con sent, tunnelled from a house in York-street to the sewer which he unlawfully opened. Witness had examined i t and ascertained such to be the fact. Richard Juby, a bricklayer, of 25, York-street, said that on the 28th Jan. he was called in by Mr. Helier to examine his cesspool. He found it in a very had state, Sand that there was no way to carry off the refuse Water except by a communication with the sewer. He aecordingly tunnelled and opened the latter. The magistrate inquired whether he asked permission of the local board of works for Southwark ? Witness replied th a t h e did no t ; b u t k now i ng t h at the Commissioner of Sewers put down a sewer in York street, and that there Was a junction to Mr. Hellier's premises, he thoiight there was no h arm i n open i ng i t. Mr. Hamblin informed hi s wors hi p t h at t h ere cer tainly wat ajunction for every house, but no party had a right to open the connection with the sewer without the consent of the board. - 7Tl3edeiendant said that when the new sewer wa3 put down his communication was cut off. The consequence was that the lower part of his premises wan inundated with a liquid filth. He therefore thought he could run a barrel drain to the junction. Mr. Tritton, the vestry clerk, told his worship that it was not the wish of the board to press for the penalty in the present instance, but they wanted the inhabitants to know that they must not break into the sewers with out the consent of the vestry. If his worship would order the defendant to pay a nominal penalty and costs he should be satisfied. The costs were 13s. Bd. The magistrate accordingly fined him is., and costs. Mary Boward was charged with stealing upwards of 300 sovereigns and half•sovereigus, the property of her master, Anthony Maling. The prosecuto - r, a respectable hard-working man, said he resided with his three children at No. 9, Nelson square, Bermondsey, The prisoner had been his servant Showing a docrea,se of 318,1041. in the circu lation of notes in England, and a decrease of G 20,950/. in the circulation of the United Kingdom, when compared with the month ending the 19th of Jan. ; and, au compared with the month ending the 17th of Feb., 1855, the above returns show a decrease of 649,1731. in the circulation of notes in England, and a decrease of 557,0101. in the circulation of the United Kingdom. Tile average stock of bullion held by the Bank of Eng land in both departments during the month ending the 16th of Feb. was 10,549,5481., being a decrease of 2811. as compared with the previous month ; and a decrease of 2,173,6641. when compared with the same period last year. The stock of specie held by the scotch and Irish banks during the month ending the 16th of Feb. was 4,050,577/., being a decrease of 98,3751. as compared with the previous return, and an increase of 261,9821. when compared with the corresponding period last year. LORD SHAFTESBURY AT MANCHESTER. The Earl of Shaftesbury having accepted an invita tion to attend a meeting of the Young Men's Christian Association at Manchester on Tuesday evening, the operatives connected with the late short-time movement availed themselves of the opportunity of waiting upon his Lordship to confer with him upon the nature of Colonel Wilson Patten's bill for amending the law re lating to the fencing of machinery. The interview took place at the Albion Hotel, Manchester, on Mon day evening. The operatives expressed themselves desi rous of throwing no obstacles in the way of the proposed measure so far as it referred to the modification of the law affecting machinery, but appeared to have a vague idea that advantage might be taken of the .opportunity for smuggling into the bill provisions at variance with the Ten Hours' Act. The noble earl said the bill had not been printed when he left town, but from what he had beard, it ha I nothing unreasonable in its provisions, and did not contemplate any disturbance of the provi sions of the Ten Hours' Act ; and so long as that was the case he would advise them rather to assist than oppose any measures calculated to promote the interests of their employers. The Earl of Shaftesbury afterwards proceeded to a meeting of short-time delegates, at the C Aton tree Inn, Ancoats, at which about 200 men and women were also present, where Mr. Paul Hargraves having taken the chair, Mr. Thomas Maudesley read an address, thanking his Lordship for the services he had ren dered to the factory operatives by his advocacy of a restriction of the hours of labour. "Of the many advantages (says the address) which we continue to de rive from the operation of this salutary measure, it is unnecessary for us to say more than to assure your Lordship that all the beneficial results foretold by its promoters are now being realised by those who avail themselves of the opportunities which it affords for re creation as well as for intellectual and moral instruction. If our improvement as a body of operatives has been less rapid and less distinctly marked than might have been expected. it is obvious that, to whatever other cause or causes this result is attributable, it cannot be ascribed to any defect in the measure itself, but must proceed, as it appears to us, from a disregard of their own interests by a portion of the workpeople themselves. Our experience, however, encourages the hope that it will gradually dis appear from among us, and give place to higher views with regara to their interests and duties as members of society. Indeed, we flatter ourselves that the time is not far distant when those public parks which have so materially improved the sanitary condition of our city, when the free library and those scientific and literary institutions which are so great an honour to their pro moters—will become the general resort of the working classes in their leisure hours, to their physical, moral, and intellectual improvement" The Earl of Shaftes bury expressed his gratification at learning the good results of the measure which he had been instrumental in passing, and Lord Ashley afterwards briefly addressed the meeting. On Tuesday evening Lord Shaftesbury addressed the Young Men's Christian Association at the Corn Ex change, dwelling at Some length upon the evils of what he termed diseased commercial activity, leading to that competition by which young nR,n in shops were taught to make the wor4e appear the better article, and by which the customer was to be seduced in a variety of ways. He also referred to the evils arising from the too long detention of young people in shops and other establish ments, lowering the whole physical system as well a 4 the moral taste and appetite, while it increased those of an opposite tendency. A number of leading clergymen and other inhabitants also addressed the meeting. Sporting Intelligence. NORTHAMPTON RACES--THußsp.ty. The Selling Plate of 40 sovs, added to a Sweepstakes of 5 sous each, for three-yr-olds and upwards. Certain winners extra. Optional selling allowances, &c. One mile. Seven subs. Duke of Bedford's Weathercock, 5 yrs (301.), 7st 41b (Charlton) 1 Lord Wilton's fby Birdcatcher, 3 yrs (301 ). 5.t 71b (Fordham) 2 Mr. Green's The Roman, 3 yra (301.), sst 71b.. _ . (Bullock) 3 The following also ran :—Anniversary, Music, and Commodore Cbarley. Betting-5 to 2 each agst Weathercock and Anniver- sary, 4 to 1 agst any other. Won cleverly by a neck ; bad third. The winner was sold to Mr. E. Day for 90 guineas. The Althorp-park Stakes of 10 sovs each, with 50 added; for two-yr-olds ; cults, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 31b ; any winner before starting to carry 51b extra. T.Y.C. 38 subs. Mr. S. Thellusson's Madame Clicquot, Bst 31b (ztldcroft) 1 Captain Christie's Nougat, Bst 31b (T. Cliff) 2 Mr. Howard's Roballion, Bst 71b (Wells) 3 The following also ran :—The Banner Bearer, c by Sir Hercules, Delos, c by Epirus, Saladin, Admiral Lyons, c by Theon, M.D., Butterscotch, Festivity, f by Orlando, Lady Malcolm, Queen of the East, and c by Pyrrhus the First. Betting-7 to 2 agst M.D., sto 1 agst Rohallion, 8 to 1 agstLurley's dam colt, 100 to 12 each agst Lady Malcom, Queen of the East, and Nougat, 10 to 1 agst Madame Clicquot. Banner Bearer, with Madame Clicquot second, made the running to the half-distance, where Banner Bearer dropped bank, and Madame Clicquot went on with the lead followed by Nougat and Rohallion, and in this order the race terminated, Madame Clicquot winning cleverly by half a length ; three lengths between the second and third, and a length between the third and fourth. Earl Spencer's Plate of 1001., added to a handicap sweep. stakes of 15 sovs each ;sft if declard, &o. Winners extra. Five furlongs. 52 subs., 25 of whom de• Glared. Mr. Y. King's Flacrow, by Archy, 4 yrs, 7-t 91b (Charlton) 1 Mr. R. r A.nsores Berezina, 4 yrs, 6st 101 b (Withington) 2 Mr. Waller's o,.:tavia, aged, 7st 9lb (Wells) 3 Toe following also ran :—Torn Burke, Titormus, Ci micina, John Barleycorn, Flyaway, Bucksfoot, The Archer, Duet, La Victime, Blue Rock, Tug-o'-War, Timotheus, Bonnets-o'-Blue, Alastor, Post Horse, and Coal Black Rose. Betting-3 to 1 agst Flacrow, 4to 1 agst Coal Black Rose, 5 to 1 agst Post Horse, 100 to 8 agst Berezina, 100 to 6 each agst Tom Burke, Duet, and Blue Rock, 20 to 1 egst any other. Coal Black Rose repeatedly broke away, and the start was consequently much delayed, Post Horse led to the turn into the straight, where he gave way to Flacrow and Berezina. Flacrow from that point maintained the lead to the end, galloping in the winner by four lengths ; two lengths svarated the second from the third. Post Horse, Bncksfuot, Tom Burke, and Alastor were next in the order named. Bonnets-o'-Blue and La Victima were beaten off, and walked in. The Dalapre Handicap, a sweepstakes of 5 sovs each, with 25 added. The winner to be sold for sovs, if demanded, &c. About half a-mile. 1G subs. Mr. Dray's Llittle Gerard, by the Emperor, 5 yrs, 7st Gib (Charlton) 1 Mr. Armstron g 's Alcyone, 4 yrs, 7st 1011:1 (Raine) 2 Lord Wilton's King Chat, 3 yrs, 7st ('ordbam) 3 The following also ran :—John Barleycorn, Thomas, Plausible, colt by Slane—Raillery, Prince's Mixture, Lade Golightly, Oyster Girl, and Bright. Betting.-3 to 1 aget Little Gerard, sto 1 aget Lady Golightly. Won by three lengths; half a length be. tween the second and third. The Racing Stakes, of 20 sove each, h ft, with 50 added, for 3-yr-olds ; colts, Bst lOib ; fillies, Sst 61b. Certain allowances and penalties. One mile. 7 subs. Mr. E. Parr's Stork (including slb extra), 9st llb (Kendall) 1 Mr. Howard's Queen's Head, Bst 6lb (Walls) 2 Mr. J. Little's Crookshanks., Bst slb (Fiatinan) 3 Betting.-2 to lon Queen's Head, 3to 1 agst Stork, 6to 1 agst Ciookshanks- Won easily by a length ; bad third. The Northamptonshire Cup Stakes, of 10 sove each; 3-yr-olds, 6st 91b-; 4-yr-olds, fist 71b ; 5-yr-olds, 9st llb • 6-yr-olds and aged. 9st 41b. The wi n n e r to b e sold for 500 sous, &c. Two miles and a furlong. 15 subs. Captain Lane's Middleton, 3 yrs .. (Quinton) 1 Mr. Osborne's Bobby Taft, 3 yrs (Challoner) 2 Duke of Bedford's Alastor, 3 yrs (Plumb) 3 The following also ran :—Little Charley, The Rajah, Homily, Tame Deer, Maid of the Mill, and Announce ment. Betting.---5 to 4 agst Bobby Taft, 4to 1 agst Won by two lengths ; a length between the second and third ; R-jAh was fourth; Homily and Little Charley were the last two. The St. Liz Handicap of 10 sovs each, h ft, with 100 added. Winners extra. One mile and a quarter. 27 subs. Mr. Moseley's Alonzo, aged, Bst 2lb (Wells) 1 Mr. Brown's Coal Black Rose, 3 yrs, 4st 1016 (Britton) 2 Mr. Gulliver's Redemption, 4 yrs, Est 21b (Prior) 3 The following also ran :—Flatterer, Mary, Octavia, Roebuck, Gonduline, Clutllow Boy, Herculea, Laverna, Treachery, and Omar Pasha. Betting-7 to 2 agst Flatterer ;sto 1 each agst Alonzo and Mary ; 8 to 1 each agst Laverna, Coal Black Rose, and Omar Pasha Won by a head ; a head only between the second and third ; Omar Pasha was a good fourth ; Flatterer a bad fifth ; Laverna and Roebuck were the next two,Treachery bolted at the far turn. LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. METROPOLITAN STAKES. 100 to 15 agst Cannobie (taken) S to 1 agst Van Galen 10 to 1 agst Middleton ttaken) CITY AND SUBURBAN HANDICAP. 9 to 2 agst Fisherman (taken) Bto 1 agst St. Hubert (taken) CHESTER CUP. 30 to 1 agst Scythian (taken) Offers to take 20 to 1 about Yorkshire Grey. From beginning to end this meeting was marked by decided success. Not only was the sport abundant in quantity and interesting in quality, but it was conducted with a business-like regularity worthy of the warmest commendation. The Messrs. Marshall were as usual as sisted by the Newmarket staff of officials, who discharged their respective duties with their customary promptitude and efficiency. The attendance of general company was ful y equal to an average muster, while the assemblage of aristocratic and fashionable visitors from the different " seats" in the neighbourhood was very numerous. Young Rogers, a lad . in W. Stebbing's stable, who met with an accident on Wednesday in the race for the Stand Plate, still lies at Northampton in a very pre carious condition. since the death of his wife. He had for many years been assistant to Mrs. Connelly, the bookseller and news agent at the Brighton Railway Station, and had by at tending to his business saved about 315 sovereigns and half-sovereigns, which he locked up in a box in his bed room. He saw the money safe on Tuesday evening at 6 o'clock, when he locked the box and put the key in his pocket. On Wednesday night, when he returned, he found that the prisoner had left the house, and his sus picion being roused at her disappearance, he went to the box, found that it had been broken open, .and all the gold stolen. He immediately gave information to the police, and in the morning despatched his children in different directions in search of her, when she was dis covered in a railway carriage at Euston-square, about to depart for Birmingham. Mr. A'Beckett asked him how he came possessed of so much money ? He replied that it was the hard-earned savings of him self and late wife for more than 18 years, and it had nearly broken his heart when he found it all gone. Mr. A'Beckett here asked the prisoner whether she wished to ask this witness any questions ? She replied no ; she did take it. George Parry, 376 S, said—He was on duty at the Euston-square railway station that morning, when the prosecutor's daughter came up to him and pointed out the prisoner, who was sitting in one of the railway car riages, as having robbed her father of upwards of 3001. The prisoner hal taken a ticket for Birmingham, and the train was about to start, but he took her into custody, and brought her direct to the Bermondsey police-station. He told her that she was charged with robbing the pro secutor of 3001 in gold, but she made no answer. Eliza Dove, the female searcher at the Bermondsey police-station, said she was called in by the inspector to search the prisoner. On her person she found 12 sove reigns, 5 half-sovereigns, and 1/. 15s. 9d. in silver. In a box that she had witness also found among her wear ing apparel a large quantity of sovereigns and half-sove rehans, which sho handed over to the inspector to count. The prisoner said nothing else, but that she took it be cause he was unkind to her. Sergeant Reid, the acting inspector at the Bermond sey station-house, said he counted the gold, and found it to consist of 179 sovereigns and 162 half-sovereigns, making altogether found on the prisoner 2761. 6s. 9d. Mr. A'Beckett asked whether anything had been as certained of the remainder ? Sergeant Reid replied in the negative, as the police had not had sufficient time to make inquiries. ➢lr. A'Beckett accordingly remanded the prisoner for a week. Thomas Tadman, an undertaker, carrying on business at 275, Kent•street, was charged with uttering a coun terfeit half-crown to Chas. Wake, a manufacturer of mourning hatbands, Charlotte-street, Caledonian-road. The prosecutor said he had a suit in the Southwark County Court on Tuesday, and it was arranged that it should be settled on his being paid 10.1. outside the court. The prisoner vas there with several others, and he handed witness what he believed to be four good half-crowns and a penny, which he put into his pocket, but on get ting home he discovered one of them to he a counterfeit. Having no other half-crowns about him but those, he was positive that he took the one in question from the prisoner. Accordingly on Wednesday he went to the prisoner and told him what had occurred, and gave him into custody. The prisoner said he was certain that he did not give the witness a counterfeit half-crown. He was a respect able tradesman, and known to many parties in court. Mr. Edwin, the chief clerk, informed his worship that he had known him as a tradesman for many years in Kent-street. Mr. A'Beckett said there certainly were in circulation a vast number of counterfeit half-crowns, and as the pro secutor had sworn that the prisoner had uttered one to him, he must remand him until Saturday, but would ac cept his own recognizance for his appearance on that day. LAMBETH. —.A nn Maltony and MaryNickolls, young women, paupers belonging to Lambeth parish, were charged with creating a disturbance at Lambeth work house. Police-constable G. Kidney deposed that, on the night before, he was on duty in Lambeth workhouse, and at about 9 o'clock heard a violent knocking at the door. He found the prisoners outside, and they said they wanted to get in. Mahoney said she had given in au order of admission. He saw the master of the workhouse, who refused to admit them except as casual paupers, and he told them so ; but Mahoney refused to go into the casual ward, and both again knocked violently at the door, and were given into custody. The prisoner Mahoney said that on the morning be fore she was discharged from Wandsworth House of Cor recTion, wheie she had served 21 days, having been com mitted there from this court on a charge of refusing to do her work In the workhouse. Having no friends or means of subsistence she made up her mind to return to the workhouse, and with that object called on one of the relieving officers and got from him an order for her ad misilon. This she carried to the master between two and three o'clock, and on delivering it to him he told her that she should not be admitted before eight o'clock at night, and then only to the receiving ward as a casual pauper, for a night's shelter. Finding that she would have to remain at the workhouse door for nearly six hours, and would be then only taken into the house as a casual pauper and turned into the street the following morning, she came to this court, when Mr. Elliott, after hearing her statement, kindly ordered her 2s. 6d. from the poor-box. Mr. Norton—What did you do with that half-crown I understand it was ordered by Mr. Elliott to supply your wants for the night, and that on the following day you were to go before the board of guardians. Mahoney—The fact was, your worship, that I met this young woman (Nicholls) and one or two others, all of whom complained that they had had nothing to eat all the day ; and I took them into a cofee•shop and gave hem some coffee and some bread and butter, and after wards a little else for supper, so that there was not /Inch left. Mr. Norton—That was not the purpose for which you received it ; but if you have spent it in that way much fault cannot be found with you. Effingham, probationary wardsman at the Lambeth workhouse, said he had been desired by the master of the house to inform his worship that he (the master) had orders from the guardians not to receive the prisoners, excepting as casual paupers for the night, and that ac commodation had been offered to them, but they refused it, and kept knocking violently at the door. Mr. Norton—l am surprised that the beard of guar dians should give one order to the master of the work house, and the relieving officer a different one. Both hould act together. Effingham—l understand, sir, that Mahoney had not delivered the order to the master of the workhouse until a quarter past 4 o'clock. Mr. ?Torten—Suppose it was the time you state, I should think it would have tried your patience and aroused your feelings to be kept standing at a work house doer such an evening for three hours and three quarter?, and caused you to knock in anything but a gentle manner at the door. Such is my opinion of the provocation given in this case that I cannot think of punishing these young women. In reply to the questions of the magistrate, the young woman Mahoney declared that she had never been on the town or acted improperly, and that in the last situa tion found for her by the parish she had stopped six months. She also complained that much more favour was shown to some young women in the workhouse, in being allowed to go out and look for situations, than to others, and that she belonged to the non-favoured class. Having heard her statement, Mr. Norton desired El lington to tell the master of the workhouse that it was his impression that justice bad not been done to Maho ney, and requested that a situation might be found for her as soon as possible. IRISH AND SCOTCH BANKS. The returns of circulation of the Irish and Scotch banks for the four weeks ending the 16th of Feb.,-1856, when aide] together, give the following as the average weekly circulation of these banks during the past month, viz. :- Average circulation of the Irish banks £6,852,640 Average circulation of the Scotch banks.., 3,957,483 Average circulation during past month -.210,810,123 On comparing the above with the fixed issues of the several banks, as given in the Banking Almanac, the collowin , appears to be the state of the circulation : The Irish banks are above their fixed issue £493,116 The Scotch banks are above their fixed issue 870,274 Total above the fixed issue £1,368,420 The amounts of gold and silver held at the head offices of the several banks during the past month have been as follows : Gold and silver held by the Irish banks £2,289,189 Gold and silver held by the Scotch banks 1,761,388 Total of gold and silver held £4,050,577 The above statements complete the returns of the cir culation in England, Scotland, and Ireland for the month ending the 16. h of February. These returns, combined with the average circulation of the Bank of England for the same period, will give the follo wing results of the circulation of notes in the United Kingdom, when compared with the previous month : Bank of England Private Banks Joint •stock Banks • • Total in England scot! ani Ireland United Kingdom .. • • Jan. 19, 1859. 19,089,84& 3,913,254 3,080,873 26,083,975 4,142,789 6,970,190 137,196,954 Feb. 16, 1856. 18,986,721 3,798,546 2,980,604 25,765,871 3,957,483 6,852,610 136,575,994 318,104 185,306 117,550 620,960 Increase. Decrease. 103,1`t7 114,703 100,269 BANK RETURNS. An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Cirealation during the Week ending Satur - day, the 15th day of March, 1856 :- Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Andover Bank, Andover-Heath and Co Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt and Pomfret 11,057 Aylsham Bank, Aylsham-G. and T. Copeman 3,849 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Z. D. Hunt 31,045 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock-Wells, Hodge, and Co 34,278 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple-Marshall and Cc 9,548 Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke- Seymour, Lamb, and Co. Bedford Bank. Bedford-T. Barnard and Sons 31,389 Bewdley Bank, Bewdley - Nichols, Baker, and Co Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-H. M. and G. Tubb 15,207 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham -Attwoods, Spooner, and Co 21,322 Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Bir mingham-J. L. Moilliet and Sons 8,756 Blandford Bank, Blandford-Oak and Co. 7,365 Boston Bank, Boston-Garfit and Co 70,787 Boston Bank, Boston-H. and T. Gee and Co 14,339 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater-J. and J. L Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Miles, and Co 36,229 Broseley and Bridgnorth and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Pritchards, Boy cott, and Co. Buckingham Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett, Par rott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, and Stowmarket Bank, Bury St. Edmunds-. Oakes, Bevan, and Co. Banbury Bank, Banbury - Gillet, Tawney, and Co. Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Cobb and Son 24,624 Bath City Bank, Bath- G. Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett, Grant, and Co , . 35,197 Birmingham Bank, BirminghamTa,ylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H A. and W. M. Harris and Co. Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 57,929 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington-- Harding, Smith, and Co 12,180 Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds-- J.Worlledge Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock &Co 15,793 Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Fosters 47,789 Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and Co 30,622 Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-David Morris and Sons 21,077 Chertsey Bank, Chertsey-La Coste and Son 3,028 Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round & Green 17,905 Colchester and Essex Bank, and Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh, Suffolk, Bank, Colchester-Mills, Bawtree, and Co 31,975 Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co 43,527 Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little & Woodcock 7,038 City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co 19,330 Craven Bank, Settle-Alcocks, Birkbecks, and Co 69,655 Cardiff Bank, Cardiff-Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow-Bromage, Snead, and Co 8,230 Derby Bank, Derby-W. and S. Evans & Co. 10,363 Derby Bank, Derby-Samuel Smith and Co 35,992 Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Locke and Co 8,510 Diss Bank, Diss-Oakes, Fincharn, and C 0... 10,393 Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster -Cooke and Co Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse &Co 81,973 Devonport Bank, Devonport- Hodge and Co 8,356 Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester---R. and H. Williams 46,305 East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Fos ter, and Co 77,063 East Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower and Co 48,806 Essex ,Bank and Bishop's Stortford Bank Chelmsford-Sparrow, Round, and Co 45,535 Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders and Co 24,659 Fakenham Bank, Fakenham-Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon-Barnes, Medley, and Co 6,567 Farnham Bank, Farnham - Messrs Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co 6,085 Godalming Bank, Godalming-Mellersh and Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford-Messrs. Haydon 13,739 Grantham Bank, Grantham-Hardy and Co 27,261 Hastings Old Bank, Hastings-Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford- Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Bank, Hertford-S. Adams and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull, Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don-Rust and Veaseys Harwich Bank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hernel Hempstead -Smith and Whittingstall Hertfordshire, Hitchin Bank, Hitchin - Sharpies, and Co. Hereford, Ross and Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Archenfield Bank, Hereford-- Morgan and Co Ipswich Bank, Ipswich-Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich- Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone-Mercer, Randall, and Co. Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington- Davies and Co. Knighton Bank, Knighton-Davies and Co 8,760 Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough-Harrison and Co 21,486 Kendal Bank, Kendal-Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering-J. C. Gotch . and Sons 9,560 Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End-C Harvey and Son 5,205 Leeds Bank, Leeds--Beckett and Co. Leeds Union Bank, Leeds-W. Williams, Brown mid Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester-Pagets and Kirby, 29,744 Lewes Old Bank, Lewes-Molineux and Co 28,722 Lichfield Bank, Lichfield-Palmer and Greene Lincoln Bank, Lincoln-Smith, Ellison, and Co. 83,735 Llandovery Bank, Lampeter Bank, and Llan dilo Bank, Llandovery-D. Jones and C 0... 14,398 Loughborough Bank, Loughborough-Middle ton and Cradock 7,471 Lymington Bank, Lymington-St. Barbe and Co. Lynn Begis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis-Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis- Jarvis and Co 11,915 Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield-Brocklehurst and Co. Manningtree Bank, Manningtree-Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough . 01d Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marliforough-7Tan- _ . ner and CO' --- Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Williams and Son 5,896 Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co 17,763 Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Bailey and Co 26,430 Monmouth Chl Bank, Monmouth Bank, Bre con Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth—Bromage, Snead, and Co 14,367 Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey and Riddell 24,852 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and. Sleaford and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, Peacock, and Co 49,245 Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny & Slocock 17,328 Newmark 't Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Co 20,255 Norwich Crown Bank and Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons 47,110 Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Birkbeck 90,010 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham, Hart, Fellows, and Co 9,904 Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co 3,257 Naval Bank, Plymouth, Plymouth—Harris and Co New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Everett and Co 9,9 75 Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Samuel Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co Oxford Old Bank, Oxford —Robinson, Parsons, and Cc. Old Bank, Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Ton bridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Ton bridge—T. H, and S. Beeching Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—J. W Clinch and Co. Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverly Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 46,658 Penzance Bank, Penzance --Batten and Co. 10,733 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—D. Yorke and Co. Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest--J. and W. Walters Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co. Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens, Blandy, and Co. Richmond Bank, Richmond—Roper and Co Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, and Co. Rochester, Chatham, and Strood B an k, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons Rugby Bank, Rugby—A. Butlin and Son Rye Bank, Rye- 7 1t, C. Pomfrot, & C 0.., 8,845 80,219 27,742 5,716 3,996 7,216 15,149 9,457 13,948 Rosa Old Bank, Heredfordshire, Ross Allaway and Macdougal Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saf fron Walden—Gibsons and Co Salop Bank, Shrewsbury— Burton, Lloyd, and Co. Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—W 0t) d all and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury— Rocke, Ey tons, and Co 36,916 Sittiug,bourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbune. —Valiance and Co. Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Pearce Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co 11,755 Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherley, Fell, and Co. Stone Bank, Stone-W. Moore 345 Stafford Old Bank, Sta,tord-Stevenson and Co. Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford-Eaton, Cayley and Co. Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury -Beck, Downward, and Co. Taunton Bank, Taunton-H. and R. Badcock 23,921 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock-Gill and Rundle 9,265 Thornbury Bank, Thornbury-Rolph and Co. 8,896 Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton - Dunsford and Co. Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire-Thra,pston, Yorke and Eland Trill.- Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring-But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester-Percival and Co 7,050 Town and County of Poole Bank and Ring wood and Poole Bank, Poole-G. W. Led gard and Sons 10,217 Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston-Vivian and Co 12,776 Uxbridge Old . Bank, Uxbridge-Hull, Smith, and Co 14,798 Wallingford , Wallingford-Hedges, Wells, and (!-, Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick- K. Greenway and Co 26,583 Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington-Fox, Brothers, and Co 4,304 West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield- Leatham, Tew, and C 0... 44,457 Whitby Old Bank, Whitby-Simpson, Chap man, and Co 13,194 Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester-Bulpett and Co 19,535 Winchester and -Hampshire Bank, Winchester -Wickham and Co -- Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth-Eliott and Pearce 15,579 Wirksworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirksworth--Arkwright and Co 37,379 Wisbech and ,Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech- Gurneys and Co 49,804 Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe-P. and W. Hancock 8,071 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-.Good ri eke and Holyoake 10,270 Worcester Bank, Worcester-Farley, Laven der, and Co 6,178 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester-Berwick, Lechmere, and • Co 65,608 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster-Farley, Turner, and Co 8,190 Walsall Old Bank, Walsall-Charles Forster and Sons Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton-R. . and W. F. Fryer 8,796 Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth • and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth-Gurneys, Birbeck, and Co 42,7 39 Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth-Sir E. H. K. Lacon, Bart,, and Co 12,515 York Bank, York- Swann, Clough, and Co 40,442 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmorland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver- hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford _ Commercial Banking Company, Bradford Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work- ington Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Corn pony, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, 11,194 9,413 49,949 9,700 30,095 19,970 52,495 32,320 9,10 Coventry Coventry Union Basking Company, Coventry County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company, Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley 37,054 Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby Darlington District Joint Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington East of England Bank, Norwich 23,440 Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 151,242 Halifax Joint Stock Bank, Halifax lB,lll Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 36,485 Hull Banking Company, Hull 26,524 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,978 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifaic Helston Banking Company, Helston Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 27,890 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,240 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 54,628 Leeds Bankinc , Company, Leeds 23,817 Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester 69.652 Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company 48,918 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,766 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint-Stock Banking Company, Newcastle upon-Tyne -- National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London 413,965 North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 40,793 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 79,93 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth. Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port 352,545 Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall 38,743 Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield Sheffield and Rotherham Joint Stock Banking Company, Sheffield 52,269 Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond Storey and Thomas' Banking Company, Shaftes- 25,032 13,290 42,936 1,439 34,68 21,670 38,827 52,915 1,730 34,401 54,355 56,124 - bury - Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Company, Wolverhampton 85,436 Wakefield and Barnsley Union. Bank, Wake- field Whiteha,ven Joint-Stock Banking Company, 13,21 Whitehaven...... . ................................... Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Warwick West of England and- South Wales District Bank, Bristol ....................................... 84,417 Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 75,220 West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud- 25,63 . 31,359 dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch 6,435 Worcester City and County Banking Com pany, Worcester 6,858 York Union Banking Company, York 68,536 York City and County Banking Company, 88,868 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds 119,875 J. MICHAEL, Acting Registrar of Bank Returns. Inland Revenue, Somerset House. $2,69'4 SHIPPING DISASTERS ON THE NORFOLK COAST.— A strong east wind blew for several days last week on the Norfolk coast, and several serious casualties occurred among the shipping. The Grenett, a Hanoverian vessel, was lost off Yarmouth with all hands. The Hero, a schooner, from Rye for Newcastle, parted from both anchors in Lowestoft south roads, and was obliged to run upon the main opposite the Royal Hotel. The Henry, a brig, from Montrose for London, also drifted on the main near Pakefield Lighthouse, and other minor disasters Fre reported. DEAD LAW.—How freely, even in spite of yearly mas sacres, the crop of legislation springs another figure or two will suggest. On the subject of qua'ificatinn and election of a member of Parliament there exist 185 acts. On the subject of poor-law there are in the statute-book 120 acts. Upon the matter cf stamps there are 130 acts. Upon the subject of Excise, 120. One act ought to suffice for each of these matters ; yet the statutes still include 4,000 or 5,000 pages of dead revenue law. Even the law concerning sheriffs and their offers is pub lished in no less than 55 acts of Parliament. The conse quence of all this is, that judge and counsel, when they exercise their wits on any case, must either pbt faith in a fallible digest or manual made by a private lawyer—if by chance that contains the information wanted —or they must go through the whole of the statutes from Magna Charts to the present day ; and, with the help of an im perfect index, find the hit of statute they require, as well as make sure that it has not been affi-cted or modified by any other bit of statute bearing later date. Then, of course, there are also contradictions in abundance. Public and general provisions of all sorts, often conflict ing in their principles, are slipped into local acts,-- .Dickens's likunbld Mrds. Co try Markets. DERBY SMITHFIELD.-MAItCR 25. Our supply of fat beasts to-day was not large, but the quality was generally good, and a fair demand at former prices; a few were left unsold. The supply of sheep was not large (the greater part out of the wool), but the best quality were in good request and readily sold. Fat and store calves scarce. Fat pigs plentiful. The following were the quotations :—Beef, 6d to bid; mutton, 7d to 7Ad ; lamb, Od to Od ; veal, 7d tc 7 d per lb. ; pigs, lOs Od to 10s 6d per score ; rough fat, 4s 3 to Us per 141 b. ; hides, 3id to 44d per lb ; calf-skins, 3td 51 per lb. -r EDINBURGH GRAlN.—Msuca 26. Good supply of grain in the market , to-day. Sales heavy for all kinds; and prices considerably down for wheat, oats, and beans. Wheat, on the top, 4s down, and on the average 4a down. Barley, was the same as last week on the top, and 8.1 down on the average. Oats on the top 2s Od dowa—on the average, 2s 8d down. Beans on the top 3a 6d down— tho average, is 6d down. AVERAGES PER IMPERIAL QUARTER. Wheat £3 8 10 2-12ths. Do. new -12tIts. Barley Oats 1 10 8 6-12ths. Beans -12ths. BOSTON-MARCH 26. The supply of wheat being barely equal to the require ments of the millers for the purposes of consumption, there was considerable firmness in the trade, and prices ruled quite equal to those obtained on this day se'nnight ; most of our merchants, however, declined to operate. No alte ration in the value of spring corn. Prices :—Wheat, red, 50s Od to 69s Od; white, 69s Od to 70s Od . extra, 72s (hi. Barley, 35s Od to 40s Od. Oats, 17s to 265. Beans, 36s Od to 44s Od. Peas, 35 to 41s Od. per qr. NEWARK—MARCH 2d. At our Corn Exchange we had a good show of grain and a full attendance of farmers. Wheat, white 80s to 84s, red 68s to 725; barley, maltin2 38s to 445, grinding 330 to 365; oats, 24st. 34s to 375, 228 t, 26s to 28s ; beans, 42s to 50s ; malt 72s to 76s ; peas, 40i to 44s ; tares, 60s to 64s per qr. BBABORNE MAILS. (N signifies that the mails are sent from the General Post ogee by the night—and M by the morning—tlespateh.) Daywbensoad..... , From was W - cotrsTurzsl. in General Peet - Port dm iz Office, London.* Dispat c he r En,laad America(byßrit.pact)N Every Friday.. Liverpool , Mar. 26 Americp. (by United Ste. packet) America (by U. Stotts • -• Liverpool packet) •• •• • • • Southan t-ri Mar. 21 Australia (via South ampton) ••••• • • • • Southampton Ditto (via Marseilles) N Ditto (via Cape of Good Hope) •• •• •• •• •• • •N 1 ..N 1 23c1 of the month . Plymouth I I7noeftain &frica (West Coast) - Mar. ; 2i Alexandria .......... Nl B , 9 , 24 ,& 20 of m.lDoyer & 20th of mon.;sauthampto:.... Bahamas of the month iSeutham ; , ttni llolgium ...........N 1 Dai1y...... ••• • • • 'Dover .... Brazil ...• .•••• • • .M , 9 th of the month .. I Southarn rO. Mar. 16. Buenos Ayres ........M 9th of the month ..ISoutham!..to- Mar. 16 Cape of Good Hope ..N Various portUm:yew Cape of Good Hope ..11 Cape de Verds 9th of the month Southampton Ceylon (see India) Ceylon ..............N Chnnnel Isles ........I. MOM Southampton Tu.Th.Sat Chi 11.... • • • • 2d & 17th of montf ,, Southampir, China .... ,Once a month.... Mar. 20 Constantinople .... ...N18,13, 1 8,23,&2$ of is , Dover -. Constantinople ......... 4 th & 20th of mon , ,Southsuipty.. Cont. of Europe I 1 N ;Twice daily ...... 'Dover .. Twiceda ll l Egypt (see India) 1 France ........ M tic 1r .Twice daily.... • • Dover Twicedailf Gibraltar 4,7,17,20, 27 of ro Southampi Greece (seo India) Greytown ..........M ,2 r , d & 17th of mon Southarapt Elanaburgh ..........N Tuesday & Friday 'London ... m wanna h .......... aii2nd of the montil I Soutilanspi AprL Holland m ..... Honduras ...... the monti,,Southampti 16thotme India (viaSouthampt.)sl 4tlt L 20th of mon.i.lym , ,uth -. 4 & 20 al India (via Marseilles)M 9th&2sth of month Dover .... lonian Isles (see indla)t 7 , 17, & 27 of mon Dover.. Ireland ........M & N Twice daily ...• • • 1161; head Twicedailf Li5ben..............M 7 ,9, 17, & 17 of m.,Southamoke March 1 6 Madeira 9th of the month !Southern o • Madeira ........ of month Liverpool Malta (see India) Malta ...... Mauritius (see India) Mauritius •• • • ......1!, 14th of the monet Yezico id 2nd of the month. goathamptor 'April 1 Naples ..............N bthlsth2sthofmon.lDover Now Granada III& 17th of month Southampton New Zealand By private .. Various po-t Uneertaifi papal states sth I bth2stholmon, Dover peninsulaithl 7 th 27 thofmon. amithampt. • Peru id & 27th of mon. Southarnpt , m, Port Natal sinily Sy private ship... Various poitstrncertala sthlsth2sthoiluon, Dever Tuscany sthisth2sthofmon. Doper Venozuels 2d& 17th oimonth Southampton 1 8;16 IMO Van Diemen's Land (se , Australia) .......... I ~„, we‘ 2d&l AU IX of mono . Soathamptex!l & ig moo When any of these dates fall on a Sunday. the mails will • ,0 d ipatched on the following day with the exceptien of tie hills :outhampton), and the Malta, both of which will be d ee p a t c h e d • preceding day. SHARE MAREBTS. LIVERPOOL, MencH 27. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been quiet, &pa without feature. Transactions at the following rates Caledonian, 303 i—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 843 i i 5 At —London and North-Western, 10)—Manc hester, Sher field, and Lincolnshire, 273—Midland, 72 2k 2---Nortig British, B.l.3—North Eastern Berwick, I.94—South Eastern, 203 IManchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 31 O a oent., 643 Dutch Rhenish, 16s. 3d. p.—Ditto (hew shawl , p,— Great Western of Canada, 254—Luxembourg cow stituted, 7.8.9 d. BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 27. aTOCIS EXCHANGE.—This market w as s t ea dy to da y a nd , a fair amount of business was tr ansac t e d. Inmdon North. Westerns were done at 1004—Shropshire at 4 , ;, 464—Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas C 251. tibial) at 42—Midlands closed at 7li. MANCHESTER, MARCH 27. STOCK EXCHANGE.—There was an improvement of prices, but not much business. Rochdale Canal, 80—Eo ti Lancashire, 184—Leeds, 848 s—Dovera, 2C 1346 1 I .1-16—Electric Telegraph, 2141—Eastern Conn:ties, Sheffield, 34 per cent., 61—Midlands, 74—Shefilelda, LEEDS, MARcH 27. STOCK EXCHANGE.—MidIands, 71i 714—Torkshire Banks, 10 —North Westerns, si—Ditto Prer., 1 +g—Elea' tric Telegraph, 21i—Lancashire and Yorkshires, M." Sheffields, 274—Thizska, 15;1. DUBLIN, MARCH 26. STOCK EXCHANGE. , --Threo per Cent. Consols, 91f r Ditto for Account, Bth of April, 92i 92—Bank Stock. 22. " —Ballast Office Debs., 4 per oent. (Gov. Sec.) if 921. 60 ; 2d., 92—Hibernian Bank, (251. paid), 301—Dublin sou, Glasgow Steam Company, (451. paid), 394—Dublin and Belfast Junction (451. paid), 424—Dublin and WickloW (10/. paid), 54—Ditto for account, ci—Great - Southess and Western (531. paid), 52B—Diito Eighth, 6 per cent' pref (6/. ss. paik), 74—Ditto 4 per cent. pref. (111. paid) , 94—Midland Great Western and Royal Canal 0.01. paid) , 50—Ditto Half Shares (251. paid), 25—Watigiord and Limerick 5 per cent pref. (501. paid), 42 x int. [Anvrausxmzsvd—We quote some interesting cures with' out medicine of indigestion (dyspepsia), flatulene;r, eonstips' tion, nervous, bilious, and liver complaints, cough, asthnso consumption, and debility, by Du Barry's delicious. Rowley° Arabica Food : Fifty years' indeseribable agony frost% dyspepsia, nervousness, asthma, cough, constipastiou, flat'' lency, spasms, sickness at the stomach, and vomit ings, hav e been removed by Du Barry's excellent R.valeinta Arabic. Food.—Maria Jolly, Northam Ling, near Disc, N o rfolk. Cure No. 3,9o6.—Thirteen years cough, indigestiois , and gen e. ml debility have been removed by Du Barry's excellent 1 11 " valenta Arabica Feod.—James Porter, Athol-stro et, Perth. From the Dowager Countess of Castlestuart. Cure , 52,612.- - " Rosstrevor, County of Down, Ireland, 9th Deceniber, 1854. The Dowager Countess of Castlestuart feels induce d, in the interest of suffering humanity, to state that Du B arry's celleut Revalenta Arabica Food has cured her:, after lt" Medicines had failed, of indigestion, bile, great. nervon o ; ness and irritability of many years' standing. This foot , deserves the confidence of all sufferers, and en fry be colt' sidered a real blessing. Inquiries will be cheerfully „answered. In canisters, 51bs. 11s.; 121b5., 225, The \ 12111 s carreig free, on receipt of post-office order. Barry du I larry and Co., 77, Regent-street, London ; Fortnum, Mason.; and Co., Purveyors to her Majesty, Piccadilly ; also at 13 0, Grace' church-street ; 333 and 451, Strand; 4, Cheapti ide ; Ccrnhill ; 49, Bishopsgate-street ; 55, Charing-cross ; 5 4 0 Upper Baker-street ; 63 and 150, Oxford-street. BIRTHS. OM' A gON. On the 27th inst., at 10, Upper Grouenor-sireet, the wife of Edward Marjoribanks, Esq., jtm. On the 26th inst., at Grimston, near Tadcuter, York• shire, the Right Hon, Lady Londesborough. OP ♦ DATIGHTIB. On the 26th inst., at Badminton, the Duchess of Beall' fort. On the 25th inst., at 29, °nett-terrace, Riede-park/ the wife of Charles P. Froom, Esq. MARRIED. On the 26th inst., at St. Mary's the Less, Csonbridge, the Rev. Charles Caldecott James, Fellow of lif.Dg's lege, and Assistant-Master of Eton, son of the late Rev. Canon James, of Winchester, to Caroline Catherine, eldest daughter of William Hopkins, Esq., M.A.., of St.. Pater's College. Oa the 27th inst., at Eckington, Henry, second son of John Walker, Esq., Highfield-house, East Retforal, Notts, to Therese Eleanoia Susannah, only child of Chairles Re' therham, Esq., of Mosbro'-hall, Derby. DIED. On the 19th inst., at Rodney-street, Pentozvale, liam Haiington Cowper, Student of Ring's Collis e, Lon don, second son of Charles Cowper, of Wivenhue, Esq., Member of the Legislative Council of New South. Wales, aged 21. On the t. Oth inst., at Woolwich, of bronchial', Ann, relict of the late William Mac Naughton, and only (laughter of Captain Robert Fenwick, late of the Royal kriillerb aged 78. On the 24th inst., at Princes-place, Duke-stroet, St: James's, Captain William Ward, late of HAUB 35th Re giment, aged 58 On the 25th inst., at Claremont-house , Bucklrold, Do ver, Ann, youngest (laughter of the late Jeremiah Dodson, Esa., of Eltham, Kent, aged 7 On the 2rith inst., at Bromley, Sent, Agnes, youngest daughter of Charles Pott, Esq. 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