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IMPERIA HOUSE OF COMMONS—(YESTERDAY.) SIMONY LAW AMENDMENT BILL. Mr. PHILLIMORE moved the second reading of this bill, which the he said, with some slight additions, was precisely the Liam mea sure that he laic on table last session. The present state of the law of simony was highly obje,' t e .I°:lable, and the amendment which he proposed to make :n i t tl nd. The first statute i had received the assent of the assembled judges of the 3 which related to the subject of sitiat' ll Y was passed in the v reign of Elizabeth, and it inflicted a v,'.r• severe punish of simony. meat upon parties convicted of the offen, Subsequently various acts were passed down to the r t en i of Anne ; and now, according to the existing law, _ . 4 wa s competent for a layman or a clergyman to purchase a. vowsons, or the right of next presentation to a living. The consequence was that the law as it now stood gave rise to great abuses ; the living could only be sold while the present incumbent was living —so long as he had a particle of breath in his nostrils, the right of presentation could be legally sold and purchased and the object of this hill was to prevent even such a sale as that—a course which, he repeated, had been re commended by the assembled judges of the land. The sale of civil offices in patronage was prohibited alike by law and morals, and the reason for that was obvious. Patronage, or the right of presenting to an office either clerical or civil, could only be treated in the former as a spiritual, and the latter as a moral trust. It certain ly was not property, and therefore it was idle to tell him that a bill like this was an undue or improper interfer ence with the vested rights of individuals or corporations. Trafficking in matters connected with the cure of sou ls become quite a common practice in modern ti mes ; l i vings were daily hawked about and advertised in the public prints for sale, while the cure of souls was knocked down to the highest bidder at auctions, the price in such cases depending, of course, upon the annual returns of the in cumbency. For the purpose of preventing such abuses in future he had introduced this bill, and he hoped the house would allow it to go to a second reading. Mr. G. BUTT moved as an amendment that the bill be read a second time this day six months. The hon. gentleman who had just addressed them had not quite correctly stated the law on this subject. An advowson was an alienable estate in fee, but the right to make the next presentation was only a chattle, Both, however, were saleable, and liable to be made the subject of settle ment or mortgage ; in fact, they were propert i es wh i ch t h e law of England allowed to be bought and sold, and all the restrictions which the law imposed upon the owners was contained in the qualification which the person pre sented-to the living was bound to possess. In all times both the advowson and the right of presentation had been treated and dealt with as properties ; and thi" measure, therefore, was a direct violation of the rights of property. (Hear, hear.) But the bill, if passed, would prove inoperative, because it did not in terfere with the advowson ; all that it did, in fact, was to prevent the sale of the next presentation ; but did not the house perceive if that were prohibited, recourse would be had to the sale of the advowson. How, then, would the bill get rid of the evil complained, if evil it was? It would do nothing of the sort, and inasmuch as it would not only interfere with the rights of property, but would have a tendency to prevent lay patronage, he trusted the house would reject the second reading of the bill. Two-thirds of the livings of England are private patronage, and it would be most unjust to adopt the Romish principle of transferring it to the bishops or heads of the Church, which would be the ultimate effect of this bill. Mr. SPOONER seconded the amendment. Sir W. HEATIICOTE thought it was unwise to rest the opposition to this bill upon grounds of property, be cause such a ground could not be maintained. There was a wide difference between the advowson and the right to the next presentation ; the one might be a legi timate object of sale and purchase, but the other cer tainly was not. The next presentation was by far too near to make it safe to legalise its sale without opening the door to corruption and abuse ; and on that account he supported this bill, believing that the right of presen tation was a spiritual trust which it was quite right to entrust to laymen, but decidedly wrong to make a mat ter of traffic. Sir G. GREY could see no sufficient ground which should induce the house to pass the second reading of this bill, though he quite agreed that it ought not to be treated as a question of pounds, shillings, and pence. At the same time he did not think any legislative enact ment necessary to arrest the abuses of the present sys tem, as the bishops and heads of the church had suffi cient powers in their hands to prevent the open and scandalous trafficing in livings which the bill was in tended to, but would not, prohibit, so long as it did not touch the sale of advowsons. For his part, he could see no objection to the legitimate sale of the next presen tation or the advowsons, and he thought no suffi cient reason had been shown why such sales should be directly prohibited by the law. Lord GODERICH remarked that the operation in the present system was highly calculated to bring scan dal and discredit upon the Church of England., It was just as safe, and just as proper, to sell the right to a judgship as to sell the right of presenting to the cure of souls. In point of morals both were equally impro per, because such a power gave rise to manifest and mani fold abuses, which were greatly detrimental to the inte rest and well-being of the State. Surely it was unwise to permit a state of things which allowed the open traf ficing in clergymen's livings, and permitted parties to make presentations without any reference whatever to the wishes or wants of the parishioners. He therefore begged the house to pass this bill. Mr. NAPIER was unwilling to argue this bill as a question of property, but still it could not be denied that property was not altogether connected with this subject. He doubted, however, whether this bill would receive a better administration of the trust which lay men held than that which now prevailed, not that he denied for a single moment that abuses did not exist under the present system, but the bishop had ample powers in his own hand to prevent the presentation of improper persons, or persons who were averse to the wishes or unacquainted with the wants of the pa rishioners. The fact was the bill would not accomplish the object it had in view, since the proper excess of the trust could only be enforced by the moral influence of the bishop, while, if the bill passed, there was nothing in it which could in any way prevent secret bargains for the next presentation. For these reasons, then, he should support the amendment in preference to the bill. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL fully appreciated the motives which induced the hon. and learned member for Tavistock to bring forward this bill ; but, on the other hand, he felt bound to oppose the measure. (Hear, hear.) It was quite true that the law of simony stood in an anomalous and doubtful condition ; but, before the house attempted to change the law it must be clearly shown that there was an absolute necessity for it, or that the change would correct a great and glaring evil. Now, would the bill correct the evil complained of in this case ? Certainly not, for although they had heard a good deal of the abuses and scandal at tending the sale of next presentations, the provisions of this bill were not such as could get rid of the evil. Ali these scandals, if the bill passed, would still attend the sale of the advowson, and since the bill interfered with the rights of property, lie thought that reason alone was sufficient to induce the house to reject the bill. It would have the effect of throwing all the patronage of the Church into the hands of landed proprietors, to the de triment of the men of trade and commerce, who had just as much right Co get their sons into the Church, if they so thought fit, as the aristocracy. But it was said the wishes and interests of the parishioners would be better attended to if the right of presentation were entirely vested in the bishops. Why, the other day an instance occurred where a bishop presented a clergyman to a living in direct opposition to the wishes and feelings of the parishioners, and therefore, so far as that argument went, it was really good for nothing. The trust would not be better administered by the clergy themselves than by the laymen. Mr. LIDDELL insisted that the bill would inflict great injustice upon those who already purchased the right to make the next presentation to livings, and on that account he opposed it. After a few words from Mr. WHITESIDE, Mr. HILDYARD opposed the bill as an attached member of the Church of England, believing that it would certainly fa!l if ever it acquired the exclusive character which this measure would give it. After a few words from Mr. AGLIONBY, who did not think theie was any necessity for the bill, Mr. Emma smeE replied. The hou le then divided when there appeared— For the second reading 52 Against it The bill was accordingly thrown out. VESTRIES BILL. bill M r. EVELYN moved the second r ea di ng o f thi s , which was a declaratory measure to explain the o la f w relating to p ar i s h matters and the powers parish authoriti es . It would enable sele c t vestries t o deal with all questions of local interest to the parishioners and the public generally, such as the repair of highway,, building of bridges, lighting and watching p tli el e r t rieb, and the removal of nuisances, and would per districtsral towns and parishes to divide themselves into for the purpose of raising the rates and taxes necessary for carrying out local im provements. Mr. FITZROY did not think lar that an case had been made out for conferrin g such parish vestries. pse bodies like irresponsible powers u lie, therefore, moved as an amendment, that the bill b d e read a second time this day six months. Mr. W. WILLIAMS opposed the bill. Mr. EVELYN, seeing that he Would be over poweredhad no altern • by numbers, alternative but to with draw the bill. The amendment was accordingly ag reed to without a division, and the bill was thrown out. PAYMENT OF WAGES (HOSIERY) BILL. Sir H. HALFORD moves the second rea s li n e g of this bill, which he believed was advocated by all the frame. work-knitters of Nottingham and Leicestershire. These operatives wo r ked at their own homes , with a hand loom which c o uld be purchased for a sum of money that would be supposed to place it within the r e ach of the workman himself, but it rarely happened that the m a . chine belonged to him. (H ear .) It was invariably r hired from the employer, and the rent charged for It was so excessive as to make it a virtual sys tem of truck in the hosiery districts. (Hear, hear.) The men in fact were charged 201. a-year for the use of_ machines that were not worth more than that sum, and their weekly wages were grea tly reduced by this rent. The system acted alike prejudicially upon the in terest of .t es of the workman and the honest employer who paid ull wages in money, and some time ago an attempt was made to abolish the system by getting a decision of a court of law that it was prohibited by the Truck Act, but the action broke down upon a technical objection. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. JC. .W.SG HOME CrillerlT—MemsTon, MARCH 22. (Before Baron Alderson, and a Special Jury.) ICARTNOLL V. DURHAM. This was an action for libel. The defendant pleaded not guilty and a justification as to a portion of the libel. Mr. M. Chambers, Q.C., Mr. Devi% Mr. Lush, and Mr. H. A. Simon appeared for the plaintiff ; Sir F. Thesiger, who came down upon a special retainer ) Mr. Bramwell, Q.C., Mr. Willes, and Mr, Jackson were for the defendant. This cause was tried on Tuesday, And it occupied the whole of the day, and was not brought to a close Until late in the evening. Mr. Chambers in opening the case described it ag one of considerable importance ) inasmuch as it involved the question whether the press was to be protected hi fair criticism upon public matters for the interest of the public, or whether, because the observations that \-:• ere made upon any particular subject might give o a 'fence to certain persons, the person making th ose ob . Ans in the discharge of his duty was to be grossly servitta _ impunity. The learned coun se l th en .pro slandered wil l _4' the plaintiff, Mr. John Ho ,. o ,.b per H ti a o r t : of a newspaper published at ceedesi to state tha.. noll, was the proprietor . am and he had also Greenwich, called the Kentish, Mel— for a good many years conducted a weekly per. called the Post Magazine, which devoted its attention exclusively to matters conducted with insurance com panies. The defendant, Mr. Durham, was the chairman of the board of directors of a company called the Unity Fire Assurance Association, and it was in that capacity that he was charged with having published the libel of which the plaintiff complained. As he had stated, the plaintiff took a very great interest in the subject of in surance, and he devoted his attention to examining the accounts of the companies that offered themselves to the notice of the public, and there was very little doubt that the information he thus rendered was of great import aaice, and tended materially to prevent persons from being defrauded by connecting themselves with offices based upon unsound principles. After the passing of an act of Parliament called the Joint-stock Com panies Registration Act of 1846, which was an act that gave great facilities to the formation of com panies of this descr:ption, the plaintiff was struck with the enormous increase in the number of insurance coin , anies, the number previous to that period having been afv-seven, whereas after the passing of the act they in creased to 396, and he felt it to be his duty in the dis charge of the task he had undertaken to look closely at the mode eu management of every new company that 5 ,7 as started, e.,114, to caution the public if he believed their calcizlations were elioneous, or that the way in which their business was c0nd444..;+ was such as to leave no possibility of success. August, 1852, the company in question, winch was called the Unity Fire Assurance Association, was provisionally registered in accordance s e b c a a r p e i s ta o l f w 2 a l. s e t a o e b b e , 00 T 0 h onewithmtihl l e i n p , ro t v o i s b io e ursai4oefdthbye a o ct o, and the deposit to be paid upon each share was to be 55., and the defendant was stated in the prospectus to be the chairman, Major Stones the vice-chairman, and a Mr. T. H. Bayliss was the secretary and manager, The com pany made great efforts to obtain popularity; a meeting was held at Manchester, where there was also a general entertainment at the laying of the first stone of the splendid building intended to be the offices of the com pany ; and in August, 1853, there appeared in all the London morning papers what, he said, might well be termed a monster advertisement, inasmuch as it filled eighteen columns of the papers, and consisted of the names and addresses of 5,000 persons who were share holders in the Unity Association. The plaintiff, ob serving ad those proceedings, found it right to look into the accounts of the company, and the result was that the Pest Magazine being insufficient for the purpose, he on the Ist of October brought out a new publication called the Assurance Monitor, in which he gave to the public the result of his inquiries and the information he had ob tained. Mr. Chambers read extracts from the publica tion mentioned. They referred specially to the defen dants' company, and represented that, although it was put forth to the public that 125,000/. of capital was paid up, he has ageertained by a memorandum of the regis tration deed that this was not the case, and that a con siderable number of the subscriptions were unpaid, and then went on to say that, supposing this amount really had been paid up, the enormous expenditure of the com pany in connexion with their building, advertising, com mission to agents, &c., would prevent them from in vesting more than 80,0001. or 90,0001., the interest of which would be more than swallowed up by the current expenses, and that the shareholders could only expect a dividend from the hazards of the office, and that they must amount to four millions of pounds, and there must not be a single loss, before a dividend of five per cent. could be paid. The article also went on to say that upon every five shillings paid a shilling was given to the agent for commission, and likewise called attention to the fact that Mr. T. H. Bayliss, the secretary, acted in the same capacity to another joint-stock company of the same de scription, and that several of the directors of the Unity were acting in the same capacity to other companies of the like kind, which must of necessity be opponents of the Unity. The result arrived at appeared to be that the shareholders of that company could not hope to be successful in their undertaking, for the reasons stated. The learned counsel proceeded to say that he should contend that the plaintiff, acting honestly in the discharge of his duty, had a perfect right to publish this article, in order that, if his arguments were well founded, the pub lic might be guarded against the mischief and ruin that too frequently resulted from unsound establishments of this character, and that the defendant, acting on behalf of the company, in attacking him as he afterwards did, had committed a gross injustice, and had rendered himself amenable to the present action. He had stated that the first number of the Assurance Monitor appeared on the Ist October, and very shortly afterwards a pamphlet was publish ed, entitled "An Address to the Shareholders of the Unity Fire Association, in reply to the un warrant able attacks made upon it be the Assurance Monitor," and this pampl-let contained the libel of which the plain tiff now complain ad. The learned counsel here read portions of the parnpNet in question, in which the plain tiff was classed as a joL'rnalist with the writers in the Satirist, Age, Paul Pry, a zid other disreputable prints, and it described him as an hir: aling writer, and said that, like those who had formerly written in the publications referred to, he lived by extortion ,:knd levying "black mail" from his victims. The learneL: l counsel having commented at some length upon the a ggr :.kvated charac ter of the charges made against the plainiN, said he trusted that when he had laid the whole of the case before the jury they would feel that it was one which called for exemplary damages. Mr. Tarrant, the attorney for the plaintiff, proved that he applied for a copy of the pamphlet headed „ An Address to the Shareholders, &c.," at the offices of the company, and one was given to him by a clerk. Mr. Taylor, the attorney for the defendant, was called in order to show that he was the chairman of the com pany, and that the pamphlet had been issued with his knowledge. In answer to questions by Sir F. Thesiger, the witness said that the company was provisionally registered in May, 1852, and was completely registered in September. The directors were —Major Stones, Mr. Garland, Mr. Jackson (the barrister), Sir W. 0. Pell, Mr. Taylor, (witness's brother), Mr. T. Vaughan, Sir W. C. Dalzell, and Dr. Lloyd, oue of the lecturers at Guy's Hospital. Their qualification was 2,000 shares, but they each held 5,000. At the time the plaintiff published the Monitor lie believed the whole of the 125,0001. had been paid up. On the 28th of November, 1853, there was a meetinr , of the shareholders at Willis's rooms, which was numerously t c u h o pe p o i alterationnce o s n o of e a nte the hyoa,mt A wpwh s a s u aincsyh r .m ai at wascTde eb .i r eia i ni o s w n te h i di t et o nf i on is from o o u n ot n t bn a tee i attended, and s ome p erson was t h ere who distributed no n tf i on the wleu t o l d i c e emadpi a iit t ti o t ia. o a l an c o k nsf which had also been made the subject of complaint, in the plaintiff' s p u bli cat i on, and he said that every thing, that was do ne i n t hi s respect was under the direction and advice of the registrar of joint-stock companies. Mr. J. H. Hartnoll, the plaintiff, was then examined. He saidthat he was formerly teacher of mathematics and nautical science at the Royal Naval School at Greenwich, but had retired upon a pension. He had been for twenty years proprietor of the Kentish, Mercury newspaper, and fourteen years ago he projected the Penny Post Maga zine. This publication was devoted entirely to insurance matters, and circulated principally among insurance offices. After the passing of the Joint Stock Companies Registration Act a great many new fire an d lif e in surance offices were brought out, and he canvassed their merits in his journal. He remembered the establish ment of the Unity in 1852, and afterwards seeing the advertisement of the names of the shareholders. He felt it right to make inquiries, and in consequence of the in formation he obtained, he subsequently published an ar ticle referring to the society in a publication which he brought out for the first time on the Ist of October. He swore most positively that he was not employed by any insurance company to write the article, and that he did so in consequence of his conviction that the statements in it were true, and that they put the public in posses sion of the knowledge of the real condition of the com pany. He also stated most positively that he had never received a single farthing from any person whatever for writing the article. He sent four thousand copies of the publication, at his own expense, to the persons whose names appeared in th e a d vert i sement as shareholders. Upon being cross-examined by Sir F. Thesiger, Mr. Hartnoll said, that besides his connection with the pub lication in question, he had kept a school at Brixton, but since the publication of the libel upon him he bad found it necessary to modify the establishment. He was formerly proprietor of a newspaper, called the Greenwich. Gazette, which was an unprofitable concern, and it merged into the Mercury. He at the same time conducted another paper, called the West Kent Guardian. One of the county magistrates complained upon one occa sion of an article that appeared in his paper, and he made an apology. A criminal information was also filed against him by Lord D ar t mout h , an d h e apologised. Lord Dartmouth paid his own costs and those of his (witness's) publisher, but witness paid his own. In one of his publications he had described a person named Hart as a " peculiar fibber, a slanderer, and a mouthing scamp." He did so because he knew it was true. He had slandered witness at a public meeting, and was proved to have told an untruth, and he spoke of him in this manner when he refused to make an apology. Only three numbers of the Insurance Monitor were pub lished, and the last number appeared on the day this action was commenced. The "monster advertisement," as it was called, was the principal cause of the Monitor being published. Twenty-five thousand copies of the first number were printed, and he directed a copy to be sent to every subscriber of the Unity whose name ap peared in the advertisement at his own expense. This exhausted about four thousand copies. Copies were also taken by the following insuran ce o ffi ces : —Th e Union, 1,000 ; West of England, 500 ; Sun, 1,000 ; , TAMENT. The object of this bill was to p rohibit the system by direct legislation. Sir W. CLAY moved an amendment, that the bill be read a second time this day six months. The bill pro posed to prevent certain contracts now entered into be tween the masters and workmen. Those people worked uantdhoNmoettiinngthhaeimr h a o n u a ses L , e s i c c a e t s. - t n e o r t e d in agbroeuatt the factories, c oun ty ba ro t ter, working at looms which were not their own, but were the property of the masters, to whom they paid so muc h for the use of the looms, and he t ho l ight such an arrang em ent was most desirable, and h e considered that the relations of masters and workmen res t e d _on principles over which legislation had no con r aby regulated mainly the condition of trol, but .7hic h was e , -e was therefore certain that if the labour m...'"; He into a law it would become a dead this bill should pa.. ronet concluded by moving his letter. The hon. ba. d the amendm amendment. t. He Mr. WILKINSON seconal' e '" 1 it ;to be quite impossible to re "elate rates of wa; es heir .4 Parliament ; and he opposed the bill also on the by act ,t it would direct the attention of the work ground the.. from men themselv, • —their own good conduct, and lead them to believe Par- l i amen t could do eveything for them. Sir ;,T. WALMSI-,,8Y supported the second reading of the bill. The stocke'ng-weavers were frequently en gaged 12 or 15 hours a-day' at hard work— for few de scriptions of work were more severe ; and at the end of the week nearly the whole of the it earnings, which were only 125., or 145., or 15s. a. week, were taken to pay for their frame-rent and chaiZes ; and often, when attacked by sickness, an d l a id L y for weeks without earning anything the hire for the looms went on. He denied that the object of the bill was to enable the men to dictate to their masters ; on the contrary, it was only to enable the men to obtain their wages in cur rent coin of the realm, instead of by the present cruel truck system. Sir G. STRICKLAND thought this was a most ins' portant measure, and deserved the most serious consi deration of the house. He went the whole length with the honourable baronet (Sir William Clay), that there should be no interference between masters and em ployers, except in the cases of children working in fac tories, who, from their youth, were incapable o! de fending themselves, but he thought that did not apply to the present bill, because it would only affect adult labourers, who were as capable of taking care of themselves ac the masters were. Mr. PACKE spoke in favour of the bill. The looms which those hosiers had to hire they had frequently to pay at the rate of 100 per cent. for• those loorns in most cases, not being the property Of the masters, but of middlemen, who hired them out at enormous profits, awl to the oppression of the workpeople. He contended that the hon. Bart., the member for Preston (Sir W. Clay) was mistaken in saying this bill would affect adult labourers who could take care of them selves, for those workpeople must either submit to the terms dictated by the masters, or starve. (Hear, hear.) Mr. T. DUNCOMBE thought if this bill were to be understood to be referred to a select committee, that understanding would save the time of the house in now discussing it. He considered the system of hiring out the looms was most unjust and oppressive on the work people. Mr. FITZROY said as there had been a committee appointed on a somewhat similar system, the truck system, and the Government had no objection to refer this bill to that committee. (Hear, hear.) Mr. LABOUCHERE was sorry to hear the intention of the Government respecting this bill, being convinced that any legislation between masters and men would only have the effect of raising false hopes among the hosiers, and end in disappointment. After a short reply from Sir H. MILFORD, Mr. BOUVERIE said it was distinctly statzsd by one of the gentlemen whose names were on the back of the bill that its object vas to obtain a higher rate of wages for the workmen, and he believed this was the first time the British Parliament had been asked to do this. He hoped the house would reject the bill. Mr. PACKE explained that he did not mean to con vey the impression attributed to him by Mr. Buuverie that it was a bill to obtain by aid of Parliament a higher rate of wages for the hosiers than they now obtained. Mr. COBBI:TT spoke in favour of at least referrino the bill to a seleot committee, although he did hardly' expect it would have the effect expected b of it. y the framers After a few remarks from Mr. BARROW and Mr. BASS, The house divided, when the numbers were— For the second reading l2O Against it SLIGO ELECTION. Sir F. BARING brought up the report of the select committee in the case of the Sligo borough election, which declared that John Sadher, Rig., was duly returned at the last election. That two voters were bribed by sums of money to vote for Mr. Sadleir, or to abstain from voting, but that such acts of bribery were committed without the knowledge of Mr. Sadleir or his agents. The other business on the paper was then disposed of, and the house adjourned at six o'clock. STATE OP TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian of yesterday.) MANCHESTER, MARCH 21.—The caution with which buyers act, whether for shipment or home consumption, continues to increase, as might indeed be expected under existing circumstances. The transactions of the day have, therefore, been altogether inconsiderable, both in yarns and goods. The India and China accounts, which are not favourable, have led to no business. As to prices, they are not tested by offers of sufficient amount to induce any material giving way, even if producers were disposed so to yield. Those spinners and manufacturers who want orders, see that it would be of no use to press their pro ducts upon buyers, and they abstain from doing so. But, as orders are running out and stocks increasing in some kinds of warps, cops, and bundles, and in most goods except such as are particularly adapted for the India market, there is an increasing desire to sell those arti cles; and, while the general tendency of value is to de cline, it is more so in them than in the rest. But, after all, each step in our downward course has been and still is extremely small, hardly perceptible in any one week. It is evident, however, that accumulations of stock must now go on. increasing ; and this will gradually press down prices. Convinced of this, and finding already a large part of the trade unprofitable, and not a little of it at tended with loss, spinners and manufacturers are begin ning to entertain the purpose of resorting to short-time. ROCHDALE, March 20. We have not had so dull a market this year as to-day. There is little inquiry for goods, and but few pieces have been sold. The wool market is at a stand almost ; prices are lower, except in very low priced English wools, which continue extremely scarce. HALIFAX, March 18.—We have seldom had a duller market day in our piece hall. An almost entire absence of demand tends to depress prices ; and that depression acting on purchasers, deters all parties from operating. These remarks apply alike to wool, yarn, and pieces. HUDDERSFIELD, March 21.—There has been a very quiet market to-day. It has been thinly attended by merchants, and the purchases have been light. The general feeling throughout the market is that of flatness. I DRAIN OF BunioN.—There was a cessation of the drain of bullion from the Bank yesterday, the only re mittances to Paris consisting of the gold brought by the Sydney steamer on Saturday. The French exchange, however, appears no longer to show an improving ten dency, and further amounts, therefore, will probably be dispatched. " LOVE RULES THE CAHP," &C.—A correspondent says :—"ln your paper of last Saturday you mention the interesting little incident of the young wife of a private in the Rifle Brigade having dressed herself in his uniform, and marched with the men in hopes of embarking, unde tected, in the Vulcan, and rejoining her husband, who had sailed for Malta, as an officer's servant, in the Himalaya. 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[AD VERTISEM ENT. ]—A LIEUTENANT OF DRAGOONS CU RED O F RHEUMATISM BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND PILLS. —This officer, who is in the Dutch army, states that H o ll oway ' s Pills and Ointment have cured . hof rheumatism, which appeared to be incurable, as d w t a h s e wi tre th at c T l t u o a f . as 'tsareer sea-bathing, vapour-baths, nor preparations vaunted the doctor, rei a d ft ie e s ; sdeivde rhalimmaonnythgs°'° and coss rubbing t this tjhuencOturintemhee tcommenthcsedetotipnlgaitahineaeg n into parts t w i ce , a day, which ff e ectually cured him in the course of six weeks. The truth of this statement can be vouched for by Mr. J. B. Strattnan, of Bois-le-Duc.—Sold by all drug. gists - and at Professor 110110 way establishment, 244, trand, Loudon. x.:TENING, MARCH 23, 1854. Royal Farmer s, 500 ; 'Westminster, 500 ; Globe, 1,250 ; Atlas, 500 ; 'County, 1,000 ; Royal Insurance, 2,000 ;; Liverpool and London, 500 ; London Assurance Cor poration, 500 ; Pelican, 2,000 ; Phoenix, 3,000 ; Norwich Fire, 1,500 ; Norwich Life, I,soo—in all, 17,250 copies. Fifty-five offices took no copies. The remainder were dis posed of in ths usual way at the office. He also sent a number of copies of the Post Magazine of the sth No vember to the shareholders of the Unity. The insurance offices were in the habit of taking a number of copies of the Post Maaaz,ine, sometimes so many as three or four thousand. Re did not knew whether his publisher ap plied to the company for permission to publish their advertisement. He gave them no special instructions, but it was customary to send a circular to all the in surance offices. In one at his publications he said that he grid the company had had their "first innings," and that he should be " stumped out" if he had not got the first blow or the second. The publication of the Monitor was to prevent him from being " stumped out." He was not aware that the publication was anticipated two or three days, in order that it might be IwAly ;bl7 distri bution at a meeting of the share.e4tieee. • Re-ex rtlirtP4-e-l'he eotnpanies ' he had mentioned took the number of copies he stated of their own accord. He made no application, and had no communication what ever with them upon the subject. Thirty-two of the old offices did not take any copies. This closed the case for the plaintiff. TI10;er then proceeded to address the jury on behalf of the defendant in a speech of great power and ability. Ile expressed his surprise that his learned friend should have closed the case far his client so suddenly, and that he had not, at all events, put his publisher into the witness-box, as, after what had occurred during the trial of the cause, it was evident that he could have given very important evidence which ought to have come to the knowledge of the jury. He admitted to the fullest extent the right of the press to comment upon the conduct of public com panies and of cautioning the public against them, where they were conducted in an unsafe and improper manner, and he said that if it were done in a bona fide rasmner no one had a right to Complain ; but he should su b m i t to the jury that this had not been the conduct of the plaintiff, and he believed he should satisfy them from his own printed papers that he had been systemati cally engaged in slandering individuals, and he should then ask them whether the defendant was not justified in making use of strong expressions in reply to such a person. Sir Frederick then read portions of the dif ferent publications that had been put in, and said it was clear that in the first instance the plaintiff had called the respectable gentlemen who were the directors of this company swindlers, and he evidently intended to hold the company up to the public as a bubble company, and that the only consequence that could result from any connection with it would be loss and ruin. All, therefore, that had been done by the company had been done in self-defence, and Mr. Hartnoll had him self alone to blame. What did he complain of ? The principal charge against him was that he was a hireling writer, and that he had made false statements wilfully, to the prejudice of the company. With respect to one important matter, namely, the paying up of the deposits, it was admitted that he had stated that which was not true, and when he spoke of a state of things existing in 1853 which referred to the previous year, it appeared to him that he must have known that he was committing a wilful deception. The charges he made against the company were of the most serious description, and he was not satisfied with merely publishing them in his Post iliagazine, but he had suddenly brought out this new periodical ; and so determined was he in his efforts to injure the company, that the publication was hastened in order that it might be ready for delivery to the share holders at their meeting. It appeared to him that the com pany had no alternative but to give some explanation, and If they did make use of hard words, the defendant was alone to blame. Sir Frederick then referred to the distribution of the seventeen thousand copies of the Monitor to the different insurance offices that bad been named, and he said that as the price of the publication was two-pence, the plaintiff must have received no less than 1431. 15s. for those copies alone, and he asked them as reasonable men whether they could entertain the slightest doubt that the object was to injure and to ruin, if possible, the new company. He then commented upon the contents of the pamphlet containing the alleged libel, and concluded by expressing his opinion that the jury would think that, under the circumstan,ces, and taking into consideration the fact that, except the plaintiff's attorney, no one else but the shareholders had been provided with a copy of it, they would consider it was a privileged communication, and that the defendant was quite justified in issuing it. Mr. Baron Alderson then summed up, and the jury almost immediately returned a verdict for the plaintiff, with is. damages. I, MIDLAND CIIWVIT.—LEICESTIit, MARCH 20. CROWN COURT. (Before Lord Chief Justice Jervis.) James Bull, aged 19, was indicted for feloniously attempting to strangle Ann Clarke, with intent to mur der her, at Misterton, on the 13th of August last. The prosecutrix, a middle-aged woman of respectable appearance, and the prisoner were in the same service, the former as housekeeper, and the latter as farm ser vant. For some time before the night in question the prisoner had made overtures to the prosecutrix by say ing to her frequently that people said that he was to marry the housekeeper ; but she had never given him any encouragement or permitted any familiarities be tween them, regarding, as she said, all advances of the kind by him towards a woman of her age as an insult. On the night in question he, being undressed, rushed into her mesa with a rope, which he suc ceeded in twisting round her neck, and endeavoured to tie to the bedpost ; but she struggled violently, and used her hands and nails upon him with some effect. She also was bruised as well as hurt by the tightening , of the cord round her neck. When she found re sistance in vain, she cried out that she would have him, and then released his hold. He was in a state of ex treme excitement, and almost as soon as the _struggle was over began crying. He said afterwards to the con stable, "If she had had me, it would not have hap pened," Mr. O'Brien contended that the intent to murder was not made out by the evidence, which indicated rather that the prisoner's only object was to frighten the pro secutrix into compliance with his wishes. The learned Judge, however, did not adopt this view of the case, and commented upon the strong resemblance which this bore in its circumstances to Hatto's case at Aylesbury, begging them, at the same time, not to allow that case at all to influence their decision, but to judge of the prisoner's intention by his acts, The Jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was sen tenced to be transported for 15 years. stables, and Bow, 383 S, were also upon the watch. Witness, upon a signal being given by Perdrian, entered the house alluded to, and on asking him what the parcel contained, he replied that there was in it a quantity of ribbons which he had from Mr. Jenkins, whose address he did not remember, but he lived somewhere between St. Alban's and Dunstable, and within the last year he first met him at Windsor. He further said that he had been trying to sell the ribbons. Witness examined the parcel and found therein a very large number of rolls of ribbons, which he believed had been abstracted from a hamper on its transit from Derby to London. Henry Stone, in the employ of Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, carriers, who have extensive premises at the.eam den-town station, stated that on the 12th inst., the cords which had been tied round a hamper il;\ a truck had been cut, and th e l i d untied. Thera was vacant space i n the i said hamper which had is iii. black silk ribbons. It was 1 consigned to Mr. hadfard, Noble-street, Cheapside and when wei g h e d at the station it was 521bs weight sliort. 4oshua Gregory, assistant to Mr. Radford, said that the hamper arrived at his employer's promises on the 13th inst., and that goods were raised from it to the value of 471. Os. sd. Perdrian (the companys officer) stated that seeing a large open space In the hamper, he reported tc, the proper nuthori + - * Les that he thought there had beer, a rob. bery. He (witness) went into the public-li .ense men. tion`2.-U . by Mr. Bedford, and sat down by' the prisoner, .our, took from whs, in the course of a quarter of an 1 , cb.f. • Which be tore off his pocket some bills, the headings and threw in fragments upon t'. ) de floor after which he packed up the papers and pat them into his pocket. Prisoner then went to th. tar, and in a low tone spoke to the landlord, of whom he shillings, requested th e l oan of a few call or Baying nt that he would leav e th e parcel, and had fit moraing. The parcel which prisoner with him wc:ighecl 511bs. Th ere was nothing in it but ribbons, Bow, ass s, corroborated a portion of the foregoing evident)°, and said that upon searching the prisoner at the Albany -street station-house, he found upon him two bilis with the heading wanting. The items in them were " black silk ribbons," and the words, " bought of John Kirby, 40, King-street, Camden-town," were en graved thereon. When at the station, just before the charge was entered in the book by the inspector on duty, witness heard prisoner say "its a very bad job." The prisoner \vas remanded. L A. - MBETII.-111r. Elliot granted a summons on the application of Mr. Day, vestry clerk of the parish of St. George the Martyr, against a Mr. Drewell, of Hat field-place, Westminster -road, for unlawfully exposing fireworks for sale. It was in the parish above -named that a terrible and fatal explosion lately took place, and the vestry clerk has received orders from the parochial authorities to prosecute those who may be found ex posing the neighbourhood to a similar calamity. WANDSWORTH.—Mr. Alfred Wright, residing at No. 6, Churton-street, Pimlico, was summoned at the instance of Mr. Thomas Bent, of the A division of police, who is employed upon the London and South -Western Railway, for having, on the 9th inst., ridden in a first class carriage from Esher to Kingston station, without having a ticket, with the intent to avoid payment thereof. Mr. Godson, the superintendent of the passenger traffic on the South-Western Railway, appeared in sup port of the summons on behalf of the company. The defendant pleaded that he had no intention of de frauding the company. William Gibbons, a travelling inspector upon the line, deposed that on the day in question he was riding in a first-class carriage of the 7.45 p.m. up train, from Godalming, when, on stopping at the Esther station, the guard put the defendant and another gentleman into the same carriage with witness, as they were short of second class carriages, and told them to change on arriving at the Kingston station as they would then find room in the second class carriages. After the train had started from Esher, the defendant said to the other gen tleman that he had no ticket. When they stopped at Kingston, th e d e f erK l aut got out of the carriage, leaving his luggage behinrl him, and ran into the station. The other gentleman also alighted and entered a second class carriage. Witness followed into the station unobserved and saw the defendant receive a second class ticket from that station, and not from Esher, to Vauxhall. Witness hastened back to the carriage, and was seated before the defendant returned. He then got into the carriage again and travelled all the way to Vauxhall in the first class. The defendant got out at that station and de livered his ticket up to the collector at the door, and would have pas se d on b ut witness stopped him and de manded from him the fare for riding in a first class car riage from Esher to Kingston, and also the excess for ridin g in a first cla ss carr i age with a second class ticket from Kingston to Vauxhall, which he refused to pay. Mr. Godson said they had a great many cases where they were victimised in a similar manner, and it was only when they could detect the parties as in the pre sent instance, that they could bring the matter before the public as an example to others, and for their pro tection. Mr. Beadon observed that the case only showed to him what he had always thought, that it was most es sential for railway companies to employ travelling in spectors. The defendant, in answer to the summons, said that he had no time to get a ticket at Esher, and at Kingston station he thought he could not get a ticket there for riding from Esher to Vauxhall, and so he took a ticket from Kingston. If he had known he could have had one, he certainly would have got it. Mr..Beadon thought there vras another point the de fendant had to answer, and that was, why he did not pay the excess when it was demanded of him at Vaux hall. The defendant explained, as a reason, that he thought he ought to consider the matter before he did so, as he expected to be called before the railway authorities. Mr. Beadon was surprised that he should suppose that, when by paying the demand the matter would be settled. The defendant had acted very wrong, and bad set a very bad example. He find him 40s. and 4s. costs. The money was immediately paid. THE SOCIETY OF ARTS. At the usual weekly meeting of the society last night, Dr. Buist, of Bombay, read an interesting paper on some of the undeveloped resources of India. As examples of what could be accomplished in that country, he referred to the articles of indigo, cotton, and gutta percha. The culture of indigo in Bengal hardly covered its own ex penses in 1778, and now the annual value exported was 1,717,883/. In 1788 cotton was first imported into this country from India, and in 1814, when the company monopoly was relaxed, the supply sent to us thence was 4,000, 000 lb. whereas now it averaged from 160,000, 0001 b. to 170,00,00001 b. per annum, for the cultivation of which an area of 8,000 square miles was required. The demand for gutta percha had only arisen in 1847, yet it had already increased to such an extent as to threaten in a few years to extinguish the supply unless new sources for obtaining it were opened up. Dr. Buist also referred to the increasing export of oil seeds, that of linseed alone to England amounting to the value of 40,0001. from the single port of Bombay. He considers, however, that the chief resources of India as a field for produc tive enterprise are to be found in the enormous mass of untutored and unemployed labour at our disposal there. The three things most required in the country were— first, to open it up by roads and railways ; secondly, to develope its fertility by irrigation and improved culture ; and, thirdly, to teach the native population gradually habits of self-reliance. In the construction of railway works they had shown extraordinary aptitude, and though only 22 miles of rail were as yet in use, on them it was expected that the gross traffic returns for the first year would yield 11 per cent. Deducting 50 cont. for working charges, there would be 54 per cent. available for dividend before any goods traffic had come upon the line. Seven years had been employed in writing about this fragment of a line, and it had been completed in one working season. The con sulting engineer of the Government allowed 15,0001. per mile for its construction, and it had only cost 7,0001. per mile. 13 years had elapsed since Vignolles had re commended a general railway system for India, and only 22 miles were constructed. At the present rate of pro gress, it had been calculated that 40 years would be re quired to open up the cotton country, and two centuries to supply India with the railway accommodation which the continental countries of Europe already possessed. Dr. Buist proceeded to show in a similar manner the necessity which existed for works of irrigation, the con struction of which, so far as they had hitherto been car ried on by Government, had been immensely remunera tive. The last part of the paper was devoted to pointing out the importance of providing for the native populations the means.of instruction in the useful branches of know ledge. To show what had been done in this direction, Dr. Buist referred to the Engineering College at Roor kee, the Museum of Economic Geology at Calcutta, and the Economic Museum and School of Indus try at Madras. He also described the efforts made in the cause of instruction at Bombay, though these do not hitherto appear to have met with much encouragement. A year ago Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy had offered to the Government a sum of 10,0001. for the endow.nent of a School of Industry, and Dr. Buist justly complains that this magnificent offer, which death might at any moment cancel, is still under consideration. Finally, with reference to the present state of the paper market from the scarcity of rags, Dr. Buist points out that in India short staple flax and cotton, almost worthless for the purposes of ordinary manufacture, exist to any amount, with cheap, neat handed, and ingenious workmen, abundance of pure water, smokeless skies, and sunshine of unsurpassable brightness—all the means, in short, of supplying the world with paper if the art of making it was once intro duced. A discussion followed the reading of the lecture by Mr. L. Neve Forster, the secretary, in which Mr. Frith, Mr. NPLachlan, Mr. Dilke, Mr. Bird, who oc cupied the chair, Mr. Wilson, of Price's Patent Candle Company, Mr. Twining, and others, joined. The pro ceedings terminated with a vote of thanks to Dr. Buist. THE THAMES EMBANKMENT.—Yesterday her Majesty's Commissioners of Public Works commenced the first portion of the embankment of the Thames, on the north or Middlesex shore, at Chelsea, and the construction of the approaches thereto and to the suspension bridge to cross the Thames, to the new P ar k at Battersea. A number of houses in Wilderness-row and King's-road, including that well-known mansion called Clarence House, will be pulled down to carry o u t thi s great pub lic improvement. It is intend e d t o f orm an embank ment on the north side of the Thames, from Vauxhall to Battersea, and a promenad e and carriage -drive for the use of the public. • w k S POLICE INTELLIGENCE. BOW-STREET.--ilutoni o Budiazo and Thomas Jarazzini, two fashionably dressed foreigners with pro digious beards, were brought before Mr. Jardine for re examination, charged with stealing revolvers, pistols, &c., from about a dozen different gunmakers in the metropolis. Sergeant Prichard, of the A division, produced a long list of the stolen property, some of which had been pawned, while other portions had been discovered in a large chest at the lodgings of the prisoners in Wells street, Oxford-street. These robberies had been carried on to an extraordinary extent by the prisoners, one of whom usually contrived to put the prosecutors or their assistants off their guard, while the other concealed the property about his person. It generally happened, as was no doubt intended, that no one could comprehend what they wanted, from their apparent inability to talk English ; and the prosecutors remained ignorant in this respect until after the departure of their customers, when a glance at the stock and the discovery of the miss ing articles, removed all doubts upon the subject. It was stated that certain letters had been found upon the prisoners which appeared to identify them as the agents of other parties abroad. The police received directions to retain them. Three cases were selected for prosecution, relating to an d Cogsw e ll' s, Strand. pistols stolen from Bliss e tt' s , Hi g h H o lb orn ; E gg ' s , Piccadilly, One of the prisoners said, " We steal no pistols—we buy them of a Frenchman." Mr. Jardine committed them both for trial. Maurice Bishop, a boy only 11 years old, was charged with stabbing another boy, of the same age, named Michael Flinn. The two children, who were both of Irish parents, were quarrelling in Seven-dials, when the prisoner rushed upon the other boy and struck him in the cheek and forehead with a clasp knife, inflicting severe wounds. The complainant, whose head was bandaged, did not ap pear to have been dangerously hurt. The prisoner said he did not know at the time that he had the knife in his hand. Flinn struck him first. Mr. Jardine remanded the prisoner for a week. WES TMINSTER.—James Wilkie, a costermonger and thief, w as c h arged with stabbing John Cavanagh, anitinerant Ethiopian minstrel. The complainant went into the Fleece public-house, Tothill-street, Westminster, to regale himself after the profes s i ona l exertions of the day, when the defendant, without the slightest provocation, called him a dog, and then, aided by a companion, fell upon him and beat hi m . Complainant left the' room and went to the bar, where he had not been many minutes when the prisoner and his companion renewed the attack. Complainant was defending himself as well.as he was ablaagainst the latter, when the prisoner rushed upon him with a pocket knife, and stabbed him in the right shoulder and left arm, after which he escaped. Complai nant was taken to the hospital, and had his wounds dressed, and prisoner was taken into custody shortly afterwards by Hudson, 82 B, when he pretended that he h a d b een stabbed by the complainant, and in proof exhibited a scratch on his hand, which had all the appearance knife. of havin g b een d one i n hastily closing a Prisoner was committed for trial. MARYLEBONE.—A well-dressed middle-aged man, named John Kirby, described as a commission-agent, re siding at No. 40, King-street, Camden-town, was charged with having stolen silk ribbons, valued at about 501., the property of the London and North-Western Railway Company. Bedford, one of the superintendents of the com pany's police, deposed that, in consequence of informa tion which he hod received with regard to numerous robberies committed at the goods station, Camden town, he had been searching for the prisoner, who was strongly suspected to be the guilty party, and on the previous afternoon he met him (prisoner) in Leicester-square, carrying under his right arm a large parcel, which he took into a public-house in Princes otreets near at baud, Perdrian, one of the company's eon- SPORTING INTELLIGENCE THE GMAT WARWICKSHIRE HANDICAP of 20 SON'S. each, 10 ft, and 5 only if declared, &c., with 50 addr:d. The second to receive 20 Boys. out of the st ekes. Two miles. 37 subs, 11 of 'whom pay 5 sovs. each. The highest weight accepting being 7st 71b, it was raised to Bst 71b, and the rest in proportion. Mr. Saxon's Cleveland, 5 yrs, 7st 51h (Wells) 1 Countßatthyany's Ethelwolf; 5 yrs, Bst llb (W Abdale 2 Mr. Dawson 's Itch, 4 yrs, Bst llb The following also ran --Morning Star, Montague, Contentment, Selina, Newbold, and Communist. Betting-3 to 1 agst Cleveland, 3to 1 agst Ethelwolf, 5 to 1 agst Itch, 6 to 1 agst Morning Star, 8 to 1 each agst Contentment and Communist. Newbold delayed the start by breaking away twice. At last the flags were dropped and they went to work in earnest. Con tentment took the lead, with Montague second, Itch third, Ethelwolf fourth, Cleveland fifth, and Morning Star in the extreme rear. Going up the Lammas-land, Ethelwolf took second place, and Newbold fourth. On nearing the mile-post, Ethelwolf and Montague were seen close together in the ran, Contentment third, but gradually dropping off ; Newbold fourth. In the Star Close, Montague was a clear length in advance of Ethel wolf, with Newbold third, itch fourth, and Cleveland drawing up. After rounding the turn into the straight. Montague was quite beaten. Cleveland gradually im proved his position until they arrived within the dis tance, when he obtained the lead, and at last won cle verly by a length, the second beating the third by a head only ; Newbold was fourth, Communist fifth. THE TWO-YEAR-OLD STAKES of 5 sovs. each, with 50 added ; colts, Bst 71b ; fillies, Bst 41b. Five furlongs (straight run in). (9 subs.) Mr. C. Fenning's Border Chief, Bst 71b (Charlton) 1 Mr. Guliiver's Bessie, Bst 41b (Crickmere) 2 Mr. Breton's The Despised. Bst 4lb (Yates) 3 Mr. W. Halford's Oddity. Bst 41b ..(G. Whitehouse 4 Lord Clifden's Thessaly, Bst 41b (G. Mann) 5 The betting opened at 2 to 1 on Border Chief, but closed at evens ; 2 to 1 and 6to 4 agst Bessie. Won easily by three lengths. HANDICAP PLATE of 50 sovs. for all ages. T.Y.C. Mr. Shelley's Kohinoor, 5 yrs, 7st 121 b (Kendall) 1 Mr. Davies's Gaylad, aged, 7st 91b (Charlton)-.2Mr. Mr. Reyn ar d' s Cestrea,3 yrs, sst 101 b (T. Cliff) 3 Count Batthyany's Captain Flash, 5 yrs, 7st 71b The foll ow i ng a l so ran :—Mr.H. Lewis ' s f by radl Knight of the Whistle, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b (Wakefield) ; Mr. Mose ley's. Bull's Eye, 5 yrs, 7st 91b (Wells) ; Mr. R. Cooper's Forester, aged, 7st 81b (Elughes) ; Mr. Halford's Eliza, 4 yrs, fist 61b (Standing); Mr. G. Mather's Meliora, 3 yrs, 6st 61b (J. Walters). Kohinoor made all the run ning, and won in a canter by three lengths ; a length between the second and third, and a neck between the third and fourth. Meliora broke down. MATCH : 100, p.p. Two miles. Gentlemen riders. Mr. Worthington's Peter the Great, lOst (Mr. Stratton) 1 Mr. G. B. Price's Lucy Glitters, list (Owner) 2 Won by five lengths. FARMERS' HANDICAP HURDLE RACE of 50 sous., with 10 for the second horse, three miles, over e i g h t flights of hurdles, was won by Mr. F. Robbins's British Sailor, beating Mr. W. G u lli ver ' s Sh erford, Mr. J. Millward's Jenny Jones, and Mr. W. C. Smith's Johnny. LATEST BETTING ON THE COURSE. NORTHAMPTONSHIRE STAKES. 10 to 1 agst Mr. Sykes (taken). 10 to 1 agst Brother to Little Swift (taken). 14 to 1 agst Little Jem (taken freely). METROPOLITAN STAKES. 1 5 to 1 agst Haco (taken). DERBY. 15 to 1 agst Wild Huntsman (taken). HEALTH OF LONDON DURING THE WEEK. (From, the Report of the Registrar-General. ) The total nnmber of deaths registered in the metro polis in the week that ended last Saturday was 1,188, and exhibits a decrease on that of the preceding seek, when 1,343 were registered. In the ten weeks, corre sponding to last week, of the years 1844-53, the average number was 1,122, which if raised in proportion to in crease of population becomes 1,234. The deaths re turned last week are, therefore, leas by 46 than the cal culated amount. The 1,188 deaths now returned are thus distributed in three periods of life :-562 children died under 15 years of age, 348 men and women at 15 and under 60 years, 254 at 60 years and upwards. The corrected averages of deaths in the three classes, as derived from corre sponding weeks in previous years, are the following :- 531, 419, and 282. Hence it appears that the rate of mortality among children last week was rather greater than usual, whilst in middle and more advanced life the number dying was below the average. Hooping-cough appears to be still prevalent among children, 71 cases of this disease having ended fatally last week. Measles caused 21 deaths, scarlatina, 22, croup 8, diarrhoea 22 (16 of which occurred to children). There were ten deaths from small-pox, 6of these under 10 years of age ; 5 from influenza. It will be seen that no death from cholera has been registered in London in the last five weeks, and only seven in the present year. In the sub-district of Hoxton New Town, at 46, Forston-street, on 11th March, a gentleman, aged 66 years, died of "nervous irritation occasioned by a sudden fright on the approach of the chartist rioters, producing imbecility (about 6 years), insanity and paralysis (about 2 months)." Last week the births of 883 boys and 881 girls, in all, 1,764 children, were registered in London. In the nine corresponding weeks of the years 1845-53 the average number was 1,511. At the Royal Observatory, Greenwich, the mean reading of the barometer in the week was 29.997 in. The mean daily reading was above 30 in. on Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday. The mean temperature rose from 43.8 deg., and that of the previous week, to 47.2 deg., in the last, which is 5.7 deg. above the average of the weeks, corresponding to last week, in 38 years. It was above the average last week on every day except Saturday. The highest mean of the week occurred on Monday, and was 52.1 deg., or 10.9 deg. above the average ; the lowest was 41 deg. on Saturday, or 0.8 degree below the average. The highest temperature of the week was 64.2 deg. on Monday, the lowest 31.3 deg. on Saturday. The mean dew-point temperature was 39.5 deg. The wind blew from south and south-west till Thursday, when it changed to north-west and north. No rain fell till Saturday, on which day the fall was 0.13 in. MORTALITY IN THE METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, MARCH I.H. ZymoticDiseases 217 Diseases of Uncertain Seat 5B Tubercular Diseases 193 Diseases of the Brain. Nerves and Senses • 144 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 35 Diseases of the Lungs and other Organs of Respiration .. Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion 65 Diseases of the Kidneys, &c. ........ Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles Diseases of the Ski n , & c. Malformations ....... 7 ........ Premature Birth and Debility 44 Atrophy 46 Sudden ............... 10 Violence, Privation, Cold, and I n t emperance 34 Causes not sp ec ifi e d 25 DEATHS PROM ALL CAUSES . Population Deaths in corre- Deaths Enumerated. spending week in the irs.U. West Di s t r i c t s 214 North Di s t r i c t s 490.396 Central Di s t r i c t s 393,256 East Dist r i c t s 435,522 324 South Districts 1,188 -- - - Totals Males 606 Females. 582 WARWICK AND LEAMINGTON SPRING • MEETING.— WEDNESDAY. SWEEPSTAXES of 5 sovs, each, with 25 added, for three yr.olds and upwards. Optional selling weights, &c. One mile. 6 subs. Mr. Turner's Census, 3 yrs (201.), E s t 1 11 b.. Mr. J. Adki n ' s Miraeau, 2 yrs (20/.), 6st (Corderey) .(Hughes) 2 Mr. J ones ' s Telegraph, 4 yrs ( , 200 7st 71b (A.spi na ll) 3 and Happy J The following also ran :—Ki ng D avid, Antonina, oe. Betting -5 to 4 against Antonina, 3to 1 agst Mira beau, 5 to 1 each agst Census and Happy Joe. The winner was bought in fur 120 guinews. THE WELTER FLorimolp of 10 se:vs each ; h ft. Gen tlemen riders. .1-'rofessionak4, Gibs extra. T.Y.C. 14 subs. „,Mr. ~„,D a v,Les's i'itterstone (h b), 6 yrs, list ...(Owner) 1 r. „v" W. - 0 Scott's Warwi c k, age d , lOst 61 b (Mr.Price) 2 Ir •lw . ,arden's Little Davie, 5 yrs, lOst 31b...(Prattle) 3 F „ following also ran : — The Emigrant, Captain .iash, Acute Angle, The Macaw, Alleborello, Friend. less, and Gift. Betting -4 to 1 agst Friendless, sto 1 each agst Emigrant, Gift and Little Davie, 6 to 1 agst Titterstone. THE DEBDALE STAKES of 5 sovs, each, with 25 added, for hunters. 12st each. Certain penalties and allow ances. Gentlemen riders. Two miles. 6 subs. Mr. D. Lane's Tipperary Boy, aged, Ilst 71b (Owner) 1 Mr. H. Hopkin's The Farmer's Friend, aged, llst 71b (Mr. Purcell) 2 Mr. Dennistouri's Ringleader, 6 yrs, 12st (Mr. Davis) 3 Mr. Jennings, na Signal (h b), aged, (Mr. Jennings) 4 Mr. Rittiedale's Squire of Melton, aged, 12st 71b, Captain Eutchinson ( disqualified) ; Mr. Forster's Ken ningtun, aged, 12st 71b, Captain Little (disqualified). Betting -5 to 4 agst Kennington, 2to 1 agst Tippe rary Boy, 6to 1 agst Farmer's Friend. On returning to scale, the owner of Tipperary Boy objected to the winner, and also to the second horse, on the ground that neither owners and riders were qualified according to the conditions of the race. The case was forthwith in vestigated by the stewards, who decided that the objec tion was valid. All bets therefore respecting the two horses void. BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males .... .: .. Females.,.. Total tel 1,764 883 881 SHIPPING IN-7'7277 c-k—Z,l": CUSTOM HO USI4:, MARCH 22. ENTERED INWARDS.—The Mettina, from Hamburgh ; Adinter, Kiel; Etta Hendrika, Norden; Aurora, Stral sund; 21st Marz, Fohr; Felmern, Felmern; Johannes, Minde • Hudkswall , D ron i ngen ; Droback Norma, Ro stock; ' lmmanuel, Rustringerserl ; Tina, Domerseil ; Mag dalene, Hommerseil ; Marie Christine, Fedderwa r d erse il ; Delphine Elise, Havre; Solo, Gottenburg ; C. H. Brookel man, Stettin ; Germania, Stralsund ; Rapid, do. ; Ar cona, do.; An ne tt e, Ditzurn ; Anne Catherine Norden; Theodore, Nykj o bi ng ; Leo, Norderschleuse ; Catherine, Carolinenseil ; Rasmus, Royer ; Preciosa, Frederickstadt ; Martha, Lubeck; Johannes, Copenhagen ; Christianhaab, Odense; Titania, Hamburgh ; De Vredo, Bremen • Mau- Korsoer; T re S o d s k ende, Sondersburgh ; 'Catha rine Groningen ; Chri s ti ne H ugg i ns, Schiedam ; Orion, Stralsund; Wilhelm, do. • Louvina, E m d en : A nne Maria, Aalborg ; Amazon, Stubbeckjobin g ; Catherine, Wismar ; Frederick Wilhelm, Eckinforde ; Au Rostock Ransewitz, d o. ; M arie Catherine, Nykiob g ing ; uste, Danneborg, ; Saxkiobing ; Mette Elizabeth, Nykiobing ; Gefion, Kor soer ; Achilles, Wyck ; Bernadotte, Landscrona ; Forti, tude, Antwerp ; Anna Catharine, Landscrona; Hilda, nedolla. ; Ingeborg, d o . ; J o h anna, do. ; Sophia, do. ; Petro , do. ; Wayshafen, do. : Minerva, Droback. ENTERED OUTWARDS FOR LOADING. —The Fortunate, for Valencia ; Novo Viaganti, Madeira • Union, Altona ; Jane Cockerill, Malta • St. Croix, B a ;b a d oes ; Azorian, Gibraltar a n d Marseilles ; George Robinson, Trinidad ; Caroline Elizabeth, Colombo ; Hobe Christiana, & c . ; Temperance, Geno a ; A uguste and Melino, Sydney ; Ra phael, Sydney. CLEARED OUTWARDS WITH CARGO.—The Deslandes, for Ambrez ; G. 0. Bigelow, Nassau; John and Jane, Ant werp. GRIMSBY, March 20. —The Fairy, of and for Yarmouth, from Sunderland, arrived hero to-day, with damage; had been driven foul of, while at anchor in the Hawke Roads, by the Union (foreign schooner.) MEMEL, Marcb, 18 . —Weather fine ; wind light at east ; during the night, 4 deg. frost ; 15 feet on the bar. FISHGUARD, March 21.—The Thomas, of Cardiff, Liver pool to Cork, Teas obliged to beach here yesterday, having cut away her foremast, &c., about fcur miles off Cardigan Head. BOSTON, March 6.—The Arvum, which arrived at St. Thomas's on the 12th of February, was bound to this port, and required repairs. Five bales of cotton, marked 1, in a black diamond, were picked up, on the 26th of February, in lat. 35 N., long. 72 W. SWAN RIVER.—The Nancy (Norwegian), from Hong Kong, bou n d t o Melbourne, which put in here on the 26th of December, has sold part of cargo, and will discharge. NEW YORK, March 7.—The Mary Dale, arrived at Phi ladelphia, was in contact, on the let of March, in lat. 37 N., long. 37 W., with the F. W. Brune, from Calcutta to Boston, and lost her jibboom, &c., and was otherwise damaged. MAYAGUEZ, Jan. 27.—The Linda, Pernambuco to Ge noa, put in here, Jan. 24, leaky, has discharged her cargo, part of which ii damaged, and has been surveyed and con demned. REMERARA, Feb. 25.—The British Isles, London to this port, which was on shore on the west coast of Essequibo, near Port Lima, Jan. 20, was got off Feb. 1 after di's charting the greater part of her cargo, and came into this river on the 14th. VALPARAISO, Jan. 3L—The Nueva Granada (steamer) has returned from an unsuccessful cruise in Smith's Chan nel, at the west outlet of Magal en's Straits, in search of the British steamer Perlita, which was supposed to have been seen in that neighbourhood in September, and has not since been heard of. It is feared that she is lost with all hands. OL, ARCH 22. The Premier, henceLI VERPO to Gib ialta M r, put into Holyhead, 21st inst., with loss of rudder and one of the crew washed over board. The Crown, hence to Jamaica, has put into Queenstown, seven days out, having been run into by a ship, name un known, off Tuskar, on the 18th inst. The Mary Ann. from New Orleans, at Londonde2Ty, with part of cargo thrown overboard. The Rosins from New Orleans, for the Clyde at Belfast. The Jenny Jones, from Valparaiso and Rio Janeiro, t Queenstown. The Roe, from Benin, at Queenstown, for this port. The Louisa Munro, hence to Bay of Fundy, with salt, put into Queenstown, March 20, leaky. The Admiral De Winter, hence at Harlingen. VESSELS SPOKEN WITH. The Arcadia, bound west, March 19 off Cape Cl. The Petronella, Bombay to London, , Jan. 6, lat. ear 33 S., long. 29 E. The India, Manilla to Queenstown, Feb. 15, lat. 4 :M., long. 23 W. The Trimountaine, New Orleans to Liverpool, Feb. 18, 30 miles N.E. of Florida Reef. The Cerro Gordo, New Orle ans t o Li verpool, Feb. 21, lat. 25 N., l ong. 80 W. The George A. Hopley, Charleston to Liverpool, March 2, lat. 34 N., long. 76 W. The Henry Hobman, outward bound, March 10, lat. 38 N., long. 9 W. A large iron steamer, with troops, bound east, March 12, lat. 36 N., long. 5 W. Tho Gem, March 14, lat. 37 N. long 9 W. A paddle-wh ee l steamer, boundsouth, March 14, lat. 49 N., long. 10 W. The Mangalore, London to Melbourne, Jan. 29, lat. 9 S., long. 25 W. COUNTRY MARKETS. EDINBURGH HAY AND STRAW MA RWP4T— MAR CH 21. There was a fair supply of straw of all descriptions the market. The prices were as follow : Oat straw, from 6s Od to 7s 6d per kemple of 16 . stones tron ; wheat do., 78 Od to 8a 6d ; b ar l ey do. 5s ed to 68 Od. 11. y room L id 12d ; new ditt o , Od du per stone. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET—MAE.= 21. There were in the market to-day, 20 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 2801bs imperial, which sold thus :-10 at 2/. 74 10 at 2/. 6s Od, and 0 at 0/. Os. DALKEITH MEAL AIIRSET-MARat 20. There were in the market to-day 58 bags of oatmeal, Bof barleymeal, and lof pot-barley. Sales dull. Tha top price of oatmeal Nfas 6d up ; the second la 3d up, and third Os Od up. Pot-barley, the top price the same as last market. Oatmeal, per sack of 2801bs I First. Second. Third. imperial Barley I - meal, per ditt o Peasemeal, per ditto Flour, per ditto —s Od —a Od —s Od Pot-barley, per ditto LEEDS —2lanaH 21. There was a fair show of wheat, and more tone in trade. A. downward tendency appeared to be checked. Barley was steady at last week's rates. Beans slow sale. Other articles as before. :T.—MAlica 22. te close of the market : Wallsend, ,te. e. d„ Hetton 2O 6 Haswell Lambtou 19 9 IPeusher 'Russell's Hetton 19 9 Stewart's 2O 6 Cassop ... ..19 6 Denison 18 3 IHeugh Hall •..19 0 South Kelloo .... 19 0 Whitworth l9 0 Gordon ...18 0 Woodhouse Close ..17 9 Cowpen Derwentwater Hartley. 20 0 Cannel 2l 0 Sidney's Hartley Tyne Cannel 22 0 COAL MA ttliE' Prices of Coal per ton at tl s. d. Buddle W. Hartley 2O I) Carr's Hartley 2O ( Cookson's Hartley lB 0 Cragwood's Hartley ..,18 Holywell.... .. . ...... 2O Ravensworth kartley 29 0 Taufield Moor l7 6 Taufield Moor Butes 17 6 Walker Primrose 01 West Hartley 20 . 01 Wallsend, d'.4* Bell and Brown 18 6 Gosforth lB t Barton lB 6 Lawson lB 6 Bell's Primrose 15 6 Eden Main 19 6 Bell 18 6 Belmont 19 6 RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. LIVERPOOL, Allman 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market has been again quiet and dull, without, however, any change of moment in prices. Caledonian, 26i; Eastern Counties, 11 ; Lan cashire and Yorkshire, 61i; London and. North-Wes- tern, 97 ; Midland, 57i ; South-Eastern and Dover, 18 1-16. MANCHESTER, MARCH 22. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The business done to-day has not been so large as yesterday, but prices have not the same drooping tendency. The sales were :—Caledonian, 26 5-16 ; Eastern Counties, 111 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, ex div., 614 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire West Riding Union, 41 dis. ; London and North-Western, 98,f ; Man chester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 204 ; Midland Railway Consols, 574 ; South-Eastern, 18. BIRMINGHAM, MARCH 22. STOCK EXCHANGR.—The great depression wbieh has occurred in the London money market has produced a CO!. responding effect upon our local share market. BunnFes upon the Stock Exchange is almost at a dead standstill, and quotations of a ll d escr i p ti ons of stock have seri ously declined. Midland Stock was transacted at 57k. BRISTOL, MARCH 22. STOCK EXCHANGE. —The market was flat• Bristol and Exeters were done at 89 ; Great Western, 75 ; Vale of Neath, 15 ; Midland Stock, 57g. BIRTFIS. OF A SON. On the 21st inst., at Newcastle-upon-Tyne, the wife of J. C. Fenwick, Esq. On the 21st inst., at Beauchamp-terrace VA*, Leam. ington, the wife of the Rev. S. J. Halms. OF A DAUGHTER. n the 20th inst., at Staplerov-lod ge, near Taunt on , Som O erset, the wife of G. Mathia g s, Esq. On the 22c1 inst., at 32, Burton-street, Eatot-square, the wife of F. Gale, Esq. MARRIED. On the 21st inst tho li., at Trinity Ch urch, Margate, W. R. Esq., of on. East Indi a C ompany's Service , t Cn o m' Louisa Sophia, you ngest daughter of George Yeate; Hunter, Esq. 1) LE D . On the 28th of January, at Bombay, o n his way t . o England, Captai n Arthur Morris, of the 4th or Rifle Regi ment of the B om b ay Army. On the 20th inst.. at Boulogne, Retired Commander J. S. Morienconrt, Royal Navy, aged 84. On the 21st inst., at Apsley, Bedfordshire, the Rev. R. Pain, rector of Little Wigborough, Essex, aged 80. On the 20 th inst., at Leiceste r - s t ree t, L e i cester - square, New So u th John Oolles, Esq. for many year s merc h an t i n Sydney, Wales: LONDON: Printed and Published by MIIRDO YOUNG, of No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Odlee, No. 11.2, Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county to baiddlutlez, Thursday, March 23, 1851. L AS' JUI The for the hi! the 11EN( be reside] issued by t Gazette E: " Not Loan. baa , adyi3rthed at tho Gen which dal " Propri matted, on their Pron " Propri Loan of 18 Jetted to I Yernment " All of Loans are dividuals the Four p " These ence to wt expense of Accountan be prepare Notes in I " Prong tve per cei made with the net, if tran.sferre , _ the 29th of rate of 4 F in cash. "It is fu Council tiro authorised transfer of application to coutirn► ever, that months frc " Publisl India in C Aus' cc Street, 22' At a.INV at the Lou the Comm It was Esq., that unanimom A Comu Directors and forth early day. 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