The Sun. — London, England, 1845-12-17 00:00:00

D ON, WE'DNESDAY_EVENING. DECEMBER 17, 1845 . THE SUN, LON further reduced rates, still there are few purchasers to be met with, and the only business done sin ce last Tuesday hod been that of 80 chests of Bahia at 21s per cwt for good quality, being a decline on former rates of is., the value of low is lbs to 19s 6d. White is heavy of sae, and may be had upon lower terms. Yellow llavannali ha s been purchased with much caution. White is heavy of disposal. The busi ness transacted in all other kinds of Foxeign has been ex tremely limited, and Porto Rico and Cuba Muscovado may be purchased at 21s to 243 per cwt. Thea stock of Foreign has been further increased ; indeed arrivals Ars proving larger than were expected. MoisesEs.—Although there are sellers of West India upon rather lower terms, still few buyers are to be met with, and 19s to 23s per cwt is the value of low to fine quality ; the stock is still much less than it was last year. Bengal Treacle is less wanted, and former rates are not to be obtained. COCOA.—The market for Foreign has a dull appearance, and prices have a downward tendency : at auction 907 bags of Para have been offered; the sound was taken in at 34s for good dark greyish red, and first class sea damaged 30s ; British Plantation has been purchased with caution, and prices are drooping, red selling privately at 38s to 445, and grey at 36s to 425. Hops.—The market has been in a flat state since this day week, and the rates taken have been rather under those pre • viously quoted; there is a larger quantity offering for sale. Wool..—`There has been little business transacted in any description, and those parties that are inclined to sell have been compelled to take rather lower rates. COFFEE.—This afternoon there was no public sale of any kind of Coffee. In Ceylon a fair business was transacted ; good ordinary pale native fetched 48s to 48s 6d per cwt. In other kinds few purchases were made, and former rates with difficulty obtained. COCHINEAL.—This afternoon Cochineal met with little at tention; 45 bags of Mexican were only in part sold at a de cline on former rates of 2d per lb, fair to good silvers only bringing 5s Id to 55 4d, mid black was taken in at 5s 7d to 5s Bd. 22 bags for exportation only went at 5s 3d to 5s 4d for good Teneriffe silver, being cheaper. TEA.—Holders still refrain from offeriug any at public sale, but there is still a large quantity of black and green pressing for sale. A slight reduction on former rates having been submitted to for all descriptions of Coogou, tempted the trade to operate with more freedom. In Pouchong there has been rather more business transacted, easier rates having been accepted. Of Twankay several parhave been sold for, but at rather lower rates. The low rates that eels prevail Hyson tempted the trade to operate more freely. Silas.—lmporters of Malabar Pepper continue to be free sellers, and submitted to a reduction on former rates of %( -1 per lb. Of white some parcels were disposed of privately upon former terms. Mace has been in fair request privately at from 2s 8d to 45. Nutmegs are wanted, and fetch full prices. Cloves have been purchased with more freedom. Pimento is held with firmness. In all kinds of Cinnamon there is still a fair business doing at last sales rate.. Ginger has been pur chased with caution privately, notwithstanding the low rates that prevail. Cassia Lignea has been purchased with cau tion, and the tendency of prices is downwards. FRUIT.—This afternoon at public sale 6,658 drums 380 boxes of Turkey Figs were offered, and only in part sold. 221 boxes of Red Smyrna Raisins taken in at 325. 200 boxes 200 boxes Muscatel Raisins in layers taken in at 70s to 75, 152 1 / 3 -boxes partly sold at 81s. 1,015 boxes 387 % boxes new Valencia Raisins sold, but at lower rates. 766 baskets of new Denia, damaged only partly sold at 235. Srfurrs.—Holders of Leeward Island Rum are not inclined to submit to any further decline in prices, bnt there has been only a limited business transacted. Calcutta has been pur chased with caution. The limited busisess transacted in inferior sorts of Demerara has been upon easier terms. Jamaica has been purchased with caution, and holders are not so firm. Brandy cannot be (incited higher, but there has been a good business done. Geneva for exportation has been less in demand and prices have slightly given way. The market is firm for British Corn Spirits at lOs 9d nett cash. Gin at 9s 3d for 17 per cent, 9s 2d for 22 under proof, and at 12s 9d to 13s 6d per gallon for Malt Spirit. INDIGO.—There are still very few shipping orders for any description of Bengal, and the home trade operate with much caution : those parties that are inclined to realise have been compelled to submit to a discount on October quarterly sale rates of 3d to 6d per lb. Madras and Kurpah are little wanted, but in consequence of the short supply these are nearly held for last sales quotations. Notwithstanding the very low prices that prevail or Spanish, still the demand has been extremely limited by private contract. Oits.—Holders of Seal Oil are unwilling further to reduce their prices, but the trade have operated with caution. In Cod the purchases made have been limited, although there are sellers at the low rates of 261 to 261105. Southern is not to be had upon lower terms, the supply being still small. Sperm has been purchased with treaty by pri vate treaty, and the tendency of prices is downwards. Prices do not improve for Linseed Oil, but on the spot there has been good business transacted, and for delivery teat year many contracts have been entered. The crushers are not working freely in consequence of the low rates they are ob taining for Oil. Rape Seed Oil has been purchased with caution, pale at 37s 6d, and brown at 36s 6d. Olive has been purchased with more freedom, the stock being much reduced. Cocoa Nut Oil has been purchased sparingly, fine at 32/ 10s to 331, good 31/ to 32/., and inferior 301 10s to 311 per tun. Palm has been purchased with caution. TALLOW.—Holders of Russian are less inclined to realise on the spot, and have obtained previous rates; the trade are inclined to keep up full stocks, and large purchases have been made by Chandlers and Soap•makers, 413 9d to 42s per cwt are the prices paid for fine Petersburg yellow Candle, at which many contracts are entered into for de livery up to the close of the year. For January 42s are insisted upon, and 42s 3d to 421 6d for delivery iu February and March, at which a good business has been transacted. Home made has met with ready purchasers at 42s 6d per cwt nett cash ; there is at present not a large supply. For other description of Tallow, the demand has been good, and full rates have been obtained. ALLEGED MURDER ON THE of the statement; made by the foregoing witnesses, re spectino•° the violent conduct of the captain to the crew after the ship reached the Channel, and to the cutting of and striking at the men. Witness himself received a severe cut on the head from the captain, and had received a wound from the point of a cutlass in two places on the face. In proof of the abject condition in which the crew were placed. the witness stated, as an instance, that after being stabbed or kicked by the captain, the latter ordered him and another one of the crew to kiss the sole of his foot, which they did. Mr. Haywood, cl,rlc. to Mr. Manic, the solicitor of the Treasury, here came into Court, and took his seat be side Mr. Symons. Mr. Broderip was proceeding to call another witness, when Mr. Humphries rose and said it would be as well to read the depositions over that had been taken, in stead of going into fresh evidence, as Mr. Haywood, in all probability, had some application to make. Mr. Haywood said he was not prepared to make any statement then, beyond expressing that the Treasury had undertaken the conducting of the prosecution, and that he did not think in the present state of the case it would be possible to try any of the charges at the pre sent sessions. Mr. BRODERIP concurred, and thought justice would be done to neither side if the case was sent for trial at the present sessions. It was then arranged to take another witness and then to adjourn the case, Mr. BRODERIP expressing a wish that the whole of the evidence should be finished at the next sitting. Andrew Nelson was then called, and examined at some length as to the violence of the captain to the crew. He received from the captain several cuts from a cutlass on different occasions. There was no feature in his exami nation beyond what has been already fully given. The prisoner was then remanded till Tuesday next. HIGH SEAS. THATIIES POLICE COURT. Yesterday, at twelve, the adjourned examination of Captain :Johnstone, for the murder of Rambert, Mars, and Reason, and also for cutting and maiming several of the crew, took pla3e at the Thames Police court. The crowd outside as great, and apparently as much excited as on the previous occasions ; and on the appearance of the prison van, the prisoner, who was in it, was assailed with a perfect storm of yells, hisses, and expressions of oprobrium. Mr. Humphries attended to watch the case, as before, for the prisoner. Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, took down the depositions as on the previous occasions. Thomas Gair was the first witness called and ex amined. He stated that on the Ist of November he was put in irons on board the ship Tory, on a false charge of threatening to take the captain's life. He remained in irons about eleven days. On the 7th of November the captain sent for him into the cabin. The captain sent Julian Cordiavallo for him, and he (the witness) went as desired. 11. found Anderson, Nelson, and William Burton there. As soon as witness went in, the captain ordered him to go on his knees, and then commenced cutting at him. The captain also told French to load his pistols and fire at witness. He told him to load and put a double charge of ball in it. The captain said, if he did not load and do as he desired him, he would take his life. French loaded, but did not put a ball in it. He fired several times with charges of powder in the witness's face. The captain afterwards cut witness several times on the head, and then placed the point of the cutlass against his side, and said he would thrust him 4hrough. By a stagger, the captain being intoxicated at the time, the point of the cutlass went through witness's clothes, and gave a slight wound in his side. He then took the cutlass, and hove it at him ; it went through his clothes, and cut witness's shoulder. He then rose, and in doing so ordered the man French to fire again. French did not do so. He ordered wit ness on the table, and when he went on it, ho took the cutlass and pushed him off with its point. The crew were then ordered up to pump ship. They went on deck and manned the pumps. Witness went also on deck, but was not able to do anything. In a few minutes witness, with some others, were ordered down again. They went down and stopped some time, but the captain did not make his appearance. Witness was then taken up and put in irons again, and placed in the lower fore-castle. Witness altogether had received eigh teen cuts in his head, two on his left shoulder, two on his breast, two on his left side, one on the left thigh, and one on the right arm. There were several other smaller wounds on different parts of his arms. His face was swollen very much, and he lost the use of the right eye for six or seven days. - He did not see Morris when he was in the cabin. Joseph Morris, alias Ruellan, a Frenchman, was next called. As the witness could speak English but im perfectly, recourse was had to an interpreter. His evi dence was to the following effect :—While in the Chan nel the pilot came on board, and the same evening the ' captaia called witness into the cabin. When there the captain asked if witness had heard the crew say anything of him forward. Witness replied that he knew of nothing. The captain answered, "You know all about it, you son of a He then said to witness get upon your knees, and then struck at him with a cutlass. The mark of t he‘ blow was on his temple. The blow was with the edge. The captain then called on the cabin-boy for a pistol. He aimed it at witness's stomach. The pistol missed fire by burning priming only. He then called the boy to bring some more powder to prime afresh. He fired again, and the ball went through witness's thigh and leg, as he was upon his knees. Witness then ran upon deck, feeling that he was wounded. The cook caught him, and brought him down again. 'The cook said to the captain, This man is wounded." The captain said, " Take him away." Witness then went on deck, and stowed him self away in the long-boat, under some sails. This was all he had to say. Barry Yelverton examined—Said that he would state what took place after the ship came to Plymouth, and the pilot came on board. The captain that morning was speaking to witness in French about the cuts which the men had received ; he said, " Now, boy, we'll send them all aft, 'and swear mutiny against them." The night before this the captain took witness into the cabin, tore the shirt off his back, and beat him for about an hour or two. The next morning his eyes were black and his throat swollen. The same morning the captain said, " I am sorry for what I have done to you ;" and said further, " It is a wonder I did not kill you. Do you know the way you addressed me yesterday ?" Witness replied, " Yes, sir ; you were threatening to kill all hands, and I said to you, for God's sake don't kill auy more." French was present at the time referred to, and said, " Never mind what this erson (meaning the witness) says , the moon affects him. " I replied, "There is very little moon in what I said, I am speaking for the captain's good." Witness repeated these remarks to the captain in answer to the question put about the manner he had addressed him the previous day. The captain then said there was no harm in that, and the witness retired. The day after this the captain ordered witness into his berth, while he called the crew down, and in telling him to do so said that he intended to deliver up the men, and that he (the witness) was to say that the men had been threatening his life, and had tied him to the neizen mast with a rope round his neck. After this the men were confined, and the captain and French went about the ship firing their pistols. The crew were ordered into various attitudes, sometimes sitting, sometimes standing. Witness saw the captain and French fire at the man Nelson and at Gair, and also cut them a good deal with the cutlass. Witness was in the cabin when Morris was shot. The witness went into details respecting the treatment of Morris. which corroborated in its main features the statement of that witness. The witness also deposed to having been commanded by the captain to cut and shoot at the men while the ship was in the channel. He had, however, never struck the men. William Burton was ne.r.t called, and said that he officiated, after the death of gars, as second mate. He recollected the pilot coming on board and going down into the cabin with the captain. When they came up the pilot had a bundle under his arm, which he took on shore. He believed it was the log-book, and he told the captain he did not care, as he knew what he had stated in evidence, and what was written in the book, namely, that Rambert and Reason came to him and wanted to pull him out to go aft with them to fasten the cabin-doors. The captain replied, " That is not what you told me; you said they came to bring me aft." Wit ness repeated his former evidence, when the captain flung a soup . knife at him, but it missed. Witness was then put in irons, and the captain said "He was a rascal, and going to give false evidence against him." When in irons witness was cut three times by the captain—on the ear, the cheek, and the wrist. Gair was also called down, and in presence of witness the captain cut him most unmer cifully. The men were afterwards called upon deck, and the captain and French shouted out, " Mutiny ! to arms !" and they began to pull the men into the cabin. The captain took his cutlass and began cutting at them. The men at this time had nothing in their hands. There was no mutiny, that witness was aware of, on board. He heard no threats or mutinous lan• guage from the crew, and he did not see any mutinous gestures. A light was brought in to the cabin, and the captain began to cut away at them. The men were on their knees at the time. French was ordered to load the pistols and fire away at them, else he would have his life taken. French fired at Gair and Nelson four or five different times, and then put the pistol to witness's ear, and said, " You b —r, I'll shoot you." Witness was in irons at the ; ime. French put the point of the pistol to witness's ear and fired. It was filled with powder only. After which he struck him two blows with the lock of the weapon on the head. In about half an hour afterwards the carpenter called out to pump ship, and the crew were all ordered on deck. Witness went into the long-boat where he was ordered, and there he stopped all night. About ten o'clock next morning witness was sent for down into the cabin, and the captain told him to keep up his heart, for that there was no fear of him, and ordered Julian to get some warm water to wash the blood and powder off his face. When Julian went for the water witness wentout into the forecastle, where he waited till he was washed. The captain ordered him to have clean clothes on ; that he was to have leg irons on, and that he was to stop in the lower forecastle till the ship reached. Lor.dou. On the 9th the revenue cutter boarded the ship, an the second in command, who came on board, ordered the three men in irons, Cone, Gair, and himself, to be taken out of the lower forecastle and placed in the topgallant forecastle. This was accord in =ly done. That day the remainder of the crew were confined in the aft &A. The three in irons were libe rated that night by the order of the second in command of her Majesty's cutter Ranger, and told to make themselves as comfortable as they could. Henry Slack examined —The pilot came on board when the ship was in the Channel. The witness here went into circumstances referred to in the evidence of the pre vious witnesses after the ship was boarded by the pilot, which he corroborated in their main features. He was witness to the cutting, shooting at, and putting into irons several of the men. William Dunn was next called, and requested to give evidence respecting what took place after the ship came into the Channel. He said they were off Plymouth when the disturbances took place. On the evening of the day the pilot came on board the captain cut at Morris and Thompson, and sent for the boy Beresford, and accused him with getting a strand to kill Mars. The captain then cut him with a cutlass. The n ex t day the captain sent for Cone and Gair out of irons, and cut them. In the afternoon, while at tea, the captain again sent for Cone and cut him. Witness was then sent tat order all hands down, and when they went to the captain he cut at them with the sword. The men came down immediately on being sent for. The captain in addition to cutting them broke a chair over Thompson's head. They were then sent on deck again. Witness shortly after was again sent after them, but he could not see all of them at the time. H e found Gair, Burton, Nelson, and Allison. When they went into the cabin the light was put out, and he heard the captain calling " Mutiny:* They then went into the other cabin. The captain ordered French to fire at them. The men had no arms, nor did he see any mutinous gestures. or hear any shouts. He saw the men on their knees. French fired at themrepeatedly. The pistol was l oa ded with powder and cr umbs of bread. Witness asked French to put in small charg es, and he said he would not ; he " would have full charges ; he would let them know he was c hi e f mate now." The witness proceeded to detail se veral other instawes in which the men 11A been, either by the c tptain or at his commands, ill treated in the manner already described, and especially the treat ment received by Morris, which he fully corroborated. Robert Thompson, one of the crew of the Tory, was DAM examined. IES evidence. was entirely corroborative anxious foutlilation CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) OLD COURT. John White, aged 28, brewer, was indicted for a bur glary in the dwelling-house of Frederick White, and stealing twenty• four cheroots, and 6s. 7i-d. in copper moneys, his property. Mr. Duane prosecuted, and Mr. Ballantine defended the prisoner. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, coupled with a recommendation to mercy. and the prisoner was sen tenced to be kept to hard labour for six months. Tim MURDER AT NEWINGTON.—The grand jury returned a true bill for murder against Samuel Quennell. Jane Langston, aged 30, was indicted for stealing various articles of plate and other property, value 201., belonging to her mistress, Susannah Bennett. The prisoner pleaded Guilty. In answer to questions from the RECORDER, The prosecutrix said that the whole of the property stolen had been traced, with some trifling exception. The prisoner had only been in her service for three weeks, and she was under notice to quit when she com mitted the robbery. She had a written character with her. The RECORDER ordered the pawnbroker to produce that portion of the plate which had been pledged, and directed that it should be restored to the prosecutrix. lie at the same time said it was very extraordinary that pawnbrokers should take in valuable articles from per sons having the appearance of servants. The prisoner was then called up for judgment, and The RECORDER, after observing that robberies by servants appeared to be very much on the increase, said that it was absolutely necessary an attempt should be made to repress it by severe punishment. He then ordered the prisoner to be transported for ten years. William Yeoman, 32, painter, was indicted for stealing a coat, the property of John Moore. The prisoner admitted the offence, and said that he had been driven to commit it by want and destitution. He had applied to the Greenwich Union, to which he belonged, and they had sent him to pick oakum and break stones, for which they paid him three-halfpence per cwt. They paid him sixpence on the Saturday before he committed the robbery, and then turned him out, and told him he must get a lodging for himself. The RECORDER asked whether they did not give him food as well as the money, and he ,replied that they did not. Sir PETER LAURIE said this was no justification for the commission of a felony. It was, however, very wrong for the union authorities to starve the people they employed, and a representation ought to be made to Somerset House upon the subject. The jury found the prisoner Guilty, but recommended him to mercy, on the ground that they believed that he had beea driven to commit the offence by want and des titution. The RECORDER sentenced the prisoner to seven days' confinement in Newgate, and told him, when he came out, he had better apply again for relief to his parish, and if they starved him, to represent the matter to the magistrates of the district. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before Mr. Sergeant ADAMS, Assistant-Judge, and a Bench of Magistrates.) These sessions commenced on Tuesday at Hicks's hall, Clerkenwell-green. The calendar contains a list of 72 prisoners, 64 of whom are indicted for the commission of felony. ARTICLES OF TUB PEACE. Mc, WILDE exhibited articles of the peace on behalf of Elizabeth Chapman against her husband. He ob served that this was a case of considerable aggravation, and called for the serious interposition of the Court. Mrs. Chapman was at present the keeper of a tavern, m known i a t t h s e u I n p s , i o w n n - I b e r n i d s g t e o , o a a n a d t t t n h e e toot l o e f n c t le o ' a h m e - r husband's conduct at that place was the cause of her re sorting to tha present proceeding. It appeared that about the year 1836, the exhibitant being then a widow with eight children, was the owner of the Weavers' Arms, Spitalfields, and was possessed of the sum of 8001. The defendant made overtures of marriage, which were accepted, and the ceremony was per• formed. In the short space of three weeks, how ever, all the defendant's love appeared to have vanished, and thereupon he commenced a series of ill treatment which was presumed, and with good founda tion, to have been caused by the refusal of the wife to sell her money out of the funds. Matters proceeded in this way until she was induced to give up her house in Spitalfields. They then went and took another house at Stratford, in Essex, and here the defendant assumed the gentleman, took out a license for shooting, and in the course of a comparatively short period ran through about 1,0001. This second house they now let, and then be came the occupants of the Hanover Arms, in Brooke's mews. Whilst at this place the defendant, amongst other acts of cruelty, threatened to throw his wife out of the garret window, and constantly drew and threw the spirits about the premises. He was also in the con stant habit of taking women of bad character to the house, until matters had arrived at such a pitch as to induce the wife to apply to the magistrate, at Marl borough-street, upon the subject. The result of this proceeding was, that an arrangement was entered into by which the wife was to be allowed to take cer tain articles of furniture with her and leave the de fendant. For four months this state of affairs was allowed to pass on with comfort to the wife, for during that period she was altogether released from the pre sence of her husband. About this time a Mrs. Bee, a i relative, or an intimate friend of the wife, being anxious that she should do something that was likely to be of service to herself and children, took the Ship Tavern, at Hammersmith-bridge, and put her into it as the land lady, by means of an outlay of about 4001. The wife, however, had not been very long in this house ere the defendant heard of it, who instantly sold his house in Brooke's-mews and went down to his wife's at Ham mersmith, where he insisted on taking up his abode. Of course he did not pay much, if any, attention to the business, but, on the contrary, would have a num ber of his London friends down to dine and revel without any payment on their part. His next sys tem of annoyance was that of drawing off the spirits and then throwing them into the streets ; which, upon being remonstrated with for doing, he followed up by violent threats that he would murder his wife and set fire to the house. Upon one occasion he went out and did not return until three o'clock in the morning, when he broke open the door by the use of some large stones. After having obtained his entrance, he walke up stairs and left the door wide open for the remaining part of the night, without having taken any precaution to prevent the admission of any persons who might think proper to enter. He had also gone into the cellar and turned the cocks of all the spirit casks, so that the cellar, after a little time, was " deep in spirits." At length the wife was compelled to apply to the magis trates at Hammersmith, who, after hearing the case, ' directed that the defendant should enter into recogni aances, not only to keep the peace, but to appear at these sessions to answer any complaint that might be made against him. The defendant had been already under sureties to keep the peace for six months, but had again broken it so soon as that term had expired. The de fendant had not now appeared, and therefore the wife had been compelled to exhibit articles of the peace, in order to bring him within the control of that Court. The Learned JUDGE ordered the defendant to enter into his own recognizAnces to keep the peace for twelve months, himself in the sum of 2001. and two sureties of 1001. each. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HO USE. Yesterday Mr. Clarkson, after having remained in the justice-room for a considerable time, addressed the Lord Mayor upon the subject of a letter which appeared in the Times newspaper as an advertisement, imputing to the captain and some of the crew of the Caroline, a vessel belonging to the Imaum of Muscat, which arrived with presents from his Highness to the Queen, the crime of murder. An applicati-in had, the Learned Counsel understood, been made on the preceding day to the sit ting magistrate, for the purpose of causing an investiga tion into a charge against Sir George Stephen, for hav ing published the libel, under the 6th and 7th Victoria, cap. 96, sect. 5, entitled, " An Act to amend the law re specting defamatory words and libel," and enacting, " That if any person shall maliciously publish any de famatory libel, any such person being convicted thereof shall be liable to fine or imprisonment, or both, as the Court may award, such imprisonment not to exceed the term of one year." This letter was a report of a reite rated charge of murder, represented a t the Thames Police•office by Sir George Stephen to have been com mitted upon one Abdallah. In answer to the intimation that the accusation of having calved to be published the defamatory libel, Sir George Stephen stated, that as it was his intention to apply to the judges for a writ of habeas corpus to bring up the crew before their Lord ships, the case was nece , sarily no knver under the juris diction of the ma gistrate•, and declit.ed to give his attendance. He (Mr. Clarkson) would not enter into the particulars of the case further than was necessary to make it intelligible. The Lord Mayor was aware that Sir George Stephen made a charge to the effect that murder w 0,5 committed on board the Caroline upon one of the slaves, and that the crew, which consisted of slaves, were on board that vessel in the docks. The agents for the Imaum of Muscat, whrise authority as a sovereign was recognised in this country, wish which his High ness was on terms of perfect amity, baing most to ascertain whether there was any for so serious a charge, instituted an inquiry, from which it appeared that - there was no ground whatever for the statement ; that there were no slaves onboard the vessel ; that no murder had been committed • that no death, either by design or accident , had occurred. The denial of the statement was made and established before Mr. Broderip, at the Thames Police• office, in the absence of Sir George Stephen, who failed to keep his appointment before the magistrate. Not content with having insisted subsequently upon the correctness of tho accusation, Sir George Stephen pub lished in the Times newspaper, as an advertisement, the letter alluded to, which contained, amongst other matter, the following statement :—" About two days' sail from the Island of Ascension, Abdal lah, the slave who was killed, was engaged on some duty which the boatswain reproved him for doing negligently, threatening, at the same time, to give him the rope's-end. Abdallah answered insolently, and the boatswain struck him, with his fii,t, in the face. Ab- wallah threatened to return the blow, and the boatswain then immediately went att and reported him to the cap tain. The captain called three of his own slaves, and directed one of them to throw the man down and sit upon his neck, while the other two slaves were ordered to champoo' him, a process, as 1 understand, often made subservient to severe punishment. The slaves kneaded the poor creature with their knees and elbows for ten minutes. He was then released, and with great diffi culty crawled to his berth. Within an hour my in formant found him throwing up blood in considerable quantities, and though, previously to the operation, he bad been in perfect health, and a good sailor, he died within twenty-five hours, and within two hours his body was thrown overboard." Now he (Mr. Clarkson) had the persons, to whom the statement just read referred, prepared to come forward and declare, upon oath, that the whole of it was an untruth. He did not mean to attribute a knowledge that it was a false statement to Sir George Stephen, but he meant to assert that there was not an atom of foundation for the story itself. It was thought right, by the agents of the gentleman who represented the Imaum of Muscat, to bring forward the crew of the Caroline, who were thus designated slaves and murderers, to make their deposi tions upon oath before the magistrate, in denial of the whole of the circumstances described in Sir George Stephen's letter, and to proceed, under the statute of Victoria just quoted from. Sir George Stephen, had, as was before stated, declined to attend before his Lord ship, and intimated his intention to apply to a court of law. That course Sir George Stephen had adopted, and the further proceedings in the case should be reserved for the consideration of the judges, and would, he en tertained no doubt, put an end to publications calculated to occasion great distress and annoyance to those upon whom they reflected, and tended to place the Imaum of Muscat in a false position in the opinion of the people of this country, who knew nothing of his Highness that was not calculated to do honour to his character. The LORD MAYOR said the judges were certainly the authority to which such a subject must most properly be introduced. His Lordship, at the same time, admitted there was ground for seeking a statement in contradic tion to the contents of the letter before a magistrate. Mr. Clarkson—The men are ready to appear before their Lordships, and were here yesterday prepared to make their statement, when Sir George Stephen, we sup pose, was applying for the writs of habeas corpus. Row BETWEEN THE NAVIGATION COMMITTEE AND THE WATERbIAN STEAMERS COMPANY.—Mr. Newbolt, solicitor to the Waterman Steam •vessel Company, ap peared to apply for a warrant against a policeman of the City, for having assaulted a gentleman who had been a passenger on board one of the Waterman's Company's boats, plying to and from Greenwich. Mr. Clarkson stated the facts of the case. Some time ago a pier had been erected at Blaclefriars-bridge, by the Waterman's Company, for the accommodation of the passengers in their vessels, which pier no longer existed, in consequence of the power exercised by the Navigation Committee, who had opened another pier, at which it was understood all these boats were to be at liberty to land passengers. In consequence of certain disputes be tween the Navigation Committee and the Waterman's Company, some persons had interfered to prevent the Company from availing themselves of. the accommoda tion thus promised to all, and on Monday Mr. Barwise, the complainant, who had no interest at all in the Com pany, having had occasion to land, with some persons employed by him, at the established pier, from one of the Watetman's steam-boats, was not only resisted in his attempt to land, and resolutely prohibited by the policemen collected on the platform, but was actually as saulted by one of them. The Learned Counsel said he applied to his Lordship, in his capacity of Lord Mayor, having control over the banks of the river Thames, for a warrant against the officer who dared to strike an in dividual requiring to land at a public pier under such circumstances. The LORD MAYOR—I shall not grant a warrant to ap prehend the policeman, certainly. The police have acted under my directions in preventing the vessels from landing passengers at the pier, in consequence of the fact, that the Company have declined to conform to the arrangements made for the accommodation of the public. Subsequently Mr. Newbolt returned to the justice room, accompanied by several gentlemen, the directors (as we understood) of the Waterman's Steam-boat Com pany, and requested to know whether the Lord Mayor veould adopt such a course in the present state of the dispute as would enanie nrsellelll,s to go Lty law for the purpose of trying the case ? The LORD MAYOR.—The policemen were stationed on the pier by my directions, to prevent the landing of passengers from the vessels of the Company, in con sequence of their refusal to conform to the regulations for the public accommodation, to which all other vessels submit. Mr. Newbolt said his clients wished to know whether they were not interrupted in the exercise of a right? Surely it was not intended that the present most pain ful contest should be continued ? The Company had entered into contracts with upwards of 100 gentlemen to and 'from Greenwich and Blaclifriars-bridge, and they would be compelled to endeavour, as far as they possibly could, to carry out the obligation. If the Lord Mayor would allow the Company to land passengers at certain stated times at the pier, he (Mr. Newbolt) would undertake, upon the part of the Company, to enter into any engagement with the City Solicitor for the settle ment of the point in dispute. The Company had cause to complain, for the Navigation Committee had allotted to a rival company the power to arrive at the pier at the hour at which the Waterman's vessels had been for three years in the habit of arriving at the pier which the new pier substituted. That had been done without rhyme or reason, and the question was, whether the Navigation Committee had a right to appoint any hour at which the Company's vessels should be prohibited from landing their pasengers? The LORD MAYOR—We have nothing to do with one company or another company, or with one individual or another individual. We have only to look to the con venience and accommodation of the public in making arrangements, which every steam-boat company must observe at the hazard of exclusion. Mr. Newbolt—We have tried in vain to get before the Navigation Committee, and by no means seek unreason able favour at their hands. The Loan MAYOR—I shall be glad to take any written suggestion you may consider it proper to make to me, for our object is merely the public accommodation which is paramount to every thing else. Mr. Newbolt said he should wait upon his Lordship with a written suggestion, which he trusted would have the effect of putting an end to the disgraceful contests which are constantly taking place at the pier. GUILDHALL. Mr. Ford, the printer of Braime's-buildings, Beech lane, Barbican, was brought before Mr. Alderman Hunter for final examination, charged with wilfully setting fire to his printing-office on the night of Sunday, the 7th instant. The witnesses were the same who had been examined before the coroner of London. Mr. Wakeling conducted the prosecution on behalf of the Imperial Fire-office, and Mr. Wolfe defended the prisoner. Mr. Wakeling drew the attention of the magistrate to the fact of the prisoner having increased his insurance at a time when his poverty was increasing, as was evidenced by his continually pawning articleS down to the time of the fire. 31 duplicates were found by Baker, the ward beadle, at the prisoner's lodgings in Highbury-vale, some of them for ls., and all bearing date from July to No vember. lie had removed a quantity of furniture from his premises at Highbury, but not to Barbican. It was sold. Solomon, the foreman, was re-examined—Since the last hearing he had made further search amongst the ruins, and near the spot where the other inflammable materials were found, he discovered a gallon turpentine can. He had found some more shavings in two places, but there was no tar on them. Cross-examined by Mr. Wolfe—lt would not have been where he found it, if the can had fallen in with the ruins of the room above. Re-examined by Mr. Wakeling—lf the tar in barrels had remained where the apprentice described it as being kept, it would not have fallen through upon the shavings and the flour sack. Mr. Green, of Lower Whitecross-street, agent to the Imperial Fire-office, stated that he let the premises, in Braime's-buildings, to the prisoner four years ago. They were dilapidated, and lie took them on a repairing lease. He was bound to insure the building for 1504 On the 20th of November he called on witness, and said he wanted to insure his stock, as he was about to bring a new press on the premises, and, his wife being dead, he should move some furniture in and sleep at the office. He asked if he could not insure property held in him by trust, as paper to be printed, &c. Witness told him he could. The prisoner then insured 1801. on his materials, 204 for property held on trust, 104 on china, glass. and looking-glasses, 51. on pictures and drawings, 101. on watches and jewellery, 201. household furniture, and on a subsequent day, 101. rent, payable under the lease. He said his uncle had been burnt out, and he bad pressed him to insure. Two days after the fire, the pri. sone: came to him for instructins as to making his claim- Witness observed that he had not removed in the pro perty he intended. The prisoner replied he had not. Witness told him to make out a list of the articles de stroyed. The prisoner said he could not account for the fire, but he was at the premises as late as eleven o'clock on the same night. Baker, the ward beadle, produced the duplicates, and a watch and two rings he found at the prisoner's lodging. One of the rings was of the kind the prisoner said he had lost in the fire. Mr. Wolfe contended that the ease was still b it one nf mere suspicion. Though his ellent laa , l pa , sni,l some things, he might still be justified in insuring to the extent he did. Mr. Alderman IItiNTZB laid, he had paid very great LATEST PRICES OF SHARES IN BANKS, ASSURANCE, AND OTHER COM PANIES'STOCK. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. WHITEHALL, DEC. 12, 1845. The Queen has been pleased to constitute and appoint Alexander Pringle, Esq., sole and only Clerk and Keeper of the General RQ;lsterfor Seasines in Scotland, and of the par ticular Register of Reversions and Seasines within the shires of Edinburgh, Haddington, Linlithgow, and Batlig•ate, in the room of the Right II mourable D•andas, deceased. WHI rEHALL, DEC. 15. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Alexander Maclean, D.D., to the church and parish of Kiltearn, in the presbytery of Dingwall, and county of Ross, vacant by the death of the Rev. James Mann. FOREIGN-OFFICE, DEC. 10. The Queen has been graciously pleased to appoint James Forbes, Esq., British Pro-Consul at St. Jago de Cuba, to be her Majesty's Consul at that port. WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 16. 2d Regiment of Life Guards—Ensign E. F. Wingfield, from the 56th Foot, to be Cornet and Sub-Lientenant, by pur chase, vice Langley, who retires, Dec. 16. 10th Light Dragoons—T. Fraser, M.D., to be Assistant - Surgeon, vice Anderson, promoted in the Rifle Brigade, Dec. 16. 17th Light Dragoons—H. Kendall, M.D., to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice Anderson, promoted in the 77th Foot, Dec. 16. 2d Regiment of Foot—Captain A. W. Wynne, from half pay Unattached, to be Captain, vice O'Grady, promoted; Lieut. T. Addison, to be Captain, by purchase, vice Wynne, who retires • Ensign A. Gillespie , to be Lieutenant, b y pur ebase, vice 'Addison ; F. Mathias, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Gillespie, Dec. 16. Bth Foot—Lieutenant -Colonel T. Butler, from half-pay Un attached, to be Lieutenant-Colonel, vice C. St. Lo Malet, who exchanges ; Major H. W. Hartley to be Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Butler, who retires; Captain H. W. Roper to be Major, by purchase, vice Hartley; Lieut. T. Clowes to be Captain, by purchase, vice Roper; Ensign E. J. Charter to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Clowes ; M'Kay Rynd, Gent., to be Ensign. by purchase, vice Charter, Dec. 16. 12th Foot—E. Herrick, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Uniacke, appointed to the 71st Foot, Dec.l6. 25th Foot—Major H. F. Strange, from the 26th Foot, to be Major, vice D'Urban, who exchanges, Dec. 16. 26th Foot—Major W. J. D'Urban, from the 25th Foot, to be Major, vice Strange, who exchanges, Dec. 16. 43d Foot—Assistant-Surgeon R. Lawson, from the 47th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Millar, promoted on the Staff, Dec. 16. 47th Foot—G. Saunders, Gent., to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Lawson, promoted in the 43d Foot, Dec. 16. 52d Foot—Ensign M. Du Pre Stronge to be Lieutenant, by purchase, •ice Peel, who retires; C. C. Ross, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Stronge, Dec. 16. 56th Foot—k. Fellows, Gent, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wingfield, appointed to the 2d Regiment of Life Guards, Dee. 16. 65th Foot—Ensign J. H. E. Elwes to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Trafford, who retires; G. C. Pemberton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Elwes, Dec. 16. 68th Foot—Lieut. J. Johnston to be Captain, by purchase, vice Barlow, who retires ; Ensign H. Stewart to be Lieute nant, by purchase, vice Johnston ; H. G. R. Carmichael, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Stewart, Dec. 16. 71st Feot—Ensign E. J. A. Gore to be Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Brice, who retires, Dec. 16 ; Ensign A. Denny to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Sir T. Erskine, who retires, Dec. 17 ; Ensign J. Uniacke, from the 12th Foot, to be En sign, vice Gore, Dec.l6 ; B. Brochas, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Denny, Dee. 17. 77th Foot—Assistant-Surgeon G. Anderson, from the 17th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice Burrell, promoted on the Staff, Dec. 16. Rifle Brigade—Assistant-Surgeon A. Arderson, M.D., from the 10th Light Dragoons, to be Surgeon, vice White, pro moted on the Staff, Dec. 16. 3d West India Regiment—Ensign W. Cooper to be Lieu tenant, without purchase, vice Cox, deceased, Oct. 31; H. Wheeler, Gent., to be Ensign, vice Cooper, Dec. 16. Ceylon Rifle Regiment--Lieut. J. Jago, from half-pay 32d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Clare, promoted; Second Lieut. J. S. Tulk to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jago, who retires ; A. J. D. Smith, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Tulk, Dec. 16. UNATTACHED.—To be Captains, without purchase—Lieut. J. Ralph, from the 6th Foot ; Lieut. W. Spring, from the 24th Foot, Dec. 16. BREVET.—Captain A. W. Wynne, of the 2d Foot, to be Major in the army, Jan. 10, 1837. Hosprran STAFF.—To be Inspectors-General of Hospitals —Deputy-Inspector J. Gillkrest, M.D. ; Deputy-Inspector T. Kidd, M.D. ; Deputy-Inspector A. Stewart, Dec. 16. To be Inspectors-General of Hospitals, with Local Rank — Deputy-Inspector M. M. Mahony, M.D. ; Deputy-Inspector H. Franklin, Dec. 16. To be Deputy-Inspectors-General of Hospitals—Staff- Surgeon of the First Class J. French, M.D., vice Gillkrest ; Staff-Surgeon of the First Class A. Stewart, M.D., vice Kidd ; Staff-Surgeon of the First Class W. Henry, vice Mahony ; Staff-Surgeon of the First Class J. W. Watson, M.D., vice Franklin,. Dec. 16. To be Staff Surgeons of the First Class--Surgeon J. Millar, from the 43d Foot, vice Stewart; Surgeon Moses White, M.D., from the Rifle Brigade, vice Watson ; Surgeon W. H. Burrell, M.D., from the 77th Foot, vice Henry, Dec. 16. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Flintshire. R. J. Mostyn, Esq., to be Deputy-Lieutenant, Sept. 6. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Northamptonshire. Northamptonshire Regiment of Militia.—P. D. P. Dun combe, the younger, Esq., to be Captain, Dec. 5. WHITEHALL, DEc. 5. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Francis Bodham, of Wellington, in the county of Somerset, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, DEC. 8. The Lord Chancellor has appointed David Thomas Willis, of Winslow, in the county of Buckingham, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, DEC. 11. The Lord Chancellor has appointed Robert John Francis Oldacres, of Leicester, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, DEc. 15. The Lord Chancellor has appointed William Morgan Thoma, of Langbarne, in the county of Carmarthen, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTS. William Kearton, cheesemonger, Lamb-street, Spitalfields, to surrender Dec. 23 and Jan. 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Belcher, official assignee; Hutchison, Crown court, Threadneedle- street. Michael Jones, grocer, Theobald's-road, Dec. 24, at two, and Jan. 21, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Bell, offi cial assignee, Coleman-street -buildings ; Miles, Brunswick place, City-road. Thomas Pool, builder, Princes-road, Notting-hill, Dec. SO and Jan. 30, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Foster, o ffi cial assignee, Abchurch - lane , Lomba rd-street ; Wright, Cook's-court, Lincoln's Inn. William Gill, poulterer, Leadenhall-market, Dec. 22, at eleven, anti Jan. 27, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Turquand, official assignee, Old Jewry-chambers; Tippet ts, Pancras-lane. William Humphryes, hotel-keeper, Haymarket, Dec. 29, at eleven, and Jan. 27, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, of fi cial assignee, Coleman - street; Lewis, Arundel street, Strand. Frederick Cordaroy, hatter, Liverpool, Dec. 31 and Jan. 16, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Minshull, official assignee, Liverpool; Vincent and Sherwood, Temple, London. James Reynolds, farmer, Fazakerley, Liverpool, Dec. 30 and Jan. 20, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Bridger and Blake, London wall, London ; Dodge, Liverpool. James Hulme, paper dealer, Manchester, Jan. 2 and 16, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester; Abbott, Charlotte-street, Bedford square, London ; Atkinson and Saunders, Manchester. Thomas Ibbetson Hellawell, James Nortcliffe, and John Beaumont Hellawell, dyers, Halifax, Dec. 29 and Jan. 21, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee, Leeds ; Taylor, Nicholas-lane, London ; Clegg, Bradford ; Cariss, Leeds. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. T. T. Barker, cotton doubler, Sandiacre, Derbyshire—first div. of 3s. 9d. in the pound, any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Birmingham. J. Palmer, sen., and T. T. Barker, cotton doublers, Sandi acre, Derbyshire—first div. of 3s. Bd. in the pound, any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Valpy, Birmingham. T. Bourne, corn factor, Liverpool—first div. of 10d. in the pound, any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. R. Nicholson, bookseller, Stocton—first div. of 3s. 3d. in the pound, any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker, New castle-upon-Tyne. W. Reay, shipbuilder, Walker, Northumberland—first div. of Bd. in the pound, any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle- upon-Tyne. T. Johnson, sen., W. Johnson, and C. Mann, bankers, Rom ford—a div. of Is. in the pound, Dec. 17, at the White Hart Inn, Romforal, or any subsequent Frid ty, at the office of Mr. • Follett, S a mbrook-court, Basing NhaltDS -street. DIVIDE. At the Conrt of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. E. P. Harding, hosier, Gravesend, Jan. 6, at twelve—J. Tinson, .innkeeper, Farringdos, Berkshire, Jan. 6, at one— F. Gautier, merchant, Gould-square, Crutched-friars, Jan. 6, at eleven—W. Dettmer, pianoforte manufacturer,Upper Mary lebone-street, Jan. 6, at half-past eleven—J. Hart, builder, Greenwiei, Jan.-6, at half-past twelve—W. D. Townsend, pawubroker, Little Russell-street, Covent- garden, Jan. 9, at half-past eleven—J. Spofford, linendraper, Chatham, Jan. 20, at eleven—F. W. E. Barandon, merchant, Philpot-lane, Jan. 16, at half-past twelve. In the Country. J. Pearson, fe:lmonger, N e wcastle-upon-Tyne, Jan. 9, at • eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court—C. Yates. banker, Stafford, Jan. 16, at twelve, ist at the Birming ham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. E. P. Harding, hosier, Gravesend, Jan. B—T. Pemeller, coal Inerchant, Tysoe-street, Spatields, Jan. 3—M. Barnes, cherdist, Woodbridge, Suffolk, Jan. 16—J. Spofford, linen draper, Chatham, Jan. 13—J. Harvard , lamp maker, Brook street, Bond-street, Jan. 9—C. Best, printer, St. James's street, Clerkenwell, Jan. 7—A. Lack, saddler, Stockbridge terrace. Pimlico, Jan. 7-11. J. Owen , surge on, Madele y , Shropshire, Jan. 16—R. Shanklin, druggist, Salford, Jan. 7 G. Luckin, bootmaker, High Holborn, Jan. 6—J. Dawson, calico printer, Manchester, Jan. 6—T. Davies, merchant, Liverpool, Jan. 6.--j. Thom p son and J. Thompson, stock brokers, Leeds, Jan. 6. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Stevens and G. Alexander, civil engineers, Clement's Inn Munt and T. Johnson, bricklayers, Layton, Essex—C. J ame s and A. James , sharebrokers, Newcastle-upon-Tyne— G. Taylor and W. Foord, plumbers, Old Brentford—R. Foot and R Taylor, g . reengrocers; St o k e N ewington—J. Fawcett, T. N. Bardwell, jun., and F. Bardwell, stockbrokers, Sheffield —J. Swaine, J. Swaine, W. •_)Yood, W, Bell, and J. worstedWil spinners, North Bierley, Yorkshire J Barber, W Thompson;and A. NV 11er — be; grocers, J. Barber, jun., F. -W. Norwich (so far as regards A. W. Barber) _W. t b. Derbyshire._.. Walton J. Bradshaw, solicitors, Chesterfield, Derb—Z. blelland and and J. Smith, brickmakers, Coven , ry t t F. g -r6d and J. B. Lutes and C. Irea Lainson, hosiers, Rotherhithe B .re_! , Hall, and R. Forbes, linendrapers, Halifax —J. Northamptonshire "' limeburners, Kingsthorpe-lodge, Car- Wyllie, M. Wyllie, and A. Wight, Long .Isiand Mill,—C J. lisle (so far as regards A. Wight)—J. Schofield and J. Collin, machine makers, Oldham--li. Smith and R. Worthington bankers, Manchester —R. H. Clark and W. Clark, jun., tea dealers, Birmingham—W. B. Adams, S. Adams, a_n_d . W .. . A. Adams, machinists, Bow (so far as regards Adams) —T. Genn and D. Genn, grocers, Sheffield IV Ward and T. Barrow, shirt manufacturers, Manchester — J. Platt, J. Toole, and W. Platt, ironfounders, Oldham — J. Owen and A. Hopkins, woollendrapers, Swansea. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Alexander Gracie, sen., cattle dealer, Two Merkland, Dumfries-shire, Dec.. 19 and Jan. 8, at twelve, at J. Donald son's Inn, Minnyhive. Alexander Gracie and Robert Gracie, cattle dealers, Two Merkland, Dumfries-shire, Dec. 18 and Jan. 7, at twelve, at E. WKinnelPs Inn, Thornhill. Archibald Donaldson, jun., tailor, Edinburgh, Dec. 23 and Jan. 14, at tweve t at the cambers of Messrs. Imes and Ro bertson, Edinburgh. John Brown, grocer, Air.htsrarder, Dec. 25 and Jan. 15, at eve, at the Saintatioa hotel, Fir% From t%e Official List. ÜBLISIIED EVERY TUESDAY AND FRIDAY EVENING LONDON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 16. JOZNT-STOCE. SANKS• • --------- Name of company. Divipderd Amount a \ I Paid. Price ha th Annum. Sham . £ s. d. X s. d. ra' Australasia ••• • • • .... 6/. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 28 19 Tiritsh North American 4/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 47 st; Commercia of London M. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 24 is Colonial ..• ••• • • ...... 5 /. pe r cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 15 Londn and Westminstr i 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 0 25 r,ondon Joint-Stock ... 61. per cent. 50 0 0 10 0 0 14 ar. Metropolitan - 25 0 0 710 0 of Provincial of Ireland 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 46% fb Ditto, New. ••• • • ... 8/. per cent. 10 0 0 10 0 0 214 B National of Ireland .. 51. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 0 194 Nat. Provncial of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 5 36 P , Ditto, New.. - - 5/. per cent. '2O 0 0 10 0 0 gi Union of Australia.... - 25 0 0, 25 0 0 24 % Union of London. - - 51. per cent. t 5O 0 0 110 0 0 13 w ------- v WATER -WORKS Dividend Amount - d Name of Company. per of Paid. Price. b Annum. Share. ---...... £ s, d. East London • • ..... 81 . 100 00 , - 230 Grand Junction ••• • • • 31 . 46 13 4 , - 52 c Kent ...... •• • • ...... 2 / , 10s. 100 0 0 - - Vauxhall ••.. .. West Middlesex ••• • .. 4 /. 16 s. pr ct. 63 12 9 - 130 t ( rNsuzzawcz COMPANIES. 1 Dividend Amount Name of Company. per of I Paid. Price. 1 Annum. Share. ----- ,---- £ s. d. '£ s. d. Albion ••••• • • • • ....• 3 /. 10e 100 00150 0 0 74 I Alliance Brit. and For. 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 0 20 Ditto Marine. • 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 50 0 6% Atlas British Commercial .. 7s. per share 50 0 0 50 0 7% Clericl,Med.& Gen. Life Si. per cent. 100 0 0 210 1 6% 31. 100 0 0 10 0 0 Crown •••• . • . • ...... I :9s. and 1 40 0 0 5 0 0 - 6/. ss. bs. Eagle •• • • 6s. 50 0 0 60 0 5% Economic Life., •••• .• • 158gorsebt;} 1000 0 0 250 0 0 Eng.& Scot. Law .•. • •• 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 20 0 3 European LIM ••• • • • 5% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. 20 Freemasons' .. •••• - • • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 Globe 61. per cent. Stock. - 142% Guardian •• •• •• •••• •• 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 36 10 0 51 imperial Fire •• •• •• • • 1.21. per cent. 500 0 0 50 0 0 235 imperial Life •• •• •• •• 12s. 100 0010 0 0 16% Indemnity Marine •• • • 1/. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 1 29 Law Life .• •••.• • • • .. 11. es. 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 20 0 6% London Fire .... •. • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15% London Ship .. ..... . 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 0 15% Marine - ......... 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 15 0 0 10% • Ided.ln vlid & Gen. Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 3 ) National Loan Fund• • 51. per cent. 20 0 0 210 0 2% National Life.. ....... 81. per cent. 100 0 0 50 0 9% ! Palladium Life...... -5/. per cent. 50 0 0 , 2 0 0 2210 s Phoenix . - Protector Life .•• • • ... 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 0 1/. 3s. Provident Life •••• • • • • 1/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24 t Rock Life.. ••••• • • • • • 4s. 50 0 010 0 41A Royal Exchange Si. per cent , Stock. - 186 Sun Fire . - - Ditto Life . 1/. 6s. - - 18 ' Universal Life LIST OP SCOTTISH COMPANIES' PRICES. • Dividend Amount • Name of Company. per of Paid. I Price Annum. Share. 1 1 --- £ s. d. £ s. d • Bank of Scotland .• ... 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 171 Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 0 165 1 British Linen Company Si' per cent. - 100 0 0 230 Commercial Bank •• - 61. per cent. - 100 00 ' 166 • National Bank 6l. per cent. h -- 10 0 0 1 5 % Union Bank of Scotland 7 %1. pr cent. -- 50 0 0 98% Western Bank ••• • • • - 50 0 0 04% North of Scotland Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 7 43 Cly 7, ,, desdale Bank ••• • • • 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 14% Eastern Bank •••• • • • . 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 11 18 Caledonian Bank - 210 0 6 n• Edinb.&Glasgew Bank 61. per cent. - 50 0 'n,, 5 . City of Glasgow Bank . 5/. per cent. - 815 0 15% Scottish Union Ins. Co. 51. per cent. ,20 0 0 10 0 114 - Hercules Insurance Co. 71. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 14% )1. Insur. Co. of Scotind• • Si. per cent. 10 0 0 All paid. 10% North British Insur. -5%1. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 0 28 1 % •• Caledonian Fire Insur. 101. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 24% • Edinburgh Life Insur. 61. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 19% Edin. & Glasg. Railway 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 65 .1 Ditto, 4 Shares 5l. per cent. 12 10 0 All paid. 15% ' Edin., Leith, it. Grantn - 20 0 0 20 0 0 21% ,6 Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 All paid. 70 Clasp, & Greenck Rail. 21. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 21 r, Glsgw & Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All paid. 45 Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 61. percent. 25 0 0 All paid. 36 e .T' Standard Life Assernce.l 51 per cent. 150 00 1 2 10 0 S DOCKS. Dividend i Amount Name of Company. per of i Paid. Price. Annum. Share. - - , s. d. :X s. d. ommercial •• • • _ /nr rent_ Stock. 134 .£ e. d. Commercial East and West India East Country ••.•• •• I 1/. per sh. ;100 0 0 Lmdon • St Katharine •• • • .... 5 per cent. I Stock. Southampton •••• • • • • 4/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 I 112 1023 i 30 CANALS. .; I .; Dividend' Names of L;) Dividend , Price. Names of . , Price. er Companies. A i per Companies. .. , 4 An p num. I Pri Go ! Aimum.; :a I --- --• £! .£ Ashtn& Oldh 97 51.51. pe l 72 Monmouthsh 100 91. 160 Ashby-d-la-Z1113: 41. '( 70 Mntgomrysh 100 Si. 98 Barnsley •• .. ;160 121. 180 Macclesfield. 100 - 95 Basingstoke.. l loo - - • Neath .. Brknk&Abrg 150 51. 85 Nottingham l5O 121. 2GO Cromford....lloo lel. 150 Peak Forest Dudley. ..• ... ; 100, 41. - Regent's •. • Derby .• • ... ;100; 81. 103 'Rochdale ..• •85 41. 64 Ellsmre&Chs 133 41. 80 Shropshire - Erewash •.. ;100 321. 300 Somrset Coal 150 71. 10s. 123 Forth & Clyd,loo 4/. - Do.LkFdSt 12 6/.p. e. 11 GrandJunctn 100. 71. s 100 Stffrd &Wore 140 281. 440 Grand Union 100, 11. 10s. - Shrewsbury.. 125 151. 230 Glamorgnsh . 172 13%1. 210 Stourbridgo - 145 201. - Glstr & Brkly , • 00! - - Strtfrdon Av 79 11. 10s. - Grantham • • 1501 121. 100 Severn and} 1 26 11. Bs. - Huddersfield.. 57 - 20 Wye Rail. Kennt & Avn, 39 7s. 6d. 22 Trnt & Mr-1 50 30L - L a ncaster .• •' 47 1/. 10. 4 0 sey, sh. 3 Leeds&Livrp 100 341. 525 Thams &Med ,19 - 10 Leicester ....,140 101. 105 Worcstr Scl 1 78 41. 49 Leicstr &Nth, 83 1 41. 62 Birmlng. 1 Loughberogh 142' 70/. 650 Vilts k Brksi 67 11. 4s. 11 yr' z ---.............. DEEP SEA FISHINGS. BY MR. DEMPSTER. (From the Caledonian Mercury.) Annually before the 24th of June there arrives a Brassy Sound, in Shetland, a fleet of fishing vessels, amounting at times to above one thousand. Those vessels are called busses, and principally belong to the Dutch, Danes, and Germans. The vessels are from 60 to 80 tons burden. They are decked, strong built, and carry a crew of from 14 to 20 hands. The busses are regularly fitted out with every requisite material, both for catching, curing, and packing the herrings in. The crews of those busses become sailors, fishers, curers, and coopers by turns. On the 24th of June the fishing fleet sails from Brassy Sound in quest of the deep sea herrings; their track is known and the shoals of herrings followed with the vessels. The herrings caught in deep water have a certain quantity of fixed oil in them, and are superior to those caught in shoal water, as they go there to yawn. When herrings are caught by the Dutch they are very carefully handled, so as not to injure the scale. They are assorted into three kinds, namely, mattes, under sized—voles, full-sized—ylen herring, shottea herring. Gutting, gilling, and bleeding with a knife, is the next process (which can be done cleanly and effectually en board ship when weather permits), they are then cured with Mediterranean Bay salt and a salt prepared in Hol land. which gives them an excellent flavour. The Dutch are particular about the wood their barrels are made of, choosing well seasoned oak to any other, as they think other descriptions of wood give to the pickle a bitter taste. Whilst packing the herring the Dutch are also particular; they wish to retain their full plump shape as much as possible. They don't squeeze them into the barrels. In all foreign countries herrings are mostly eaten in a raw state, so that a full plump clean-looking appearance is a recommendation to the Dutch cured herring. The Dutch get very high prices for their early caught herrings in the continental markets. Accompanying the fishing fleet there are always a nuinhir of fast-sailing yagers, or cutters. When a quan tity of herrings have been caught and cured on board the busses, they are sent direct to the continental markets by those yagers. They have been known to realise a clear profit of from 131. to 15/. per barrelfor early herring. It is asserted by De Witt, a grc at statesman of Hol land, in his " Interest of Holland," that 3,000 busses and 40,000 sailors were employed in the fishery, and that the United Provinces thereby gained according to his calculations five millions sterling per annum. The most of Dutch fishing vessels belong to joint stock companies. The next of importance is the superior mode carried on by the Dutch and English fishing, for cod and other white fish. They mostly use hand lines, and so soon as the fish takes the bait they are immediately hauled up, hooked by the mouth or lip. If the fish be alive they are put into a well; if dead, they are shortly afterwards cut up and pickled into barrels. The most general mode of catching white fish in Scotland is by setting long lines with a great number of hooks. Those lines are allowed to lie in the water for a considerable time before being hauled, so that should a fish happen to take the bait shortly after the line is set, by struggling they soon die, and if long dead before being brought to the shore, they are not in such a good condition for curing as they are immediately after being caught. Amongst other improvements in the Scottish fisheri__, the trawl net might be introduced. It is well known there are plenty of sole and other descriptions of deli cate flat fish, about sandy bays and banks on the coast of Scotland, that are principally to be caught with the trawl net. MARKET INTELLIGENCE (From the London New Price Current of Dec. 16.) SUGAR.—To-day British Plantation Sugar was purchased With caution for all purposes, although there were even sellers rather under the reduced rates of Friday ; the total quantity disposed of amounted to only 350 hhds and trcs, sellingaudlo low middling i4 s4s d t l i o n g ss a s t , good so a including 100 hhds and 8 trcs of Barbadoes at public sale, which went off at a decline on the last auction of 6d, fine to y to el s lo 2 w s, 0 53 n sf r m ue i st ili ay ng 2,4oo sls bags of Bengal will be offered at auction. p s er 2s cw 6d t. REFINED.—To-day refined goods were purchased with caution by the home trade, brown grocery at 635, and standard lumps at 64s to 64a 64 per cwt, In bonded Crushed Sugar little business has been done, and there are sellers of first quality at 335 Gd per cwt. MAURITIITS.—HoIders have refrained from offering any at auction, but 2,500 bags are declared for Thursday. There has been little desire manifested to purchase any description by private treaty, although there are seller s upon lower terms. EAST IttmA.--This afternoon there was no Public sale of Bengal, and little business was transacted privately, although there were sellers of' all kinds upon rather lower terms. follg4l4•l, — Althoup there arc eolleo of brom Druil at STATE OF TRADE. FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, DEC. 11. There have been rather more inquirers in this market during the past week, but the demand is still very inanimate, and purchases confined to the immediate requirements of the manufacturers. ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, DEC. 12. Sales of combing and clothing wools are confined to a mere supply of the immediate wants of the manufacturers, and prices continue to recede. WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, DEC. 12.—We have a better feeling this week than for several preceding ones for long wool, and there is more business doing, at prices which could hardly be realised last week. Short wools remain the same. LEEDS.—Business has been a little better at our cloth halls both on Saturday and Tuesday than for some weeks past, the goods in demand being such as are calculated for the spring trade for the United States and the Cana dian markets ; but for goods suitable for the home de ' wand there has been little done. Business has been very dull in the warehouses during the week. BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—Wool.—There' is nothing more doing in any kind of combing wools, Colo nial or British, and the stock in the market of the latter is rather firmly held, owieg to the growers adhering to shear day's price, which the staplers cannot afford to give to meet the prices offering here. Short wools and noils, although produced in very limited quantity, are dull of sale, and barely support last week's prices. Yarns.—We cannot learn anything: more cheering touching this important branch of the trade of this town and neighbourhood—a depression of unprecedented se verity, without the slightest hope of any immediate amendment. The price that wool is still maintaining. forbids its use. From all accounts, we hear its value is depreciated by being worked up into yarns, the current price being so ruinously low, that it is utterly impossible for the spinners to go on producing it without in curring serious loss, so that any plan dif ferent from the present, which is now so gene rally followed, and of doing as little as is practicable, is not likely to be adopted. The position of things is now engaging the serious attention of all connected with the trade, to know how the conflict between the price of wool and yarns will end ; it most clearly demonstrates the want of cheap food by the admission of foreign corn, thereby increasing the export of our manufactures, thus affording more employment to our operatives, and the most probable chance of enhanced prices to remunerate the employer. Pieces—The business done to-day and during the week has not been considerable, and as the merchants are generally preparing fur stock taking at Christmas, they are only buying to supply any orders that may fall in upon them. The quantity of goods coming to market is now very much reduced, and as the manufacturets believe that yarns cannot long continue at the present low prices, they feel confident that, after the turn of the year, the demand for goods will increase, and prices assume an upward tendency. MANCHESTER, DEC. 11.—We are improrint this week in our cloth market, and as the opinion is now ge neral that prices for most article s have seen their lowest point, a tolerable good business as regards de mand is very confidently expected. Spinners too are enabled to sell on fully as good terms as of late. On the whole things are decidedly better. NOTTINGHAM. - The cotton iirought hose branch con tinues to rather slowly fall off in demand, and were it not that Many of the frames are employed in making spun silk hose, this would be most seriously felt. There is " a spark of revival" in some quarters in the cut up and drop- off hosiery, but not to the extent of giving any per ceptible relief. The same may be said of cotton gloves, and we have beard of shops in rather remote situations being set on with full work. The drawer and pantaloon trade is very dull. The silk hosiery branches are much depressed, and are gradually falling off ; the silk glove branch, if anything, is in the best condition. The bobbin net trade, especially the fancy department, is in a most deplorable state, and to use the language of many of the commission agents, " There is no lace trade." It is as serted that the lace trade is worse than it has been for ten years. The warp tatting baanch has not recovered from the depressed state in which it has lingered for some months past. The lap and press branch is better than the tatting branch, and some few good patterns are in slight demand. The silk blond is but dull, but in some cases the jacquard frames have a demand.—Not gingham Review. es, LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LOSS OF THE HOPE, OF LONDON. The following extract from a report addressed to the Ma rine Authority at Havre, by the Master of the French mer chantman, Les deux ireres Unis, has been forwarded to Lloyd's by the French Consul-General . " The 20th October, at one o'clock, P.M., I passed to lee ward, at a short distance, of a three-masted vessel, totally dismasted, with the exception of her bowsprit, the planking of the bulwarks carried away from stem to stern. This ves sel htid'nothing on deck but the stump of a mast, and a part of the topmast; the hatches were open, and showed that she was waterlogged and laden with timber. She was : quite upright on her keel, was not very dirty, but bad dirt and barnacles along her sides, which caused me to suppose that she had been for a long time in that condition. There was written on her stern, Hope, London.' The hull appeared o be uninjured and in good condition, and it is probable that she will remain for a long time, and occasion some accident. Her position, minutely determined at the time, was 44 deg. 18 min. N. lat., and 22 deg. 50 min. W. long." The amount of traffic for the last week, on 'warty 1,800 miles of railway, was 121,164/., thus accounte for: 60,933/. for the conveyance of passengers only, 29, 029 /. for the carriage of goods, and a remainder of 31,202/. for passengers and goods together, not respectively apportioned. For the last five months of the present half-year 3,187,788/. has been received, being an increase over the corresponding Period of last year of 565,2621. attention to this case, as it was o: a more serious In rector than usually presented to a msg',-,trate. 1111 charge of this nature it was almost impossible to get evidence against a prisoner, but the inacristil had to see with a hat certainty he vas trap •e by circumstantial evidence. In the present ease "- thought there was strong circumste.-_tial evidece. The mere circumstance of a person talking about the. insurance he had effected, or his arivisitur others to tl , e that means of protecting themselves, would not of ther selves make much imprezuion on his mind ; but when coupled such observations. with the finding of the tam e shavings and sack, and books steeped in turpen tihe ' , . collected in a corner, and that the corner where the hi:: began, ho felt it to be his duty, for the pro t e ction of public, to send the case for inquiry befo re a jury. ne would be more pleased than himsel f to find the prisoner able to clear himself before a j ur y ; but P I A tmg together all the suspicious circumstances e liciteu r in this inquiry, he could not help sending the Prise° to trial. The case occupied the Court for several hours. IVORSHIP-STREET. Berjamin Freeman, described as a fell owship Pelte d who has been remanded for several weeks on a chee ry dangerously wounding a young woman named Il a t Ann Webb, by stabbing her with a knife , was Place the bar before Mr. Bingham for final examination. es. The prosecutrix, who had been lying in a very Pl.eur, rious state in the London Hospital ever Since the oe t of rence took place, and still exhibited the appesra ni ; t he great weakness and exhaustion was now brought t(i Court in a cab, and in direct evidence ful l y confirtneu,r_l that had been stated by the police and others a thet_ne; exam nation, as to the prisoner with whom she hatilad living fur the last three years, and by whom she hoc c ue. two children. Returning home on the night in tion in a state of ungovernable excitement from ar t cation, and, without any other provocation on 1 1 1. 4 to than an' apparently gentle remonstrance and deoh rl i i joli eat something he had brought home for supper, sodd enly d os rushing at her and stabbing her in the left side "V _ ih clan knife. The poor woman gave her testinannit" to the greatest reluctance and the most manifest &O il : l us il shield the prisoner, who, she stated, had been prevl its a very sober and industrious man, and very fen d , %for home, and had made feeling and constant inquiries her all the time she had been in the hospital. _moot Mr. Smith Ayerst, assistant-surgeon at the Hospital, described the nature of the injury the I: tiv g cutrix had sustained, which he said was a peneoh.ond wound below the last rib, an inch and a h alf in dePllii the of considerable breadth, through which a portion 1 , ) ,, intestines had protruded ; and stated that, thollt,' t he had for a long time been in a dangerous conditieldolipteck symptoms had at length yielded to the treatment a o gbt and he had now every reason to believe that sheis soli be declared out of positive danger, but that AI! w o i e lon labouring under such extreme debility as in h i. ° c c l 'eatre l to render it unadvisable for her to attend at the the Criminal Court and prosecute the prisoner Ur charge at the present sessions. tt in the Mr. Rolphe, assistant to Mr. Pearce, su r g e° . el wi th Bethnal-green-road, gave evidence nearly id i t tle t he the preceding, and deposed to being fetchen t a t er Pe soner to attend the injured woman immediatelitor had stabbed her, of which fact he made a ee ll ! t u s c omm i fession, and expressed extreme regret for l div i ; ion , sion ; and Long, a policeman of the d h oseit whose custody the accused quietly surrender!nely also said that on his doing so he was see lni-u affected. "ati °n The prisoner, who throughout th e elshilonf his 0 ! e . hibited great remorse for the consequences to er l a ; governable temper, when called upon to a t ole b e , charge, declared that it was wholly unaccousoto the be came to commit such an act, and h e ; d t ly e l t he imagine that it arose from his bead being g' a ,tot he time, which deprived him of all self-control, long, long should never cease to regret his conduct as seceaa lived. the es to The depositions were then taken by /‘eleb clerk, and the prisoner was fully committed to for trial. Jane Gough, a C L ERKEIV W ELL. :1 ,1 'a h er young woman with a eb.A-; bierieff a a rms, was charged with annoying Mr. Joh ° :r i 'gieg °t jeweller, residing at No. 3, Lloyd-street, IV '" L his door bell. it rea i A solicitor, whose name did not transpire, iirrevious for . the complainant, who deposed that on the .? 1 . - 01 13° n th ight, at a quarter past ten o'clock, the prisol,,,, door , and his door and rung his bell. Witness went to ''' o iseh I Kill give her, s , aid, " If you do not leave 0 3 9 fa r :er, b. u t t , give you in charge." lie then shut the si% e• Ile she rung the door-bell again nine or ten tin 3 • s e. ness's wife was ill and was alarmed at the „ia e gave her in charge. At the station-house ebe i ;cl re% would break every window in his house. Sh e a .' her - his bell on last Thursday night, when he g -ve charge, but she was then discharged. ~0 to 511 , a Mr. COMBE (to the prisoner)—What Wore yi-hlicl ho infant othe charge ? The prisoner said that bell e : a isitb er a ; in her arms (of which complainant was ti l "v fro' w h ere starving, and she went to grt a little 1:01si4, of im. She had made an epplication to a ulagi st ,. r b e ior cerning the support of her child, and was Oa 000 summon him ; but she had not the price of a 441 which s C he could not get withou it. •doi wh Mr. ONBE (to complainant) t She was here on Fr i last—was she not ? Complainant—She was' af P` ir. Mr. COMBE—Did she say she would do you o v s sonal 13e she aiowlehnacied break khims my oweicasisoiewns.? C orop aio ell C° °. said , e ? Mr. COMBE—Any threat of persona l vioienc plainant—No, not on this occasion.: V l4 6na o ust P% dot _ e y j r ; _C_O r, 3_IB , E . ,(,!? the i prisoner)--You I ou 1...., o,eee witted The woman said she had no moneY, and Wl° '' °lll accordingly. 4111N {IF 4a, IZEAr. :1 3 , Eu e oe t : c ir ° : _ T a G IT : E I I N I i ° i w o n e u: I i ti ; RE. E Tins t „Y. Jphu -lba Meeting Erlitht, Es, at 67. of adm "` 6 7. Fleet- stree fiats will in h cation at th e e ting ; and Trade, is es °TicE. L., a ItEDUC rallw ilZkETis S are S"ThylaYB, 2 an te — Dt ves uncl. l at tq Fare : rust oft Class, Star ce, Gr h,„„ bßoss. toy bY T he CON s stove le oe . L Sill ..uston.. sqt t i,",! . 6 !* booked ti 1•45. train o 111,411erPartin e lla l - Offlee, AT ATION tk, lb is bastitnl With reaps Des o ,'"kired has, (Is t t :r ia forfait othi , b le); also tot a lterssts tc Nis Of year I,e to ifteess ai ktoZ ir tettrs, • 0 Prerniun S. kt u ... - *Alio. , of - wet' the p ro 045-6 R 3, c tl'uteess wt Nd P y Ceman 4 the 9th d th ,4t current ye h tt, ore the 9th N't Person ag Nur js ecu r , Y, 1841 ‘ 4 411:7, Poo to pr t ,,Luis abate k` 4 .ltxt of an a me ted to the t zi Proportii kt, ,, of the rt 140tT ex er in Positi form -- "Y, or by lets liJ( 4 11 . t . ; o b t 03: I F e, r n V os (;i th ,_ 4l, tll - us E '` 4 l , Icrandi - ` 4 lisoi E Ititrehall ll:%] t li wilf o oi3t (l .l:l o o:a ti raerj b tueat t s: ":. what 'id b, !Ad that :14 1: " . 1::141 e ur4 t si h s 10tbl e e iro i 'Yfi f e il °:1 1 tI c .1 1c1 that Pro ewer RICH. 11E'NJ The woman saia sne nau lb w0.e. 4 , - accordingly. of SOUTHTVARK fpor e Thomas Willoughby, a non the marines, waited on Mr. Cottin& alr o l Lowir br c if conrissifo.onredthee putpcoolos, of soliciting his advice under the t 11 it eosfe ° e stances : The appellant stated that he belo h nged a t , ° . ti i e n Ct i o lei i . r es cutter, and for the last eleven wont s h t, D;r lor eee' re , off the coast of Scotland, having his vein ; Le abbF o i to half his - pay, in London. That whilst a n „ s ot . _ c a ceived information that his wife had bee h'l obtiPto him ; upon being apprised of leave of his commander to come ascertain the truth or falsehood of t!' l '., , „bieh d ,,eel to wLhoireldh.on_,:ienpo°rrtlerool,ocl accordingly came to town, On his ur_riv . s: d a b i te 'Ol quite unexpected, he found that his wife " 9 t hiog' of the house where he left her, sold off the is ee rrOt had gone to live under the protection: ',. tot al , f o r tradesman, in the neighbourhood of Blackfri,ar:he ye" t o he (applicant) had ocular demonstration e! 1 , ,ight o all he saw the parties together on the preeedt we re t is was prevented by some of his friends, r del i o ciser i 0. him at the time, from punishing the reit' 1 ., of byte the way he deserved. The object, there t f!t e , gitgor m_ rt i,. plication was, to be informed whether I: bat s o _ 9 b i t ol could not separate them in such a manne r , • al , o urwAl h e less a woman could no longer have any ci t cow . bl ec a that his commander told hi m that th e ° • der V, accomplished before a magistrate. , 0133 03 0 pe e : Mr. COTTINGHAM said, the applic ant s c d rot the opp lr misinformed him, and that magistrates 1 34 ,if tb e aeliq of separating man and wife; that , howe ve to t he ill d tO r cant's statement was correct with resPee t , he r, I t ev e , of his wife, he was not bound to Win te° door '`) if li i he would be authorised in shutting his eel o[ l against her. The Magistrate added thnorri;;oroe wife consented to a separation, he could B! ta $ a ... ,i i 0 he did, it would be bigamy unless he obtsil t de ee ll )el in the ecclesiastical courts, and a suit of thl:,se abet was attended with such an enormous eel'ss i3 • h b e e' few men could bear it. ,hi h The applicant here produced a letter, " , io t e I •frii ,, d 3 was written by his wife the preceding hie, f or sence of a witness who was in Court. a aft to oe' Mr. COTTINGHAM perused the note, 11 ! 3 1 o der, th to' expressed a wish to see applicant's wife , 11 100 c1 o l be foe; quaint her of the position in which she s tioD ea ce , bl i ci gard to her husband. That, as he had ine n „ r ferel 3 f y oli re the case was not one for magisterial ie'! o , to the Ivo under the circumstances he had no objet . th at ,t s t °)e arrange matters between the parties, se an d ..' might be informed of her exact position, 9- , no te had no claim upon her husband. fli oat bl) . il l' : The applicant said she still held hissls pa}; no and had regularly received a portion e'• she c 4 the present quarter ; that he considered o P pr e entitled to it. sto p tiOr L i ogill ell Mr. COTTINGHAM said that he coml.& e-- es ,ereP f. meet by calling at the Navy Pay-office, sn' e l f the facts relative to his wife. the s :or ieti be A messenger having been dispatched '' event 4t cant's wife, she sent word that it was not e° ea t yre , her to attend, and at the same time bsgg io afo a tt ° Magistrate might be informed that she ``,.. oo :lise:4 what had transpired, and that she should I ) tu re,L, D make any claim upon her husband for the Inge Sir f that she was perfectly happy in the e 9r ° f e jet t be made. The applicant, who evinced cons iderable,o9eigs to mind on the occasion, having expressed his tP Magistrate for the advice, then withdrew. .............../ bal•cl! ef i ' BIRTHS. i t i , On the 12th inst., at Tymaen, Glamorganseir e ' i ir 11. A. Ford, Esq., of a son. pis. doll ft On the 12th inst, at Grosvenor-square, -" cor ilfr ander Hankey, of a son, still-born. • r of , o re On the 14th inst., at Tulse-hill, the wife o l Finch, Esq., M.D., of a son. t, On the 14th inst., Mrs. Bellville, Red Lion-st-fee of a daughter. - a r, MARRIED. 110 0 1" On the 16th inst., at Gretna-green, George '-'" Liiw - London, to Margaret, second daughter of R o bert $01; ll'j of Clifford-street, Bond-street. non e On the 9th inst., at Selattyn, Salop, Edwerd eat JP' ~; of Lincoln's Inn-fields, to Sarah Harriett, y-oung #r ; f , of John Povey, Esq., of the Derwen, Salop. „,, dd er• f ., s e' On the 12th inst., at Hythe, Hants, Philip x1'..70,'" Bath, to Susan, second daughter of Richard BO " Hythe. f °I DIED. relict i ) Aii i, On the 11th inst.; at Taversal, Notts, A nn, late Thomas Clay, Esq., of Norwood. ize ore',, On the 11th inst., at Ham-common, Surrey, '' r Story, Esq., aged 70. 1 mil-i cel On the 13th inst., Clara, eldest daughter of Vlr.' , fe . of Claremont Lodge, Hornsey. road, Middlesex• o f ti l " 1 On the 13th inst., Arthur May, the infant son ,A. J. M. Soule, of St. John's-hill, Battersea, StureY. . t g , Y7' A ' On the 14th inst., Robert, second son of 'T. F 9l- OF Hanover-street, Hanover-square. th e ries , I / On the 14th inst., at Blake Hall, Ongar,Ch a d son of Capel Cure, Esq. be til 0 On the 14th inst., at Southampton, Mrs. E.-- I;, 6 az Neufville, aged 76. it''' . On the 14th inst., at th e R ec t or y House, St. 41 " 1113 .11 11 the Rev. Roderick M‘L eo d, D.D., age d 92. .dil l On the lath in s t., a t Bromley, Middlesex, Le onia- the infant son of Edwin Abbott, jun., Esq. ~I I -- - --VOl/rf` ii London Printed and Published by MURDO - /.10. 1 1 No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Off.e' CF's Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in Bliddlesel4"Wednesday, Decemberl7, 1345.