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, • A • • fier • ; fro titttol THE FUNDS-(C POSING PRICES.) BRITISI Bank Stock. 203 3 per Cent. Red lOO% 3 per Cent. Cons . per Cent. Red New 3% per Cent. lO3 New 5 per Cont. Long Annuities to expire Jan, IEI6O l2 g Oct. 185.9 ll 15-16 Jan. 1£430......... - Indian Stock FOR4'IGI FUNDS. I Ditto Bonds 73 rm. Ditto under £1,009 lin. ;South Sea Stock ..... Ditto Old Annuities — Ditto New Annuities — Ex. Bills, 1,0001. I}6d 8 put. rAtto 5001. Ditto Small 5B pm. Bank Stock. for Acct — Consols for 0pg.... India Stock for Acct 22 ,5!•.1 FUNDS. Russian, 5 per Cent Ditto, Metallic ...... per Cent., 1840 — ditto, 1841 ..... Ditto, 1842 Ditt0,..,,..........« 1843..,,.......... Ditto, 1844 Ditto, :3 per Cent -6 X Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct — French, 5 per Cent., —t. o. French, 3 per Cent —l. -_e. Exchange ......... « —t. -c. Dutch, 2% per Cent ,Ditto,,s per Cent Austrian, 5 per Cent Belgian, 5 per Cent,,,,,,,,,,,, Brazilian Bonda SS Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cenr Cuba Bonds, 6 der Cent. 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'Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid) Ditto New Shares, 17% paid 24 Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid Churnet:Valley, 2 paid Cornwall, 3 paid, 2% Eastern Counties (25 paid) .F.dlnburgh and Glasgow. 50 paid Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 paid tireat North of England, 100 paid , l2O Great Western (75 paid) Ditto Fifths ' 12 paid Lancaster and Carlisle, 10 paid llimion and Brighton (50 paid) Landon and South Western (411. 6s. 10d. paid) 83% Ditto Eighths (15s.aid) London and York, 2). paid 4 Lynn and Ely, 1 paid Manchester and Leeds (70 paid) Ditto, Half Shares, 30 paid Manchester and Birmingham Midland (100 paid) Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 24 paid Worth British, 5 paid Worths,rn and Eastern (45 paid) Ports mouth Direct, I paid OX Richmond and West End Junction, I paid 2 Rugby, I paid l% So uth Devon, 10 paid lO% auth Eastern and Dover (33 'Ls 4d paid) Ditto, New Shares, 4 paid 3 l Blt York and North Midland (50 paid) lO2 Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid .... ................ Orleans and Vierzon, 2 paid .. 10% Orleans and tiourdeaux, I paid Paris and Orleans 0.11 paid) Paris and Rouen. 20 paid Paris and Strasbourg, 2% p a id 214 "SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. 7ROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. GLOBE.—Dartmouth was among the boroughs which were redeemed by the Reform Bill from the degradation of nominal representation. Before that just and necessary measure was enacted, this little maritime town gave two seats in Parliament to the nominees of the Treasury ; in whom its close corpo ration invariably discerned all the requisite qualifica tions for the honour and advantages then pertaining to such le g islators. Th e R e f orm Bill opened the borough, and assigned one Member to its constituency. Lieut.-Colonel Sir J. H. Seale had endeared himself to the inhabitants by his numerous 'virtues, and espe cially by the exertions he he.d used to break up the close corporation confederr‘cy by which the represen tation of the borough ha':i been prostituted to the pur poses of private gain wed political corruption. That gallant officer becarre e its first representative under the new system; D'ad continued, without competiteou, to be returned aa its Member to every successive Per liament. Hia death occurred a few days since, and his remains - will be committed to the tomb this day. But scarcely had the breath left the body of the deceased Member than the Tories were on the alert to recover their lost influence in the borough. lEb'ctioneering agents of the Carlton Club, metro ped'aan and local, commenced operations. Their can elidate was announced. Mr. Joseph Soames, Go 'wernor of the New Zealand Compeny, is to contest the seat on the " Conservative interest;" and the Dartmouth Reformers, who have hitherto been faithful and firm to the principles and party which obtained for them their long -sought right to tne -aleetive franchise, are modestly " solicited" to exercise that right in favour of the candidate who, with the party wh:ich nominates him, would gladly deprive them of their votes ! The modesty of this :attempt on the, constituency is equal to the delicacy the Tories have shown to the memory and bereaved fa mily of the deceased member, in thus needl ess ly agitat ing the cc ins tit uency before his: funeral has taken place. Althomee taken by surprise by this indecent haste on the part oftheir opponents—and necessarily unprepared to engai ;-e in a contest while the solemnities of comni:t ting tl ie remains of their deceased member to the tomb v dere yet unperformed —the Dartmouth Liberels will le found teue to themselves, and to the cause with which. they see identified. They have found a candi date v:orthy of their exertions in Mr. George Mon 't, 'well known to the Liberals of the metropolis as an emin ent merchant, and as " a good man and true." Mr. Mo ffatt has already shown by works, as well as wor, Is, that he regards Parliamentary Reform as only the means to the attainment of valuable results. As the Chairman of the London Penny Postage Commit tee in 1838 be contributed, by his zealous and persevering ea .ertions, to the attainment of that immense national b enefit. Mr. Moffatt's opinions on the question of f zee trade are identical with those who advocate the removal of commercial restrictions, as essential to the extension of our trade and the profitable employ ment of our increasing population. Mr. Moffat will commence his personal canvass of the electors on Monday. We cannot doubt of his success. The Dartmouth Tories, by violating the decorum which. the conventionalities of society pre scribe —and which, even when political excitemen• is more ste onga y felt than it is at present, are observe , indicato the, hopelessness of the contest into which they are ph enee' e ng themselves and the constituency. The const etreency is small—not more than 250 will vote. but the employment of corruption and co me :inn can prevent Mr. Moffatt's return by a large P revortion of the electors. The former is, happily, LYy the new election law rendered more easy of detec ftion than it was. Let the Liberal voters be but proof against the latter, and Toryism will sustain a defeat at Dartmouth that will discourage any future attempt to seize upon the representation. STANDARD.—We appeal to the memory of our readers to witness whether we have not anxiously abstained from the agitation upon ecclesiastical mat ters, which is now distracting the Church and the country ; or if our readers are so forgetful of our con duct, or so ill-informed of the pressure we have leid 'to resist as to hesitate in acquitting us of a voluntary part in the agitation, we can appeal to hundreds— to thousands—of offended correspondents, whose fa vours we have rejected or whose suggestions we have slighted, though heartily concurring in their opinions. We know our countrymen, and we best know that most numerous and most intelligent, as well as best disposed, division of them—the members of our Protestant Church. We know that they are slow to move, because they are religious, prudent, and just, and that they will not move at all except upon what seems to them a clearly righteous and an adequate ground ; hut we know also that when they move, they are determined, inflexible, and irresistible. When such men arise to action they stand much more in need of the curb than of the spur. We should apply the curb if we could hope to have influence ; but though we might offer violence to our own convictions, and should certainly forfeit all our influence in the attempt, it would be an utterly vain one. Let us close our columns against the pare mon' it topic of the day, and we may to-morrow close our establishment; while the line we could conscien tiotesly pursue in perfect conformity with the uni versal feeling would be taken up by some mere tiene-server, as indeed we see already some of the mercenary class pressing into it—the last and the decisive proof that the public mind has been defini tively made up. We copied yesterday with satisfac tion, from the Morning Herald, an announcement, of the correctness of which we have no reason to doubt, that the Bishops are preparing to interpose. We can assure their Lordships that there is no time to spare, and that they must make up their minds to interpose effectually when they do interpose. It is now too late to stand upon trifles ; too late, indeed, to treat any of the disputed points as trifling ; every ensign of hostile innovation is an intole rable insult, and every rag of such ensign must be abandoned, if an honourable peace is to be obtained for the Church. Without the removal of every tatter of Tractarianism the people will not be satis fied—must we add, ought not to he satisfied. in short, if the Bishops will have an end to the present distractions, they must exercise their legitimate influence to have the order of the Church brought back to what it was a dozen years ago, the most glorious era in the history of any Church since the age of the Apostles. That glorious era it was which tempted vain men, who had no share in producing it, to turn the deep religious feeling of the nation to the account of their own ambition or foppish conceit. They saw the Church the object of a veneration only less than that paid to its divine head, and they hoped to exalt themselves as priests of the Church above all other men, and to render their persons " the observed of all observers," by fanatical dresses, gaudy church furniture, and antic gesticulations. Such men could not appreciate the true source of the veneration so universally paid to the Church—the ab sence of those personal vanities and passions, and of those profane frivolities with which they, in the:r stupid conceitedness, would desecrate the majesty of religion. If the Church is to become again what th e Ch urch was twelve years ago,the object of devoted love and reverence to the people, all pe p all the in novat i ons introduced by the self-seekers- - l e y and coxcombs must h e swept clean out. Men cant2ot be too firm, or we will sly to o obstinate, where ciples are concerned ; , iu t t h ey who deny thl.)trtTie a surplice preaching is a mere sign of novelty, as some bishops do, will admit that surplices are not prin ciples, and will surely surrender surplice preaching TEA SUN, LONDoN, S.A__rti.RDAN _EVEN LING, DECEM it 7 1844. to the feeling of the people, who cannot help con s nesting it with the Tractarian innovations. firmness or obstinacy upon questions of high prin ciple cannot be too much comniended, obstinacy in things trifling or insliderent to principle cannot be too, much despised. There are, it is true, the two cases in which a plausible apology may be made for obstinacy upon questions of secondary importance. An importunate claimant may be refused a trifle, because he is importunat,s— because in his case every new concession leads to a new demand. This cannot apply to men who ask only for the status quo—their de mand limits itself for ever. They only ask to be left where they and their ancestors have been for nearly two centuries. The remonstrant Churchmen, indeed, give the hest possible proof of their tontent ment with, and deep affection for, the Church, in ear nestly praying that its practical order and ritual may undergo no change. Arguments and answers fit to be used towards importunate aggressors un doubtedly do not apply to them. The second case where trifles may be obstinately maintained w ith some colour of reason, is when the concession of the trifle gives a party triumph ; but the Bishops will scarcely treat the whole laity and forty-nine fiftieths of the clergy as a party to balance against a few hundred Tractarians ; to put thorn at all into opposite scales would be a triumph to the Tractarians immeasurably disproportioned to their real importance. No the Church can have no tri um ph i n being left to the peace ful enjoyment of her time-honoured usages ; but the least concession of the least of these usages would be indeed a triumph to the Tractarians —a gross insult to the Church—an insult, we do not hesitate to say, fatal to the Church as a temporal establishment. This may 'be thought the language of exaggeration, it is, however, the language of our deliberate and sincere conviction. We confess the utmost alarm for the Church as a temporal establishment. A very few months have passed since every hand and purse of the nation were cheerfully opened for Church purposes. Money was collected for building of churches, for endowments, and for the er ec ti ng an d suppor t o f church schools, by hundreds of thousands of pounds. How is it now ? The very men most active in promoting these noble contributions, and most liberal in contributing them selves, are now the very men who oppose any grants for Church use. FROM THE MORNING PAPNRS OF THIS DAN. TIMES.—This is the age of public meetings and pub licSdinners. The latter are, in a great mcausurc, made the feelers of general opinion, whenever a party purpose, or an object of peculiar weight in the eyes of certain individuals, is to be promoted. By the medium of toasts and speTches the required stimulus is conveyed to the guests, and they go away with the noblest impressions of tine scheme to be adopted or the thing to be done. All, of course, are on one side, for who would attend at the dinner where he would be the sole opponent—the un supported dissentient from the voice of a whole company ? Nothing, therefere,' is more delightful, and more capti vating, than the7nndivided unanimity, under favour of which every sentence is applauded to the echo, and every speaker cheered to his heart's content. Such assemblies may be necessary, they may be useful, they may be called for by the necessities - of the times, 6i the peculiar merits of the topic to be , diseussed. We neither ridicule nor condemn them ; it would be quite unnatural to do so, seeing that men are seldom, we may say never, so good-humoured, ar i d so . r eady t o t a k e everything for grantee, as after a -festival of this • kind. How ever, with all our readiness - stcs „, do ,justice to the value of such entertainments, ibere: may be, arid there must be, certain occasions, and cevain remarks to which those occasions give rise, Which do not &to gether win our approbation or goodwill: Our readers will find in another part of our paper a report of a meet ing of sundry noblemen and gentlemen at Cirencester, at the annual commemoratioa of the Cirencester Agri cultural Association. There was indeed the abounding flow of sentiment, and the usual amount of speechifying. There was, of course, much tender pathos; a due ad mixture of the grave and gay to interest as well as to amuse the audience. The principal theme of the day, however, was one which all of every class now feel themselves imperatively obliged to consider ;—we mean the depressed state of the labourer, and the best means of ameliorating his condition. The Hon. W. Bathurst seems to have been powerfully awakened to the subject. " We must not forget," he said, " on an occasion like this, the agricultural labourer ;" and truly the company did not forget --to mention him at least, as how could they at such a dinner, and amid the recurrence of such questions ? This gentleman, however, unadvisedly as we think, strayed into one or two diversified branches of argument, which he might certainly have left unnoticed with much better taste and feeling than he showed by introducing and dwelling upon them. He made, in truth, a somewhat angry attack upon the manufacturer on behalf of the agriculturist population, neither well-timed nor exactly applicable to the whole state of the case. There was manifested throughout a pointed desire to accuse and overwhelm the millowners as the most selfish and heartless race of men—the oppressors of the poor labourer whom they had taken into their employment, and who, when his toil had answered their purpose, and he was no longer use ful, or could no imager be maintained, turned him adrift at once upon the parish ! No doubt there is, and re' doubt can there be, that all the peasant wants is em ployment ; he wants, and is ready to do, " a fair day's work for a fair day's wages," than which no proposition more equitable or more reasonable was ever offered to the human understanding. He wants just what the lot of man enjoins upon his station—to gain his bread by the sweat of his brow. He asks this of his employers— he has a right to ask it ; although it is a portion of toil and privation, such as it is, it is his birthright, and can be no more justly withheld than the rights of his land lord can be refused. No wonder, then, that several of the speakers adopted this subject for their observa tions. It could not well escape their attention at a meeting so obviously connected with the cause of the poor man. But, we confess, how his cause could be advanced, or his condition mended, by flinging it with aggressive violence in the face of the manufacturer, is an enigma that it puzzles our ingenuity to solve. Whence this fiery emulation, this undisguised jealousy of the millowner ? Could not Mr. Bathurst, or any other speaker, find topics enough to dilate upon, and remedies of some sort to offer upon the bitter portion of the unemployed tillers of the soil, without arraying all his chivalry against the manufac turers ? Besides, gentlemen, you will permit us, if you please, to show you one very sufficient reason why, if any charge of the kind were made at all, it should have been aimed elsewhere in the first instance. Who, we ask, was it that turned the agricultural labourer into the plodder of the factory ? Who first exhorted and urged the peasant to forget his original occupation, and bend his energies to another employment ? We do not underrate the earnestness of these speakers, but we really must refresh theirmemories with acorrect representation of the circumstances tinder which they themselves are placed in this respect. How, then, came the manufacturers to find labourers a low wages ready at their hand? Surely it ought, in common justice, to be remembered that the landowners themselves were the persons to encourage this exchange of toil ; that they did all in their power to free their parishes and estates from the superabundant hands ; that they gave to the public highly-coloured re presentations of prosperity, making their own poor be lieve they would discover the secret of transmutation in this Eldorado—that they were to rise rapidly in wages. and enjoy all the contingent comforts of ample pay. All this may have been thought politic and judicious ; but, after driving these men from field labour, to which they were born, and bringing them into a totally different sphere of life, the landlords should not, in common fair ness, turn round upon the manufacturer and revile hint for doing in after times what their own example has but too successfully taught him. And, again, though it may sound very feasible to talk to the farmer about the neces sity of finding employment for the poor on his farm, it is scarcely intelligible to ordinary minds how this can be done, when, as Mr. Kearsey, a farmer present, very justly obe served, so heavy was the taxation under which they suf fered, that they were driven to curtail their own expen diture, and this always operated upon the wages of the labourer. Really, no one who advocates arty benevolent scheme ever seems to feel that the first effort should come from himself, and that if he wishes others to do good where he should himself set the example, he must prove his sincerity by so doing, and doing it quickly. It never seems to strike the wealthy landowners at such meetings to propose a real reduction of their own rents, as a foundation for employing additional labourers or paying them more adequately. Thus, it is to be feared too many of the schemesof advantaging the lower orders fail or fall to the ground, from the want of this great first principle of showing the way where we would wish to lead others. It is no great praise to set up for a humane character at the expense of a neighbour's reputation ; nor is it any credit to the possessors of large estates where a numerous population i s without employment, that the master manufacturers treat their own drud , res no better. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, DEC. 6.—We have had a very flat week in sugar,. and the sales r e p orte d are under 100 hhds; prices being with difficulty supported. Nothing doing in other descriptions of sugar. R um d u ll, but the supply offering is small.—Br i stol Mercury. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Dec. 6.) FRUIT.—The trade are still inclined to get largely stocked with Currants, and prices rule firm. Patras new at 49s to 538, old 458 to 465. Zante and Cephalonia old 44s and new 47s per cwt. Raisins, Valentin at sos, Denim 40s, Lelia 38s, Smyrna black 38s, Red 45s to -f7s, Eleme 48s to 508, Sultana 60s, Muscatels 55s to 100 s. Figs Turkey pulled are 45s to 75s per cwt. ItlCE.—There are several purchasers of Bengal, by private contract low white has been selling at lOs 6d to its, mid I Is 3d to I Is 9d, good 12s, and fine 12s 3d to 12s 6d per cwt ; there is at present not sufficient at mar ket to supply the demand. For Foreign East India Rice prices are not so firm. Madras yellow is 8s to 8s 6d, Java white lOs to 12s, and.yellow 9s to lOs per cwt. INDIGO.—The accounts come to hand from Calcutta fully confirm those previously received relative to the abundant crop. The market has a flat appearance, and the business transacted has been at a decline on the rates of the late quarterly sales of 2d to 4d per lb. In Spanish there has been little doing. • i • OILS.—A further reduction has taken place in the value of Linseed Oil, on the spot at 2`23 ed to 22s ud, and for exportation . soina parcels hare been taken a t th ese rates. For forward delivery many con tracts are entered into at 23s per c - at. For Rape Oil, the crushers with difficulty obtain 35s for pale, and 34s per cwt for brown. Palm 25s 6d to 26s per cwt for good and fine qualitAr. Cocoa Nut 24s 6d to 28s per cwt for V3oM nion to fine quality. Ia Olive Oil the transac tions are upon a more extended scale, but not at better prices; Gallipoli selling at 41/to 42/, Spanish and Barbary 38./ to 40/ per torn Tho dart:arid h ihntased 1111 detcliptiOils of Common Fish Oils: Southern has been in good request, and prices rule firm at 291 to 341 for ord to fine quality. Seal—pale 34/ to 341 lOs, straw and yellow 30l to 334 and brown 291 to 29/ 10s. Cod Oil at 31/ 108 to 32l per tun. Sperm, 871 to 90/ per tun is the value of first quality. American Lard Oil is 401 to 41/ per tun. This afternoon at public sale 10 barrels of African Ground Nut Oil were sold at 33/ lOs per tun. TaLLow.—This afternoon the market was well sup plied with colonial Tallow ; at public sale 323 casks of stranded St. Petersburgh yellow Candle went at 37s 6d to 395; 347 packages of South American at 33s to 39 Gd, 21 casks of African 34s to 38s 6d, 92 casks New South \Vales 37s 9d to 41s 6d; 181 packages of Cape of Good Hope 38s 6d to 41s 6d; 134 packages of North American 37s 6d to 39s 9d per cwt. ' 2 - James Mac Kay, mercuant, ~i verpco/;-,D6c antl, Jan. 23, at twelve, at the Liverpool District C6:l;7.te; Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Sharpe and Co., Bedford-row, London ; Miller and Peel, Liverpool. .PIVIDENDS. T. Todd, cotton dealer, Man't.fst•it:Ppe, 11, et eleven, at the Manchester District Court—A. .laC6i), Manchester, Dec. 31, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis: trict Court—T. W. Butterworth, draper, Hulme, Lan cashire, Jan. 9, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court—J. Coupland and F. Duncan, merchants, Liver pool, Dec. 28, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court —R. Benbow, timber merchant, Liverposl, Dec. 28, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. J. and R. Davies, linendrapQrs, Chiswell-street, Jan. 8 —G. Ball, carpenter, Bath, Dwe. 31—B. W. Franklin, merchant, Liverpool, Dec. 27—J. Grundy, woollen ma nufacturer, Ramsbottom, Lancashire, Dec. 30—T. B. Andrew, tea dealer, Ashton-under-Lyne, Dec. 30— T. W. Butterworth, draper, Hulme, Lancashire, Jan. 2 T. M. Monckman. tobacconist, Brad:oid, Dec. 27—W. Trumble, licensed victualler, Liverpool, Dec. 27—A. Patterson, livery-stable keeper, Liverpool, Dec. 27—W. Schofield, machine maker, Oldham, Lancashire, Dec. 27 —.J. Peacock, grocer Stockton-upon-Tees, Durham, Dec. 27—H. Hitchen, ironmonger, Halifax, Dec. 27—J. Walton, saddler, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Dec. 27—G. Hiller, varnish manufacturer, Sun-street, Bishopsgate street, Dec. 27—T. Marsh, miller, Canterbury, Dec. 27 —J. Ramsey, cheesemonger, Chapel -street, Somers town, Dec. 27. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. T. F. May and A. West, eating-house keepers, New gate-street—R. Underwood, D. Underwood, and W. Un derwood, tobacconists, Nottingham G. Fisher, J. Bramall, and G. Whittles, file manufacturers, Sheffield — J. W. T. Vollans and R. C. Cross, attorneys, East Ret ford, Nottinghamshire—W. F. Bonsai! and H. Buxton, auctioneers, Manchester—C. Lamy and S. Kendall, grocers, Aylesbury• street, Clerkenwell—T. Stubbs and J. Poole, fustian manufacturers, Manchester—Eli and Elizabeth Berry, drapers, Ashton• under-Lyne—J. N. Holbrook and J. Jackson, commission agents, Hull—W. and J. W. Ellis, cloth merchants, Leeds—T. Kay, T. Whitehead, D. Whitehead, and P. Whitehead, mer chants, Rawtenstall—Clarke, Maze, and Co., Bristol (so far as regards H. G. Clarke)--J. Philpotts and J. H. Browne, shawl dealers, Brighton—J. and J. A. Webber, drapers, Taunton, Somersetsh ire—D. Jepson, W. Jepson, J. Miner, and W. Ezart, glass bottle manufacturers, Castleford, Yorkshire (so far as regards J. Kilner)—H. Booth, J. Groom, and E. Marland, spindle makers, Oldham, Lancashire. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. Robert Brown. ship builder, Dundee, Dec, 9 and 30, at twelve, at the Royal Hotel, Dundee. John Wallace, grocer, Catrine, Ayrshire, Dec. 11 and Jan. 8, at twelve, at G. Dunlop's, innkeeper, Catrine. Robert Brown, lime merchant, Cadder, Dec. 12 and Jan. 3, at eleven, at the chambers of M. Waddell, Glasgow. wetri yttit It will be a bad job for you if you do it a` in; (pi we . watt you as men alive that if you do it agtiin; shall have it light ; and we will burn you down. `fliertS' ys th'i'other thing against you, which is, that you employ other parish men to do your har vesting, when there are men it 2 your own parish who are out of work, and you will do YreU, to employ Vital end if you employ a single stanger again, you shall no's dv ea more than one day, for you shall have a light. An we want is, to have the work done by the flail. We do not care for the police, as we are too strong.—Signed A: A, and Co. Take this as you like," It would appear that upon the prose cutor receiving possession of the letter, he applied to the police, and the prisoner Taylor was taken into custody. He then declared that he was in company with the Hurrells on the prosecutor's farm, and as they were going through a gate he saw the letter in question sticking on the gate-post, and he took it out and asked W. Hurrell who it was addressed to, and he replied that he could not tell him, but he ad vised him to ask another 'person employed upon the farm, and on his telling him that it was ad dressed to Mr. Miles, he took the letter to him, and he declared he knew nothing whatever of the con tents of it. Suspicion afterwards fell upon the other prisoners, and they were taken into eustody, when Lambert at first denied all knowledge of the transaction, but while he was under remand he ex pressed a desire to make a communication to a magis trate, and he then wrote a statement in which he de clared that the letter, and also another of a similar character, which was sent to a gentleman named Weston, were written by the Hurrelle, and that he had purchased the paper for them, but not at all aware to what purpose it was to be employed until the letters were shown to him by the policeman. He also stated that he was present when William Hur rail's father charged hirri th writing the threat ening letters, and he adm:ted it, and said that it could not be helped then. In ad dition to these facts, it was shown . that paper of a similar description to that upon vv:2lch the threatening letter was written was found in the 1 2° 8- , session of one of the Harrell's ; and that the father us the prisoner Lambert, who is a schoolmaster at .Aldhein, and who, it appeared, had taught William Harrell to write, was called as a witness, and he ex pressed his opinion that the writing of the threatening letter was very similar to that of this prisoner, although he would not take upon himself to swear positively , to it. The Learned Counsel on behalf of the prisoners explained the precise form of the charge against them, observing that Taylor was charged as the prin cipal, and that unless the jury believed it was clearly made out that he had a guilty knowledge of the con tents of the letter, the other prisoners, who were only charged accessorially with the commission of the offence, could not be convicted, and they contended that the story told by him was perfectly reasonable, and that the very fact of his going openly to deliver the letter to his master's wife was almost con clusive of his innocence. They also remarked upon the fact that there was little or no evidence against the other prisoners, and that the statement of Lambert ought not to have any weight, as it was legally no evidence at all against the other prisoners, and, beside , , was clearly only made by him for the purpose of getting himself out of trouble. The prisoner Lambert, in his defence, said he had told nothing but the truth, and it would have been no interest to him to be concerned in writing such a letter, for he did not belong to the parish of Aldham, and had, besides, never been engaged in agricultural pursuits. Mr. Justice Wiemems having summed up, the jury, after deliberating aconsiderable time, Acquitted Elisha Hurrell and Lambert, and returned a verdict of Guilty against the others. soner then said, " ll—n thee, its been a good one, let's try again, I can whirl thee next time." Hs became, however, apparently tranquil once more, and talked ra tionally for some time, but took the opportunity of wit ness going out for a minutejo get possession of a carving knife, with which he so terrified the inmates that they rushed out of the house in a body. The witness hearing the alarm came into the house, and seeing the prisoner with the carving knife in his hand, cried out, " Jack, if thou does'nt lay that down, I'll cleave tha' yead," on which the prisoner laid the knife down, and was taken s,nto custody. This witness, on further examination, stated, that up to six or eight weeks before, the prisoner had been well behaved, and a quiet hardworking man. About that time he began to neglect his work, refused to wash or clean himself, and would lie in bed all day, saying that he was clean beat, and had no strength in his limbs. On one occasion he came to th' witness and asked him to put him in a chair and keep him for a show. The wit ness added, " Soomtimes, when we had coompany, we'd bring him down and knock him about, to see if 'ud dc' un any good." He explained, however, that the knocking about meant merely an endeavour to enliven him by their society. The prisoner was acquitted on the ground of insanity. SOUTH WALES ClRCUlT—Chester, Dcc. 5. (Before Mr. Baron GURNEY.) THE CASE OF mn. WINTERBOTTOM - CHARGE OF For, GERV AGAINST A SOLICITOR. This case being fixed for this morning, the Court was crowded to excess, the ease exciting a very great degree of interest, in consequence of the accused having occu pied a most respectable station in the county, having twice served the office of Mayor of Stockport, and held the situation of clerk to the magistrates of tbat borough. The prisoner was defended by Mr. Jervis, M.P., and Mr. Welsby, who were brought down from London on special retainers for the purpose, as was also Mr. Bond Hughes, the celebrated short-hand writes, to take ver batim notes of the proceedings. The Learned Judge, who is labouring under indispo • sition, did not take his seat until ten o'clock. Shortly afterwards the grand jury came into Court with upwards of twenty bills, including four against. John Kenyon Winterbottom for forgery. This concluding their busi ness, the Court discharged them. The prioner, John Kenyon IVinterbottom, was then p:eced at the bar, charged with having had in his pes se,seien a certain bill of exchange for 5,0001., and that he ill the names of Elizabeth Isherwood, had (meted to that i.. Anna Marie Isherwoeel. Miriam Isherwood, and Anna e ;ee executrixes of the late Mr. Magdalene Isherwood, John Isherwood, of Marpie :Tall, with intent to defraud them. He was also ebarged ws . :h uttering the said bill, with intent to defraud the trustee's of the Pelican Life office, with intent to defraud John .104..k50n, and also with intent to defraud Messrs. Roberts,f.,;and Co., hankers, of London. Each indictment cluerged him se parately with forging the names of the reelee'ciive en dorsers. and also with uttering. The prisoner e 7leadd not guilty. Tne Attorney-General, Mr. Davidson, and Mr. Yarde'Y appeared for the prosecution. The ATTORNEY-IiENEItAL, in stating the case to the jury, entreated them to dismiss from their minds all prejudices arising from the discussion of the case out of doors, and to decide the case solely in accordance with the evidence which would be laid before them. He was placed in a most painful position, having known the prisoner all his life, and could not have believed he would be guilty of the offence with which he was charged, as he had always thought him as honourable a man as any in the country. The prisoner had been for many years, previous to 1839, an attorney and banker in Stockport, and the confidential adviser of the late Mr. John Isher wood, of Marple Hall. In the year 1814 Mr. Isher wood effected a policy of insurance on his life for 5,000 L, the prisoner transacting the business for him. When the policy was effected, it Was placed by Mr. Isherwood in a box at Marple Hall, where it was sup posed to be kept until his death, which took. place in May, 1839. After his death the prisoner went to the agent of the Pelican Life-office in Manchester, produced the policy of assurance, having, it was supposed, taken it from the deed-box of Mr. Isherwood, to which he had ac cess when attending the funeral. He informed the agent of the death of Mr. Isherwood,and asked for the requisite certificates to be filled up. There he subsequently pro duced the certificates, and on Dec. 20, 1839, called with them and the probate of the will of the late Mr. Isherwood, The agent proposed to pay the amount of the policy by a bill at seven days' sight, and the prisoner obtained a stamp for that purpose. The bill was then drawn by the agent and handed to the prisoner, he at the same time being told that it must not be endorsed by the par ties by procuration, or it would not be caid by the office. On the 3d of January, 1840, the bill was paid by the prisoner into the Stockport Bank, and s oirtly after that period he received considerable sums from she bank, When paid into the bank it had the names of the ladies mentioned in the indictments on it ; but as he should only proceed on the one charging the prisoner with forging the name of Anna Magdelene Isherwood, now Mrs. Lloyd, he (the Attorney-General) would confine himself to that case. The bill was subsequently trans mitted to Messrs. Jones Loyd and Co., in London, and the acceptance of two of the trustees of the Pelican-office. It was paid by Messrs. Roberts and Co. In May, 1840, application was made by Mrs. Leyd to the prisoner, for the amount of the policy, when he said it was necessary, before the money would be paid by the office, that there should be a Canterbury probate obtained to her father's will as well as a Chester one. To other applications, he said the money was safe in London, and the office would pay interest for it. However, in August, 1840, it was discovered that the prisoner had received the money, and Mr. Bush was sent down to investigate the matter, and he, finding that the prisoner had absconded, took means to secure his apprehension, and got advertise ments issued, offering a reward of 2001. for him. He could not be found, however, until the month of Septem ber last, when he was accidentally met with by a man of the name of Paine, on the north shore at Liverpool, when he was apprehended. A number of witnesses were then called to prove these facts, Lifter which, Mr. Jsnvis took several objections to the indictment, on the ground that the prisoner was indicted for forging the names of each endorsee separately, whereas the whole endorsement was only one transaction, and the bill was not complete until all the names were signed ; that there was a variance in the different counts, the title of the Pelican-office not being correctly described, and that the bill itself was not a negotiable instrument, until accepted ; and, therefore, there could be no fraud in uttering it. Mr. WELSBY followed on the same side. The JUDGE said the point was one of too great nicety for him to decide, and he would, therefore, reserve it for the consideration of the Judges. Mr. JERVIS then addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner, in a most eloquent speech, contending that there was so much doubt in the case that they could not safely convict. It was manifest that the prisoner, being the confidential adviser of the family, considered that he had authority to receive the money, and to endorse the bill, and therefore the utmost extent of his guilt was a breach of trust. He implored them, therefore, under these circumstances, not to consign the prisoner, by their verdict, to slavery, and his wife and children to infamy. The Learned JUDGE briefly summed up the case, and The jury, after a few moments' consideration, pro nounced a verdict of Guilty. His Lordship ordered judgment to be respited. There were three other indictments, charging the prisoner with forging the names of Anna Maria Isher wood, Miriam, Isherwood, and Elizabeth Isherwood; and Mr. JERVIS said he apprenended the prisoner was en titled, in some way or other, to be discharged from those indictments. The JUDGE —Oh, no, certainly not. Mr. JERVIS —W ill your Lordship take a note :that I made the application ? The JUDGE—Yes. Mr. JERVIS then applied to the Judge to allow the officer of the court to furnish a copy of the indictment. The JUDGE—I have no objection. MIDLAND ClRCUlT.—Leicester, Dec. 6. Catherine Burrell, was arraigned upon a charge of manslaughter, in causing the death of one Sophia Stanley. The prisoner was arraigned upon the coroner's inqui sition, and also upon the common indictment proceeding from the Court. The prisoner, who is about forty years of age, has long practised the art and mystery of mid- wifery, and the deceased having heard her highly spoken of by those whom she had previously attended in cases of labour, engaged her to attend upon her in her coming confinement, and it was out of the alleged neglect she was said to have been guilty of on that occasion, by which her death was occasioned, the present charge arose. _ _ _ _ The evidence necessarily adduced is not fit for publi cation, and we only notice the case in justice to the pri soner, as the Learned Judge (Mr. Justice Patteson) told the jury in his opinion there was no evidence to support either indictment, and that the coroner's jury had dealt hardly with the prisoner in returning the verdict it bad. The jury instantly acquitted her. The deceased was said to have been the mother of thirteen children. Thomas Newman, aged 25, was charged with having intermarried with one Eliza Swingler, his former wife, Sarah Newman, being then alive. Mr. Burnaby conducted the case on the part of the prosecution. The prosecutrix, a very interesting woman of the age of 28, deposed that in iVlarch of this year she was working in Leicester at the straw bonnet business, when she became acquainted with Newman, whom she under stood was a journeyman clock-maker. Newman paid his addresses to her, representing himself to be a single man, and the prosecutrix, entertaining an affection for him, received those addresses favourably, and they were married at Lubenham Church in September. The pro secutrix had heard as early as the month of June that Newman was a married man, when she wrote to his mother living at Kettering. Before she received an answer the prisoner called upon her, and asked whether she had not written to her mother ? The prosecutrix asked him what she should have to write about ? To which he replied, that he knew she had ; but his mother was unwell, and denied himself to be a married man. A few days afterwards :.he received a letter purporting to come from the mother (which no doubt it did nut), saying Newman was a single man. This being satisfactory to her the acquaintance continued, and on the 26th of September they were mar ried by banns at the church previously named. The poor girl bad not been married more than three weeks when a woman called at the house where they were living, and asked for Newman. The prosecutrix replied that he was not then at home. The woman then said that she (the rroseeutri%) w . ;:s not , ife, whereupon ; inquiries were set on foot. and it . wus founa ho hail previously married on the 13th of SepteMber, 1841, at nt,ar I!:l3uckin,ghamshire. The proof u: boa, ni erriag,s e 4), perieetly clear. The prisoner de clined saying anything }n his defence. The jury found him Guilty. The Learned JIIIXiE then sentenced him to be impri- COAL 2YEARIZET. Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Buidle's West Hartley, 19s ; Hasting's Hartley, 18s ; Holy well Main, 20s ; New Tantield, 16s 6d ; Ord's Redheugh, 16s 6d ; Old Tanfield, 16s 6d ; Townley, 17s ; West Hartley, 18s ; W. E., Bcwicke and Co., 22s 3d ; W. E., Clark and Co., 19a 6tl ; W. E., Gosforth, 22s 3d ; W. E., Gibson, 21s 6d ; W. E., Belmont, 22s 6d ; W. E., Haswell, 23s 6d ; W. E., Hetton, 23s 6d ; W. E., Lamb ton, 23s 3d ; W. E., Richmond, 22s ; W. E., Sunder • land, 21s 6d ; W. E., Stewart's, 23s 3d ; W. E., Caradoc, 22s 9d ; W. E., Kelloe, 23s 3d ; W. E., Richardson's Tees, 21s 3d ; W. E., Tees, 23s ; Lewiss Merthyr, 21s.— Ships arrived since last chty, 15. COURSE OF EXCHA3 Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at sight l2 4 Rotterdam 2U. 12 6i Antwerp Hamburgh M.B. 13 14 Altona l3 14 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 70 Ditto, 3 months 25 96 Marseilles Bourdeaux Frankfort on Maine l2l Petsrsburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin Vienna, effee. fl. 3 M 954 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36} Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville TGE.-(YESTERDAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 50 Genoa 25 95 Milan Venice . . Naples ........ Palermo, per oz llB Lisbon 541 Oporto 541 Rio Janeiro 24 Bahia 24 Buenos Ayres New York,2ldyssight Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars. .£3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons..... 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 9; Silver in Bars 0 4 11 FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. HORSE-GUARDS, DEC. 5, 1844. Her Majesty does not require that the Officers of the Army shall wear any other mourning, on the present melancholy occasion of the death of her late Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda, than a black crape round the left arm, with their uniforms. By command of Field Marshal his Grace the Duke of Wellington, Commander-in-Chief, JOHN MACDONALD, Adjutant-General. ADMIRALTY, DEC. 2. Her Majesty does not require that the Officers of the Fleet or Marines should wear any other mourning, on the present melancholy occasion of the death of her late Royal Highness the Princess Sophia Matilda, than a black crape round the left arm ' with their uniforms. SIDNEY HERBERT. WHITEHALL, DEC. 4. The Queen has been pleased to grant to the Rev. John Antony Cramer, Doctor in Divinity, Principal of New Inn Hall, and Professor of Modern History in the University of Oxford, the dignity of Dean of the cathe dral church of Carlisle, void by the death of the Rev. Dr. Robert Hodgson, late Dean thereof. FOREIGN-OFFICE, Dec. 4. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. George Kissel, as Consul at Manchester for his Majesty the King of the Belgians. WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 6, 1844. 10th Light Dragoons-Lieut. Lord. G. A. Beauclerk to be Captain by purchase, vice Bridgeman, who retires; Cornet 'l'. T. S. Carlyon to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Lord G. A. Beauclerk ; E. Shelley, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Carlyon, Dec. 6. Scots Fusilier Guards-Brevet Colonel W. T. Knnllys to be Major, by purchase, vice W. Drummond, who re tires; Lieutenant and Captain E. W. F. Walker to be Captain and Lieutenant-Colonel, by purchase, vice Knollys ; Ensign and Lieutenant T. H. Powell to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Walker ; J. F. Peel, Gent., to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by pur chase, vice Powell, Dec. 6. 11th Regiment of Foot-Capt. J. J. Grant, from 38th Foot, to be Captain, vice Story, who exchanges ; Ensign H. M. Ball to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Jauncey, who retires ; R. W. Cardiff, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Ball, Dec. 6. 18th Foot-Lieut. G. Swaby, from 33d Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Cazalet, who exchanges ; Assistant- Surgeon Grigor Stewart, from 96th Foot, to be Surgeon, vice Stevenson, appointed to the 3d Foot, Dec. 6. 31st Foot-11. H. Massey, M.D., to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice Jenkins, deceased, Nov. 22. 33d Foot-Lieutenant G. H. Cazalet, from the 18th Foot, to be Lieutenant, vice Swaby, who exchanges, Dec. 6. 35th Foot-C. M. Layton, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wilson, who retires, Dec. 6. 38th Foot-Captain V. F. Story, from 11th Foot, to be Captain, vice Grant, who exchanges, Dec. 6. 42d Foot-Lieutenant A. C. Campbell to be Captain, by purchase, vice Macdonald, who retires ; Ensien J. 0. Barnett to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Camp bell ; J. W. P. Orde, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Barnett, Dec. 6. 44th Foot-Assistant-Surgeon E. J. Pratt, from 63d Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Bartlett, who retires upon half-pay, Dec. 6. 46th Foot-Gent. Cadet A. Nicholas, from Royal Mi litary College, to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Jackson, who retires, Dec. 6. 49th Foot-Major C. Cotton, from 94th Foot, to be Major, vice Dennis, who exchanges, Dec. 6. 54th Foot-Lieutenant J. B. Chalk to be Captain, without purchase, vice Brevet-Major W. Cox, who re tires upon full pay ; Ensign W. F. Brett to be Lieute nant, vice Chalk ; Gentleman Cadet W. E. F. O'Brien, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Brett, Dec. 6. 57th Foot-W. L. F. Sheaffe, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Croker, promotd, Dec. 6. 59th Foot-Major-General Sir J. Harvey, K.C.8., to be Colonel, vice Lieutenant-General Sir R. L. Duudas, K.C.8., deceased, Dec. 3. 63d Foot-Assistant-Surgeon W. Stuart, M.D., from 91st Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon, vice Pratt, appointed to the 44th Foot, Dec. 6. 65th Foot-Captain J. Jameson, from half-pay 4th Foot, to be Captain, vice P. D. Stokes, who exchanges ; Lieutenant St. Leger Barry to be Captain, by purchase, vice Jameson, who retires ; Ensign T. Barnard to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Barry ; F. I'. Drought, Gent., to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Barnard, Dec. 6 ; Gentleman Cadet C. J. Ewen, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Hurford, removed to the Ist West India Regiment, Dec. 7. 68th Foot-Staff-Surgeon of the Second Class T. Hunter, M.D., to be Surgeon, vice Atkinson, who ex changes, Dec. 6. 88th Foot -Captain A. M. Douglas, from half-pay 52d Foot, to be Captain, vice J. D. De Wend, who ex changes ; Lieut. G. V. Maxwell to be Captain, by pur chase, vice Douglas, who retires ; Ensign E. Corbett to Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Maxwell ; L. S. Steere to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Corbett, Dec. 6. 91st Foot-W. Munro, M.D., to be Assistant-S urgeon , vice Stuart, appointed to 63d oot, Dec. 6. 92d Foot-Ensign D. M‘Queen to be Quartermaster, vice J. Forbes, who retires upon half-pay; Gentleman Cadet A. W. Cameron, from the Royal Military Col lege, to be Ensign, vice M'Queen, appointed Quarter master, Dec. 6. 94th Foot-Major J. L. Dennis, from 49th Foot, to be Major, vice Cotton, who exchanges, Dec. 6. 96th Foot-W. APAndrew, M.D., to be Assistant- Surgeon, vice Stewart, promoted to the 18th Foot, Dec. 6. Ist West India Regiment-Lieut. R. H. Minty, to be Captain, without purchase, vice J. Griffith, who retires upon full pay. Ensign W. J. Chamberlayne to be Lieu tenant, vice Minty ; Ensign J. T. Hurford, from 65th Foot, to be Ensign, vice Chamberlayne, Dec. 6. Ceylon Rifle Regiment-Second Lieut. 11. Agar to be First Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Suckling, who retires, Dec. 6; Second Lieut. J. Dwyer to be First Lieu tenant, by purchase, vice Kersteman, who retires, Dec. 7. To be Second Lieutenants, by purchase-W. Pownall, Gent., vice Agar, Dec. 6; J. S. Tull:, Gent., vice Dwyer Dec. 7. BREVET.-Captain J. Jameson, of the 65th Foot, to be Major in the Army, July 22, 1830 ; Captain A. M. Douglas, of 88th Foot, to be Major in the Army, Jan. 10. 1837. UNATTACHED.-Lieut. W. Lacy, from 46th Foot, to be Captain without purchase, Dec. 6. STAFF.-LIOUt. J. B. Hamilton, from half-pay of 10th Light Dragoons. to be Adjutant of a Recruiting Dis trict, vice J. 0. Berridge, who eedhanges, Dec. 6. HOSPITAL STAFF.-Surgeon T. Atkinson, M.D., from 68th Foet, to be Staff-surgeou of Second Class, vice Bunter, who exchanges, , Dec. 6. MEMORANDUM..ThIi commission of Staff-S urgeon o f the Second Class John Cherie a Cameron, M.l) , vice Rumley, d ecease d , as been ante( hated to the 15th 'April. The removal of Assistant-Surgeon Donald from 24th Foot, to be Assistant-Surgeon in. the 31st Foot, and the appointment of Dr. 11. 11. Massey to be Assistant-Sur geon to the 24th Foot, in suciefssion, as stated in the Gazette of Nov. 22, have been ci uicellod. Commission by the Lord-Lieutenant of Renfrewshire. Colonel W. %lure, io be Vice-v Lieutenant, Nov. 26, WHITEHALL,. DEC. 5. The Lord Chancellor has am iointed Charles Pember ton, of Liverpool, in the ,soutity of Lancaster, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in tl High Court of Chan cery. BANEIRUPTS, John Wordsworth Robsoai and John Barrow, patent pump manufacturers, St. ..Ann's-place, Limehonse, to surrender Dec. 19, at one, vet d Jan 28, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Grail am, official assignee, Cole man-street; Randell, Birchin -lane. Stephen Bucknall, carman, Hendon, Dec. 17, at half one, and Jan. 28, at one, a'; the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street; Abrahams, Lincoln's Inn-fields. John' Sawyer, butcher, rlgham, Surrey, Dec. 17, at twelve, and Jan. 15, at h alf. - -past one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Johnstm, 0;14 assignee, Basingliall street ; Smith, Barnard's Inn, Holborn. Charles Carter, miller, Sm, Jdington, Leicestershire, Dec. 14, and Jan. 9, at elevenc., at the Birmingham Dis trict Court. Whitmore, officia lassignee, Birmingham ; Braham, Chancery-lane ; R"Vinson, Birmingham. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending Dec. 3, 1844, is ns. aid. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Brasil.. LAW INTELLIGENCE. PRIVY COUNCIL, Dec. 6. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to-day at the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords present were the Master of the Rolls, Mr. Baron Parke, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Corn wall, and the Judge of the Admiralty Court. JONES V. GODNET. The further arguments in this part-heard case occu pied their Lordships the whole day. COURT OF CHANCERY, Dec. 6. The Lord Chancellor, after disposing of the several short cases in the paper, proceeded to hear the further arguments in the part-heard case of " Spalding v. Ruddick," which occupied the whole day. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Dec. 6. The Vice-Chancellor of England was occupied the whole day with short causes and unopposed petitions of no general interest. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec. 6. (Before Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD.) WIGNEYS' DA.NKRUPTCY-EXPATZTE MASTERMAN AND CO.-JUDGMENT. His HONOUR to-day, in delivering judgment respect ing Messrs. Masterman's claim for certain costs on the bankrupt's estate, and which claim had given rise to proceedings in another Court, said that Messrs. Wigney wore bankers at Brighton, Masterman and Company being their London agents. In March, 1842, the date of the bankruptcy, Wigneys owed .Masterman and Co. many thousand pounds ; but the latter held bills of ex change and promissory notes to a much greater value than the amount of their claim. Subsequently to the bankruptcy, .Mastermans' had incurred law expenses in putting the bills and notes in force, and this without coming to that Court, or giving any notice to the as signees. The question now submitted to him (the Learned Commissioner) by Messrs. Masterman and the assignees was, whether the former should, in their ac count with the estate, be allowed such costs. He was of opinion that Messrs. Masterman had not only an equitable but a legal lien on all securities placed in their hands by Messrs. Wigney, and that all legal and fair expenses incurred in their realisation, should be allowed in their account. The Learned Commissioner having cited several law authorities in support of this opinion, proceeded to say that it had been contended by Mr. Chambers, on the part of the Messrs. Wigney, that they (Mastermans) should, in the first instance, have given notice to the assignees, and consulted with them. Now, there was nothing before him to show that, if the assignees had had notice, they could have interfered, or effected ally satisfactory ar rangement. For these reasons, he thought that Messrs. Masterman ought to be allowed all costs incurred by them in enforcing or in resisting claims arising out of t he securities deposited with them by Messrs. Wigney. But there was a further claim for expenses made by the Messrs. Masterman, which arose out of the following cireurnstances :---After four o'clock in the afternoon of the 3d March, 1842, Messrs. Masterman received from a Mr. Stevens a cheque on Glyn and Co. for 1531. 75., to be placed to the credit of Captain Clark's account with Wig ney and Co. Clark was a customer of Wigney, and kept an account at their house. Mr. Stevens brought an action against Masterman to recover this sum, and on the trial in December, 1842, before the Lord Chief Baron Abinger, obtained a verdict. Messrs. Masterman's Counsel ten dered a bill of exceptions to the summing up of the Learned Judge, and the proceedings upon the bill of ex ceptions were still pending. It appeared by the bill of exceptions that the cheque in question was paid by Messrs. Glyn to Messrs. Masterman on the 4th March, at what is called the morning clearing. The cheque was searched for, but could not be found. It appeared in evidence that it was usual with London bankers to get cheques which were paid into a banking house after such bill marked by the other banking house, and that a cheque being so marked was a guarantee that it would be paid by the party marking it, and it was then treated as cash. It was not proved that this particular cheque was taken to Messrs. Glyn and Co. to be marked, but he, witness, who received it at Messrs. Masterman's, said he should imagine it was taken to Messrs. Glyn and Co. to be marked, for that was the regu lar course of business. Payments made to a London banker on account of a country banker between four and five o'clock were generally advised by post the next day, and that course was adopted with respect to this cheque. Messrs. Masterman continued to make payments on ac count of Messrs. Wigney and Co. up to five o'clock of the afternoon of the 3d March. There were several payments made on account of Messrs. Wigney by Messrs. Master man after half-past four on that day, and to a considera ble amount. On the following day the Brighton Bank closed, and Stevens brought his action against Messrs. Masterman, on the ground' that they were in that trans action his agents. For the costs incurred in defending that action he (the Learned Commissioner) did not think that Messrs. Masterman could claim against the assig nees, Stevens paying in the money not for Wigneys, but for Clark, who kept his account at Wigneys.' The re sult of his judgment was that Messrs. Masterman should be allowed these costs in realising the securities, but not those incurred in defending Stevens's action. ASSIZE INTELLIGENCE. HUMP. ClRCUlT.—Chelnzsioed, Dec. 6. Before Mr. Justice WILLIAus.) John Young, 27, labourer, was indicted for the wilful murder of Elizabeth Phillips, at the parish of Navestock. Mr. Rodwell conducted the prosecution ; Mr. Ry land and Mr. C. Gray defended the prisoner. It appeared that the transaction out of which the charge arose against the prisoner, took place on Sun day, the 10th of November. On the afternoon of that day the deceased, who was a woman of loose character, was seen to go across a field in the neighbourhood of Navestock, accompanied by the paisoner, and they were seen under a hedge together. On the same day the dead body of the deceased was found lying near the spot where she was last seen with the prisoner, and there were some marks of violence upon her person. The medical gentleman who was called in deposed that the death was occasioned by extravasa tion of blood upon the brain, but he would not take upon himself to say that this might not have been oc casioned by natural causes. The Learned JUDGE, under these circumstances, stopped the case, and a verdict of Not Guilty was returned. Leonard Lami)ert, 23, William Harrell, 20, Elisha Hurrell, 24, and William Taylor, 25, all described as labourers, were indicted for feloniously writing and delivering a letter to James Miles, threatening to burn and destroy his property. Mr. Marsh conducted the prosecution, and Mr. Hawkins defended the Hurrells and Taylor. It appeared from the testimony of several witnesses that the prosecutor is a farmer at Aldham, near Col chester, and the prisoner, IV. Hurrell, was in his ser vice in August last, at the time the letter in question was delivered. On the 28th of last month the pri soner, Taylor, went to the wife of the prosecutor and gave her a letter, which he said he had found stuck on a gate-post upon the farm, and IA Bich was addressed to her husband. The letter in question was to the fbllowing effect :—" To Mr. James Miles, farwor, Aldharn—We are very glad to hear that you have such j s plentiful crop, and are a l so very g l ad to hear that you have made use of a thrashing-machine, but w 9 NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, Dec. 5. At the sitting of the Court William Potter, yesterday convicted of arson, was placed at the bar, and after a very solemn address from his Lordship, receive sentence of death. Sarah Wibon, Thomas Addy, George Reynolds, and Christopher Ingledew, were indicted, the female prisoner for stealing from the person of Richard Harland thirty seven 51. notes, and the others for receiving the stolen property, and with being accessories after the fact, by harbouring and assisting the principal delinquent. Mr. Bliss and Mr. Blatishai.d conducted the prosecu tion ; the prisoners were defended by Mr. Wilkins and Mr. Overend. It appeared from the statement of the prosecutor, Mr. Harland, that on Saturday, the 19th of October last, he was at Yarm fair, and had in his possession a sum of 1851. in Si. notes. Of these ten were notes of the National Bank of Scotland, which ho had received from a person in the fair. Ile had paid away a sum of about 30/. for some sheep, and of this 301., 15/. consisted of Scotch notes, leaving him still possessed of 155/, including seven Scotch notes. He had been at several public houses in the course of the (lay, and in the evening was in one kept by a person of the name of Baker, in whose stable his horse had been put up. Being about to leave Yarm, he came out into the passage, intending to go to the stable for his horse, and there met a woman, who, he said, was the prisoner Wilson.. She addressed to him certain solicitations of an improper kind, which he said he repulsed. She, however, still followed him into the stable-yard, and on the way she was spoken to by two men, whom he did not recognise, one of whom wore white trowrers. Wilson then suddenly tore open his waistcoat, snatched his pocket-book, and she and the two men ran up the yard and disappeared. This was the sole direct evidence as to the actual robbery, and it appeared from the other testimony for the prosecu tion, as well as from Mr. Harland's cross-examination, that he had on some occasions given a considerably dif ferent account of the transaction. It appeared that on the morning of Yarm fair the four prisoners, with the excep tion of Reynolds, came together to a public-house inYarm, and from a conversation which took place in their presence, it appeared that they, with Addy's wife and two chil dren, had come over together from Northallerton that morning. They proposed to the person that drove them to take them on to Stockton, where they said they wished to purchase scale hardware, but it did not seem that at that time they carried their intention into effect. It appeared, however, that late that night, and after the time the robbery was committed, the same party were seen entering Stockton on foot, and they applied at the house of a Mrs. Cowley for lodgings. They procured one bed there, which was occupied by Addy and hie wife, and Ingledew and Wilson, who had passed as mar ried people, were accommodated with a bed at the house of a Mrs. Chapman. To her they stated that they had come from Darlington and were going to Middlesbo rough. In the course of that evening Reynolds was seen at Stockton, and went to a shop kept by a person of the name of Weldon, of whom he purchased several pairs of stockings. lie tendered in payment a note of the National Bank of Scotland, which he took from a roll of paper that seemed to the shopman to consist of notes, and in which there was, at all events, a second 51. note. The shopman declined changing it, and it was handed back to Reynolds, who said there was no harm done, and put it back with the others. He subsequently went to another shop and purchased a hat, in 'payment of which he again tendered a Scotch note and received the change. Early the next morning he called at Mrs. Cowley's and saw Addy and his wife. They were shortly after joined by Ingledew and Wilson. In the course of that morning, Sunday the 20th, Ingledew and Addy went together to a livery stable and bargained for an omnibus to take them to Thirsk. At that time In gledew produced a pocket-book in which was a thick roll of paper, which, to the witness, seemed to consist of notes. The omnibus went to Mrs. Cowley's, and the party got in, and went on to Thirsk. They were shortly after taken into custody, but upon searching them very little money was found. Reynolds was taken into custody at Newcastle. Mr. Wil.xfss addressed the jury for the prisoners, contending that not the slightest reliance was to be placed upon the evidence of the prosecutor, and that, taken in connexion with his statements to thei con stables, it tended rather to show that Roberts was the person by whom the robbery was committed. As to the other evidence, it did no more—rate it at the highest —than raise a mere suspicion. The possession of a Scotch note by these parties was not to be wondered at, when many of that kind had during the day been cir culated in the fair, and the witnesses were probably mis taken in their ideas as to the amount of money in their possession, a probability strengthened by the fact of hardly any being found upon them. As to the strings of the cloak, it would be a very dangerous thing to make the guilt or the innocence of the prisoner to depend on their identity ; oven supposing they were satisfied of their identity they would still have to take for granted, without proof, that the prisoner had placed them there. And suppose they were satisfied of all this, it would only prove that some time in the course of the few days preceding the prisoner Wilson had been there, a thing which, whether guilty or innocent, would probably have been the ease. His LORDSHIP having summed up, the jury retired, and after being some time in consultation, returned a verdict of Guilty against all the prisoners. Sentence was deferred. John Haigh, aged 46, was indicted for stabbing John Crabtree, with intent to do him some grievous bodily harm. Mr. Pashley and Mr. Pickering conducted the prose cution. The prisoner was not defended by counsel. The prosecutor stated, that. on the day in question the prisoner came into his }inse, and said, " John, she's a foolish woman to think I'm going to do something at her," and without further preface struck at the prose cutor with a knife he held in his hand. The knife struck the prosecutor on the side, but not being a straight thrust, it turned, and merely passed through the waistcoat. The prosecutor caught the prisoner by the wrist, and endeavoured to push him down stairs. The prisoner got his hand loose, and again stabbed at him. He again succeeded in catching the prisoner'F wrist, and finally, after a severe struggle, got away from him, with no more serious injury than a cut on the hand. The prosecutor went down the road and met one of his neighbours, to whom he stated what had occurred. Shortly after, when the prosecutor was gone, the prisoner came up. The witness said to him " Jack, what hast thou been doing ?" The prisoner replied, " D—n the knife, it is doubled, or else —." The witness said, " Come into our house, and let us know what thou hast had up." The pri.xner went into the house and related to hint the transaction. The witness " Thoult hope to b e hung itihou follow'st those trielci." He replied, " tiod had ordered him to kill three that day ; he had his work to do; and he must go and do it." , Witness then seized him, and a scuffle ensued, but the witness finally succeeded in mastering him. The pri• Boned in the House of Correction and kept to hard lal for six calendar months. late, of ti ►b STATE OF TRADE. (From the Liverpool Mercury.) Our trade hears the appearance we have s° , _ fr : quently described during the last few months; large and rapidly extending business i 3 going 0.1 unfortunately profits are too frequently in :*he ' nyor o s; i Iratio of the amount of money turned ovor--i, i t speaking generally, and our remark will al'1 ) -/ t o most of the great articles of import, we may 81.1 greater the business the larger the loss. „ l id Such a state of things, it is argued by manb eS " el last long, but it would be difficult to assign reas_t . 4 for the remark ; we have always seen that when Ico u t 0 is readily obtainable at a small cost, merchants 8 p anxious to extend their business, and they have s i ll es I ditional inducement when manufactured goo° its I be purchased at the low rates that have long pro a in England. Thus we may trace to the low price of cottono(ii v ,?ry losing business of itself) much of the Pr‘ e i d i losso on commercial operations. Our large fel: ' i ° 4 export has been induced by gradually declic or prices in Manchester; a shipper of goods i s dered in Nardi has found the quotation so l 14 July, that lv has ventured to ship without or de rt 4 believing that, if the first operation ans we sn i the second would yield a handsome reol t ; we s! l again, when in September lower prices still _ O l 1 taken, the sanguine merchant has thought' to psi his average by a further export. This, in P° 'a the instances, has been the system acted upon, 8 . 13 0 it result is, that low and rapidly-declining P ri ;kets, our colonial possessions, and other foreign 11 '7 0 of have naturally followed a sudden accutnula 1° stocks. WO The present Indian Mail confirms our last et l `glut too fully in this respect, and especially is the isJI felt in the Chinese ports. Liverpool has its of share in this system of over-trading, and to ll 'Tle course, reap its full portion of the reward• csi r import trade is not in a much more flourishing J. dition ; the supplies we receive are mare tbac;itir quate to the consumption that is going ml, n fi Lior such a tariff as ours, which precludes the . irnr co r many valuable productions from abroad, we ar e ,, pelled to receive in payment for exports a• °' ,F of quantity of some descriptions of produce i 11 145 require, whilst much that would be acc,rbsts at reasonable duties is refused admissionso from America, we have cotton to such an e that we are compelled to maintain a stock of ce i , c p? million of bales in the very face of the large st 'soe that has ever been obtained ; but, if grain, t ° ,l / , ‘ ,0 and other American productions, were admit ° equally favourable terms with cotton, would nos portion of this superfluous stock of one artie le od place to reasonable supply of other equally nee „,somodities ? ill t# Th ‘ e West India interest have been taken bl4l prise, 13, - an order admitting the slav,..n t hour 70'; of the United States, Venezuela, Mexico, iin ti gs 9 1 1 lad other cou:stries, at the same rate of duty' ; 4 vr produce of Java, Manilla. &c., where slaver, Isis to be unknown. We shall now very shortii, s , supplies from the United States, and the close s sit nexion of Cuba will enable the Americans 00 sitme at low rates the produce of that island,", 4' England will receive much of the United States.loo duction (of slavery, too), and this whilst pol itl • sol are sacrificing the best markets in the world for , r t 0 lish manufactures, because they cannot OP/ i t trade with a country where slavery is toleranbo is thought by many that this opening, throuss' indirect channel, for slave-grown sugar, of 013100 tion, was fully intended by the framers of tii e se " Bill, and it may probably be urged as a stronLlV for a total remodelling of the sugar duties u 1 the next session of Parliament. f, The trade in Cotton has become more and,' ~.1 , 1 1 and some disposition to speculate has appear s lis f this step is yet injudicious. America can well I A to supply us at low rates, and with a crop that 0 0 do not dare to estimate, and of which this 03 off will receive its full share, we can only e xpect ti o ssi t low range of quotations, and although the Let prices may be raised for a time with the assis . , heavy speculation, yet the consequences will„lf s, as we have before experienced; America wi ll) of y f , riched at the cost of the manufacturer and w it ior population of this country without any II • benefit to the speculators generally. s s , se e . I n consequence of the increase of sickness, tP;:tsli tinued .ravages of fever, and the increased 11 1 ..„, 000 1 which has of late beets prevalent in the bad l i 14 7 and ill-conditioned districts chiefly inhabited nest labouring classes in the metropolis, in V i le K York, Bristol, Nottingham, and other erovv o d wretched town districts, Lord Ashley, the 1 isr ei j of Normanby, and some of the leading cle r i V and gentlemen of all political parties, have dete re upon calling an early public meeting at Exetefort, with a view of forming a general association de taining better protection for those classes , a n s i s st moting such measures of improvement as cl r pery better and cheaper supplies of pure water, an d Ol l ll of cleansing those neglected districts—meusure / ci sa, appear obtainable only by legislative interfereo,;o4 to be beyond the scope of the voluntary exertiu:e being made for the promotion of public wal o .loe is and laundries, in large towns. ff / tif THE AUTHOR OF " HILLINGDON HALL' t yirdrf curiosity has been manifested relative to the A be P. h e e s of the clever novel, "Hillingdon Hall." . . 1 ': oo v ite r Messenger, in noticing it, observes, " This nueu' work by the author of the humorous novel of Cross,' which was published aboat two ye g : s brd There was so much true humour, and so 0 2 " o rj writing in that novel, as to render it a matter o pt 1 surprise to us that the name of the author iS re 9; be to the work now before us. Perhaps th e , o,:a be some want of courtesy in making public:o%g which the writer himself desires to conceal; wi t i bst r i can be no objection that we should mention 00 0 ( work before us is the production of a very sec ell and able gentleman, in whose family the posse,. 5 talents seems to follow a kind of lineal dese e „, l3 . 1,1 4 1 near relative, the late Lady Eldon, with s°'" ovie peculiar qualities, was one of the cleverest woo n . 0 0 4 age, and had a clear common sense, and a str°, l kol WI ness which, in the early days of their tner'; s , ,a, afforded Lord Eldon equal pride and hapPin e t „ r alLO have merely to add that the good-humour, ti fi .„ l- terj , and striking common sense of the family, sr d , :- .0 " A d fallen in great share upon the able author of fr -l e ttroe No one exceeds this writer in drawing h u moro o , A ge ! ters and picturesque incidents. The chief m erl fo , wofk consists in its scenes of country life, and i ° i l i l i ll and comic pictures of rural manners and habit's. l word, the author of • Hillingdon Hall' w rites r e 0 l that we wish he would oblige as with a novel e vii year. liti fr ot d SIGHT AND HEARING TESTIMON Ge o , i f 39, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLT. --- c ol° jl Browno Clayton feels desirous to express the o sc and advantage he has derived at his advanced ebtSl years, and after two years' trial, from the use ° Y..al S. and B. Solomons newly invented Spectaelesie/ valuable inventions fully merit the patronage S beoll received. Address, Adlington-hall, Laune s o f ,4 Major-General Sir Howard Elphinstone begs t°,,,," the Spectacles he has now had some time in fully redeemed the assurance of the M e ssrs- "parj e r Solomons as to their excellence, and having,. r fl: e tt much comfort and advantage from their usc,"W able to every other kind of glasses. 13, Nolie,or Park-lane.—The Hon. 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