The Sun. — London, England, 1844-09-14 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. PROM THE EVENING PAPERS or YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The Lord Chief Justice Pennefather and the Irish Attorney-General are said to be in London, waiting Sir Robert Peel's return from Drayton, where the Right Honourable Baronet is de tained by the alarming illness of his daughter. The mortifying position in which the Chief of the Irish Bench and the Chief of the Irish Bar are placed by the defeat of the prosecution in which they respectfully played such pro minent parts the extra judicial zeal of the Judge forming a fit accompaniment to the daring duel invitation of the Attorney-General—has led to the conclusion that the object of these functionaries in visiting our metropolis, at this dull season, is to place the resignation of their respective offices in the Premier's own hands. Mr. Justice Burton, it is un derstood, will also retire from the Bench. Advanced age might have suggested this course to him ere this. Had the suggestion been adopted, he would have been spared the pain, and been exempted from the depreciating reflections upon his previously well-sustained judicial reputation, to which he, in common with the entire Court, has been exposed. It seems now to be generally admitted that the pro secution against O'Connell and the extraordinary cir cumstances which marked the different stages of the proceedings, prescrille but one course to the Judges of the Court, and the principal law-officers of the Crown. ,Retirement from public life has become 4 duty which they owe to themselves, and the performance of which is expected from them by their country. The question is asked in every circle where its bearings are understood and its tendencies perceived. After what has taken place, can the men who pronounced the judgment, and the Attorney-General who defended it, and maintained it to the last as legally valid ; who acted upon it, and consigned O'Connell and his co-defendants to a prison, in. pursuance of a sentence founded upon the indict ment and verdict which have been set aside—it is asked, can these functionaries continue to fill the posts for which they have shown themselves incompetent, by reason of the lack of legal acumen and learning which they have displayed ? We do not here dwell on the series of monstrous and oppressive acts with which they allowed every stage of the State prosecutions to be accompanied. For these they ought to answer at the bar of the House of Lords. The point to which we now allude, and wish to urge upon their consideration—and especially upon the serious consideration of the Government—is, whether, by the decision of the highest legal authori ties in this country, their reputation as mere lawyers has net been so damaged, that they can no longer con tinue in the exercise of their important functions with satisfaction to themselves, or with safety to the pub lic ? Of the eleven counts, of which the monster in dictment consisted, six were declared to be invalid by the unanimous opinion of the English judges. Of the counts thus condemned, two (the 6th and lth) were of the highest importance. Yet upon these very counts—notwithstanding the objec tions taken to them at the time, by the defendants' counsel, and which objections have since been proved to be well taken and valid—did the court mainly rely, when pronouncing judgment, and apportioning punishment on the parties. After such a flagrant mistake as this, so clearly pointed out to them, and yet pertinaciously persisted in ; and after the damnatory decision of all the English judges upon these clauses ; can the judges of the Irish Court of Queen's Bench remain where they are ? Can the Irish Attorney-General continue in the post of prin cipal law adviser of the Government ? Will not the slur that has been cast upon them induce them to relinquish situations for which their positive ignorance shows them to be unqualified ? In every other profession but that of the law so serious a mistake would be ruinous to the parties. No naval or military officer could retain his com mission an hour after so direct a censure had been passed upon his proceedings. No man of high toned feeling, even in a civil cqoacity, could endure so direct a condemnation of his conduct from his ;superiors ; even though the consequences in volved were far more trifling than those which must result from the failure of the State prosecu tion. Mr. Attorney-General Smith, after the breach of the peace which he committed by challeng ing one of the defendant's counsel in open Court, awl while the trial was proceeding thought him self called upon to tender his resignation, does he not consider a due knowledge of the Mw, with all its niceties and technicalities, as essential in an .Attorney-General as a little coolness of head, the occasional want of which in an Irish barrister is, per haps, excusable ? Will not Mr. Attorney-General Smith retire at once into a private—a very private— station ; where he may devote his leisure to the improvement both of his law and his temper ; and to anxious consideration of his future prospects ? All hope of elevation to the bench is now, we presume, extinct, even in his owl bosom. With the excep ti in of Mr. Justice Perrin, who declared himself in favour of a new trial for Mr. O'Connell and another of the defendants, we do hope and expect that a new botch of i judges will be created for the Irish Court of Queen s Bench, and a new Attorney-General be appointed, before the commencement of the ensuing term. The legal functionaries who have so signally failed in the discharge of their duties will, we trust, take the hint, and tender their resignations. Relieved from duties for which they have shown themselves in competent, they may, in the more appropriate stations of private life, have their legal errors forgiven, if not forgotten, by their country, and their equanimity of mind restored. STANDARD.—The late Proces-Afenstre, and the decision of Lords against Lawyers, and of Politicians against Judges, cannot be too gravely canvassed or too carefully considered. It is calculated to affect all rights, excepting on questions unconnected with party. These are safe enough ; witness the proceed ings of the law Lords last week, when they disposed of no fewer than nineteen questions without a dis sentient voice. On one case some difference of opi nion arose, but it was, on being put to the vote, decided in the affirmative by a large majority. Now we are justified in believing that when politics excite, and party feeling interposes its baneful influ ence, the law is not so sacred, the judges, its oracles, are not so much respected, and the subject's rights are not so perfectly safe as they ought to he. This is a serious consideration ; but the more it is contemp lated the more likely we shall be to discover some re medy, and obtain some protection against party and political judgments. In referring to the recent deci sion of Lords Denman, Cottenhani, and Campbell, it is impossible to overlook the part taken by one of these learned persons in a recent proceeding of a kind very nearly judicial. Private Bills are always regarded as questions of a judiciary character, with which party has nothing whatever to do. Yet, on an occasion on which a road-Bill came before the House, in which Lord Brougham had an interest, as it affected the value of that portion of his property through which the road was to pass, the Whigs, hounded on by one of the law Lords whose judgment has excited such deep and deserved attention, voted almost avowedly as party men, against their party's adversary, and defeated bim by a majority of one. Those who may remember the case cannot fail to have been struck with the total negation of justice by which the decision was charac terised, because so undisguisedly the result of party arranifement. After this experiment, and the still more instructive one of last week, Lord Brougham would hardly act so inconsiderately as to contest a question of private right again before a tribunal of which his noble and learned Whig friends were to be the judges. The Lords at large are, by the law of the land, all judges, and Lord Wharncliffe may have been correct in affirming that their inter ference is not called for in ordinary cases. 'Where no party prejudice is likely . to create a bias (some times involuntary), which is calculated to interfere with the calm deliberation of the question, lay Lords should leave the decision of the case to the law Lords. It is equally clear, however, that where the ease i s one purely political, as was that of O'Connell and his fellow-conspirators, the lay Lords ought to take part in the proceedings ; or else why submit a series of questions on the law of the case to the judges ? Such a reference could not have been intended for the guidance of the law Lords. For whos e benefit , then, w ere the judges of the inferior court s consulted' ? Their opinion ought to have been considered as tantamount to the charge o f a common law j u d ge to a jury empannelle d to t ry an issue in an ordinary court. A re the lay Lords less intelligent than an ordinary jury ? Were theyy, in a case, the law of which had been so explicitly' de less eligible to decide ho nest l y fined, and j ustly than twelve men selected from a jury p ane l ?- The very notion is preposterous ; and by th e i r tacit abandonment of their prerogative on thi s occasion, the lay Lords have given a fresh and dangerous agitation. They ; impulse t o a w i cked had seen the judges called in by the Lord Chancellor, because the c ase was to all intents and purposes a political one. Th ey were aware that those judges had almost unanimously decided in favour of the validity of the judgment ; and that the opinions of so large a majority of those learned personages were deserving of all respect. They, however, abandoned the final decision of the case to three law Lords, one of them wholly ignorant of criminal law; another compromised by having expressed a decided opinion on the case long before it came ju dicially before him ; and a third, to say the least, not excepted from that fallibility of judgment to which all men, however eminent,' are occasionally subject. The judges of this Court of Cessation were notoriously all members, and two of them active ones; of the Whig party, the Lichfield }Luse contractors! They rejected the opinions of eleven out of fourteen of the common law fudges, the Lord Cl•ancellor, and Lord Brougham, al • • l intimately acquainted with the common and criminal l aw . If such a course was the correct one, why 119° P 114 tztTellers iu prim? Why detain THE SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 14, 1844. nine or ten of the judges from their respective cir cuits ? Why consent to the farce of calling them together, some of them leaving causes only half heard, inlorder to obey:the mandate ? If the law Lords were alone competent to decide the question, why bring justice into contempt by asking for and obtainTg honest opinions, by which they are not only never in tended to profit, but which they have treated with the most contumelious disregard ? The remedy for suc h an evil as the late decision is not easy , but i t is, nevertheless, attainable. Judges who, like Lord Campbell, are engaged almost daily during the session in debating political questions in Parliament; men whose political violence and rancour have rendered them notorious as party agitators ; are certainly not the sort of authorities to decide unaided, not to say in the teeth of the other judges of the land, questions which are reserved for the highest tribunal in the country ; and it is, therefore, time that a controlling power, supported as on the late occasion by the most eminent judicial opinions, should be exercised over them, lest, " dressed in a little brief authority," they play " such fantastic tricks before high heaven " as may make " even the angels weep." If it shall be affirmed that the House of Lords will incur a loss of dignity by allowing its privi leges to be something more than a fiction, as the late decision would leave them, it is even more clear that it will suffer a great deal more if it persists in per mitting three political Lords to overbear the judg ment, not only of a court of law, but of the great ma jority of the judges. We have elsewhere transcribed from the Morning Herald of this day a triumphant answer to the apologies which have been offered for the conduct of the " illustrious three," by whose dictum this disgrace has been brought upon the country ; from which it will be seen that in spite of the absurd vaunting of Mr. O'Connell and his friends, the verdict itself (bating Lord Denman's solitary condemnation of the challenge) remains wholly undisturbed on the sth, Bth, 9th, 10th, and 11th counts, which embody every part of the charge ; and that he therefore remains, to all intents and purposes " a convicted conspirator." The sentence when pronounced was legal ; the objection applies to the mode in which it was entered upon the record, although it differed in no respect from the ordinary precedent on such occasions. To the ovation, arising from the interposition of the quirks and technicalities of the law, Mr. O'Connell is perfectly welcome ; and we trust that the prosecu tion, however terminated, will have taught him the propriety of enjoying it with moderation. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Sept. 13.) Scroaa.-The rates previously established- fa r brown, common yellow, and grey descriptions of West India Muscovado Sugar of which the supply principally con sists, have been fully supported this week ; middling yellow, good middling to good yellow, and strong grey sorts however have brought an advance on last Friday's prices of 6d, and in some instances of is per cwt; but for fine yellow kinds, although they are in very short supply, yet merchants have not beer able to obtain quotations above those of last week, still pre vious rates are fully sustained. This afternoon there was a good demand for all sorts of West India Sugar, holders were firm and obtained fully former rates for all descriptions. At public sale 288 hhds 55 tierces and 126 barrels St. Lucia were offered and partly at former terms, good yellow fetched 57s to 58s, middling 55s to 56s 6d, low 545, and drainage damaged 55s 6d to 56s 6d per cwt. The total purchases for the week are 2,200 hhds and trcs. REFINED.-The home trade have been extensive pur chasers of Refined Goods this week, paying an advance on former rates of 6d to is per cwt, and they have again nearly cleared the market, indeed of goods at and under 75s per cwt the market is scantily supplied, the following are the latest rates paid :-Brown lumps 73s to 73s 6d, standard lumps 74s 6d to 755, Tittlers 735 6d to 78s, fine do 79s to 83s, Hambro loaves 74s to 83s, double ditto 84s to 90s, and wet lumps 71s to 73s per cwt : the market has still a very firm appearance. For Bastards prices generally are not higher, but large parcels have been sold, low at 42s to 455, middling at 46s to 48s, good 49s to 535, and fine 54s to 57s per cwt. Pieces have been readily disposed of, fine at 69s to 71s, good 66s to 68s 6d, middling 62s to 655, and low 58s to 61s per cwt. Treacle has met with a good demand at stiffer rates ; boiled from West India Molasses has been fetching 18s 6d to 19s 6d, Patent 205 to 225, and Golden Syrup 235 to 26s per cwt. For Bonded Crushed Sugar prices are not so firm, and for 100 tons on the spot 27s to 27s 3d per cwt have been accepted for first quality ; there has been less Isusiness transacted for delivery, and the Refiners are generally more inclined to sell ; of loaves, however, many parcels have been disposed of upon the following terms, viz :-Turkey double refined 2a to 41b loaves 34s to 375, Hambro' I6lbs 32s 6d, 9 to 101 b 30s to 30s 6d, 13 to 141 b 295 6d, Tittlers 20 to 301 b 27s 6d to 28s, Prussians 40 to 451 b 27s 6d. Pieces are wanted at 235. Bastards, yellow at 20s, brown 19s. In Treacle sales made at Ils 6d to 12s. Of Dutch Crushed Sugar some parcels sold at 24s 9d to 26s per cwt. To-day large purchases were made in Refined goods by the home trade, and prices are still on the ad vance-sales made at 75s for standard, and 73s 6d per cwt for good brown lumps. The decline in the value of Bonded Crushed Sugar has occasioned a better demand, and at 27s to 27s 3d per cwt large purchases have been made for forward delivery. MAURITIUS.-The market has presented a firm ap pearance for this description of Sugar, importers have refrained from offering any at auction, but by private treaty several parcels have been disposed of at former rates for brown, and at higher prices for yellow kinds, nearly all the parcels on offer found free purchasers. The principal part in the bonded warehouses is held by the dealers, the stock is still declining, and is rather less than it was last at this period ; th© deliveries continue upon a large scale. This afternoon there was no public sale, but the parcels sold privately were at very full rates. •The quantity left in importers hands is only 10,000 bags. EAST INDIA.-An increased desire has been shown to purchase white and yellow qualities of Bengal Sugar, and privately many parcels have been disposed of at prices showing an advance on those of this day week of is per cwt. This afternoon at public sale 821 bags of Bengal, and 499 bags of Madras were offered, the former sold at high rates, and fetched 62s to 70s for fine strong yellow Dobah, 66s to 68s 6d for good 64s to 68s per cwt for damp and washed, 58s to 59s for low yellowish white, 56s to 58s per cwt for damp and washed, 63s for good sound white, and 60s to 62s for damp and washed: the latter was all taken in, low brown at 465, and very low heavy dark at 42s per cwt, being above the value. Fonmors.-For yellow Havannah many inquiries have prevailed, and late rates offered, but merchants re quiring an advance in prices, has operated against busi• ness, and 2,011 boxes at public sale were all taken in, fine at 22s to 22s 6d, good 21s to 21s 6d, middling 20s to 26s 6d, low 195 to 19s 6d, being above the value. White has met with more attention, good to fine fetch ing 29s to 325, and low to middling 26s to 28s per cwt. For Brazil of all descriptions there has bean an in creased demand ; Bahia, 200 chests of white at 22s 6d, brown at las 3d ; brown, on the spot, at 18s 3d to 18s 6d ; a few lots of white Pernambuco, in barrels were taken in at 26s ; of St. Kitts 31 hhds 10 barrels, with out certificate, went at 20s for hhds, and 19s per cwt for barrels. Porto Rico 193 to 20s per cwt. MOLASSES.-Prices cannot be quoted lower for West India, importers not being inclined to press safes, but the demand has been trifling; small parcels have been disposed of at 22s for St. Vincent's, and at 24s per cwt for good Antigua. East India dull of sale, and prices rule low. This afternoon at public sale 130 casks Madras Molasses were taken in at 16s per cwt. Cocoa.-West India is wanted, but higher rates being required, has opereted against business, and few parcels have been disposed of by private contract ; a t auc ti on 101 bags of Trinidad were taken in-ordinary at 425, and middling 44s to 45s 6d per cwt. The stock in im porters hatids is reduced to a low ebb. Foreign is held with firmness, but at present there are not many pur chasers. FarlT..—Today accounts were received from Zante up to the 29th of August, stating that the Currant crop had been . all housed, the quality was fine, and the quan tity large. The trade have purchased with much caution this week, and lower rates accepted for all sorts. Comas.--Importers of West India are less inclined to realise, and have supplied the market sparingly during the week. Jamaica of mid quality has been more sought after, and sales made by private treaty at 83e to 90s per cwt, being rather above the rates paid at the auctions held last week. This afternoon Ceylon Coffee was sought after, but not much was to be had, and prices are still on the advance ; sales by private contract were made at 57s to 58s for good ord, and 58s 6d to 59s for very good ord : at public sale 120 bags of Plantation were taken in at 70s for fine ord pale being much above the value ; 16 casks 2 brls West India were bought in at 78s 6d for low mid Jamaica, 63s for fine ord; Dominica, fine ord 635, and good ord 56. per cwt. TEA.—lmporters still display firmness, and have re frained from submitting any to public competition; there has been no arrival this week, whereas the deliveries from the bonded warehouses have been large. For green Tea prices are higher than they were last season at this period, but are rather lower for black. The lower qualities of Congou are not so much in request, but holders are firm, the supply small, and previous rates are sustained, common fetching laid to I Id nett cash, good common 110 to Is Oitd, but mid ra str is ald to Is lid but, for the better quilities, a brisk demand has prevailed, and the rates given are fd to Id per lb above those previously quoted, sales made at is lid to Is 3id with Souchong flavour, Is 4d to Is 8d for good blackish leaf, is 9d to 2s 4d for fine Pekoe flavour, and riie 25 5d to 2. 6d per lb for very choice. market is sparingly supplied with Pouchong, and the trade being eager purchasers, prices are still advancing ; clean q uality has been selling at bid to 9d, and better 10d to is per lb. To day there was not much business transacted inthe Te a markets, but holders were f i rm, and obtained former rates for all sorts. Seiczs.—Prices have ruled firm for black Pepper this week, and a good demand h p revailed for Penang and Malabar, but for Sumatra th erei now. In Cinnamon the operatio a n r b e s orders jut ra e ftvoeul m an y y n extre i mely limited, but few sellers are to terms. This afternoon at public sale 10 bale u s p o o f n Cfn e n: mon were all taken in—sound at 2. 8d to 4s 6d, mouldy 3s to 4s, 14 bags of Mace of low quality at 25 4d, and 7 casks of common limed Nutmegs, duty paid, at 4s ed per lb. RUM, BRANDY, AND HoLLarne.--Jamaica Rum has met with ready purchasers since we last wrote, and a further advance in prices has taken place ; on the fine high flavoured sorts the advance has been 2d to 3d per gallon. The total purchases amount to 250 puns ; fair gwlity 30 W 36 per cens 0 I' et 339 d to 38 I La, good 32 to 34 over 3s 10d to 4s 3d, fine 32 to 36 0 P 4s 6d 'to 58, superior 32 to 36 0 P 5s 3d to 5s 6d, and 17 puns high flavour of a favourite mark fetched the high price of 8s 9d per gallon. Leewarda 200 puns sold at 2s 5d to 2s 50 proof strength, and common ditto 2s 40. Demerara at 3s 3d to 3s 6d for strong. Calcutta Rum is mu c h wan t e d, an d f o r sma ll parcels buyers are compelled to pay 2s 3d to 2s 32d per gallon proof, withi certificate. Brandy common 2a lid to 3s 3d per gallon. In the better sorts of Brandy the purchases made have been trifling, and further re duced rates accepted. Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838 selling hhds at 5s 2d, puns 5s ; ditto 1839, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d ; ditto 1840, hhds 4s I Id, puns 4s 9d ; ditto 1841, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s 8d ; ditto 1842, hhds 4s 7d, puns 4s sd, mid to good mid 3s 4d to 4s 2d per gallon. The accounts from France are highly satisfactory for the vintage. Geneva at is 10d to is Ild, and for fine the home trade pay 2s 6d to as 6d per gallon. English Corn Spirits is lOs 4d per gallon cash. Ricr.—This afternoon, three parcels, amounting to 2,443 bags of Bengal Rice were offered at public sale, and all sold, but at a decline on former rates of 3d per cwt; small broken white fetched lOs 6d to 1 Is, good middling sound Ils to Its 6d, good bold, cleaned by machinery at Calcutta Ila 6d, and sea damaged 4s to lOs 6d per cwt. SAGO.--There has been more business transacted by private contract in the low and middling qualities of Pearl Sago at 12s to 14s per cwt, but good and fine kinds are not much in request at present : none has been offered at auction. With Sago Flour the market is scantily supplied. Of Arrowroot 155 pkgs were partly disposed of at auction, St. Vincent's 6d to 70, low 30 per lb. SALTPETRE.—This afternoon rough met with little attention, and 425 bags Calcutta at public sale only partly sold at former rates, and fetched 24s to 24s 6d for common grey 14 to 12} per cent refraction. In the private market little business was done. _ _ _ COCIIINMAL.—Tins afternoon 50 bags Honduras Co chineal at auction were sold at and after the sale at firm rates, and fetched 5s 4d to 5s 9d per lb for mid to very good black.. INDlGO.—Holders remain firm, and will not sell any description of East India excepting at prices fully equal to those of the last quarterly sale ; indeed for picked lots they are obtaining a small profit, and nothing is offering for sale; good and fine qualities are still in good demand chiefly for exportation ; but in the lower sorts little has been done: during the week. Oths.--Prices have ruled firm for Southern Oil this week, and a good demand has prevailed ; 93 tuns at auction were readily disposed of, fine quality at 3115 s to 311 158, said good 30/ 10s to 31/ per tun ; of csmmon some parcels have been sold privately at 271 to 291. In other desc Tiptions of Oils there has been rather more busi ness transacted at steady prices, Cod fetching 33/ 154 to 34/, and pale Seal of first quality 341 105; 45 tuns of Seal at auction went at 28/ 10s for brown, and 261 51 to 26110 s for low dark. The supply of Sperm being still scanty, prices keep high, fine British fetching 851 to 861, and American 821 to 83/ per tun. Linseed Oil at 23s 6d to 238 9d per cwt. Rape Oil pale at 35. 6d to 365, and brown 34s 6d to 355. Palm Oil not so firm, 27s to 27s 6d accepted for first quality. Cocoa Nut Oil at; 27s 9d to 28s per cwt for common quality. Olive : 4S/ to 46/ is the value of Gallipoli, 421t0 44/ for Spanish, and 40/ to 411 per tun for Barbary. This after noon at public sale 464 hhds, 41 casks, 100 tuns of Cochin Cocoa Nut Oil were offered, and all sold at 28s 6d to 29s per cwt for fine quality; 72 casks Palm Oil sold at 23s 9d to 26s 3d for low to good. TALLow.—lmporters of Russian are more inclined to realise, and have accepted prices 3d to 6d per cwt under those of this day week. There has been only a li mited business transacted on the spot, and 41s to 41s 3d have been accepted for old, and 41s 6d to 41s 9d per cwt for new P.Y. Candle. This afternoon at public sale 10 pkgs North American Tallow were sold at 41a 3d to 41s 6d ; 549 pkgs South American 37s 3d to 42s 6d ; 93 pkgs East India 41s to 421 9d ; 49 casks New South Wales 35s 9d to 41s 9d, and 17 casks Italian 41s 3d to 41s 6d per cwt. FRIDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. FOREIGN-OFFICE, SEPT. 12, 1844. The Queen has been pleased to approve of Mr. J. C Schade, as Consul at Demerara for his Majesty the King of Prussia. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. ♦ndrew Paterson Reid, as Consul at Glasgow for his Majesty the King of the Belgians. The Queen has also been pleased to approve of Mr. Elias Mocatta, as Consul at Liverpool for the Republic of the Equator. WHITEHALL, SEPT. 13. _ The Queen has been pleased to present the Re►. James Walker to the church and parish of Clatt, in the presbytery of Alford and county of Aberdeen, vacant by the appointment of the Rev. Robert Cook, late minister thereof, as assistant and successor to the Rev. Joseph Crichton, minister of the parish of Ceres, in the pres bytery of Cupar. BANKRUPTS. DANIEL DAVIES and HENRY DAVIES, road contractors, Asylum-road, Old Kent-road, to surrender Sept. 21, and Oct. 25, at eleven, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee, Basinghall-street ; Yenning, Naylor, and Robins, Tokenbouse-yard. JAMES SIMPSON HOLMES, ship broker, Liver pool, Sept. 19. at one, and Oct. 9, at one, at the Liver pool District Court. Bird, official assignee, Liverpool ; Vincent and Sherwood, Temple, London; Littledale and Bardswell, Liverpool. _ THOMAS JONES and JOHN JONES, soap-boilers, Liverpool, Sept. 19, and Oct. 9, at one, at the Liverpool District Court. Turner, official assignee, Liverpool ; Cotterill, Throgmorton-street, Loudon ; Fletcher and Hull, Li7erpool. JOAN SUGDEN and DAVID SUGDEN, fancy cloth manufacturers, Springfield, Yorkshire, Sept. 25, and Oct. 16, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee ; Cumming, King-street, Cheap side, London ; Brook and Freeman, Huddersfield ; Sykes, Leeds. INSOLVENT PETITIONS. J. W. Belli& clerk, Union-street, Bishopagate-street Within, Sept. 17, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee. W. Forty, horse dealer, Upper Slaughter, Gloucester shire, Sept. 30, at eleven, at the Bristol District Court. Miller, official assignee. W. Atherton, hatter, Wigan, Sept. 27, at one, at the Manchester District Court. Fraser, official assignee. . J. Marcroft, innkeeper, l4awmarsh, Yorkshire, Sept. 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee. R. Routledge, blacksmith, Market Weighton, York shire, Sept. 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee. T. Wharton, labourer, Skipton, Yorkshire, Sept. 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee. J. Dean, hair-dresser, Halifax, Sept. 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fearne, official assignee. R. Bloore, jun., licensed victualler, Stoke-upon-Trent, Sept. 24, at half-past twelve, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee. H. Cope, coal higler, Radford, Nottinghamshire, Sept. 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Hope, official assignee. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. J. Carruthers, distiller, Speldhurst, Kent, Oct. 8, at half-past eleven—J. Garnet, hatter, Tooley- street, Bo rough, Oct. 8, at half-past twelve. In the Country. F. Jordan, jun., and IL L. Magrath, merchants, Liver. pool, Oct. 10, at eleven, at the Liverpool District Court —C. Elliott, tallow merchant, Leeds, Oct. 10, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein-mentioned. J. Bail, cabinet-maker, Salisbury, Oct. 5—R. Hodg son, mercer, Bishop Auckland, Durham, Oct. 7—W. Weir, iron merchant, Carlisle, Oct. 7—J. W. Robey, builder, tipper John-street, Fitzroy-square, Oct. 4 J. W. Mardall, insurance broker, New Shoreham, Sussex, Oct. 4—J. Elliott, innkeeper, Caxton, Cambrid ges hi re , Oct. 4—J. F. Wood, surgeon, Oxford, Oct. 4—A. Port way, tea dealer, Braintree, Essex, Oct. 4—B. W. Blake, merchant, City-road, Oct. 4—W. Dethick, lime mer chant, Templo-street, Whitefriars, Oct 4. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Coxhead and P. Richards, Cheapside—T. Hall and W.:Ridsdale, starch manufacturers, Lenton, Nottingham shire—J. C. Hughes and E. Palmer, auctioneers, Con duit-street, New Bond-street—J. Pinner and T. Davis, upholsterers, Bridgnorth—H. Day and J. Evans, attor neys, Bristol—J. Cadman and W. Webb, brewers, Pontypool, Monmouthshire—E. Oakes, jun., and W. Oakes, corn dealers, Kinswinford, Staffordshire—J. Waller and P. Waller, dress-makers, Congleton, Che shire—J. Swift and J. Brindley, earthenware manu facturers, Stoke-upon-Trent—R. Parkinson, jun., and , J. H. Parkinson, wool-brokers, Leeds—R. Casson and W. Bettison, printers, Kingston-upon-Hull—W. Paget, sen., T. Paget, C. Paget, S. Siddon, and W. Hollins, cotton spinners, Derby (so far as regards W. Paget)— B. Beesley, and T. B. Beesley, ironmongers, Birming ham—E. Revell and J. Wood, jun., merchants, Denbydale, Yorkshire—W. Jackson and T. M. Mackay, ship-builders, Liverpool—J. Laffitte and. L. Louizet, importers of foreign goods, Ad dle-street, Wood-street—John Lees and Jh. Lees, cotton manufacturers, Manchester—H. Wallace and E. D. Broughton, attorneys, Nantwich, Cheshire—H. Croft and J. S. Wooller, dyers, Bradford—J. Carden and J. A. Whittard, linendrapers, Bristol. SCOTCH SEQUESTRATIONS. RICHARD FRASER and STEPHEN FRASER, tailors, Edinburgh, Sept. 16 and Oct. 14, at twelve, at the chambers of Mr. Robertson, South St. Andrew street, Edinburgh. DAVID KTER, slate merchant, Irvine, Sept. 18 and Oct. 12, at ten, at the Eglinton Arms, Irvine. PRICE OF SUGAR. The Average Price of Brown or Muscovado Sugar, for the week ending Sept. 10, 1844, is 325. I Id. per cwt., exclusive of the Duties of Customs paid or payable thereon on the im portation thereof into Great Btitain. SUICIDE BY HANGING.—On Friday morning, shortly after eight o'clock, Thomas Noy, aged fifth, an officer formerly holding a situation in the Recruiting office, Duke-street, Westminster, committed suicide at his residence, Tower-street, Waterloo-road, where he resided with his daughter. He had been in a despond ing state for some time, owing to his being discharged from his situation for some misconduct. Not coming down to his breakfast at his usual hour, his daughter went into his bedroom to call him. On entering she found him suspended by the neck with a rope, fastened to a hook in the wall. A surgeon was sent for, who found that life was quite extinct. His body was quite warm. A letter was found near the deceased, addressed to the Coroner for Surrey, which is in the possession of the police. PRICES OF SHARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, FRIDAY, SEPT. 13. Dividend Per Annum. Amount Names of Com panies. of Share. Paid. IPricir. si per cent. 41. 41. lea. $l. 4 per cent. 41. 401. .15s. 71. IL Ns. Si 118. Sd. .se. .I.loi. lei. 17L SOL 334 172._ 61. 101. percent. 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IL 53. per oh II per cent per cent. IL 55. per eh !XL per eh. 128. per sh. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 13V. per eh 101. pct sh. 11.14& li.per share 3544 per eh Si 17s. pr eh 113 s per aL 1/. U. Si. Mc IL 117. lOC lb per cent. per cent. 10 per eent. 1• per cent. u. U. sr. Tat Qd. I. las. Elper sent. be. per .h. 11. $l. per eb. Canals. Ashton and Oldham Ashby-de-la-Zouch-ay Basingstoke . . ..... Brecknock & Abargay. Birmingham, 1-16th sh. Do. and Liverp. June. Chelmer & Blackwatar Coventry Crom ford Dudley Derby........ Danube ansriVayne Ellesmere and Chester Erewash Forth and Grand Junction ..... Grand Union .. Grand Surrey ...... Grand We5tern.......... Glamorgansh., ay. cast Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham ..... Huddersfield .....av Kennet sad Arch ...av Lancaster .' ....ay Leeds and Liverpool.- Leicester Leicester & Northamp Loughborough Monmouthshire ..... Montgomeryshire...— Melton Mowbray Mersey and Irwell Macclesfield Neath Oxford Peak Forest .av Regent's (or London).. Rochdale or Shropshire . ...... Somerset Do. Lock Fund Stock Stafford and Worcester Shrewsbury Stourbridge. ........ Stratford-on-Avon...ay Swansea....," Severn & Wye & Rail. Trent k Mersey, sh. Thames & Medway..av Warwick and Binning. Warwick and Napton Worcester & Binning Wilts and Berks......av Wisbeach Wey and Arun Docks. Commercial ....... East and West India London .... Ditto Bond; Bristol ..... ..... Do.Bnds,var.ansounts St. Katharine . Ditto Bonds Ditto Bends ...... Southampton Bridges Hammersmith Southwark, new Luba Ditto New of 7% pr c Waterloo Ditto Old Ann. of Si r Ditto New ditto of 71. Ditto Benda.... . VauxhalL ...... ..........a, 4 . 81 111111,00011 Albion Alfred Life* Alliance Brit. and For Ditto Marine Atlas ..... .... Birmingham Fire ... British Commercial Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County Eagle Economic Life European Life Ditto New. Freemasons Globe ....................... Guardian Hope Life.......... Ditto Fire .... Imperial Fire Ditto Life.. Indemnity Marine..." Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire,.. Ditto Ship ..... National Loan Fund Neptune Marine Palladium Life.. ... Protector Life Provident Rock Li ...... «. R ,, yal Ex c hange" Sun Fire.. Ditto ...... University Life.. ..... Univers a l Life. Union Fire and Life ?shit Stk !Maks Australasis ......... .•••• • Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial London & Westminstr Ditto New....... London Joint Stock Metropolitan.... ..... Provincial et Ireland Ditto New...........•• National of Ireland Nat. Provincial Englod Ditto New ...... Gloucestershire Union of Australia Union of London Gaslight S. Coke Bath British Ditto Provincial Birmingham Binning. & Stafferdsh Bristol ..... Ditto Genera ******* City of London ****"". Ditto New.... .... Continental Ditto Nen , Equitable. Imperial Isle of Thanet Independent Phoenix Rate .........« South Metropolitan , United General ...... . Weatmins. Chartered Ditto New ........ Water Works Birmingham East London Grand Junction av Kent ....... ........ . .«..... Nw Riv ... Bridg Manchester and Salford Vauxhall, late S. Lond. West Middlesex av YrkßuldgCo.Lea , Prep Iron hallways. Birmingham Ik Derby Birrning. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Eastern Counties...." Edinburgh dr Glasgow Grand Junction Great North of Englnd Great Western Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths Harwich (Braithwaite) Hull and Selby ...... Lancaster and Carlisle Leech and Selby Liverpool & Manc hestr Ditto Half-Shares London and Brighten Ditto Loan Notes London and Blackwell London and Greenwich London and Birmingh. Ditto Quarter -Shares Ditto London and S. Western London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares..." Manchstr and Miming Midland Counties North British Norwi h & Brandon Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, his. 5/. dis, Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen... Rouen and Havre Stockton & Darlington South East. and Dover Yarmouth and Norwich York and N. Midland Ditto New Shares...h Mass. Albion Copper AltEn Anglo Mex., iss. 51. Ditto Subscription Bolanos Ditto Scrip Brasil. Imp. ills. 51. p.m Do. Mecaub. & Coc. U. Do. St. John Del Rey British Iron Candenga.... ..... Ditto Registered Cobre Copper Copiapo Columbian, iss. 51. General Mining ..... Hibernian ,.. .,« ...... Imperial Slate Corapy, Mexican Mining Co. of Ireland Real del Monte, Unreg Ditto Loan Notes , Rhymney Santiago de Cuba United Mox.,iss.lll pm Ditto Scrip Ditto New Mit ovary. Londn, with Sin.Tlcket London University Russell ..... King's College ..... 111 tiseellassosus. Angle Mexican Mint Australian Agricultur Brit. American Land, Canada ....... Upper Caoadl"Bonds Oen. Steam Navigation Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wood ? ay., is, 11. Mex. and S. American New Brunswick (Land) New Zealand ..... Penins. & Orien. Steam Royal Mail Steam Reversionary Int. Soc South Australian Thames Tunnel Vaa Diemen's Land lb 46. u la.. epeieent per ent Ape. and kW. be. Ever cent. t per cent. 106 per cent Oyer teat 00 O 0 O 0 00 O 0 O 0 O 0 O 0 LIST OF SCOTTISH COM] SEPT. 2, 1 Bank of Scotland...." Royal Bank Britith Linen Conipny C.mmercial Bank Glasgow Union Bank Western Bank . Central Bk. of Scotland Caledonian Insurance Hercules Insurance..." North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. of Scot!. Edinburgh Life Irma. Scottish Union Insur Standard Life Insur Dalkeith Railway .. Edin. and Glas. Railwy GI rand reen. Rail. Ark 'ANIES' PRICES. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. $ per cent. 6 per cent 7 per cent. 6 per cent. eper cent. 6 per cent. 7per cent. 0 per cent. !per cent. ever cent. /per cent. 5 per cent. Sier cent. II per cent 111 per cent 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 o e 12 10 0 1 0 0 2 10 0 50 • 8 BO 0 0 2500 25 • 0 ---------__ -- 12 in town this morning from G e rmany, which, Snt WILLIAM FOLLE TT. —Letters were received we rejoice to announos, state that the learned and distinguished Attorney-General (Sir William Follett), is considered to be better, and that his health is daily iraproTing. .£ e. d. VI 18 0 113 e 6 100 0 0 150 O 0 Z a. ii. - .100 1 0 41 is 4 o - 100 0 0 All7aid LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Sept. 13. (Before Mr. Commissioner GOULI3IJIIN.) C. J. BANNISTERS BANKRUPTCY. The bankrupt in this case was a draper, carrying on business at Derby. He has failed for about 4,0001., and his assets are said to be under 2,0001. He was originally connected in business with his brother, Robert Bannister, of Portsea, who, it will be recollected, decamped with between 2,000/. and 3,0001., but was captured at Maderia. The fiat against C. J. Bannister was, in the first instance, issued in Birmingham, but removed to London, in order to work the two bankruptcies together, and thus thorpughly investigate the state of their affairs. The sitting to-day was for the choice of assignees, and the only proof upon which any discussion arose was one tendered by the trustees of the wives of the bankrupts, they having married two sisters, for 1,1201., cash advanced to enable them to commence trade. Mr. M. Chambers supported the trustees, Mr. Young appeared for the bankrupt, and Mr. Reed, as solicitor for several creditors, opposed the proof. An examination of witnesses was entered into, to show the bona fides of the proof; at the conclusion of which, Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN said he was satisfied that the money was advanced, and therefore he should admit the debt. The only question was whether it was necessary, under the terms of the settlement, for the bankrupt to join in the proof. As, however, the wives had joined with the trustees, he did not think it requisite for the bankrupt to do so. Mr. REED then stated that the number of creditors for whom he appeared carried the choice of assignees in favour of Mr. G. Hitchcock, of St. Paul's-church yard, and Mr. D. Ainsworth, of Manchester, both warehousemen ; and added that they would require the bankrupt to give a minute and detailed statement of his affairs in his balance-sheet. Mr. Reed parti cularly referred to the deficiency which appeared in the bankrupt's stock and bank account between Ja nuary last and August, the latter the date of his failure. The bankrupt said his books would explain all, and give, he was sure, satisfactory information of the state of his accounts. Mr. Commissioner GouLatntx urged the bankrupt to be assiduous and attentive to his estate, and distin guish his conduct from that of his brother, which had been exceedingly faulty. The bankrupt promised attention to the request of the Court, and the proceedings were adjourned till the 28th of September, when the two brothers will come up for their last examination. MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. (Before Mr. WALEsev.) Yesterday an ill-looking man, about 35 years of age, named Wm. Patten, and a female named "Inn Webb, were indicted for assaulting and cruelly ill treating Wm. Patten, aged seven years, the son of the former prisoner. The prosecution, which was instituted at the in stance of the parish authorities, disclosed as heartless a case of cruelty towards an unfortunate and helpless child as was perhaps ever brought under public notice. The facts of the case have been recently published under the head of our Lambeth-street police report. The Deputy-Assistant JUDGE having summed up the evidence, the jury, after a few minutes' consulta tion, returned a verdict of Guilty. The COURT, in pronouncing sentence upon the pri soners, said they had been convicted on the clearest evidence, which must have shocked and horrified every one who heard it. More inhuman conduct he had never before heard described, more particularly on the part of the male prisoner towards his own off spring. It was fortunate for the prisoners that their career of cruelty had been stopped so soon, for from the nature of the medical testimony, it would appear that they had had a narrow escape from an indictment for murder; indeed, he thought their conduct much more cruel and murderous than if they took a knife and cut the wretched infant's throat. The sentence of the Court was, that the male prisoner be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for four months, and the female for three months, with hard labour also. Francis Crocker, an elderly man, dressed in seedy black, was indicted for fraudulently obtaining from Mary Judd the sum of 15s. and a gold ring. The facts of the case, which, having recently ap peared in the police reports, may be briefly stated as follows :—The prosecutrix, who was a servant in the City-road, had been courted by a tradesman named Nathan, who promised her marriage, and in conse quence he bought a wedding-ring, which he presented to her, but subsequently changed his mind, and in less than a fortnight married another. She was therefore recommended by a fellow-servant to the prisoner to bring an action for breach of promise, and on applying to him he told her he was a solicitor, and required to have the wedding-ring as an essential evidence in the action, for which he gave an under taking, stating that it would be returned to her upon payment of 15s. expenses for marking a writ against .Nathan. She subsequently made several applications for the ring to the prisoner. The prisoner having been called up for judgment, The Deputy-Assistant JUDGE, after commenting strongly upon the conduct of the prisoner, said he had been convicted of a cruel and heartless fraud upon a simple girl, and it was his (the Deputy- Assistant Judge's) intention to have sentenced him to transportation, but in accordance with the opinions of several of the gentlemen on the bench, he would give him one chance more of retrieving his character. The sentence of the Court was, that he be imprisoned and kept to hard labour for six months in Tothill• fields prison, the last weeks to be solitary. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. Mr. James, the barrister, appeared to support an application for a warrant for the apprehension of Jacques Besset, of 73, Fenchurch-street, merchant, accused of fraudulent bankruptcy, under the con vention of the English and French Governments. The Learned Counsel stated, that in pursuance of the convention ratified between the two countries, a warrant had been granted by Sir J. Graham, on the application of the French Ambassador, authorising the magistrates to govern themselves according to the convention, and to aid and assist in apprehending the accused. The evidence consisted of the depositions taken in France, and copies of certain letters written by Basset, and found in Paris at the house of one Regis Clermain, and the charge against him was fraudulent bankruptcy. Jaques Besset was a Frenchman, who, having failed for a large amount in France, came over to England several years since, and established himself in London. His agent in Paris in the present case was Regis Germain, and his agent in London was a De la Marcotelli, who carried on business here under the firm of Pricener and Co. Besset also carried on business here under the firm of Pricener and Co. Bessett also carried on business in London in his own name. Both of those agents gave large orders to different foreign houses for merchandise, wines, silks, boots, perfumery, and other commodities. They generally contrived to buy the goods to be de livered free of expense, and in order to pay for them the London and Paris firms respectively drew upon each other. The bills when due were, as a matter of course, dishonoured ; and ultimately the fraud was exposed. Regis Germain, his clerk Bandon, and one De Lazy, a partner or clerk of De la Marcotelli (or Pricener) and Co., were arre3ted, and De la Marcotelli fled to America, and had been made bankrupt in London ; but in the possession of Regis Germain, in Paris, were found certain 'letters, in pencil, in his handwriting, but with the signature of Besset, which completely showed that Besset was the head, and Regis Germain merely the instrument ; and that a regular and despe rate system of fraud had been practised by the parties. From the documentary evidence which, by the treaty of convention between the two countries, was suf ficient to sanction the proceedings against the accused, it would appear, amongst other matters, that Besset urged Regis Germain, while a bankrupt, and in em barrassed circumstances, to procure all the goods he could prevail upon mercantile houses to trust him with, and transmit them to London. The series of depositions was certified under the hands of one of the judges of the tribunal by whom the order was issued. In France an accessory in such a case was not known, for the persons who joined in the con spiracy to defraud were all considered as principals, and the present application was made in order that the accused might be, according to the terms of the convention, sent over to France to answer for fraudu lent bankruptcy, an offence not known in England, in which country there were acts denominated offences which were not cognisable as such in the French code. The Learned Counsel said he knew that when he should make out a prima facie case under circum stances of such immense public importance, the Lord Mayor would not hesitate to aid the authorities of France by acting upon the warrant of the Secretary of State. Mr. Philip Antonie Mattbievr, of Passy, near Paris, stated that he was acquainted with the laws of France. He produced certain papers signed by the Judge of the Tribunal of the First Instance of the Department of the Seine. The judge's name was Maussion. Mr Humphery, who attended upon the part of Mr. Bessett, and stated at the early part of the proceed ings that he had advised his client not to notice the summons which had been served upon him, said he had no observation to make in answer to Mr. James's charge ; it was all ex parte. The LORD MAYOR—There can be no doubt that the intent of the Act of Parliament was to facilitate the granting of a warrant under similar circumstances, but there may be some little doubt whether the words of the Act strictly bear out the intent. The words are, " Provided that this should be done only when the commission of the crime should be so established as that the laws of the country where the fugitive or persona so accused should be found would justify his apprehension and commitment for trial if the crime had" been there committed." Now, we know of no such offence abstractedly as "fraudulent bankruptcy," and the difficulty which presents itself is simply whether the offence charged should not be one which is cognisable by our laws in order to give the magis trates jurisdiction and power to commit to gaol. Mr. James—lf that were the case, it would en tirely subvert the intention of the Legislature in pass ing the Act of Parliament. Alderman Ginns—lt appears to me that the of fence proved should be one upon which we have power to adjudicate here. Mr. James--What is the meaning of the term " fraudulent bankruptcy" in the Act of Parliament ? It must either mean nothing at all, or that if a man commit that crime in France which is known to their laws, and if discovered in this country, he should be delivered over to the French authorities. We must put a liberal meaning upon the Act, and thus carry out the intention of the original framers of it. The LORD MATOR—I do not hesitate to grant a warrant in such a case. I think lam perfectly ius tified in taking an extended and liberal view of the Act of Parliament; for it is obvious what th( inten tion of the Legislature was, although that in eot may be somewhat mystically explained. I grant the warrant, under all the circumstances. The warrant was then put in the hands of aini. 1 Forrester, the officer. BOW-STREET. Yesterday Emily Brochwell, a servant in the em ploy of Mr. Fairbrother, printer. No. 31. Bug-street, was brought before Mr. Jardine, charged with having stolen 1001. in gold, the property of Mr. - Milian Cunningham. She did not appear more than fourteen years of age, and cried bitterly. It appears that Mr. Cunningham rents the tip floor of the house occupied by . ;r. Fan-brother, and on Friday morning, at a quarter to nine o'clock, his wife missed a purse containing 1001. in sove reigns, from a drawer in her bureau in her chamber. Information was immediately given at the police office in Bow-street, and in the afternoon constable Pocock, of the F division, proceeded to the h ,, use, and asked some questions of the prisoner, as well as the other domestics. She repeatedly declared she had not touched the money, and left the room crying. While the officer was talking with her master (Mr. Fairbrother), she returned with a small bag of printed cotton hanging over her finger, and handed it to Po cock, saying she had found it in the water-closet. On opening it and counting it, it was found to contain 1001. 10s., being ten shillings more than Mrs. Cun ningham had missed. On going to the water-closet Pocock found the purse, out of which the money had been emptied, and which was sworn to by Mr. Cun ningham. The prisoner said she knew knothing more of it, than that she had found the money in the water closet while cleaning it out. Mr. JARDINE remanded her for further examination. CLERKENWELL. Robert Nunn was charged with assaulting his fa ther and mother, George and Harriette Nunn, re spectable persons living in Torrington-street, Tor rington-square, and also with threatening the life of his mother. It appeared from the statement of the parents that the prisoner was two years Ago apprenticed to an ex cellent business, but had not been there more than a few months when he came home and entreated of his parents to send him to sea. They accordingly fitted him out for sea at considerable expense, but he re turned home after the first voyage,. and became so dissolute that there was no restraining him. He spent whole nights on the town, and when he re turned home, if either of his parents ventured to re monstrate with him, used the most shocking lan guage, and sometimes beat them severely. A second time, at his request, they sent him to sea, but in a few weeks he came home ten times more depraved than he had ever been before. He was convicted at this Court, on a previous occasion, of a most agra vated assault on his mother. On the previous night they deposed that he came in about eleven o'clock. She told him he should have been in sooner. He in stantly ran over to the bed on which she was lying and struck her a violent blow, producing a severe contusion on her left temple. He then left the house, and when outside aimed a blow with a tile at his father, who was sitting at the parlour window. The missile struck him in the hand. He threw another tile at him, but it did not take effect. Mr. COMBE—What have you to say to this? Pri soner—l don't know that I hurt them. Mr. COMBS sentenced him to pay a fine of 51., or two months' imprisonment. He was committed. On his way from the Court to the cell he whistled a merry tune. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Alfred Walker, bug destroyer, who stands charged with having stolen upwards of 5001. in money, and some jewellery, the property of Mrs. Tarbox, the housekeeper, from the residence of the Earl of Har rowby, in Grosvenor-square, was yesterday brought before Mr. Hardwick for another examination. Mr. Pelham, who attended for the prosecution, said as he was not in a situation to produce additional evidence, because the police had not as yet suffi ciently matured their investigation, he must, in order that the ends of justice might be attained, ask for another remand for a short period. Mr. Crouch, who appeared fur the prisoner, ob jected to the application. The obi ec t o f M r . Pelham might be justice, but there was justice due to the prisoner as well as the Earl of Harrowby. The pri soner had now been in custody for some weeks. The evidence at the outset was inconclusive, and the last examination tended to exonerate the prisoner from even the suspicion which' the evidence at the com mencement might have raised. Under these circum stances he felt justified in asking the Court to release his client from custody. Mr. HARDWICK said, where justice required it, he had not hesitated to remand an accused person for several weeks, although no fresh evidence might have been produced at each examination. There was grave suspicion against the prisoner, supported by evidence of no mean weight, added to which there was the fact of the prisoner having previously been tried at Newgate on a similar charge. These circumstances amply justified the police in asking for a remand from time to time, and the Court in accedin g t o th e appli cation. If the police came forward and declared that further time was necessary, he should listen to the application. Inspector Pearce, of the detective force, said he had the strongest reason last week for believing that he should have been in the possession of such evidence as would have proved of a conclusive character. He had been disappointed, but there was still a possi bility if the prisoner was remanded for a few days that something might yet be done. Mr. HARDWICK said he would remand the prisoner until Thursday next. In the course of the proceedings the solicitor of the Earl of Harrowby, who attended on the former occa sions, stated that the Earl of Harrowby was not the prosecutor, but that the whole of the proceedings ori ginated with Mrs. Tarbox. An application was made on behalf of the prisoner for the money found beneath his bed, as it was neces sary to have funds in order to carry on hi.. defence. Mr. HARDWICK, after hearing the circumstances under which the money was discovered, was of opinion that its detention would not assist the case, and, therefore, directed the amount to be delivered to the prisoner. A paragraph was copied from an evening news paper of Thursday to the effect that a Frenchman had been dreadfully wounded by a Pole, who had me ditated the assassination of his victim. The details are I little better than a fabrication. The simple facti,, that a quarrel took place in a public-house, and the complainant, who was at this Court on Thursday,re ' ceived a few scratches of no moment, for which an assault summons was granted. QUEEN-SQUARE. Martha Grant, alias Boddington ' Eliza Harris, Eliza Smith, William Le a r, and Edward Collins, with George Boddington, who has since surrendered, the persons charged with being concerned in the late ' mysterious affair at Westminster, underwent a very lengthened examination. The circumstances under which the prisoners were apprehended were of a most suspicious character. Alfred Dark, a man described as a journeyman raker, but who was well known to have been connected with play men and others of a lawless character, and who had left London on the Saturday previous with George Boddington on a country excursion, was dis covered on the afternoon of Monday week last lying dead in a house in Orchard-street, Westminster. As he had evidently met his death by a gun-shot wound in the arm, and as his property had been removed I from the residence he o ccu pi e d, a t N o. 3, York-ter race, Pentonville, the impression on th e m i n d o f the police was, that he had met his death unfairly, and had then been plundered by his associates. Dark had, it appeared, separated from his wife about eighteen months ago, and, although he allowed her a guinea per week for her maintenance, cohabited with a female named Eliza, and the police were much strengthened in their suspicions by the circumstance of this female having been found at the house where Dark's remains were, added to the circumstance of its having been denied to a person who made appli cation on the subject that Dark was dead at all. These and some other points all confirmatory of strong suspicion induced the apprehension of the pri soners, who were all found at the house in Orchard street, and some of whom were proved to have as sisted in the removal of the goods to a beer-snop, where they were discovered. 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Mr. Humphreys attended for the prosecution ; Mr. Wontner for the prisoners. On the accused being placed in the dock, Mr. Humphreys observed, that at the time when the prisoners at the bar had first been captured, there was some reason to suppose that the crime of murder had been committed. The strictest investigation had taken place into the eircu instances attending the death of Alfred Dark. and he fe;t it his duty to state that then: , was not the slightest pretence for such a charge, the deceased having met his death by accident, while shooting at some birds in the country. Evidence was then given as to the amount and the ownership of the goods. Mr..BURRELL ultimately said he should remand Ge ,, rge Boddington and Lear for three weeks, but would take bail for their apearance. The others he would discharge, on their entering into their own re cognizancvs to appear. 134i1 was. in the cours , . of a planer of an hour, put in for 13.0.!i•loon told L,ar SI'II.I:NAAE OcCURRENCE. There is a reps re aeesee: of a very digressing n ature, in which tiai eeme :)1 . -., tfic e in the Royal Marine Jere, is mix:. , l ep it .ee.to the. ti hall and s eppet en ..2!,'l'; •• ! :Londe b apt. W2rrent r iseieeece , (t..,,, .1' ru, mar Cove, at %%bleb the ettieer ieccrred ate nd d, :in.; that the following si,ver and spions were Inis eing. eaeyee);i :lighted on eai :eeveues, but inquiry tell fig in aiee hire lit y to an y of t eem. $ description of the sto:en pee : wily wa published in henibli e and ing t , e li..t)Wll until Sato . day. I. the cour-e of that .Isy, a reap cteble leoking women tend -red pikes of silver spoons sea ferks looking sale at the shop of Mr. Hawkeswort h ' teraiel parade. The i»ateer in ehich they were bat' teased and broken up attracted hie attention, and with the aid of a le averfill ine lens, he discovered that some of the pieces bore r lie crest of Captain Warren , while one bore his thereey eerreepondine with some of the articles stolen. Perceiving this he inferine" the lady tha t be Aotilil stop the ;ilia r, as he had rea• son to suppose it was golen, and that he should also require to know from her by what means it came into her possession. Te this strange and startling announcement she at once said it could not b e the case, for that it had 6-en given her that morning by se officer of the Royal Shrines to sell, as some old silver , which he had had a long time in his possession, and had ne other use for. The lady Ift the shop, no doubt Is' bouring wider excited and embarrassed feelings, a nd, 1 0 some minutes after, Mr. Hawkesworth, who had de tained the articles, went out with a view of making further inquiries, and mot her vain, when he requeste d her name and address, for e hich she at once referee him to a respectable citizen residing on Merchants'-quay' who, on inquiry, informed Mr. Hawkesworth that sbe was the wile of a gentleman hulling a Government situr tion in the Ordnance Store Department at Haulbowlin e . Island, and that she m u st h ave b een utter l y un awsru of the property having been come by ot h erw i s e tba e , properly. Mr. Hawkesworth having been, .of course, $ l , l once assured of this, expr e s se d hi s regre t t h at s h e should have been subjected to any tr ou bl e or annoyan ce, an as we were subsequently info rme d, s h e acqua i n ted her husband with the matter on her return home the sam e evening, who at once made a report in writing of the oc: currence to the 'commanding officer on the island, thro ugh whom it was transmitted o ff ic i a lly t o t h e Ad m i ra l, se a at an early hour on Sunday m orn i ng an or d er wa s issue from the Admiralty-offi c e at C ove t o p u t un d e r arres t the officer named. When the o rd er reac h e d be ri " ( i absent from his quarters, but soon after returned, an was informed of the circ u m s t ances w ith w hi c h his nan o via; so painfully mixed up. H e asser t e d t h at th e article s had been in his possession for a year and a half, and we ll/ his own property, and so the matter remains until the re suit of a public inquiry shall have determined the 01 : reetness or otherwise rtf his statement. Intimation ell received by Mr. Ilawkesworth this morning to stt erl i „, in Cove at an investigation which was to take there this day, the result of which we shall pro abed be enabled to announ ce i n our next , an d if i t sbe.oi remove from the chara c t er o f a y oung man enterl o ‘ on an honourable profes s i on so di s t ress i ng a n iirP oo tation, it will give us very great ,satisfaction. L o g the contrary, it should est a bli s h th e c h arges , we 9 0 expect to see the case dealt with in the same mane er r r e , if the accused belonged to th e h um bl est stat i o n of I t ; It is with great regret we notice the matter at pees erl ice but, as it forms a promi nen t t on i c i n many c ircles' , e j have only to publish the stat emen t, as we wer e ensb' to collect the particulars that have as yet transpired f r° ot sources the least likely t o exaggerate or m i s represe them.— Cork Paper of Tuesday.—An inee sd g. tion of the transaction took place on Tuesday n r fore the Honourable E. Hare, Captain Holmes' Millet, and Sampson T. W. Ffrench, Esq. The accuse" s. party was Lieutenant F u ddi com b e , o f t h e R o yal Marin e He was defended by Counsellor Glover. CePtaiti Warren, Mr. Hawkesworth, and Mrs. Creamor of Hs: d. bowline, the I.dy above- referred to,. were exam ie ,,, s After a patient and ample investieatien committed the prisoner to abide his trial before the tese . , l9 l tent barrister, in Cork, on the 23d instant. His cone'', applied to have him admitted to bail, which, after a 1 ° 9 4 argument was acceded to. but not hiving been elle id the magistrati% procure the necessary sureties, the witnesses were be° over to prosecute, and he was given into the custody .; the police, to be tr a n sm it te d t o t h e county vao l to sel his trial at the ensuing sessions.—Cor k Reporter. ut hi H. INTEREsTING TO LADIES. To Messrs. RowlarA and Son, 20, Fl at t en - ga rden, Loncl °ll. Percy- place, Landport, Portsmouth, April 4, 1844. Gentlemen,--4 think it but an act of jnstice to inforl you of the benefit I have derived from the use of r u ct aduirable Macassar Oil. About six months ago 'fa n o, nay hair getting daily more weak and thin, and mg . 1 discoloured, from a practice I had adopted of vrettillg r :d continually ; fearing that I should lose it entirely, f o r hearing of the efficacy of your Macassar Oil, I bar at some time past constantly used it, and the result is, i le a my hair is now perfectly restored and much irciPr ° o 4 in appearance and colour, having become thick, dark , r. glossy ; it also curls freely without the use of par r* which it never did b e f ore . T o a ll my f r iends I li s o g warmly recommended your Macassar Oil as an W e s o restorative and preservative .for the hair. As I w l i t re , n et objection to see m y name i n pr i nt , I b eg you "., 0 e publish it; but you are at lib er ty t o s h o w this make any oth e r use y ou pl ease o f i t , and refer aPPfil f .• rti r to me, if necessary, in p roo f o f t h e efficacy of cassar Oil.—Your obedient serv a nt, l e tte ,nts • • • 0 0 Rowland's Macassar Oil preserves and reprodu e n eti ro f ; Hair ; prev en t s i t f rom falling off or turning . if Changes Grey Hair to its Or ig i na l Colour ; free-toff from Scurf and Dandriff, and makes it beautifulli and curly. Ask for " Rowland's Macassar Oil." All others are fraudulent counterfeits. COURSE OF EXCHA: Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at sight l2 3i Rotterdam 2U. 12 6 Antwerp 25 85 Hamburgh M.B. 13 13} Alton l3 14 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles Blurdeaux Frankfort on Maine l2l Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 ___ _ _ _ Vienna, effec. ft. 3M. 952 1 rieste. ditto Madrid 364 Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville -- GE.—(YESTERD AT•) Gibraltar .............. So Leghorn ........... . ... uu„. 5 5 Genoa .................. Milan ............ . ...... Venice ..... ........ 4' Naples ..... .......... 394 Palermo, per oz ...... 35 116 Lisbon .................. 55 Oporto .................. Rio Janeiro ............ Bahia ................... 7") Buenos Ayres ......... NewYork,2l dye sight -•"' Philadelphia ......... 01„ /WOES OF BU LLION, 0 ! 9 Foreign Gold, bars. 3 1 „' $ Portugal Gold Coin 3 New Doubloons..... 0 4 0 1 New D011ar5......... 0 ,3 Silver in Ears ...... 0 4 ETES AND EYELASHES.—Sad complaints have De ; forwarded to our office of the conduct of wagg Dve j s draymen, and others, drivers of carts and other vehic their of burden, in respect of their manner of tarrying ,he whips. The whip is borne by these individuals overc'lo. shoulder, with the thong dangling down their btl To this arrangement, abstractedly cons idered, there l s 9 No objection ; but tho thong not only dangles, bu t , i is whisks about at its own sweet will, flying constani,ii,to the face of all propriety, and every now and t lien l ;he that of some unhappy passenger. It is made t o deserileo those mischievous g) rations by the slouching, ce gait of the bearer ; the irregularity of which, w e i bJ every reas9n to suppose, is in many cases aggravate Into b:.er. It is bal enough when a natural lush the eye; what mwt it be to receive that of s whip 11,,'1t Policemen! Pwich and Englund expect you to de duty, and put an init-diate stop to this nuisanc pienhti.f' tu clay, Perkins, and Co., correct your drayn_f_t:::::0•000 - - BIRTHS. the On the Bth inst., at the Vicarage, Kinthury, B e 0 1, . lady of James Coutts Crawford, Elul, of Overtov, L in shire, of a daughter. IL A' On the 10th inst., at Yarmouth, Norfolk, the lady 0- f Kerrison, Esq., of a daughter. fo Cs On the llth inst., at the Crescent , Be dford, the wife taro Ruddach, late l9t h Lancers, of a son. ;it On the 11th inst., in Eaton - square , the lad y of CsPtaia Thomas Bourchier, K.C.8., of a sor___________ MARRIED On the 7th inst., at Christ. Church, Marylebone : r• 00 1/ Robinson, of Speen• hill, Newbury, Berks, to lar Yl."'" - daughter of Charles Francis Connor, Esq., of Hackney. On the inst., at St. Geore's, Hanover-square, 014, Robertson, to llth Agnes, second daughter of Mr. Johu M 0 both of Albemarle-street. Fe l' On the 12th inst., at Lacock Churc h, Thomas Av-, t e r of lower, Esq., of Langley Lodge, to Eliza Sophia, daugli Wilts' Captain F. W. Rooke, of Lackham H o use On the 12th inst., at Willesden Church, Mr. J Jeffery- L 3lr. lam, of Piccadilly, to Eliza Charlotte, third daughter of Anderson, Mapesbury House, Willesden. Job 11 Ho O n n . s th ir e E l ( 2 iw th ar i a ns s t u ., g a d t en ßole Farm. Thames Dittou , Fr %ht rick Sugden, Esq., aged 31, eldest surviving son of the Pib , Al- On the 27th ult , Stephen, second on of - Henry Janle brecht, Esq. . On the 7th inst., at Newton Kyme, William Hatfield, ?ills On the 10th inst., at Heyrood, Ashton-under -Lyn, ``' Henrietta, daughter of Leigh Richmond, Esq. Eso O q.n n , th e atgh ee d l l62 lt st h h. iil inst., st. at t Five Brighton, 1i u s eDr.scTiahpotmo n a: Til Be!oi Thomas * P s i t a t . 0 v e 1 1 i titer , On the 12th inst, in Great George -street, Westin' Henry Robinson Palmer, Esq., Civil Engii , London : Printed and Published by MURDO TO V) 112 O. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Suit Office. N °. t ' ; 'orAntl. in thr Precitiet a' thp chiv,,,,. i n t h e cousk r Ifiddleaex, Saturday, September 14, 1844. P&p blei biy tan Th, Yikri stru *II ( To Th E Of a 14 1 . C, khir