The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-14 00:00:00

BANK RETURNS. From the London Gazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eight'i Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, of the sev,ral Banks of Issue in England an I Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 2d day of November, 1844 : Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Abingdon Bank, Abingdon—Knapp and Co £28,320 Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Co 16,948 Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jemmitt and Pomfret 9,873 Aylshat Bank, Aylsham—R. and E. Copeman 5,452 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Rickford and Hunt Baldock Bank and Baldock and Biggleswade Bank, Baldock—Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell... 33,697 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple—Drake and Co 15,397 Basingstoke and Oldham Bank, Basingstoke— Cole, Seymour, and Co. Bedford Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard Bedford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford— Trapp, Halfhead, and Co. Bewdley Bank, Bewdley—Nichols, Baker, and Crane Bieester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester—Tubb, Wootten, and C Birmingham Bank, Birmiugham—Attwoods, Spooner, and Co Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham—Lewis, Meilliett, and Co •••• Blandford Bank, Blandford—Bastard and Oak . Boston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co Boston Bank, Boston—Gee and Co. Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—E. &J. Sealey Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Harford, and Co. Broseley and Bridgnorth, and Bridgnorth and Bromley Bank, Broseley—Messrs. Pritchard Buckingham Bank, Buckingham—Bartlett, Parrott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Bank, Bury—Oakes, Bevan, and Co Banbury Bank, Banbury—Gillett and Tawney. Banbury Old Bank, Banbury—Messrs. Cobb... Bath City Bank, Bath—Moger and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett and Grant Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H. 19,03' 25,01 '22,774 16,222 8,419 73,723 13,957 9,345 42,320 25,34 27,424 74,369 39,753 52,926 8,660 36,849 and A. Harris Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co Bridport Brink, Bridport—S. and W. E. Gundry Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Dritlield Bank, Burlington— Harding., Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— J. Worlledge and Co. Bromsgrove Bank and StourbridgQ and Broms grove Bank, Bromagrove—Rufford, Briggs, and Co. Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock and Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co. Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—Morris and 36,597 11,871 64,118 23,902 32,980 12,754 Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bunk, Colchester—Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Efisex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and liadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester —Mills, Ba.wtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co. Coventry Bank, COventry—Little and Weod- cock - - City Bank, Exeter—Milford and Co Craven Bank, Settle—Birkbeeks and Co. • Christchurch Bank, Christchurch—Tice, Welsh,- and Co Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon- - mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co. Derby Bank, Derby—Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby—Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes—Hughes, 2,94 14,972 22,77 Locke, and Co Piss Bank, Diss--Oakes, Fincham, and Co Doncaster alnk, Doncaster—Leatham, Tew, and Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster—* Cook, and Co. Dover Union Bank, Dover—Latham, and C 0.... Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, and Co Devonport Bank, Devonport—llodge and Nor- man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, and Co. East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hatton, and Co. - Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford—Sparrow, Walford, and Co Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders, and Co Fakenhara Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk heck, and Co. Farringdon Bank and Bank of \Vantage, Far-. ringdon—Barnes and Medley Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co. Godalming Bank, Godahning—Mellerah and King - Grantham Bank, Grantham—Kewney and King Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware— S. Adams and Co. Ilull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Ban', Hull —Smith, Brothers, aid Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead— Smith, and Whittingstall Honiton Bank, Honiton—Flood and Co. Hertfordshire, Hitchen Bank„Hitchen—Sharples and Co. Hereford, Ross, and Archenfie!d Bank, and Ross and Arclrenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan and Hoskins Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J. 46,17 32,070 22,913 3,210 21,375 41,592 46,307 9,682 19;460 75;932 2;779 7,002 8,270 12,168 36,270 Davies and Co Knighton Bank, Knighton—J. Davies and Co. Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, 23,275 20,431 10,203 12,732 57,859 8,.893 76,245 8,730 46,340 99,976 48,743 50,619 36,846 22,949 8,373 14,283 6,§(10 5,615 18,703 13,924 31,699 35,42 22,935 20,393 19,410 50,766 5,529 20,213 13,716 39,072 28,474 20,493 75,221 14,964 27,292 7,835 20,627 and Co. 43,086 Kettering Bank, Kettering—Gotch and Sons... 9,342 Lam peter Bank ,Lani peter— Jones,E vans, and Co. 7,524 Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C. Harvey and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co 5l 992 Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W.Williams, Brown, and Co. 34,620 Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,L*ek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. 9,150 Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby 29,574 L.,wes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co 42,609 Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green 19,292 Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—• Smith and Co 98,888 Llandovery- Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very—David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle tons and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St 7,279 4,636 Barba Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurney s and Co. 39,592 Lynn Itegis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co. • 12,070 Manningtree I3ank,Manningtree—Nunn and Co. 7,019 Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank; Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and Hungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney 16,555 Marlborough aad North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier 10,974 Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and • Williams Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyurns and Co 19,288 Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergavenny—Baileys and Co 29,391 Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead 13,070 Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Sons.. 7,980 Nowark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton 26,040 Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Newark—Handley, Peacock, and Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock 35,097 Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Son 21,473 Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and Dyson Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons Norwich and Norwich Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Co 69,936 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Hart, Fellows,' and Co 10,773 Nuneaton.. Bank, .. Bank, N uneaton —C ra dd oc k an d Nava C0.....8;c: ..... ...................... . .............. . 5,152 ymoutt —Harris, Harris, and New ....... Bank, .... . . .......................... 24,218 coarum Sc; ............ Everett, and Nottingham Bank, Not . tingl;;CCl .. and Co. 29 , 663 .. g i ..th Oswestry Bank •and Oswestry O westry—Croxon and C o .... . ....... - Oxford Bank, Oxford—J. a n d R. M0 rre11.. . ,, Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—R o bi nson , Parsons, 15,906 ; 13 ' 937 and Thompson Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge aid Tonbrid ge , Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells and Sevenoaka Bank, Tonbridge— Beeching and Sons THE SUN, LONDON, TRU'RSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 14, 1844. Average Amount Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—Williams, Clinch, and Co 11,369 Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and Co 45,962 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 10,979 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—Messrs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Petorborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson 11,875 Pembrokeshire Stank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven, and Co Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 32,260 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton:and C 0... Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds, 9,995 42,014 5,588 4,743 and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Stroud Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey—Foot ner and Son Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 15,188 Rugby Bank, Rugby--Butlin and Son 13,120 Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 29,880 Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy- ; don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and Co 12,951 Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard 9,381 4,245 and Allaway Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and Co 17,416 Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co 24,230 Shrewsbury and Market Drayton Bank, Shrews bury—Adams, Adams, and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons, and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son 5,452 Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Son Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wilde and Co. St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story 3,718 Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie 22,806 Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and 7,426 . : 41,058 King - Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore Stourbridge _Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg,and Co Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, 9,219 6,219 7,775 16,054 12,379 Cayley, and Co. Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and W - elshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's—Gib- son and Sturt Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs.Badcock Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co Thorn bury Bank, Thombury—Rolph, Yates, and . . Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns- ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But- 31,170 16,340 21,201 cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co. Uxbridge Old Bank, 'Uxbridge-41u% Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. Warwick and Warwickshire Batik, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox. Brut - tiers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and C 0.... Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Baak, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearce Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, 1,948 29,386 12,210 Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good- Hoke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender, 9,940 13,569 and Co. Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner ..... Whitby Bank, Whitby—Frankland and Wil- kinsOn Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles oster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham—J. and S. Kenrick Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— 10,048 12,756 10,311 14,962 24,448 15,155 26,483 6,667 42,758 13,240 22,700 5.566 15,738 29,963 58,245 7,205 12,010 14,522 86,986 13,464 1,867 17,241 24,613 2,704 11,057 Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 11,348 Yeovil, Old Bank, Yeovil—E. and J. Batten York Bank, York—Swann, Clough, and Co 44,930 JOINT- STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 47,456 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford CommerciaLßanking Company, Brad ford Burton, Uttexeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Carlisle 33,316 Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 14,640 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company, Carlisle ti Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 18,296 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington 2 6 ,001 East a England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester. 150,448 Halifax Joint-Stock Bunk; Halifax 18,690 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 33,994 Hull Banking Company, Hull 27,331 Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,711 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 40,598 Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,142 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 23,662 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, 37,410 .... 25,152 19,789 KnaresborCiugh 26,910 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 3,786 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 50,444 Leeds Bankin g Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 47,435 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Leeds and. West Riding Banking Company, Leeds 17,665 Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds 12,685 Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,092 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 32,463 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company. Newcastle 80,495 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Read-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London 384,740 North Wilts Banking Company, Melkaham 57,643 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 83,997 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North- am ton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 61,8.33 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester 54,727 Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 5,96? Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 34,490 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford 47,361 Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and Hallamshire . Banking Company, Sheffield Sheffield and Rotherham Joint• Stock Banking Company, Sheffield Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond 49,159 Stockton and Durham County Banking Com pany, Stockton 7,006 Storey and Thomas's Banking Company, Shaftesbury Sheffield and Retford Bank, Sheffield .. Suffolk Banking Company, Ipswich 5,015 Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton 27,968 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 14,447 W i w h i.a i r t hw e i h i i h r e a .a n vn edn Joint-Stock Banking Company, Leamington Banking Company, 29,875 nd and South Wales District 31,967 W ....e es ra of ingt E on gla W B il a ts nk sed ra D n ott Banking Company, Salisbur; 7728:489165 54,070 21,022 Averagc Amount. West Riding Union Banking Company, Ilud dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, 30,800 Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester 6,470 York Union Banking Company, York 69.895 York City and County Banking Company, York 87,356 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds • P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Stamps and Taxes, Nov. 8, 1844. 7,5G0 ebtrlt MUttion THE FUNDS-(C OSING PRICES) BRITISH FUNDS. Bank Stock et div. Ditto Bonds £1,000...... 78 Pm. 3 per Cent. Red ......... ...... 99% Ditto under £l,OOO 75 pm. 3 per Cent. Cons. ..... ....... 100% South Sea Stock 3%6 per Cent. Red — Ditto Old Annuities ... New 3U per Cent.... ...... New 5 per Cent....... Long Annuities to expire Ditto 5001...„....„.„.. 59 Pm. Jan. 5860 l2 Ditto 5ma11.... ........ ... 53 pm. Oct. 1859 ll% 13-16 Bank Stock for Acct.... fi.01% Jan. 1860 l2 5-16 Consols for Act ..... ... DAN Indian Stock India Stock for Acct.... FOREIGN FUNDS. Austrian, 5 per Cent 112% Russian, 5 per Cent IIBN Belgian, 5 per Cent.....„..... Ditto, Metallic — Brazilian; Bonds ..... ~ ...... Vanish, 5 per Cent., 1840 24% Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Ditto, 1841........ — Cuba Bonds, 6 per Cent Ditto, 1842 — Chinni, 6 per Cent ............ 102 Ditto, Mg— ....... Colombian, 8 per Cent ...... 14 Ditto, 1844 ..... ..... ...... Danish, 3 per Cent Greek, 18..5, 5 per Cent...- — Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Ct... Mexican, 5 per Cent Neapolitan Bonds, 5 per Ct — French, 3 per C0nt..... —f. —,. Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent — Exchange Peruvian Bonds, 6 per Ct... Dutch, 2% per Cent Portuguese Bonds, 5 per Ct Ditto,:s per Cent ... 99 _ SHARES. Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid)........" lOO Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid Chester and Holyhead ( 5 paid) Direct Northern, 234 paid Eastern Counties (25 paid) ................... Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid Great Western (75 paid) London and Birmingham (Stock) .... ...... ...... London and Brighton (50 paid) Ditto Loan Notes, 10 paid 113% London and Croydon Lynn and Ely, 134 paid Midland (100 paid) Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid North British, 5 paid . 5 Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid lO Trent Valley, 2 paid .: 7 % York and North Midland (50 paid) — Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) Ditto, Selby Scrip, 20 paid 79 Orleays and Vierzon, 2 paid .. 9 1 4, Orleans .and Bourdeaux, 1 paid .............. ......... 3 % ?aria and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Roues. 20 paid ... .............. ................ 3S3i Rouen and Havre, IV paid 2 234 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—Considerable dissatisfaction has been caused by the course adopted by Mr. Broughton, one of the ma gistrates of Worship-street Police-office, in a case of assault which a few days since came before him. The circumstances were peculiar ; and the magistrate's de cision was, in our view, a practical denial of justice to the complainant. The assault was committed by the school, mistress of Bethnal-green workhouse on a female child of tender years, whom she had severely beaten for going into the scullery for water to drink with her supper water not being allowed in the meal-room, as it had been occasionally spilt by the children on the table and on the floor ; and the door leading to the place whence the children were permitted to obtain it being locked. The question for the magistrate's decision did not hinge upon the authority of the schoolmistress to inflict mod rate punishment, in proper cases, upon the children placed nnderfier charge by the parish authorities ; nor whether, for the breach of the regulations of the house, in the present instance, a trifling punishment might not have been inflicted by the woman upon the child. The real question was, whether such a punish ment, inflicted on a mere child, as blows of the fist upon its face and back, causing bruises and discoloura tion for several days, was justifiable under any circum stances ? The parents of the child were also inmates of the workhouse. The mother appeared as complainant. The violent treatment which her child had received at the hands of the woman was proved beyond contro versy. Mr. Broughton himself considered the case as proved. He stated that, in his opinion, the punish ment was inordinately severe, and could not be justified. This was, then, just such a case as called for the exer cise of the magistrate's power of summary jurisdiction. The complainant was too poor to incur expense in pro secuting the defendant at the sessions, and therefore had a strong claim on the magistrate for an imme diate adjudication, The position of the defendant also required that a check should be at once put upon the indulgence of those feelings which had occasioned her attack upon the chilli. Yet in this case, which de manded immediate decision, the magistrate determined on delay. He cal!sd upon the defendant to enter into recognisacces to meet the charge' at the sessions, should the complainant prefer a bill, and IN grand jury return it found. The master of the workhous.'s who attended to assist the defendant in meeting the char i ze before the magistrate, exulted at this decision; while the poor woman who complained of the ill-treatment of her child saw je it a practical denial of justice. The formers emarked, "That is just what we wanted, Sir 1" To be sure it was. It was tantamount to a dismissal of the charge. It was like sending the poor complainant to a tavern, telling her that she might there obtain a delicious dinner, %ell know ing that she had not a penny in her pocket, and would therefore be sent empty away. The poor woman ven tured to expostulate. She had no money ; how then could she go to the sessions, and take the necessary steps to indict the schoolmistress for the vio lent treatment of her child ? This reasonable and forcible appeal was thus answered :—" Surely you have friends who will assist you in the matter." A pauper's friends ! The pauper-inmates of a workhouse are not precisely the kind of people who have friends ca pable of furnishing them with money to pay the fees of justice. The possession of such friends would preserve them from seeking refuge in a workhouse—that last' re fuge of the miserable. The poor woman retired from the Court, with her child, sighing, "We have no friends and feeling that " the world was not their friend, nor the world's law." On re turning to the workhouse, she was made to feel that to appeal to the law's protection against the violence of the authorities of the place, is not only useless, but dangerous. Her children and herself were removed from the, wards they had previously occupied in the house, and were placed in the " approbation ward ;'• to which the applicants for reception to the house are first introduced, previously to their regular admission. The state of personal filthiness, and frequently of disease, in which such persons generally are when they first en ter a workhouse, need not be described. The mother and her child who had been punished with extreme severity by the workhouse schoolmistress, were doubtless trans ferred to this ward to admonish others of the consequences of preferring complaints. Whatever provocation to com plain may be supplied by those who have in their own hands the means of retaliating, the sufferers had better patiently endure wrong, than risk the consequences of seeking redress. These poor people, unable to endure the annoyance of being placed in such a ward, discharged themselves from the house. The woman again attended the police-office, and again complained of the treatment she had received, as a punishment for having com• plained of the tyrannous and cruel treatment of her child. The magistrate had no power to interfere. The poor creatures had no means of supporting themselves outside the workhouse ; and said they must return thither, and henceforth submit in silence to whatever treatment they might there receive. Surely there is some mode of redress, even for paupers, for wrongs such as we have described. If the Board of Guardians of the parish be supine or indifferent, the inabitants should meet and require of the parish officers au investigation into the general government of their workhouse, and into the circumstances of the case we have eescribed. If the facts really be as they were sworn to, and uncontradicted, before the magis trate, the schoolmistress should be placed on her trial for the assault, before the tribunal to which the magistrate needlessly, and as we think improperly, referred it. STANDARD.—There is a growing disposition on the part of certain pseudo-philanthropists to represent the higher classes of society as more insensible to the condition of the poor than they were wont to be in, what young Englanders are pleased to entitle, the "good old times." Every casualty to the poor that may happen to be recorded in the newspapers, is seized upon by these modern philosophers, as a fresh illustration of the correctness of their theory. One or more suicides had recently cccurred in the humblest walks of life, arising, it is said, from extreme destitution, and these catastrophes are referred to, ad nauseam, as instructive evidence of the insensibility of the rich to the condition of the poor. No inference can be less warranted. The columns of the daily press must have convinced all readers of newspapers of the fact, that no genuine case of distress is ever recorded in their columns which does not command instant and liberal relief. In the vast aggregate of human misery which is to be found in large towns, the most distressing cases of poverty' and destitution are often those which are most carefully concealed from public observation ; and men of wealth, how ever benevolent, most of whom are liberal con tributors to public charitable institutions, have often neither the leisure nor means of hunting out such cases. We caw affirm, however, with the utmost confidence, that there is no nation on the face of the earth in which more of active charity fe which n g set exhibits eu r fellow-creatures, l l e a w r e an e re a t uramountes whether t s h y er m this to be found th an i n E ng l an d, nor any c it y w h atever paethyyhfoarvethaerissuefn from penury. or disease, than this same much-reviled City of London. Persons whose knowledge of the extent of public sympathy is derived from the columns of some of our Contemporaries, must have long ago inferred, that there is in England, and in London in particular, a most uischristian disregard of the feelings and comforts of the humbler classes. Yet is there hardly day in which meetings of its busiest inhabisants, of the higher and middle orders, are not convened for the purpose of forming permanent institutions for the re lief of sufferers of all denominations. There is in Loidon alone, and we challenge contradiction to the fact, more money collected for the relief of the distressed in one year, than is contributed for any similar objects in any other city in the world. There is hardly a disease which has not given rise to some valuable public insti tution, where the poor, could they divest themselves of the prejudice which, unhappily, influences them on many subjects, may have the benefit of greater skill and more unceasing attention than can readily be .obtained by the wealthiest member of the community at home ; the combination of skill usually afforded gra tuitously in a public institution, and the rigid sys tem of attendance which is provided, being greatly beyong the advantages which any private establish ment of moderate extent could by any possibility supply. Yet one of the most prevalent " vulgar er- rors " of the day is the prejudice arising from ignorance, which exists amongst the destitute poor, against such establishments. More than one suicide in this class of society have recently been recorded by the daily newspapers, which profess to have been oc casioned by destitution ; the parties preferring ra ther to fly iu the face of their Maker, rather than avail themselves of the relief which have been afforded them in an union workhouse. Nor ought it to surprise any one, that the exa,-ge rated accounts of such places of refuge, which have been repeatedly supplied by an influential portion of the daily press, should have so wrought on minds de pressed and weakened by painful personal privation. We are no admirers of union workhouses, and are little disposed to eulogise the New Poor-law Bill, even in its present improved and modified. form; but we are quite satisfied that but for the factiously exaggerated accounts of the treatment of the poor under that law, which have appeared in a contemporary journal, in which the union workhouse has been typified by Dante's Hell, and its executive represented as so many incarnate fiends, no such prejudices against it as the distressing casualties to which our attention has been directed would seem to indicate, could have existed. The conduct of a few persons connected with the administration of the New Poor-law,—conduct which, in the particular instances, it is impossible to reprobate too severely, has furnished an excuse for stig matizing the whole of its executive in terms calculated to excite the deepest and most painful prejudice against it ; and thus the poor are content to suffer the most heart-rending privations rather than avail themselves of relief from such a source; nay, in some in stances, they have, we are told, committed suicide rather than accept of the relief it would afford them. These distressing cases have been reported in a daily print in the most prominent manner, as so many fresh proofs of the frightful unpopularity of the New Poor-law Bill ; whereas they are more likely to have resulted from the exaggerated accounts which have appeared from time to time in its columns of the alleged sufferings of the door in union workouses, and its re peated and unfounded assertion that a few examples of the misconduct of the authorities in such receptacles are but the types of the entire system. PARLIAMENTARY SESSIONAL PAPERS. SELECT COMMITTEE OF THE HOUSE OF COMMONS ON BRITISH SHIPPING.— (No. 545. H. C.) One of the most important points to which the evidence of the witnesses examined was directed (as we remarked in a former article on the Shipping In terest, and its prospects), regarded— " Reciprocity Treaties," and one of the main causes assigned by them for the depression in the value of shipping property which has been for many years taking place. This evidence applied to them under five principal heads :-1. Generally ; 2. Their injurious effect upon British Shipping ; 3. How far observed by Foreign Powers ; 4. No effect to be attributed to the Treaties—whether or not they ought to be further carried out; 5. Whether the Government could have avoided entering into them. These are all of them important matters in relation to the existing aspect of our shipping interest. Mr. Hall, of London, having observed that "no duties have been taken off ships excepting under the reciprocity treaties"—and having answered affirmatively to the question, " Whether he would have similar treaties for the reduction of duties on goods ?" proceeds—" I have no doubt they would be met in a similar spirit on the Continent. When the first reciprocity treaty was proposed in this country it was with Holland. M. Fagel was Minister here. 11Er. Huskisson was at the Board of Trade ; and when M. Fagel represented to him that it was impossible for Holland to enter into a reciprocity treaty with this country, having the Navigation Act in favour of British shipping, Mr. Huskisson said— " That is the fundamental law of this country, but we have no objection to your passing a similar Act to protect your own." But M. Fagel replied, "Those very items in the importation of which you protect British shipping are the very articles which we are exporting. Let us put a similar number of articles in our Navigation Acts, and we are ready to meet you." Mr. Geo. P. Young thus speaks to their injurious effect upon British shipping and upon the freights, as exemplified by both the North American and Baltic timber trades :—" The stipulation under which Ame rican ships were placed, strictly speaking, on the principle of reciprocity, was long antecedent to the passing of the Reciprocity Duties Bill : it was part of our concurrence in the treaty of peace after the last war with America. That was followed out in the case of the American trade, by the loss to the British shipping of a great proportion of the direct carrying trade between the United States and this country, which ever since has been continued to be engrossed in a very large degree by American ship ping. 1 am hardly prepared to say whether this degree is increasing at the present moment; I am inclined to think it is not—the importations both in American and English ships having increased ; and am not aware whether the proportions of that . . "The same effect has principally fol inci,-,ase are In favour of American or British ton nage." . „? trade with those countries with which • lowed in ti we have made .! reales of reciprocity ; but as I con sider those treaties how to form part of the per manent policy of this ntry, I regard the system in no other light than as cause of permanent pressure froth foreign competinj,sn upon British tonnage in certain trades, which depf:ves it of a great portion - of the navigation in those tra,lf.'s, and causes a re-action upon other branches of maritime commerce which I will take the liberty of illustrat ing. In the great article of timber the competing produce of the British Colonies or North America and the Baltic are so newly adjusted in price, in the British market, that a very small variation will transfer the demand from the one article to a corre sponding production of the other part of the world: and thus, the' Baltic timber being now, in a great degree, imported in Baltic ships at a low rate of freight, which the cheapness of production and navi gation enables them to accept, drives the British shipowner, engaging in the same trade, to take the same rate of freight in that trade, inasmuch as there cannot be two prices for the same 'commodity in the same market. This re- acts upon the American trade by preventing any rise in the freight of American timber ; because any such rise would in crease the cost of American timber in this market, and induce the consumers, in preference to paying that rate, at once to have recourse to the Baltic timber. Thus, I consider this particular alteration of our navigation system to be a cause of permanent pressure upon British tonnage. This, being in ope ration, has during the last few years been greatly aided by the concurrence of a variety of other cir cumstances leading to the same result. Among the most prominent, I have no hesitation in saying, is the over-production of ships. But I hope I shall be al lowed to explain why I have arrived at the conclu sion that that over-production has not been the result of any improvident act on the part of the British shipowners, but is almost wholly, if not entirely, the consequence of the freedom of admission of North American colonial-built ships to the privilege of British registry." The same witness proceeds to ex press a strong opinion that no further competition of foreign shipping should be admitted ; but that these in jurious effects of reciprocity treaties should operate as a warning against future errors of the same nature; especially, seeing that all the countries with which we have contracted these treaties can navigate more cheaply than ourselves. Mr. Somes concurs in the views of Mr. Young as to the disastrous influence of the reciprocity treaties on British shipping. He holds that no further infringement upon the present protection of that interest should be allowed ; and that the same cause injuriously affects all other trades. Mr. Chapman thinks that these treaties have diverted shipping from some branches of commerce into others, and thus proved an active cause of com petition ; but Mr. Tanner, allowing that they are a cause of the depression complained of, remarks that in 1839 and 1840 our shipping was in a comparatively flourishing state. It is important to notice, on this last point, the dis crepancy between the unqualified evidence to depres sion for the last five years, given by Messrs. Young, Somes, &c. On the depression of freights, Mr. Anderson says, that though it was partly owing, during the last three years, to the generally bad state of trade, it was mainly attributable to the operation of these treaties ; and that it was particularly in the interval from 1826 to 1829 that this effect began to be felt, allowing for the action :of the general distress then prevalent throughout thcs kingdom. The same cause, he states, had largely operated to produce all the main fluctua tions experienced by the shipping interest since 1820. The fact of our being, as to the northern ports of Europe, an importing, rather than an exporting, country, makes the system of reciprocity disadvan tageous to us. We are disposed to attach the more value to the evidence of this gentleman, on account of the great candour and sound sense with which the whole bearings of reciprocity treaties, and, incidentally, of " discri minating duties," are set forth in the following a greattt n e g d detrimentu reciprocity ties h ad ttrboeeaeotniuersi,i imposed wplosue shippinglldda iinft answers to questions 0,004 to 2,030: have heavyA t h t e h ed e s ca p h w p fl o i v i u l e g ld iailed to r iv timeme ynf t f or operatee i g Will n youpt o a parts?—No s he ? ex — pdl e ta N i rn o i m: how wt do o ft not hßa tr t h ei sionhukl shipping m giving my opinion by what occurred in Dantzic • at the port of Dantzic the duties were very heavy. There were double charges on British shipping at one time before the reciprocity treaties, and Dantzic lost all its trade, a and was reduced tostate of beggary, and the ships were laid up and rotting, in conse quence of their laying on higher duties than the neighbouring ports. The result was to drive our shipping out of Dantzic ? —We-had :Memel to go to. Suppose they had adopted the same principle in Memel ?—We should have gone to Prussia. Suppose they had done the same thing everywhere. Suppose those foreign Powers datermined . to retaliate our Navigation Laws at that time, and had inflicted severe discriminating duties in foreign ports, would that have been no detriment to British snipping ? No. We should have had to go to the British Colonies, and to the southern ports of the United States for timber. That would have been a great detriment to the country, generally, as it would have raised the price of timber. You speak of having a resource in a trade with the United States ?—Yes. Are you not aware that the United States were among the very first Powers to commence that retalia tion ?—I know that very well. The United States were the first Power with whom we had the treaty of reciprocity in 1814. Was not that treaty in consequence of a determina tion of the Americans to inflict heavy discriminating duties in retaliation for the Navigation Laws ?—I do not remember. I know the date of the treaty from having since referred to it ; but at that time I was at sea. If that were so, would not the course adopted by the United States' Government have operated very much to the detriment of British shipping ?—lf our Government had imposed countervailing discriminating duties on their shipping, which would have been a fair retaliation, we should have been pretty much in the same situation as before. The retaliation was on the side of the Americans : we had discriminating duties before the Americans imposed duties by way of retaliation ?—I do not know anything about what the tonnage duties were on ships in 1814. We had under our Navigation Laws, at that time, discriminating tonnage duties in our ports ?—I am not aware that we had before 1824. That was the principle of the Navigation Laws ? I don't think there were any discriminating tonnage duties on foreign shipping in 1824, previous to the en tering into those treaties. Was it not one of the main provisions of the Navi gation Laws that a higher tonnage duty should be placed on foreign vessels than on British ?—lt was not a duty on shipping : it was a per centage upon the duty on foreign imports : upon the goods, not upon the shipping. The duty, whether imposed upon the tonnage, or upon the goods, was a discriminating duty upon fo reign shipping ?—Certainly ; upon goods imported in foreign shipping. Which was intended to operate to the disadvantage of foreign shipping in our ports ?—lt was intended to operate to the advantage of British shipping, in pre ference to the shipping of foreign countries. That being the case, if the American Government adopted the same system by way of retaliation against us, do not you think that that must have operated to the detriment of our shipping interest ?—lf the Ame rican Government had imposed no other or higher du ties upon the merchandise of this country, imported into the United States, than this country imposed upon the goods of America, imported in American ships into this country, it would have been perfectly fair, and there would have been no disadvantage ex cept a rise of price in the two countries. In that case, how should we have been better off by maintaining the discriminating duty than by that duty being dispensed with on each side ; that is, had there been mutual concession instead of mutual re taliation ?—There is no other difference as to America than that which existed in the way of duties. The question, as to America, I would not consider as placed on the same footing as the question with re ference to those countries which can navigate so much cheaper than British shipping can; for we can navi gate with the Americans very fairly, and there can be no objection to putting the shipping on the same footing. The question is not whether we can compete with those countries upon an equal footing, but whether, under the circumstances of the case, we might n o t be placed in a position of quite as much disadvantage with reference to them as we are by the reciprocity treaties ?—With America, I think, we might. Supposing that, in our trade with the Baltic, by a process of retaliation, the discriminating duties had .been made to press equally both in the foreign ports and in the ports of this country, how should we have stood in a better position as to competition with the shipping of those countries than under the reciprocity treaties ?—The protecting duties on British shipping were not on the ship, but on the merchandise. Then if the Prussians, or the other countries, had imposed a similar duty on goods imported in our ships it would have amounted to next to nothing; their imports from this country being so small compared with the ex ports from their country to this, it would not have had so injurious an effect. _ _ That may be true supposing the protecting duties confined to goods ?—That was the case in this country previous to the treaties being made. But the intentions of the Prussian Government were not to confine them to goods ?—I am aware that they were not. Assuming that the intention of the Prussian Go vernment was this—to enact laws which should ac complish as effective a discrimination in their ports, between their own shipping as ours, as we had esta blished in our ports between our shipping and theirs— what should you say then ?—That it was a very un fair thing to do. I merely put it upon this ground, that I think, in common fairness, between the coun tries, the trade should be so regulated as that the sub jects of both countries, taking into consideration their relative situations and their liability to expenses, over which they can have no control, should be placed in the same situation as to the benefit to be derived from trade. What power have we of giving effect to any such arguments as those you have mentioned in the case of foreign countries ?—We have no power but that which the Americans resort to, of non-inter course. n your opinion it would be detrimental to the shipping interest of this country if all other coun tries adopted the principle of our own Naviga tion Laws ; namely, to prevent our.having any inter course with them in our own ships ?—lt would be difficult, no doubt, for this country to contend with the whole world combined against her, which is a state of things, however, very unlikely to occur, con sidering what has been the course pursued by this country towards others. If you followed out your own principle of those Navigation Laws, and imposed such duties as would prevent any competition with you, supposing other countries to pursue the same principle with respect to you, would the shipping of this country be then on a better footing than it is at present P—That is an ab stract question, which I cannot very well answer. But we never did that. The discriminating duties imposed by us in favour of British shipping were to so small an amount that one reason for abrogating that protection was, that the amount was so small as to render it not worth preserving. _ Do not you attribute much of the evil you complain of to the abrogation of those laws ?—Yes. A large portion of it ?—Yes, and I will give a reason for my opinion in that respect. Although the amount was small, and not extending to the amount of difference which existed in the cost of navigation between foreign countries and ours, it was 5 per cent. upon the import duty, and when the duty was 2/. 15s. a load, it amounted to 2s. 9d. a load on timb er . Th oug h that was not enough to make up for the difference in the expenses of navigation, it was enough to give us a preference in our own market, and enable us to get, perhaps, ls. to ls. 6d. a load freight for timber more than foreign ships. Have not you the protection of double lights and pilotage ?—Those were taken off by the treaties with each foreign country respectively. Notwithstanding all, have you not beaten foreigners since 1824 in point of tonnage F—Certainly not in profit. Have you not in point of tonnage ?—I don't think we have. Suppose that those Foreign Governments had suc ceeded in accomplishing their avowed object of making a complete retaliation, and of placing our ships in their ports at as great a disadvantage in point of competition with their own as their ships were placed at in our ports, would you not, then, be in precisely the same situation with respect to competi tion as you are now, with the additional disadvantage of restrictions upon trade ?—lf they had so nicely calculated the difference as to produce the same effect as is now produced, I do not see that any great dif ference would have been the result. The only differ ence would have been that the infliction would have been by the Foreign Governments instead of by our own. On the third point—how far these treaties have been observed, by Foreign Powers,—great dif ference of opinion prevails. Mr. Cuming has no reason to believe that British shipping in foreign ports is not on a footing with other foreign ships, and Mr. Hall inclines strongly to confirm this statement. On the other hand, Mr. Straker shows that the reci procity treaties are not fairly carried out by reason of the vexatious regulations of foreign ports. This wit ness further suggests that, as the intention of the treaties is thus defeated by some foreign states, it would be only fair tol restrict the privilege of bonding to cargoes brought in British ships, which would be an equivalent to their restrictions. In our next notice of this "Report," we shall give from the Appendix a list of the countries with which treaties of reciprocity, with regard to shipping, have been entered into, and the dates of such treaties, At an annual meeting of the Birmingham Law Society, held on the 19th ult., the following resolution was passed ;—" It having been notified that certain soli citors in this town have "sent in written tenders, com peting for employment by a building club, and on a spate of charges greatly below those legally authorised, this meeting feels it necessary to express its severe con demnation of such conduct, as derogatory to the honour of the legal profession, and calculated to endanger the jpterests of the public and the security of pr o p er ty, and to dirt that this Moll-Mon be printed and sent to all the solicitors in Birmingham 77 -4irp4ingicgtn Ga;effr. We pitn state, from authority, that the anxiously wished for Brevet will take place in January next,— Limerick Chronicle, LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 13. (Sittings at Nisi Prms, at Guildhall, before Mr. Justice CRESWELL and a Common Jury.) BREACH OF PROMISE OF MARRIAGE. SUCH V. COBHAM. This was an action to recover compensation in da mages from the defendant, for his breach of promise of marriage to the plaintiff, under the following cir cumstances. Mr. Montague Chambers was for the plaintiff; Mr. Sergeant Jones conducted the defence. It appeared that the plaintiff is the daughter of a carpenter in Bowling-street, Redcross-lane ; and the defendant is a 3 oung man about 22 years of age, and the conductor of his father's business, who keeps an oil-shop in Bow-lane. About eighteen months since the defendant became casually acquainted with the plaintiff; and having professed himself a suitor, was introduced to her family, whom he was constantly in the habit of visiting, and was received by them as the plaintiff's intended husband. However, subsequently , the plaintiff proved pregnant, and was in due time de livered of a female child. Defendant broke off the match, and got married to another young person. Consequently the present action was brought. The defendant by his plea admitted the promise, but stated that he was justified in breaking off the match, the plaintiff being a loose and immoral cha racter. For the plaintiff the facts of her case were dis tinctly proved. The defendant having failed to prove his plea, His LORDSHIP told the jury, the question for them to decide was the amount of damages, in doing which they were to take into consideration the quality and degree of effect which the defendant's conduct had nflicted upon the plaintiff. She was not entitled to any damages for her seduction, for if she willingly aoandoned herself to immoral courses, she could not claim any damages for her own trangression. The defendant having failed to prove his plea, the jury would give the plaintiff such damages as they thought, under all the circumstances, she was entitled to. The jury, having consulted for a few minutes, found a verdict for the plaintiff—Damages, 1001. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) WORSHIP-STREET. Two men, named Samuel Brown and James Keat ing., private watchmen in the service of her Majesty's Commissioners of Woods and Forests, were charged with being drunk, and violently assaulting the police in the execution of their duty. Mr. Humphreys attended for the prisoners. The case had occupied the greater portion of two days, but the facts were briefly as follow :—As po liceman 77 H was on duty at a late hour on Saturday night in a new line of road now in progress of forma tion by the Woods and Forests from Spitalfields Church to the London Docks, he was assailed by the prisoner Keating with threatening a n d offensive ex pressions, of which, by the advice of his sergeant, he took no ntice. On his return over his beat he was assailed in a similar manner by Keating, who, in ad dition' set a large dog upon him, which i ns t an tl y seized the constable by the coat, while Keating struck him on the head with his truncheon. The officer at tempted to take him into custody, the dog still hold ing him, and, a violent struggle ensuing, they were both thrown to the ground. The policeman called for assistance, when Hope, another constable, came up and seized hold of Keating, upon which the other prisoner rushed out of his box and immediately dealt 77 H three blows on the head with his staff, which knocked him down, and caused a great effusion of blood. Sergeant Easthope then came up, and further assistance having been procured, the prisoners, after a violent resistance, were ultimately secured and con veyed to the station,.thrfatening all the way the ven geance of Lord Lincoln and the Woods and Forests upon the heads of the whole police force. Sergeant Colman said that a formal complaint had been laid on a former occasion before the Woods and Forests against the prisoners, and that Superinten dent Pearce had been obliged to remove one constable from that beat, in consequence of the exasperating conduct of the prisoners towards him. In their defence the prisoners preferred a counter charge of malicious conspiracy on the part of the police, and severe treatment towards themselves. Mr. Humphreys, after calling several witnesses, who gave them a good general character for propriety of conduct and sobriety, deprecated any conviction, as it must inevitably lead to the instant dismissal of his clients, and their bread would be gone. Mr. BROUGHTON expressed his total disbelief of the alleged conspiracy by the police, and said that, under the circumstances, he should have certainly sent the parties to prison without the chance of paying a fine ; but as the punishment he should inflict upon them would most likely not be all they would suffer, he should take a very l en i en t course , an d sentence Keat ing to pay a fine of 205., or undergo a month's im priscnment in the House of Correction ; and the pri soner Brown to pay a penalty of 405., or six weeks' imprisonment. Several gentlemen connected with the 'Woods and Forests attended in Court, and exhibited great in terest in the proceedings. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. Baron Moral Dam Vander Pforte was again placed at the bar before Mr. Hardwick, charged with obtaining money under a false representation. Dr. Swaine, physician to Baron Gersdorf, stepped forward and said he had waited on the magistrate, in consequence of the report of the prisoner's examina tion, which he had read in the morning papers. He begged to say that he knew him to be the person he represented himself. He was related to some of the highest families in Saxony, but he had given a great deal of annoyance, not only to Baron Gersdorf, but also to the Saxon Court, and his conduct had not been such as to justify them in assisting him. He (Dr. Swaine) denied, however, that the prisoner was on terms of intimacy with Baron Gersdorf. The prisoner declared that he was not only on terms of intimacy with the Baron, but was his cousin also. Dr. Swaine said that it was possible there might be a relationship, as all the oldest and best families of Saxony were more or less connected. Count de Witts, chamberlain to the Duke of Bruns wick, confirmed the prisoner's statement as to his re spectability, and said he believed that he was in the expectation of receiving money from abroad ; but he emphatically denied that any portion of the property ordered by the prisoner had been sent to his (Count de Witt's) house. After some conversation, Mr. HARDWICK considered that, as far as the ques tion of respectability mas conserned, the prisoner had satisfactorily established his claim to be considered the person whom he represented himself to be ; there only then remained the question of obtaining the W. from Mr. Deneulain, for the case of Mr. Nichol, and simi lar cases were to be left quite out of consideration, they being nothing more than debts, as the cheques 'had been given in these instances after the goods had been delivered. From the evidence given on the former occasion, it appeared to him a matter of very considerable doubt whether any offence which the law could take cognizance of in the case of Mr Deneu lain had been committed. The cheque in question had been given one day, and the money borrowed some days afterwards. Mr. Pollock, who attended for Mons. Deneulain, said this was not exactly the state of the case. When the Baron gave the cheque he told M. Deneulain he was to have 2/. the next day. It was in the belief that that the cheque would be paid that the money was advanced. Mr. HARDWICK said he understood very differently the evidence given by M. Deneulain. The solicitor said M. Deneulain might have ex pressed himself imperfectly, owing to his defective English ; hut the facts were as he had now stated, and if proofs were wanting he begged to tender Mons. Deneulain again. As yet no proof had been offered that the Baron had real grounds for saying he should have remittances in a given period. The Baron said his letters would establish that fact. Mr. HARDWICK said, from all he had heard, it was his determination to proceed no further in the case. If the parties chose to carry the matter further they were at liberty to indict the Baron at the sessions. Mr. Pollock said his client considered he had been defrauded, and it was his determination to go on with the proceedings. When an application for the return of the letters and papers was made to the Court, Count de Witts took up his letter and declared his determination to keep it unless the magistrate directed him to re linquish it. After some altercation, the Count was allowed to retain possession of the letter.—The Baron was then liberated. [ADVERTISEMENT.]--A POOR MAN'S LIFE SAVED BY HOLLOWAY'S PlLLS.—Jeremiah Laughlin, a porter about the quays of Dublin, was afflicted for years with shortness of breath, spitting of phlegm, night perspi rations, and general weakness of body, a want of appe tite, sick headaches, besides suffering much from the liver. This man was in the second stage of consump tion, and not expected to live three months, when he commenced the use of Holloway's wonderful pills, and by their means alone he is now as strong, as hale, and as well as ever he was in his life.—Sold (also Holloway's Ointment) at the establishment of Professor Holloway, 224, Strand (where advice may be had gratis), and by almost all respectable vendors of medicine throughout the civilised world. LONDON, CAMBRIDGE, AND ELY RamwAY.--The line of road in the vicinity of Cambridge continues to progress with the greatest rapidity. Ina few months the road will be completed throughout, opening a rapid communication with the metropolis and the country be tween this town and the city of Norwich.-- Cambridge Chronicle, BRENTFORD PETTY SESSIONS. Yesterday Mr. Thick, landlord of the One TIT Inn, Old 13rentford, appeared before Mr. G. Bailhe (Chairman) and the Rev. H. S. Trimmer, the sitting magistrates, on summonses under the last New Poor law Act (7th and Bth Victoria, cap. 101), calling on him to show cause w h y h e s h ou ld not b e d ec l ar ed to be the putativ e f a th er o f th e f ema l e b astar d c hild of Jane Lucas, the daughter of a tailor residing in the same town. Mr. Sleap, for the prisoner, objected that the jus tices then sitting, being ex officio guardians of al; union, were officers of a union within the meaning of the Act, and thereby precluded from interfering.i o the case, as they would be getting up evidence by iv quiring into it. Mr. G. Clark (the magistrates' clerk) advised the bench that it had already been decided by the Courts above, that ex officio guardians of a union are not officers of that union. The Magistrates accordingly overruled the objection. Mr. Sleep then demanded that the provisions of tbe second section should be carried out by the produc tion of proof that evidence had been adduced, before the Magistrates granted the summons against hi.g client, that he had within twelve months paid money towards the maintenance of the child. Mr. Baillie said the stop being only a comma, it was intended by the Act that the mother should have the right of coining upon the father at any time be fore the child has attained the age of thirteen /out provided she can prove that the father has paid WWI towards the maintenance of such child within twelve months after its birth. This the Bench decided. Jane Lucas, dressed in the workhouse garb, de posed that she was a single woman, and the radior of the child, of which defendant was the father. It was born on the 28th of July last. Two men were then called for the defendant, OP e of whom deposed that he was an omnibus conductor' He knew Jane Lucas, and had been intimate Wu; her twice. The fir s t ti me was a f ter dancing with Lie. at a ball, which took pl ace a t t h e defendant's hnu'w about twelve mo n th s ago . Th e ot h er, a bro k e r n' , Isleworth, deposed that he also knew Jane Lucas. He was first intimate with her on the night that s dinner was given at B ren tf or d to M r. Hume, shout four years ago ; the second time, at the time o f the September fair the year before last; and a third On; about the latter end of October or beginning November last y ear . A d ay or two after that be met her and had some conversation as to what bad happened between th em , w h en s h e said, that shou ld she have another child she would make a good fetb e st r for it, and she afterwards said that the groom Mr. Richards's would b e a goo d f at h er to her an d ber children. The Bench, after a short consultation, said they given the case their best attention and considerati oet it being a most difficult and important one, an d thei had come to th e conclusion, after weighing the ev i l ; dence on both sid es , th a t it h a d not been sufficient proved that the d e f en d an t was t h e f ather of the ei a and that the summons must be dismissed. id The father of the g i r l, w h o d ur i ng t h e i nqu i r y b -- „ t „ been in a state of g rea t exc it ement, h ere cried °ll. "Mr. Magistrat e , th e c hild w ill b e done away Wr , ; it shall never enter my house, I'll take care;" and was ultimately obliged to be removed by the police' INCENDIARY FIRE. HITCHIN, HERTFORDSHIRE, NOV. 12.—An aler rir t ing fire broke ou t last night, a b ou t n i ne o ' c lock, s the farm called Lilley Hoo, situate about midwayr s tween this town and L u t on , i n B e df ords hi re , a nd few miles only di s t an t f rom t h e l ocal i ty of the destru,„e tive fires which occurred in the latter county 5 °5 months ago. The house being a substantial bfl building, fortunately escaped destruction, although at one period serious app re h ens i ons were enterta i ne d-1 its safety, inasm uc h as th e w i ndow sashes and 11°$ frames literally caught fire from the extreme b! s b emitted from the co n ti guous b urn i ng buildings, wluctit led the persons assembled to move the furniture „ of the hou 3 e, a n d muc h o f i t was b roken an d oth er wise damaged. Th e f arm -b u ildi ngs, pr i nc iPsd thatched, formin g a qua d rang l e i n f ront o f the 13°°74 were wholly destroyed, notwithstanding the strenu°7 l exertions of many hi g hl y respecta bl e gentlemen 110.1, farmers living in the neighbourhood, assisted by labouring population, who, with some exceptions , vv r , hayed in a most prai sewor th y manner. Th e ir es t e be tions, however, fail e d, excep t to save the house, 0 fire was so fierce, assisted as it was by a high W from the north-east, that to rescue the buildings save the stock (consisting of a large quantity of wh es barley, hay, and straw), was quite out of the flu e s „ . tion. We ar e h a p py , h owever, to say tha t the hors e e: and live stock were no t consume d , ow i ng t o the 1! 1 " sence of mind of the farm bailiff or servant, who lor i mediately on bei ng ca ll e d f rom hi s b e d, w hi t h er be 11 7 retired about twenty minutes, -flew to the stables an sheds, and drove the horses and other live st°':' away from the premises. The house was 111 ( the occupation of som e y oung l a di es o f t h e nam e 0 Bates, and there was at the time no male inmate e% . ; cept th e farm b a ili ff . Th e fi re i s supposed to 1111h'; been the act o f some v il e cowardly incendiary, ro watched the refl ec ti on o f t h e li ght from the wh)"°o of the bailiff's room, and soon after his candle Iv o extinguished, an d w h en i t m i g h t b e presumed ,t.ei man had fallen a s l ee p, se t fi re to some fres h t hras h barley straw, which had been deposited in the Pr e genies at the b ac k o f one o f t h e b arns, and outsideid premises, for the purpose of being kept drk. f o r where it c ou ld no t b e necessary to take a light any lawful purpose whatever. The wind vi e , strongly from th e p o i n t w h ere th e straw wasdepositod, and wafted th e fl ames across t h e yard, an d so c°,tis municated them to th e s t a bl es , coach-houses, eta and cart sheds, which were soon reduced to a of smouldering ruins. The Luton, Hitchin, an Offley engines were soo n on th e spot, and did all could be done under the very able assistance of Phillips and Mr. Newton, but the flames wer e ; „,l rapid in thei r course as to have effected the priocir es , work of destruction before the arrival of the eng,k n o , The property b e l ong i ng to M r. B ates, and we be..,,,111;ty the buildi ngs an d stock, are insured in the Co ngo Fire-o ffi ce ; but we fe ar f rom w h a t we h ear d tha t ed. insurance will fall far short of the loss sustsinro Very fortunately the rick-yard, containing sav e valuable hay and corn stacks, was situated et, s o ar distance from the premises, and luckily the win ( ' " t hat from the direction in which they stood, and from _:„‘ circumstance they were saved from the devou r flames. LATE HOURS OF BUSINESS.—A very nul ne ,f7l meeting of person s engage d i n t h e var i ous braneorthe the wholesale drap er y tra d e was h e ld l ast n i g ht a t Gerard's H a ll H ote l, B as i ng -l ane, for the purP?--„ing taking into consid e r a ti on th e propr i ety of d i sco etin-thss business at an earlier hour on every Saturday ti ul t - g o. at which warehouses close under the existing. o l 6 ; r e Mr. Bennock was called to the chair. Mr. Sulu' 'peg' posed a resolution expressive of the opinion of the, P l ' in ing, that a restriction of the hours of occupati on b e drapery warehouses on Saturday evenings welnibe highly advantageous to those employed in theM, resolution w as carr i e d unanimously, as was a resel : tl ; in that as the system of restricting hours of occtWe t lion• wholesale drapery warehouses succeeded so well in chester, it ought to be adopted in London. A thst MANUFACTURES AT PERTII.---We understan"._.i to manufacturing establishment h ere h as ta k en pretto'oo commence the manufacture of thegoodscalled unions ' of is, dresses of c ott on an d woo ll en com bi ne d by tee4"-tioe power-looms. Thi s i s th e fi rst attempt at the introadS of steam power t o manu f actures i n this place, an d " of hope it will be success f u l, an d l ead to an extees' ° o g such establishments. The prices of hand-loom we s A tbo have advanced a fractio n d ur i ng th e l ast mon th, a t ill; t he prospect of the winter t ra d e h ere i s f avoura ble work m an.—Perth Courier. _ato 1 BIRTHS. On the 10th inst., at Gain sborougb, the lady dais 00' James Henry \\Titian, of a daughter. 4, ISO On the 11th inst., a t G ona l s t on , N ott i ng h ams hire, - -e of John Francklin, Esq., of a son. • h ' On the 11th inst., at B urn h am , Somersetshire, Elves ' , wife of B. T. Allen, Es q ., so li c it or , o f a son. Sen ile' On the 11th inst., at Fenchurch-street, 4 xf rn• Harris, of a daughtst., er. , f gr. -.IE 0 On the 12th in at Wells, Somerset s hire the Jew William J. S. Foster, solicitor, of a son. $ 044 On the 12th inst., the lady of Henry Robert Pearson' of Michael's-place, Brompton, of a daughter. T .Av Ila nil' On the Bth inst., at Brighton, the Right Hon. .-- ley, of a daughter. • s_ eat On the 1 Ith inst., Mrs. James Ward, of Jew° Aldersgate, of a daugter. • s tar, t" On the 11th in s t., a t R omney -t errace, W es tmln wife of J. C. Atkinson, Esq., of a daughter. _____.-----"-,' MARRIED. , fle 013 01 ; On the 12th inst., at St. Mary's, Lambeth, Mr. us— sew livant Tomalin, of Pentonville, to Charlotte Mail' o f O s surviving daughter of the late Mr. Charles FO l ' G gran On tehe, Bermondsey. nli 12th inst., at Marylebone Church, litig-t ° „ of Hugh Davis, of M aesgame dd , M er i one th, t 7,f Pi" second daughter of the late Walter Clerk, PAN' Bergholt House, Suffolk. li DIE ba i Jo O hn n E th a e w 2 a 4 r t d h je o n f k A in u s g , u E st s , q. a , t E a stD. of U h m e b r a m lla, aies in ty, t s h 3 e l ;iil e giolen" l of Foot. edabi c4 On the 19th of S e pt e mb er , a t L a llee, near Ab.,., lll , p ettn Captain O s b er t D aven p or t Ottl ey , I s t Bombay x'''''" Regiment (Fusiliers), aged 37. hi , r.e4 4 On the 27th of September, at Geneva, H. R. L e Y -- lib of Clapham-road. o t "f $ On the 3d inst., Edward, son of W. Chamberlin, Leonard's-on-Sea. On the 4th inst., at Ealing, Mr. Dore, late On the 6th inst., Lieutenant Malcolm R. Dyett, ni a ntet Bourne , On the 7th inst., at the Vicarage, St. Mary Mary, infant daughter of the Rev. S. J. I. Lockhart. Afro, Sarni' '``. On the 9th inst., in Ormond-row, Richmond, Hofland, aged 74. n r , of 4 Wine r- On the llth inst., Charles Hamerton, -r- , 4* , street, Northampton-square, aged 76. ,„ ~,„g t on, g all ' On the 12th inst., at Newington-place, z-en' — ' the wife of Mr. John Barnett, R.N. la te oi,j3outir On the 12th inst at Rochester Mary Cook, •, _ 2 of Ex_ettr.. ___,„; street, Spitalfields Qt n ijsG, London: Printed and Published by MUR DO No. 112, Strand, Printer, at TA. Sum Office, °gig' of Strand, in the Precipet of tbp the Middlesex, Tinifsday, NOiremperVll/344.