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rb tr.. 13 IZlOtton THE LATE FATAL RAILWAY ACCIDENT NEAR NOTTINGHAM. (BY EXPRESS.) VERDICT OF THE JURY. NOTTINGHAM, SATURDAY MORNING. The adjourned inquest upon Mr. John Dean was re sumed yesterday at ten o'clock. The room was crowded, and amongst those present were G. B. Paget, Esq. ; W. C. Hutchinson, Esq. ; and J. Ellis, Esq., Directors ; Mr. Clarke, superintendent ; and Mr. J. Kirtley, manager of the locomotive engines. After a very lengthened examination of several wit nesses, Mr. Campbell addressed the jury on behalf of Mr. lightfoot. The jury unanimously expressed their high satisfaction with the very ready manner with which the Railway Company had acted. The jury adjourned for half an hour. At eight o'clock, the jury again took their seats, and the coroner occupied an hour and a half in summing up. The room was then cleared, and at one o'clock the jury returned their verdict as follows : " The jury, after a long and patient investigation of the circumstances, feel compelled by their duty to return a verdict of MANSLAUGHTER against Mr. Robert Lightfoot ; and they cannot separate without expressing their belief, that notwithstanding the management for general transition by railroad, much might be done, and ought to be done, to render railway tra velling more secure, and especially of second-class carriages, and though they may not be so comfort able as the first-class, they may be as safe. And they also intimate, that passengers ought not to be taken along the wrong line of rails without their consent. The jury further saggest, that much more safety, might be secured by the general introduction of electrical telegraphs. There was also another point which the jury think ought to be attended to, and that is, that in future great care should be taken to ascer tain that all the company's servants are intimately and Perfectly acquainted in their social duties ; and the jury cannot too strongly express their conviction that Jonathan Raven has not sworn to the truth in his deposi tions, and that he is utterly unworthy of the confidence of the Railway Company and the service of the public. There was another point on which the jury wished to remark, respecting Mr. Lightfoot, and that was, they were exceedingly grieved, on account of the many favourable circumstances in his favour, to place him in the painful situation in which they have done, and nothing but a paramount sense of duty had compelled them to do so. The Coroner wished to join also with every individual of the jury, to express his sorrow on the occasion. There was an other thing which was desired to be recommended to the Railway Company, and that was the situation of Mrs. Dean, who, in the prime of life, has been sud denly, and in a moment, deprived of the stay of her existence, and of her support ; and the jury hope that provision will be made for her by the Rail a ay Company, so as to prevent her feeling, in addition to her heavy loss, the sorrows of destitution and privation." THE FUNDS—(CL OSING PRICES. FUNDS. Ditto Bonds £l,OOO — pn'• Ditto under .£l,OOO — pm South Sea Stock Ditto Old Annuities llitto New Annuities 1,000/. I X,d f,7 Ditto sbol ....... 57 inv. Ditto Sinai! 57 pill Bank Stock o,r Acct f:Oi Consols for Act India Stock ler Acct BRITISH Bank Stock ..... div 2i S I 3 per Cent. Red lOl per Cent. Cons. per Cent. Red New 3 1( per Cent. 10•N New 5 per ....... Long Annuities to exp ir e !-16 ir Jan. 11380 Jan. 1E)60. ...... ....... Indian 5t0ck.....„ .......... „.. FOREIGN FUNDS. Austan, 5 per Cent ...... ... !Russian, 5 per Cent Belgian, 5 per Cent Ditto, Metallic _ Brazilian' Bonds .—......,.... *anis)), 5 per Cent., 1840._ Buenos Ayres, 6 per Cent... Ditto, 1811 ____ ........... ~ Cuba Bonds, 6 re: Cent...-. Ditto, 180 Chllian, Si per Cent .....»..... 1 Ditto, 1813. Colombian, 6 per Cent ...... 137 i Dittw, 1545 Danish, 3 per Cent .... ....... . Ditto. ! . i p• • Cent ... ...... Greek, 18 - ,5, 5 per Cent...... i Venez;:ela Bonds, 2 per Ct._ Mexican, 5 per Cent ......... French, :,' r er Cent . —t. - c Neapolitan Boads,s per Ct... i French, 3 per Cent....... —l. —, , Prussian Bonds, 4 per Cent i Exchange Peruvian Bonds, 8 per Ct... !Dutch, :2;6 Pet Cent ~ — Portuguese Bonds, S per Ct iDitto,.s per Cen' — SHARES Birmingham and Gloucester (100 paid).. ........ ..... 1,7% Bristol and Exeter (70 paid) - Bristol and Gloucester, 30 paid Caledonian (5 paid) Cambridge and Lincoln, I% paid 24, Direct Northern, 2% paid -,% Eastcrn Counties (25 paid) Edinburgh and Glasgow, 50 paid Great Southern and Western (Ireland) 5 paid Great Western (75 paid) London and Birmingham (Stock) London and Blackwall (161. 13s. 4d.) 6% Pardon and Brighton (50 paid) London and South Western (411. ca. 100. paid) Ditto Eighths (15s. paid) London and Croydon London and York, 2% paid Manchester and Birmingham Midland (100 paid) Newcastle and Darlingron Junction, 21 paid Norwich and Brandon, 6 paid Richmond and West End Junction, 1 paid I% South Devon, 10 paid lO% South Eastern and Dover (33 2s 4d paid) Ditto, New Shares, 4 paid..... ................ York and North Midland (50 paid) Ditto Half Shares (25 paid) Ditto Scarboro' Branch, 10 paid Xitto, Selby Scrip, *.) paid 6B Ditto Extension Boulogne and Amiens, 2 paid ................ ...., 5 Orleans and Vierzon, '2 paid ll Orleans and Bourdeaux, 1 paid Paris and Lyons, 2 paid Paris and Orleans (20 paid) Paris and Rouen. 20 paid Rouen and Havre 10 paid 22 SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS, FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. GLOBE.—" A good man struggling under misfortune is a sight for the gods." So said an ancient philoso pher. But the world had not then seen a great com mercial country struggling under a Tory Ministry. Our modern instance beggars in sublimity the ancient apothegm. As, however, a good man so struggling may be supposed to find in an occasional glance at the wore fortunate condition of his neighbours, the con soling assurance that his lot is but an exception, and probably as temporary in duration as it is partial in extent, so may we yet occasionally look abroad, and, in the brighter prospects of other nations, find promise of an improvement in our own. In the progress of sound principles of commercial economy, especially, we have an interest greater than that of any other people. Every step of that progress, wherever made, must be a gain to ourselves. We have been led to these observations by a consideration of the present position of parties in the United States, as developed by the approach of the period appointed for the election of a new President. It seems to be one of the necessary consequences of a democratic election, conducted as that of the American President is, that it should generally result in the choice, not of the man whose talents and energy best fit him to govern, but rather of he against whom the fewest objections can be urged ; and so to place at the head of the republic rather one in whose opinions the majority concur most completely, than one in whose ability they have the greatest confidence. This may mainly account for the exclusion of such men as John Caldwell Calhoun, and the election of Mr. Polk, when the representation of the democracy of the United States is in question. But such men, wherever their particular place may be, always have their weight ; and speculating, as circumstances may now warrant us in doing, upon the probability of Cal houn taking an important part in the American Go vernment during the next Presidency, it may be inte resting to the British public to review shortly his past career, and mark what it promises for the future. Our present purpose is to do this, and we take as our chief authority a volume published in New York about twelve months ago. It purports to afford a complete view of Lis political life down to that time, " together with a selection from his speeches, reports, and other writings, subsequent to his election as Vice-President of the United States." Born in 1782, it appears that he entered Congress in what has been called the War Session of 1811, and immediately became a leading member of the party which preferred war to a submission to the restrictions we were then attempting to enforce upon American commerce. In 1817 he became Secretary of War, which office he held until 1825, when he was elected to the office of Vice• President. It is chiefly from this period that we must view him as a commercial reformer, and a determined opponent of the measures by which America has shown a disposition to imitate the restrictive and destructive commercial system of the old world. We find his speeches abounding in argu mentative and eloquent denunciations of the protective system, as applied to the produce and manufactures of the United States, and his growing influence constantly exerted in favour of the adoption of those enlightened principles of commercial policy which have at length become so prevalent that they have even insinuated themselves into the Conservative Cabinet of England. -Could that their inconsistency with all else they find the. -e were not productive of quite so much vacillat ing th fid blundering legislation—that our sapient rulers, blinded • by the light of principles to which their vision is unfitted, would consent to stand still where the only a iternative must be floundering into mischief ! But to ret, 'um to our subject. The op!nicns of Mr. Calhoun hay e been so clearly and freely expressed in favour of lilDeral commercial arrangt inents between the United States and this country in particular, ;and are throughout so uniform and consistent, that we can have bait little difficulty in anticipating the course .to be taken by any Government of which he may happen to be a member. His untiring opposition to the Tariff Bib' ;of 1828, followed by similar but more pchverful effo s csagainst that of 1842, have sufficiently attested his ch . aracter as a commercial statesman. His speech in Con g . Nos on the latter, made in August, 1842, may be taken . %.11 11. complete manift sto of the views by which he is likes 'V to be guided in the co nduct of any nego tiation bees. 'fen the two countriesiwhich he may tear a part. . After describing the p artic u l ar t f ra eff ect . of the restrictive sys tOrsi upon the Arneri , ,a o n f nat d i e ve li cotton, industry, an and also upon seine other branches the reverts to more general view of his BUbject ,this Bill (the Tariff Bill of 1842) would nerves that 'affect them all alike ; cause them to sell less, and gi ve wore for vita they buy, and to fall back on their c . resource s for supplies ;or abandon their pursuits, to IP° fool o d finally, by impoverishmen t and loss TH SUN, LONDON, SATURDAY EVENING, NOVEMpER 30, 1344. of custom to those with whom it originates. The i whole tendency of the measure is to isolate country from country, state from state, neighbourhood from neighbourhood, and family from family, with di minished means and increasing poverty as the circle contracts. The consummation of the system, to use an illustration of a deceased frien 1, " is Robinson Crusoe in goatskin.' " Yet there is no a ant in Mr. Cal houn of that salutary caution for which Conservatism claims so much merit. " I am not ignorant," he conti nues, " that it is the work of time and of great delicacy to pass from the artificial condition in which the country has long been placed, in reference to its industry, by a mistaken and mischievous system of policy. Sud den transitions, even to better habits or better condi tions, are hazardous, unless slowly effected. With this impression, I have ever been adverse to all sudden steps, both as to the currency and the system of po licy which is now the subject of our deliberation, bad as I believe them both to be." How Mr. Calhoun is dis posed to apply these principles to international policy may be gathered from the following passage from a letter of his, published in the Times in September, 1843, and having direct reference to a commercial arrange ment between England and the United States : " I am for free trade—free trade on both sides, if it can be had, but if not, on one side. It is good in part, but better in whole, for the interest of both countries; and my advice, as far as I have an opportunity of giving it to my friends, is, to push, without the least relaxation, for decided action on the part of Congress at the next session ; but, at the same time, to throw no discouragement on the attempt to arrange the duties by mutual agreeoment ; and I hope they will take that course. It is, I hold to be, the most certain mode to attain the object they have in view—to strike off the shackles of commerce." How will the fine drawn di plomacy of Lord Aberdeen deal with such views as these? No need here for a subtle distinction between " ab stract propositions" and " practical measures" from Sir R. Peel, or for a cunningly devised Bill with a circum bendibus in it from Mr. Gladstone. It is all plain sailing. If Mr. Calhoun could carry his party with him we should:have nothing to do. America would reform her own commercial :policy, and leave us to struggle out of the meshes of restriction and monopoly as we best could, and as the growth of our common sense should dictate. As it is, we shall probably have far more offered than it will please the Solons of Downing street to accept. The very plainness and frankness ‘X the offer will scare them from a ready acceptance of it ; while the absence of all need for their favourite weapons in negotiation will pro bably make them unwilling to do anything. Let us hope that the deficiency of our Tory Cabinet may be made good by the better sense of the Republican one. STANDARD.—We have it upon the highest of all authority that " fearfulness" is a sin of the same class with " unbelief;" and indeed they seem to be sins closely connected, if not identical. We never remember to have met with a sincere Christian, who either in con versation or in writing, admitteo. the possibility of any limit to the advance in material happiness or moral improvement of the human race. Such men exalt all their views, and, looking upward, they can Letter judge of the boundless perspective before us. Adam Smith, the founder of the modern school of political economy, was an infidel, and though an acute and observing man—who could reason justly from what he saw—he, as an infidel, was unable to extend his view far into the future. He therefore drew his in • ferences by an induction from temporary phenomena, and time has demonstrated the fallaciousness of many of his deductions. Most of his followers have participated in this error of defective induction ; would that we could acquit them all of having shared in its cause—his miserable want of belief. We believe that the happy prospects of a Christian nation which, in proportion to its Christianity, will be a moral, humane, and just nation, are absolutely without limits ; and, with this opinion, we have the most confident anti cipation of the glorious destiny of England. We have seen, even in the lifetime of the youngest man amongst us, what, in the judgment of such reasoners as Smith and Malthus, was an impossibility—nearly a duplication of the population, accompanied by reduction, in the propor tion of nearly one-half, of the money price of provisions, while, concurrently with both, the amount of realised property in the country has been enormously augmented. If the views of Smith and Malthus e ere correct, this is a miracle as repugnant to the laws of nature as that mi racle of mercy (at which one of them at least would scoff) exhibited on the shores of the Sea of Gallilee. And such, if we may say it without irrever -nee, are the miracles best suited to protect a practical and spe culative age from the sins of fearfulness and unbelief —the sins to which such an age is the most exposed. We cannot help thiulsing, too, that we see traces of a like miracle in progress in the attention now universally bestowed upon the condition of the labouring classes— an attention which, if it ba firmly fixed for a very few years, will, we have little doubt, negative the opinion lately so generally maintained, that the condition of those classes is uniinprovable to any great ex tent. If the produce of the earth has more than kept pace with the duplication of the people, and the accumulation of wealth has far exceeded both, what reason is there to suppose it impossible that the mass of the people can be admitted to a fair share of the common blessing ? Diffi culties there no doubt are in the way of such a distribution ; difficulties, the force of which we are not disposed to underrate. But we will not, after what we have seen, admit that these difficulties are insurmountable, if approached in a Chris tian :spirit, and with a fixed, constant, purpose to do whatever can properly be chime fur the improvement of the condition of our labovring countrymen—above all flinging from us the sin of fearfulness." The de terioration of the condition of the labouring classes is a theme upon which many good men expatiate with a feeling of compassion that does them honour, hut this theme has teen urged, p:rhaps, too far. If it has been urged beyond the limits of truth, as we think it sometimes has been, it has passed the bounds of sound policy ; thr from falsehood nothing good can follow, and to exaggerate an evil is one means of making the cure seem desperate. That the condition of the labouring classes has deteriorated to some extent since the war, seems to be capable of proof ; and that the new poor-law, in its original shape, was calculated to aggravate the evils of that deterioration, we should be the last to deny; but we are by no means certain that, as compared with the period antecedent to 1793, there has been any con siderable deterioration. We need but to turn to the pages of Goldsmith, Crabbe, and Southey for pictures of the labourers' condition in the latter part of the last century, as melancholy as anything that the reality pre sents in our day ; or if' poets may be suspected of exaggeration, we have the evidence of prose writers in abundance to the same effect. From among these witnesses we will take leave to produce one, at whose name every English heart will glow with admiration, gratitude, and love—Nelson—the brave, the wise, and, above all, the affectionate. Truly has Southey said of him, " England has had many heroes, but she has had but one Nelson." This is this great man's distinction, and is, it seems, ever destined such to remain—he is not the object only of his country's gratitude and admiration, but of her love; and with reason, his nature overflowed with affectionate feeling ; he instantly attached himself to every one within his sphere, he repaid one hundred fold in grati tude the slightest service rendered to him, and never had an enemy but the enemies of his country. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, Nov. 29.---Our mar ket has been very quiet this week, and the transactions since our last report quite unimportant ; prices, how ever, are unaltered, and importer; continue to show firmness. For refined goods there is a steady demand at full prices. Treacle is worth 235. 6d. to 245. and ♦ery scarce ; crushed and pieces are of ready sale.—Bristol Mercury. chase Bengal this week, and by private contract many parcels were disposed of at prices above previous rates: the sorts most in request have been low mid dusty white at lOs 9d to I le, other kinds are selling at lls 3d to lls 6d, for mid, and 1 is 9d to 12s 6d for good mid to fine white. Madras at 8s 3d to 9s per cwt for yellow. Java by pri vate treaty yellow at 9s to 9s 6d, and white lOs to Ils Gd The stock of East India is still diminishing. Cleaned Rice 13s 6d to 18s for Patna, and 23s to 2Ss per ewt for Carolina. SAGO has been in good request by private contract, and prices are inclined to advance, low Pearl has been selling at 10s to 15s, mid 16s to 19s, good 20s to 225, and fine 23s to 265; Sago Flour is fetching lls to 19s per cwt for small parcels. Of Bermuda Arrowroot 69 pkgs at public sale went at 8d to is 2d, 120 pkgs of St Vin cent 6d to 10d, 20 tins of Jamaica 61d, 6 casks of Tois lus Mois 5d per lb, 11 casks of Cuba 'Honey 32s to 271 per cwt. INDIGIO.—The purchases made in East India have been trifling this week. Madras is fetching former rates, but the demand has been only for small parcels. The mar ket for Spanish has a dull appearance, and of 73 serons of Guetamala at public sale, a small part only sold at 2s 10d to 4s 10d per 113, being 2d to 3d under former rates. COCHlNEAL.—lmporters demanding a further advance in prices has checked business, and 271 bags of Hon duras silvers at public sale were nearly all taken in at an advance on the rates of the last auctions of 2d per lb ; a few lots were disposed of at 4s 2d to 4s 8d for low to fine silvers ; 150 bags of Honduras are declared for auction. SALTPETRIL—The demand has further increased for Rough this week, and none has been offered at auction ; exporters and the home trade are desirous to operate, and have taken several parcels by private contract, paying prices rather above those of last Friday. TALLow.—This afternooa at public sale 382 pkgs of South American Tallow went at 33s to 39s 3d ; 28 casks of North American 38s 6d to 39s ; 56 casks of Italian 39* 3d ; 124 casks of New South Wales 39s 3d to 40s 6d; 91 casks of Cape 38s to 41s 9d; 15 casks of Naples 40s 6d to 40s 9d ; 18 easks of East India 40s to 41s 3d ; and 349 casks of straaded yellow Candle Tallow 38s 3d to 19s 6d per cwt. 011.3.—A farther reduction in prices having been sub mitted to for Olive Oil. Buyers have been induced to sem int* the market with more freedom ; for Gallipoli 411 to 421 have been accepted, 391 to 401 for Spanish, and 381 to 311 10s per tun for Barbary and Levant. This afternoon lower rates were accepted for Sperm Oil, at public sale 70 tuns selling at 781 10s to 861 15s for American. 60 tuns of North West Coast Whale Oil of Foreign Fishing in bond 31/ 10s to 331 15s. 99 casks of Cocoa Nut Oil 241 to 28110 s per tun. fested some such intentions, but was then quieted, and went away. On the 12th of last October he again ap peared with six other persons, and made use of violent language and threats, and was then again removed or in duced to go ; but on the following Monday the transac tion took place which was the subject of these proceed ing:. The Learned Counsel then proceeded to the detail of the facts, which were to the following effect :—On that morning, shortly before nine o'clock, the postman, on his return from the abbey, saw several parties of men all going in the direction of the abbey, armed with sticks, blud geons, hammers, crowbars, an axe, and other of the like sort of weapons. He went back and gave the alarm, and the lodge gates were closed. Twenty-nine men, of whom the prisoners were four, and two women made their appearance at the lodge gates and demanded entrance of the keeper, which was of course refused. They then stated that they would pass, and broke the locks, and went through up to the door of the abbey, at which they made some knocking, and then round to the housekeeper's door, which they proceeded to force. His Lordship and the whole of his family were away from home. At the last-mentioned door the intruders were met by Elijah Dencer and Charles Hancock, two of the county police, who required them to depart. They pro ceeded, however, to force the door, when Hancock put his hand to the breast of James Leigh to stop him, upon which James Leigh struck at his head with a bludgeon. Then ensued a general murderous attack on the two policemen who were knocked down, and with others of his Lordship's servants, to the number of nine or nearly so, were most seriously injured, the lives of some of them having been long in danger, and with one, if not with two of them, the ,danger was not yet over. The assailants then knocked two of the panels out of the door, and effected an entrance. Upon the housekeeper remonstrating, she was told she must leave, as it was their house, and there was no longer any occasion for her services. Mr. Jones, his Lordship's solicitor, who, in consequence of a recent absenc e o f th e h ouse - s t ewar d, happened to be residing in the house, on perceiving that the door had been under the circumstances forced, ran along some passages and made his escape over the roof and down a ladder ; after which, having taken horse, he made the best of his way to Coventry for the police. The parties having now thus effected an entrance, claimed the right to the possession of the property, and broke open the pastry-safe, larder, &c., and barricaded, with chairs and tables and the like, the door which they had broken ; but the violent ringing of the abbey bell, and. other circum stances, having alarmed 1/111e neighbourhood, the villagers came to suppress the outrage, and mustered in sufficient numbers to make resistance to them useless, threatening in strong language an instant attack upon and expulsion of the intruders, who now becoming somewhat alarmed, offered to lay down their arms and await the arrival of _ _ ____ ....._ ........ ...._ ........“. the police, upon the condition that Mr. Chapman, one of his Lordship's head stewards, should address the vit.. lagers, and bring abut quietness in the interim. Mr. Chapman, to avoid further mischief, addressed the vil lagers from a window, and accomplished this, and tho parties laid down their arms and remained quiet until the arrival of Roby, the inspector, and a body of police, who took them, offering to go anywhere, but still claim ing their right, together with the huge pile of awfully destructive implements now produced, before the magis trates, by whom they were all 29 committed to take their trials here this day. The Learned Counsel remarked that they might all have been now standing to take their trials upon the grave charge of felony, but it had been deemed sufficient to make a selection, in which considera tion had been had to the degree of violence used by each. The prisoner James Leigh was the ringleader of the party. It might be deemed necessary, added the Learned Counsel, to advert to the motives for such a thing, to show how it could have come to pass that this outrage had been committed. Lord Leigh himself had been in the actual possession for a period of twenty-one years, having succeeded his father, who inherited from his uncle, to whom the property had passed in 1806—a period of thirty-eight years in all. The present was the oldest branch of this noble house, and down to 1806 had resided upon their estates in the county of Gloucester. The first Lord Leigh, who had been created a peer about the year 1622, was a younger branch, and the last lord of this branch dying without issue, it came into the possession of his maiden sister, who died in 1806, when that branch became extinct. Many persons had thought that there must be descen dants of the younger branch to take in preference to the elder, and others had thought that there must be other questions of title, and a large prize tempted some persons to make claims on very slender grounds, and others to advance money to support them, and one George Leigh had made a claim to the estate and title, as being de scended from one of the Lord Leighs of the younger branch. Now, the form of proceeding in support of a claim to a title was different to that in support of a claim to an estate, and the former had been thought the most eligible for adoption; but the investigation before the House of Lords, so long ago as 1829, came to an end suddenly, by the counsel for the claimant admitting in its course that he could not further proceed with the claim. It was then thought that the nobleman, whom he was now representing, would be allowed to enjoy his estate in peace and quietness. If these parties had still thought they had any claim, why had his Lordship been allowed to enjoy it at all, during all the time from 1829 to 1844? But there was on the taking a n ag e g thato the these parties part of many illiterate and ignorant persons a dis position to believe that all the estates in the kingd om were enjoyed by wrong people, and though the law had pretty well settled the question as to this estate in 1829, different claimants had from time to tim e made their appearance, who, frequenting the vari ous public-houses in the neighbourhood, there :told diff e r en t stories reflecting upon the honour and honesty of Lord Leigh and his family ; and, among others, that a certain tombstone had been destroyed to destroy evidence. This was put forward at the iavestigation before the Lords in 1829, when the late Lord Abinger, then Mr. Searlett, as counsel, adopted the test of detection of put Ling it to witness after witness, who came and deposed to having repeatedly seen and noticed the tombstone, t o make a drawing of it, and which they all did, and the difference was so excessively absurd as to p u t th e w h o l e of them effectually out of Court. The Learned C ounse l having then remarked upon the fact that the l aw as t o time and long possession made it absolutely un i m p or t an t in every respect what title there might h ave b een , or these people might believe to be, proceed e d t o men t ion that any such supposed claim, even if th e parties them selves believed that they were such, or even any real claim, could have no relevancy whatever to this in quiry ; for parties who had claims mu s t ad va n ce an d maintain them according to the forms of law, a nd no t might want by storm. No good their title or c l a i m m i g h t b e ; and i t was b w a advantage v l l however that t ignorant and mi sgu id e d sor t o f p eo pl e t shi a c r h s so acting could thereby accrue, should be made to know this. He should ill represent Lord Leigh by making any observations as to his cha racter or that of his family, or by noticing, in 1844, sto ries as to the dead proceeding from such a source and under such circumstances. He was confident that when the jury had heard the evidence and the instructions that they would receive from his Lordship, they would enter tain no doubt whatever as to the guilt of the four pri soners at the bar of the heinous offence with which they there stood charged. The facts static) in the opening were abundantly proved by the numerous witness es . Th e two po li cemen appeare d to have been grievously injured about the head sad body, an d principally by James Leigh, the ringleader, and Thomas Leigh. William Freeman, an assistant game keeper, received about half a dozen blows on his arai and one on the head, infli c t e d w ith bl u d geons , f rom t h e effect of which last he could not lie in his bed for a week, and his life still continues in danger. His shirt was sa turated with blood. Joseph F i .ieman, labourer on the estate, had his arm broken when put up by him to pro tect his head frk. n a heavy blow from a huge hammer. Charles Humphreys had his head very severely cut and eyes blackened, and face cut across with blows also in flicted by a bludgeon. Robert Jaycock was struck at by the prisoner Watts with a stone-breaking hammer, but happily escaped the blow. The prisoner Flowers had also a bludgeon, with which he struck the policeman and others several severe blows. Mrs. Savory, the house keeper, saw nearly all that took place, and deposed to James Leigh's dismissing her from her situation, and to the general " Hurrah I" as soon as the inside of the house had been gained by the whole body. Mr. Chapman proved ono of the parties to have had a large axe with him. Messrs. 'Watson and Cottle, the surgeons who had attended the wounded, described in general terms the nature and extent of the injuries sustained, and par ticularly those sustained by the unfortunate William Freeman, which were the subject of this indictment. Besides other injuries, including a dreadful contused wound, extending from the elbow to the wrist, he had received (but by whose hand it was struck was not in evidence) a severe wound on the left side of his head, cutting through the integuments of the bone, and ex tending in three directions, the effects of which had pre vented him from being able to lie down in his bed for a week, and from which he was not out of danger until Monday last, and could not even now be so pronounced, a swelling having recently appeared under the bone, which, coupled with the earlier symptoms of dreadful pain in the head, and sickness and shivering uponputting his feet to the ground upon a surface in the least degree uneven, was a very alarming additional symptom. They also both deposed that the wound (a very thick hat having been cut through) must have been inflicted by a very hard blow with a heavy instrument (such as a very heavy short bludgeon produced), the necessary re sult of which blow would have been to inflict a grievous bodily injury. Mr. TEMPLE having addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoners, urging the absence of any of the intents charged in the indictment, and treating the whole pro ceeding as a mere riot and a consequent fight, in the heat of which blows were struck without premeditation, which had, most unfortunately, caused the grievous in jury to the poor man Freeman, which the prisoners, as every one else must do, most deeply deplored. His LORDSHIP proceeded in summing up very lumi nously to expound and explain the law bearing upon the several parts of the case, and then through a most impartial review of the facts, about which there seemed howevernt whether to teani tsrty b i arhga e ceeocr n dnjt uteoh t arnoley m l rdpN u tlmiro c ofi h osuhoorlaendfv dispute, eeaborne sfyw :beenal t leaving terhrt ehfagonneuutoeriblfdtpaybrr yi i so t ow ft which.hetaeoer nreesyt evidence ofeje guilty,nudt provedhrci yde int offences ot fi t sh n s a e e d y e i without finding them all guilty alike. The jury having considered upon their verdict for a very few minutes, at about half-past seven o'clock returned a verdict of Guilty of a common assault. There being other indictments, sentence was, of course, deferred. Friday, Nov. 29. At the sitting of the Court this morning it was inti mated, as we understood, by the Learned Counsel for the prosecution, that, as the jury had already given their opinion upon one of the charges of felony, and as the facts in all of them would be so nearly the same, there was no desire on the part of the prosecution to press any of the other charges of felony, and, with his Lordship's permission, they proposed to offer no evi dence upon either of them. Verdicts were taken ac cordingly. The whole of the twenty-nine were then put upon their trial for the riot, but at two o'clock, when our report was necessarily dispatched, the case was still pro ceeding, Mr. Temple being in the course of his address for the defence. The facts being the same as in the case reported yesterday, there would seem to be but little doubt that there must be a verdict against the whole of the twenty-nine for the riot. OXFORD ClRCUlT—Gloucester, Nov. 2s. (Before Mr. Justice COLTMAN.) John Richards, aged 26, pleaded guilty to the charge of uttering, at Bristol, a forged Post-office order, with intend to defraud the Earl of Lonsdale, her Majesty's Postmaster-General. The prisoner, a simple-looking mechanic, had received a letter from is mother enclosing an order on the Bristol post- ce for is., when, unconscious of the counter-check deposited with the office by the person transmitting the amount, the prisoner added the sum of 21. to both order and letter, and applied at the office for the 455. The variance between the documents at once created suspicion, and occasioned his apprehension. The Learned JUDGE, considering the facility of trans mitting money by means of these orders to be most use ful to the public, especially to the lower classes, and being fearful that if frauds were successfully practiaed against it, the benefit might be withdrawn, sentenced the prisoner to transportation for ten years. Richard Young, aged 45, was charged with having, at Cheltenham, on the 11th of October, feloniously and maliciously stabbed Elizabeth Young, his wife, with intent to maim, disable, or do her some grievous bodily harm. Mr. B. Williams conducted the prosecution, and Mr, Cooke the defence. The prisoner, a coal-dealer in Cheltenham, was in October very much affected in mind, labouring under the supposition that he was pursued by " a thousand evil spirits." These fits of aberration were of frequent re currence, and productive of much violence to his family, towards whom at other times he displayed the utmost affection and kindness. On the 10th October he awoke his wife in the middle of the night to " wipe away the blood from a thousand spears which had penetrated his side," and called up the children and his wife to look at the wretches who persecuted him, and whom he described to be standing at the foot of the bed—there being, in fact, no blood nor person visible except to his own disor dered imagination. His conduct very much alarmed his family. Medical advice was obtained in the morning. The prisoner was bled, and took willingly the medicine prescribed, but in a few hours after insisted that poison had been administered to him. He seemed so evidently determined on suicide, that his razor was secreted by his wife, and he retired to rest apparently tired and com posed. In the middle of the night of the 11th his wife was awoke by a stab in the abdomen inflicted by a pen knife, which the prisoner had provided himself with. The wound bled profusely, but was only skin deep, and by the surgeon's evidence had not been inflicted with much force. The poor woman, greatly alarmed, shouted " Murder I" the children fastened themselves in their own room, and the whole neighbourhood was thrown into a state of great excitement. The prisoner denied any intention to injure his wife, and on hearing that she would probably not recover from the effects, expressed his determination to die with her, and cut his throat in three places with the same knife. An eminent surgeon, on being called in, found the wound on the wife to be not at all dangerous, and sewed up the throat of the pri soner, who seemed on his trial to be recovered from the effects of the injuries. In a very feeling address, the counsel for the prisoner contended that the wounding was accidental, or amounted only to an assault at a moment when the prisoner was not responsible for his actions. After a very careful summing up from the Leaned JUDGE, The , jury Acquitted the prisoner of the felony, but found him Guilty of an assault at a time when he was not in his right mind. The grand jury have ignored the bill for murder. Only ten cases have been disposed of to-day. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MARYLEBONE. Yesterday a well-dressed man, between 40 and 50 years of age, named William Key, shopman to Mr. John Dent, a linendraper, &c., in an extensive way of business at Nos. 30, 31, and 32, Crawford -street, Bryanston-square, was brought up in custody of Ross, 157 D, and placed at the bar before Mr. Long, charged with having plun dered his employer of property to a very considerable amount. A number of pawnbrokers were in attendance with large packages containing goods which the prisoner had pledged ; and it will be seen from the evidence that the prisoner had, while in Mr. Dent's service, been keeping a draper's shop at Hammersmith, in which the greater part of the stolen articles were found, the business being carried on by his wife. Rebecca Foster, wife of a confectioner in East-street, Manchester-square, deposed, that on the previous morn ing, about eleven o'clock, the prisoner, who was a stran ger to her, came to the shop and made a small purchase of sweetmeats, after which he took something from his coat pocket, and, having wrapped it up in a newspaper and tied it with string, laid the parcel on the counter, saying that he would call it for it presently; he then went away. In the course of the afternoon, thinking there was something suspicious about the matter, as the prisoner had neglected to make his appearance, witness took the said parcel to the station-house. Inquiries were subsequently made by the police, and it was ascertained to whom the contents belonged. Ross, the constable, who is a very i n t e lli gen t o f cer, stated that on the previous evening, in consequence of information which he received, he went in plain clothes to Mr. Foster's shop, and at eight o'clock prisoner came in and asked for his parcel, which witness had at the time in his hand. He was told that Mrs. Foster was then out, and that he could not have it till she returned. In a few minutes she entered, accompanied by Mr. East man, principal assistant to Mr. Dent, who, having be fore examined the parcel, in which were two mousselin de-laine dresses belonging to his employer, exclaimed (addressing the prisoner), " Good God, can it be you !" to which he (prisoner) replied, " Yes, I've done it, I've done it." He further said that he was a lost man, and that what he had done was through distress. At the station-house, when about to be searched, he pulled from his coat pocket a table-cover and gave it up; a duplicate for some cachmere and mousselin-de-laines, pawned by him on Wednesday last, was found in his possession, as also a few shillings in silver. He gave his address, 21, Dowell's-row, Hammersmith ; and after he was locked up witness proceeded to the house, where the prisoner has a shop kept by his wife, and in it found a number of table-covers, together with a quantity of drugget, and a variety of other articles connected with the trade. He also disco :ered in a portfolio, which he took from a book case, between sixty and seventy duplicates for dresses, and almost every other kind of drapery. &c., pledged within the last few months. He had raised upon the said articles upwards of 501, and the probability was that they were worth nearly four times that amount. Mr. Eastman identified the dresses taken from the parcel, as also the table-cover given up at the station, and the rest of the property found at the shop, as being Mr. Dent's. The prisoner, who seemed very dejected and had no thing to say, was remanded till Friday. - - BANK OF ENGLAND. (From last Night's Gazette.) • An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Btb of Vic toria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 23d day of Norember,lB44. ISSUE DEPARTMENT. Notes issued ... 27,528,875 .x. GoTernment debt 11,015,100 Other securities 2,984,900 G old coin and bullion Silver bullion £27,528,875 RSHALL, Chief Cashier. Nember, 1844. :PA RTMENT. Government secu rities (i nclud ingDead Weight Annuity) 13,539,775 Other securities 9,547,462 Notes Gold and silver coin I MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS Or THIS DAY. CITY, FRIDAY EVENING. TIMES.—The proprietors of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Company held to-day their annual meeting, which was very numerously - attended. 1 The first subject mentioned in the report was the con ' tract with the Government for the extension of the mail service to and from India. The financial arrangements , for carrying out this service have been already made by the Directors, and the Proprietors have paid the first in stalment of 5/. per share on the 4,000 new shares of 501. each. The report states, that the Directors have en tered into contracts for four new ships of 1,300 tons each, and one vessel of 700 tons, which are to be ready for sea next year. It is expected that the new monthly line of communication to Calcutta, Madras, and Ceylon, will be in operation from January next, and the commu nication to China will be opened as soon as the vessels now building for the service are placed upon that line. The negotiations for the purchase of the new steam ship Precursor terminated in that vessel becoming the property of the Company for the sum of 45,000/. and 5,0001 contingent upon a mail contract being obtained, her original cost being about 80,000/. An additional sum of 8,0001 has been expended to increase the accom modation of the vessel. In the event of the Pacha of Egypt taking into his hands the traffic across the Desert, the Directors state their belief that the Company's vessels on the line will be purchased by the Egyptian Government. Several complaints were made, in the course of the meeting, of the inconveniences which attend the transit, and which furnish so many arguments for the establishment of a railway to Suez ; but the chairman (Sir J. Campbell) explained, that as the Company were only chartered for purposes of navigation, they could take no steps for the amelioration of the land passage. The profits of the year ending the 30th of last Sep tember are stated at 65,0421., which, with the undivided profits of the preceding year, makes a total of 109,8971. The usual dividend of 31 per cent. was declared for the six months ending the Ist of October, and the undivided profits, after deducting both this and the April dividend, were stated at 74,0201. To reduce the expense of insu rance, which is found to weigh heavily upon the profits of the Company, the investment of the sum of 10,000/. towards the formation of an insurance fund, was voted, after the report had been confirmed. Our attention has been directed to a passage in a speech by Sir R. Peel, delivered on the 6th of May last, relative to the prospect that the provisions of the new banking Bill would be evaded, and which it may be use ful to quote, as it shows that the Ministry, foreseeing such abuses as possible, are prepared with a remedy, which it will be prudent in the parties concerned not to provoke. It is as follows : "It is thought by some that this privilege might be perverted, so as to give rise to something like the sub stitution of a bank-note of a certain kind, and of a circulating nature. The power has been held by private banks from time immemorial, and it has not hitherto been accompanied by any abuse ; and why should it be anticipated that joint-stock banks would abuse such a power by using it contrary to the intentions of the Legislature ? But I give public notice, on this opportunity, that if the power should de abused—if it should be attempted to circulate small bills, so accepted, within the limits reserved to the Bank, I shall not hesitate to appeal to Parliament on the instant, for the purpose of correcting that evil." On the proposal for a universal penny receipt stamp, lately brought into discussion, a correspondent remarks— " I think that if the stamp was of the same description for any document, whether receipt-check or letter-paper, that came within the proposed plan, it would materially simplify the scheme ; and, with respect to the hint about stamping bankers' cheques, I imagine that it would be productive of good results. Why should there not be a universal form of cheque printed by the Government, leaving the name of the bank vacant, and supplied to bankers at a less price than to the public ? lam in a bank which is far from a very large one, yet it is not uncommon to have paid,soo or 600 cheques a day, exclu sive of bills. Any one who has leisure to look at the number of banks in England will see that, allowing that some of them do not pay perhaps nearly 'a tenth of that number, there would result a considerable revenue from this plan. The customer of the bank Ido net think would complain, for on him individually the tax would fall very lightly." HERALD.—The intelligence brought from the United States by the Hibernia steamer was so generally antici pated in all the main features that it produced no sensa tion in the mercantile circles. The violence of party writing in the United States had not in any degree sub sided by the decision of the Presidential election, and the best informed and most impartial Americans in town state that nothing like a correct opinion can be formed of the future policy that will be pursued from the state ments of the press. The New England papers in parti cular are virulent beyond former precedent against the policy of the Democrats in placking Mr. Polk at the head of the poll, and if we were to place confidence in their prognostications, inevitable ruin to everything worth preserving in the state must be the consequence. In that quarter, however, apprehensions about a reduc ' tion in the tariff is the predominating principle, and the most moderate persons lay it down as a certainty that it will undergo considerable modifications in the next ses sion of Congress. The Whigs and high-tariff men now rest their sole hope upon the Senate, but after such a declaration of opinion as the votes in the election set forth, the most sensible Americans have but faint expec tation of a majority of the members having sufficient moral courage to resist the torrent, and act upon their own independent opinions, on any one of the questions which have been the rallying cry of parties. The whole matter taken together exhibits such a picture that if we are to consider America as experimenting to solve the problem of the fitness of democratic, combined with fe deral institutions, for the good government of society, we have no longer to wait for the solution. There is nothing in the commercial letters worthy of notice, except a very general expression of apprehension that the election of Polk will for a time produce a de gree of uncertainty respecting future measures, as to be seriously injurious to business. The first impressions have actually had the effect of staying the progress of some iron works and other manufacturing buildings in course of erection. As a specimen we give the following from Boston :—" The times already feel the influence of Polkism. Goods have fallen, and a hundred houses that were going up in Boston have been countermanded, also a number of ships which were about to be built." These, we should suppose, however, are exaggerated pictures, from which time will withdraw the deeper shades. The accounts from Peru and the River Plate in the American papers, are not so late as those we have re ceived direct. It is upwards of a month since we gave the particulars of the defeat of Vivanca in Peru, which is given as news in the American files. The Canada accounts, confirming the statement formerly received, of the decided Conservative majo rity in the elections, has given unqualified satisfaction to the merchants engaged in trade with those colonies. There are, indeed, few evils in human affairs but some good can be extracted from them, and we are informed that the excesses to which Democracy has led in the United States, has tended very much to weaken the force of Radicalism in the British Provinces within the last few years. The commercial accounts from the Ca nadas are generally of a favourable complexion, al though the season had closed. The effect of the notice of the Bank of England to lend money on the deposit of securities, at the rate of 24 per cent. per annum, has bad an influence on the market beyond its direct influence. Many capitalists had been withholding their money from employment in the ex pectation of an advance in its value up to the payment of the January dividends, and that expectation being now frustrated, their dormant funds will be brought into immediate activity. There' is another distinction be tween the present and former notices, besides the reduc tion of the rate of interest to 24 per cent. Formerly, the parties borrowing had to retain the money for not less than ten days, whereas there is now no such restriction. The money may be borrowed one day and repaid the next, an advantage which will materially increase the number of applicants. Persons resident in the country can form a very inadequate conception of the amount of business which is transacted in London which will be affected by this difference of time. SUN.—The English Stocks leave off firmly this after noon, Consols being 1004 for Money, and '..01 to 4 for Account. Exchequer Bills, however, the differences having to be paid in the English, Foreign, and Share Markets, further declined to 595. and 575. premium. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 102/ 4. The Foreign Bonds maintained a firm appearance. Spanish Actives were 244 j; the Three per Cents., 354 i; Portuguese Converted, 55i; and Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 634 to 624. The additional transactions in Railway Shares have been these :—Cambridge and Lincoln were 4 ; Churnet Valley, ; Dublin and Belfast, 4 ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 11 ; Great North of England, New, 11; Great Western, 604 to 614 ; Ditto, Fifths, 144 ; Birmingham, 119 ; South-Western, Eighths, 24 ; London and York, 14 to 4 ; Newcastle and Darlington, 384 ; Shrewsbury and Birmingham, 4 ; South-Eastern, New, 7 ; York and North Midland, 524 to 54; Ditto, Selby Extension, 13; Boulogne and Amiens, 3 to 24 ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 54; and Paris and Orleans, 21 to 214 premium. Bristol and Exeter were at par; Blackwell have been 94 discount; and Direct Northern 4 discount to par. There was an improvement in the rate of Exchange on Antwerp and Frankfort, and on Hamburgh, Trieste, and Amsterdam, the quotations were steady, Paris alone being a shade lower. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Nov. 29.) SUOAL—To-day the better descriptions of West India Sugar were in demand, and fetched full rates, but low yellow and brown sorts moved off heavily, and the prices accepted were in some cases rather under those previ ously quoted. The total purchases amounted to 240 hhds, including a public sale of 103 hhds of Barbadoes, which went at former rates, viz., fine yellow at 64s 6d to 655, good 61s 6d to 635, good middling 60s to 61s, middling 57s 6d to 58s, and low 55s to 56s per cwt. The estimated purchases for the week are 1,510 hhds and tierces. --- EAST INDIA.—This afternoon at public sale 2,192 bags of Bengal Sugar were offered, the Dobah amounting to 247 bags, were sold at steady rates—good strong yellow at 64s to 655, middling 635, damp and washed 62s 6d to 64s 6d, the remainder consisted of Date Sugar, a part only of which found buyers at a decline in prices of Is per cwt—low soft dingy yellow went at 50s to 52s 6d, middling ditto 53s 6d to 565, damp and washed 49s to 55s 6d, ordinary heavy brown 435, aid good dry grey at 60s per cwt. Ci3co.s.-4sest India is still wanted, and previous rates are supported ; at public sale 329 bags of Trinidad, an inferior parcel, were all sold ; sea damaged, of which the bulk eonsisted, wont at 27s 6d to 40s, sound mid dark red fetched 43s 6d to 445, and low grey 41s to 42s ; 82 bags Grenada fetched 40s to 43s for sound, and 37s to 41s per owt for sea damaged. The market has still a firm appearance for Foreign Cocoa. RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDEL—The market is firm for Leeward Island Rum at 2s 44d to 2s 5d per gallon, proof strength. Calcutta has met with more attention— small parcels have been disposed of at 2s 3d proof with certificate. Jamaica is held for the former currency. In Demerara little has been done. Brandy of common quality has been little asked for, and prices are rather lower, but for the best brands there has been a lively demand. Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 24, puns 5s ; ditto 1839, Mule, 4s 11d, puns 4s 9d ; ditto 1840, Wills 4s 11d,puns 40 9d; ditto 1841, hhds 4s 104, puns 45 Si ; ditto 1842, hhde 4s 7d, puns 4s 5d ; ditto 1843, hills 4s sd, puns 41 id, common 2s 9d to 3s, and middling to good mid 3s 2d to 3s 10t1 per gallon. Geneva at is 9,1 to is 10d, fine for duty is fetching 2s 4d to 3s 6d. English Corn Spirits at iOs 2d per gallon. FRUlT.—There continues to be an extansivo business doing in Currants; New Zante 435, new Patras 45s to 50s, at the latter prices sales have been made ; old Cephalonia 445, old Patras 45s to 465. For Raisins there has been a lively demand ; Chesme, in barrels, at 46s ; Valentias at 50s, except a cargo of inferior quality sold at public auction from 47s to 495. At public sale, on Tuesday, a parcel of damaged Patras Currants was sold, butts 45s to 495, caroteels and barrels 468 to 50s. Greek Figs in casks and barrels were bought in at 34s to 38; a few boxes sold at 38s. A large parcel of Turkey Pulled Figs of ordinary quality and out of condition were also offered, and sold from 46s to 525, lotoineoletho 15 of 1-16th drums realising 575. New Imperial French Plumso in int chests 4-quar 75s ter, to 76 and*st, and new Prunesh-cartoons sold from 2 in -chests RICE.—An atna increased desire has been shown to p ur- INTERESTING TO LADIES. To Messrs. Rowland and Son, 20, Hatton-garden, London. 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As I have an objection to see my name in print, I beg you will not publish it; but you are at liberty to show this letter, or make any other use you please of it, and refer applicants to me, if necessary, in proof of the efficacy of your Ma cassar Oil.—Your obedient servant, Rowland's Macassar Oil preserves and reproduces the Hair ; prevents it from falling offor turning Grey ; i Changes Grey Hair to ts Original Colour ; frees it from Scurf and Dandriff, and makes it beautifully soft and curly. Ask for " Rowland's Macassar Oil." All others Aro fraudulut eouhterfsits. COMMISSION OF LUNACY. Yesterday forenoon, a t e l even o ' c l oc k, a commiss i on de lunatic° in qu i ren d o was opene d b e f ore M r . Conn; which Colonel Winslow and a jury o f fift een gentlemen,, 4 Colonel Gant was f o , em'.n (and ..,I:,dth , :on slsten several magistrates of the cowdy of Middlesex), at c Manor House, Green-lane, St o k e N ew i ngton , as to T ll , state of mind of Mr. G eorge P orter , age d 46, fulnerki a merchant carrying on business in the City of London, but described in the commission as late of Totteebsoi and at present residing in Phillip-street, Kingsland -09 The commission was sued out at the instance of X . ILI' A Porter, the wife of th e a ll ege d l una ti c , an d was supporw" by Mr. Bateman, of the Chancery bar. Mr. Porter 1111. unrepresented by Counsel. Mr. William May, a member of the Society of FrielA d was first called, and said h e r es id e d a t T ot t en ham, s i n o had known Mr. George Porter for seventeen years. first attended him on account of his mind in the mono of May, 1837. When he saw him he found his prinwri: f i t . tang was that he had a f ew d a y s b e f ore , whilst ting in his apartment, seen two tablets similar to tilt on which the ten commandments were written churches, appear in a flash of lightning on the IT: and on them he saw inscribed words from the 1 _,7 chapter of Hebrews, 26th, 27th, 28th, and 29th Yer t 7i, and which he repeated with g rea t fl uenc y. He never known Mr. Porter free from that delusl since. Shortly after he was taken with this malady saw Mr. Porter, with Dr. Sutherland, sen.,.. an d six months he was removed f rom h ome a nd P , ni o under the care of his cousin, Mr. Samuel Porter. saw him in July last in Phillip- s t ree t, an d on being 5 troduced Mr. Porter suddenly rose as he pat ou t er hand to shake hands, and exclaimed, N o , no, 14 May, you have been the cause of my being here." subsequently became more reconciled, and in conTerf o tion repeated the delusion about the wall, and said r a g had lost his soul ; and that in consequence o f the Ir v , on the wall he knew that it was cas t i n t o u tt er percb ti o, Another delusion was, that his b ra i ns no l onge r exist, but that there was a bird in s id e hi s h ea d w hich 11 , communicated with by a gentle s p r i ng f rom his be°7„ and which was acted upon by the fiend. He would sLI; declare that his tongue had been melted out of mouth, in consequence of his bl a sph em i es . H e invaris b v /1 believed that the writing on the wall was his c onde4 tion, and his mind has in conse quence b e come 1 " morbid state. By the COMMISBIONER—He enjoys good health. I t is rational in other respects. He admits his ovall i capacity to manage his affairs, and I believe him 0 1 ' incapable of doing so. Mr. Samuel Porter, the cousin of the unfOrt. siE t he gentleman, deposed that he would sometimes of* vessels in his skull had burst. Th ere was a fiend ills' him who pulled a string and kept his heart in motion" Further evidence having been given by Dr. Sulli es , land, and the unfortunate gentleman having been is duced to the commissioner and j ur y, th e j ur y ultit01 1 0 ;, returned a verdict, " That Mr. George Porter is ° I hi§ sound mind, and incapable of managing himself or 0 affairs, and has been so since the 10th of June, 1837' COAL MARZZT. Prices per ton at the close of the market :—Buddle's W r est Hartley, 1756 d ; Carr's Hartley, 17s 6d ; Davi son's West Hartley, 17s 6d ; Hasting's Hartley, 17s 7d to lits ; Holywell Main, 20s ; Nelson's West Hartley, 17s Gd ; New Tanfield, 16s 3d ; Old Pontop, 165 ; Ord's Redheugh, 16s 6d ; Old Tanfield, 1653 d ; Pott's Primrose, les ; Tanfield Moor Butes, 165 6d ; Tanfield Moor, 19s ; Taylor's West Hartley, 17s 3d ; Townley, 17s 6d ; West Hartley, 18s ; Wylam, lis6d ; W. E., Clennell, 18s ; W. E., Edmondsley, 19s ; W. E., Gos forth, 20s 6cl ; W. E., Gibson, 20s 6d ; W. E., Heaton, 203 6d ; W. E., liillingworth, 19s 6d ; W. E., New march, 19s ; W. E., Northumberland, 19s 9d ; W. E., Ramsay, 16s 6d ; Eden Main, 20s 6d ; W. E., Belmont, 21s ; W. E., Braddyll's Hetton, 22s 3d to 22s 6d; W. E., Haswell, 22s Gd ; W. E., Hetton, 22s to 22s 3d ; W. E., Hytton, 22s ; W. E., Lambton, 22s to 23s ; W. E., Richmond, 20s Gd ; W. E., Russell's Hetton, 22s ; W. E., Sherburn, 22s ; W. E., Stewart's, 22s to 22s 3d ; W. E., Whitwell, 21s ; W. E., Caradoc, 22s ; W. E., Hartlepool, 225; W. E., Heselden, 20s ; W. E., High Thornley, 20s ; W. E., hellos, 22s ; W. E., South Hartlepool, 17s 6d; W. E., West Hartley, 19s 3d ; W. E., Bitchburn, 19s ; W. E., Brown's Deanery, 21s; W. E., Evenwood, 19s; W. E., Tees, 225; W. E., Tees Hetton, 18s ; W. E., West Hetton, 19s 3d ; Clackmannan, 16s ; West Hartley Netherton, 17s 6d ; Woodifield Cook, 17s 6d.—Arrivals since last day, 86. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nev. 29. DELLER V. ADAMS. This was an action for compensation in damages for false imprisonment, brought by Anna Deller, a maid servant, against her former master, Mr. Adams, a schoolmaster and lecturer on astronomy, residing at Tottenham, under these circumstances :—On the morning of the 11th of March last, the pre sent plaintiff stated to her master, that, having had occasion to enter the room in which the plate was kept, she discovered that it had been removed, and the basket which had contained it was left empty. She appeared at the time to be very much agitated, and requested Mrs. Adams to send for a policeman. After this the nursery-maid, who had been sitting at the window at the time when the robbery was supposed to have been committed, said that she saw a man crossing the lawn before the house, that he was dressed in a velveteen coat, and that he resembled a man of the name of Higgie. That person was apprehended, but was afterwards liberated on his recognisances. On the examination of the premises by the police, no trace of the means by which the robbery was effected could be found ; but it was observed, that a door which opened only on the inside, was left ajar. The plaintiff said that she had been cleaning the steps and pas sage, and might have forgotten to shut the door. On the same evening the defendant applied to a magistrate, who aivised him to give the two servant women into custody, it being too late to get a warrant ; but Mr. Adsms preferred to give the plaintiff only into custody, as it would be inconvenient to part with the nursery maid. The plaintiff was accordingly taken to the station-house on Saturday, and on Monday was remanded to Friday, when she was discharged. For this imprisonment the present action was brought. The trial occupied part of yesterday, and the whole of this day. The jury found for the plaintiff on the first issue, but on tho others for the defendant ; the verdict being, therefore, substantially for the defendant. WINTER ASSIZES. HOME ClRCUlT.—Maidstone, Nov. 29. THE MURDER AT DOVER.—.Tames Clark, 60, John Clark, 28, William Clark, 30, and William Smith, 23, were indicted for the murder of Samuel Couchman, at Charlton, in the borough of Dover. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Rose conducted the prosecu tion ; and Mr. Horne defended the prisoners. The case occupied the Court a great many hours, but the facts upon which the charge was made against the prisoners lay in a very small compass. It appeared from the statement of the Learned Counsel and the evidence, that the unfortunate deceased was one of the police-constables of Dover, and he was engaged in that capacity at the time he lost his life, on the Bth September last. It appeared that in the afternoon of that day a number of disorderly persons had been quarrelling together, and there was fighting going on for a considerable time, the elder prisoner, the other two, who are his sons, and a third son named Thomas, eing actively engaged in the disturbance. The deceased interfered, but he was very much abused, and some of the pri soners were heard to make use of very bad language towards the police, and to threaten that some of them should be done for before night. The disturbance continued until eleven o'clock at night, when the deceased and another constable, named Smith, laid hold of the prisoner, James Clark, and one of his sons, with a view to take them into custody, when Thomas, the other son, interfered, and said that he would take his father, who was at this time very drunk, home, and he did so. The two constables were then pushed about and assaulted, and Thomas Clark was seen to come out of his house with a large bludgeon, partly concealed, by his side, and without saying a word he raised it, and with both hands struck the deceased a tremendous blow across the face with the stick. The blow literally smashed the deceased's face, and he fell to the ground as though he had been shot, and died almost immediately afterwards. The man, Thomas Clark, who was no doubt the actual cause of the death of the deceased, absconded imme diately after the occurrence, and has not since been heard of, and the prisoners were charged accessorially with the murder from their having been present during the affray, and from the threats they had made use of. In addition to this it was proved against the prisoner Smith, that while the unfortunate deceased was lying dead upon the ground, he jumped up with a gesture of exultation, and exclaimed, " There you—, you've got it ; you are no good." These facts were shown in evidence, but there was an absence of any distinct proof that the prisoners were actually present when the fatal blow was struck, and the only evidence that tended to show they were aware of the fatal result that had taken place, was the fact that imme diately after the death of the deceased, one of the pri soners said to the other, " Come along, my dear brother, let us bolt—we have done something to be talked bout." Mr. HORNE addressed the jury on behalf of the pri soners, and having alluded to the more material portions of the evidence, he contended that it was not sufficient to warrant the jury in convicting the prisoners of the serious offence with which they were accused. Mr. Justice WriaaJous summed up, and the jury, after a consultation of nearly two hours, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. MIDLAND Stoneleigh stoodtTlos C hit]. oe i omicef ß ahi gso C ahre U gLt oe / Aebd T i gebu , ribi p, W eolyajn a ,so ri tenhpa i c ethi k n tdshNei Flowers, 2 S . THE QUEEN V. JAMES LEIGH, AND ' OTHERS • d t t in p e ::. n fr t is , Th w Ao i n r t od h r Le ShWit*T l a h ei maf ) en , eizsg f o e Wh l ilL o a m e(tthi:g o teh u s ' y cut and wounded one William Free man, with intent to maim him, to disfigure him, or to do him some griffons bodily harm. There were three other indictments against the pri soners, for the same offence upon other persons—one for assaulting a constable, to prevent their lawful apprehen sion ; and one in which they were included with twenty five others in a charge of riot, all arising out of the same transaction, the particulars of which appeared in this journal shortly after the final examination of the pri soners before the committing magistrates. I Mr. Hill, Queen's Counsel (specially retained), as sisted by Mr. Miller and Mr. Mellor, appeared on behalf of the Crown. Mr. Temple (specially retained), assisted by Mr. Eardley Wilmot, conducted the defence. . Mr. HILL opened the case ; and, after briefly premis • mg that Lord Leigh now was and long had been in the possession of the estate of Stoneleigh Abbey, stated that so long ago as the month of February last the prisoner James Leigh first appeared in the ground* and mani- .£27,528,875 M. MA . Dated the 28th day of No, BANKING DJ .E. Proprietors 'capi tal 14,553,000 Rest 3,139,027 Public deposits (including Ex chequer,Savings banks, Commis sioners of Na tional Debt, and dividend ac counts) 4,812,191 Other deposits Seven day and other bills 965,99 £31,334,35; M. MA] Dated the 28th day of No i X 31,334,352 RSHALL, Chief Cashier. member, 1844. OXFORD UNIVERSITY BOAT RACES. The annual four-oared races on the Isis, for a silver cup and medals given by the University Boat Club, was decided on Wednesday. The trial heats came off on the two days previous, when St. John's beat Exeter, Baliol beat Trinity, St. John's beat Baliol, and University beat St. John's. The final heat between the University crew and the Oriel crew, the holders of the cup and medals, caused considerable interest amongst the lovers of aqua tic amusements, and the banks of the Isis were thronged with spectators. The University crew were the favour ites, although the Oriel had procured a fine new boat to row in, differently constructed from the Oxford boats, being made after the fashion of the Newcastle boats. The distance was from Offley to Oxford, rather more than a mile. The University crew went off at a slashing pace, and although much pressed by the Oriel crew, who were close upon their stern, maintained the lead through out, and won gallantly by two boats' lengths. This is the third time within four years that the cup has been won by the University crew. The crew on the present occasion consisted of Messrs. A. K. Dawson (bow) ; Follett, 2 ; A. Gray, 3 ; F. C. Walsh (stroke) ; C. H Shebbeare (coxswain). TIIE WEATHER.--A sharp frost set in in this neigh bourhood on Sunday night last, after a long continuance of soft, damp, and most unhealthy weather. We trust that it will have a beneficial effect on the public health, and put an end to the ravages of typhus fever, which has prevailed for some time to a most alarming extent in all parts of the town.—Liverpool Paper. Sir Thomas Fremantle had an interview with Sir Robert Peel yesterday. THE CASE OF STABBING LIVERPOOL CAPTAIN. row* Yesterday a middle-aged man, named Samuel 13,,i a sailor, was brought up before Mr. Rushton, ellt e d with having, on the morning of th e 18th i ns t., stg l Captain Launcelot Reed, of the ship Sir Charles NsF while on her voyage from St. Andrew's to this r about 700 miles to the westward of Cape Clear. t d, It appeared from the evidence of the cook, ate ` pd and a gentleman of the name of Porter, a passenger' t o part owner, that between four and five o'clock °ll to morning in question, the capt a i n reques t e d Bro_..^ - t r haul in the mainsail during a squa ll. Th e p r ison° fusing to do it, an altercation ensued, whersupn ° ,r captain pushed him and was s t ruc k i n return . The a. a tam then caught hold of Brown to place him in e om 7sf ment, and was struck several ti mes , rece i v i n g no i serious injury, but, when they had got as far aft ss o si mainmast, he felt a sharp instrument pierce hi° 3 ' ci el called out, lam stabbed—l am killed." The i s being immediately aroused, he was conveyed to is cabin, when it was found that a d ee p woun d h a d nic) flicted on the lower part of the stomach, through II ghis bowels protruded, and t wo o th er woun d s , thoug t dangerous, on the left sid e . O n Wednesday 1$ vessel arrived in this port, an d a warrant was issu e d the apprehension of the pri s o ner . From the evidence of M r . D eane , surgeon , the t/ the captain appears to be in extreme danger. s stY On examining the clothes worn by the captsi,° o at* time the a ff ray took place, which were p ro d uc ed T oo ls eight distinct cuts were visible in the jacket, and the trousers. the ell' The case was remanded till to-day, to await 0 00 dence of the captain and one o f th e crew , who W watch at the time of the occurrence. „ or id The captain (who went out a s ma t e i n th e Sir L'los Napier) resides in Charter- s t ree t, an d f rom the P' — co o precarious situation in which he is now lying, it l o pit sidered necessary to take hi s t est i mony insten u oe • Mr. Rushton, accompanied by Mr. Ellis and Mr. 1,;011,1 proceeded to his residence for th e p ur p o se yes t yk# afternoon, when the statement o f th e ca pt a in los, ,ati in presence of the prisoner. Hi s ev id ence did no 0 materially from that given by the witnesses. The prisoner, on being shown th e k n if e , inol' A " , after being taken into custody, a d m itt e d th a t it heL : Ol to him, and at the captain' s exam i na ti on did no t any of the statements whi c h were th en made.---Li 4: Mercury of yesterday. - itt 1 1° A IMPORTANT CHANGE O F THE LAW WITU A- 6 1 ) 5 TO SEAMED.—A very important alteration 1 0' made in the law relative to merchant seamen, by sslsi of Parliament passed during the last session, 1131 0° 10 is just about to come i n t o operat i on. The pr'7o.lol compelling all merchant seamen to register the is carried into effect, because, after that date, n° s can carry to sea any seaman, without having 1; i 0v, ceived from him his register ticket, which is t ° he tamed by a seaman on application to the Ctist°lolo l of any port. The master must keep such ticket in his possessio n so l ong as t h e seaman '7. m ed,, service ; when the seaman leaves it must be res' o str„ him. The penalty of the master neglecting t ° .o_,„,r possession of the register ticket of each saa: eB ip carries to sea is 5L All masters are to take tm prentices to the Custom-house, and obtain 0 tr . , tickets for them, which th e masters are to keel34ooe possession until the expi ra ti on o f t h e apPreniegile The Act makes it a misdemeanour to alter a_„,s ticket, and provides th a t u p on t h e d eat h o f a se7t, 0", ticket must be returned t o th e C ustom -h ou se. o f o' , material alteration i s a l so ma d e i n t h e fort% u tides of agreement, whi c h, a ft er t h e Ist of1:A. must specify the quantity an d qua li ty o f prolla"„iicAl seaman is to receive per day ; and if, from of e stia.;s stances, the allowance is reduced, the seaman lajej to 4d. per day additional wages ; but if the e 7 5 0 .. 1; amounts to one-third, then the seaman is enti tl 7 1 0 per day additional during such reduction. ig e beyond the medicin es now requ i re d , i s to carrich sl.°l of lemon or lime juice, sugar a nd v i negar , Whi be served out to the seamen after they shall h s e rer) twelve days on salt provi s i ons , i n th e f o llowloic tions, namely—half an ounce of lemon or litne - J o olgi j o sugar per day, and half a pi n t o f v i negar Per parj, long as the use of salt previsions is continued.,, eO5O 201. for each default. Eve r y s hip carrying 10°fietSti besides those now re qu i re d b y t h e st h an d 6th fi ffy 107, is compelled to carry a surgeon. In eases °. p0 1 :1 if the seaman exerts himself to the utmost of m id) to save the ship, cargo, an d s t ores , h e i s to he,, i r e sl l ) wages, even though the ship h a d not previollaVoge, freight. Every mast er , b e f ore h e sa il s on a v°, l as ° when he returns home, is to deliver a list of his i foo the Custom-house of th e p or t h e sa il s from. /esc EXPECTED STRIKE OF THE COAL-Mnd i to ,o , rious circumstances, which have recently ol e knowledge, seem to indicate an intention on 1' 1 ,4 07 0 1. the Lancashire Colliers' Union to cause a ga lle fel ise ere long ; and we propose briefly to notice a., / a + connected with that agitation which is noW '"og triously fomented amongst the body of workin i a w ithd with the view of making the public acquainti; o fsrlt object of this intended strike. The reniarha 0 0r, of this agitation is the proposal by the co i f 01 , 110 their employers to force a rise in the price o lio p t i, contracting and diminishing the supply to L vr ith Ac ili and then to allow the coal miners to shamj ere, the profits which would resu lt f rom t hi s a rtifio7 ci d i r o t and consequent dearness o f an ar ti c l e w hich, is% son of the year, may be termed a prime I' n osesel life. It may be said th a t we are no t f a irlY r e c i t iol t , the views and objects of th e coa l m i ners ; erol.°l. have no intention e ith er t o i n d uce or , by a ger:ws to coerce the master s i n t o a genera l c ornbina' r /' avowed object of makin g an d k ee pi ng c oals c lesi chester Guardian. „ l ob $ . 4 10:1, CONFLICT WITH A W OLF .—A young,r or • Ducret, aged 19, living a t Chenevry ($s es with a farmer nam e d M aire , was a f ew days s l, h oe s s'S; ing manure over one of hi s mas t er ' s fields , th ot A appeared, and a confli c t t oo k pl ace betwee n „p s ear2o young man, with great pr esence o f mind, Pi, prongs of the pitchfork which he was ° s o th de sf,, whenever the animal sprang at him, it calu i e jo eali points of the instrument. The battle had b i t ase t it'. a quarter of an hour, when Ducret, findit o keP O O. l , ting weak while the hard skin of the wolf 0 4 most uninjured, thought of using the pitch to ° l og; club, and dealt his a ssa il an t suc h a blow 03040 d ink His master ran up at the mome nt, an of quickly dispatched. The P re f ec t, on het'? n n courage, sent him a present of 50E—Gail91 a go y • — • of BIRTHS. c On the 19th of November, the Countess dig"- G• CA ° se and heir. h On the 27th of November, the lady of t hter• Rector of Water Skatford, Bucks, of a daug re p dei lj re MARRIED. trePa llie DP On November 26, at the Church of ;Su pot) to and afterwards at the Hotel of the Brit ish Monsieur Jacques Edouard Lebey de B en ..Si r i l ., / 0° King. 0 . Oliv e ' to Pr On the 26th November, at Dibden, the r _o g . 000 0 00 Lambart, youngest son of the late Ear,. D o jo Elizabeth, second daughter of Captain IN illes' urch,pr down, near Southampton. ps , o Oh to t oe On the 28th of November, at St. Jam ,on, Browning Edwards, Esq., of Glyn-Afon, garet Anna, daughter of Captain Carpenter, Sunbury. ow London: Printed and Published ty DIU B noes, I d tir No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Vig Strand, in the Precinct the S W egol2,:h• Middlenzr *atarday, of 30. aret, esnua, uaugmer of kmpixtuiv..r unbury. J. IIP'• DIED. r. r y AO of , On the 22d of November, in London, b.-• - •' , Esq.; , Thompson, second daughter of R. F. Th0%1104 id" citor, of Oxford. , the e ' On the 23d of November, at Blackheath, "11 0/- tee daughter of the late J. Tennant, Esq ., of LiverP% e t, P i On the 24th of November, in Seymo ur- " JO lO square Ont, he Mrs. Mary Ann Bingley ife of O r ' • 27th of November, Charlotte, the l'i Of Henry Taylor. - , ____---";—, YOle:' 11' F ,--''''.--.'' I. 1.4.„ ~itt ~'. [ • ' \ C '\ ^; I,S Plai AL