The Sun. — London, England, 1844-01-13 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS IMOM TUE ,EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE. —W beirSir Robert Peel's evil genius prevailed over the Right Hon. Baronet's pro verbial caution, and induced him to consent to the prosecution of the repeal leaders, the arch fiend's triumph was complete. The Rubicon was passed. To recede was impossible; to go tbrward was fraught with fresh perils at every step ; while the end was yet more fear ful than the dangers of the way. From the hour that this ill-advised and impolitic course was determined on, one blunder has succeeded to another. Defects of . necessary forms have multipled to an extent beyond all precedent in any former State prosecution. The law officers of the Crown have acquired an unenviable cele brity for deficiency of caution, or a destitution of the requisite legal ability, unequalled in any who have been intrusted with the offices they hold. Ridicule, provoked by their self-created embarrassthents, Las subsided into scorn for the petty, paltry advantages by which they have sought to fetter the traversers preparing for their trial. This . feeling, natural to honourable m inds, has recently given place to indignation. The striking of the special jury panel, when every Roman Catholic was regarded as ipso facto disqualified because of his creed, has created not merely indignation, but alarm. The Government which directed the proceeding, and the functionaries who con sented to act upon its directions, have drawn upon them the indignation of the Catholics, who constitute the large majority of the Irish population, and of every liberal Protes taut in the country, while they have alarmed the apprehensions of their friends, lest. the pro• vocation thus supplied to the population should prove too powerfUl to be kept within the limits of legal restraint. Scarcely has the public mind recovered from the sensation produced by the stretch of prerogative to secure a partisan jury, than another " untoward event" for the Govern ment is discovered. An omission of sixty three names from the High Sheriff's list, from which the Special pathitl was struck, has been detected. The High Sheriff's list, nut being a faithful transcript of the juror's book as authenticated by the Recorder, by whom the spe cial jury list was revised, is manifestly fatal to the list, in the striking of which the law officers of the Government had succeeded it, obtainiog a • jury of oae creed. Titus they disqualified, at once, those whom the law has invested with the rights •of citizens. Oa the pending trill between the Crown and time repeal leaders, it was essential, no less for the ends of justice than for : the satisfaction of time country, .that ! Catholics and Protestants should, at least in a ti.tir proportion, have beet, inmpanelled to try the issues. The organ of the Irish Government i (the Dublin Packet), in endeavouring to justify time course taken by the Government. asserted that the eleven Roman Catholics expunged from 1 the list were Repeaters. This is shown to he po sitively untrue by a reference to time expunged mottoes. Thus the desperate defence set up for the I Government in its extremity is demolished ; and the proceeding in all time hideous chsrac- ' teristies of its manifest unfairness to the ac cused, stands forth without even the sem— blance of an excuse ! The Dublin Monitor gives an explanation of the mysterious omis sion of the six,ty-three names from the list of jurors, in an article which we quote at length in another column. It is stated that the majority of the omitted names are those of Catholics--a circumstance that renders it- the more essential to the impartial administration of iustice that the panel should be set aside, and a new jury be struck. The difficulty thus suddenly created on time very threshold of the trial, has, we scarcely need say, occa sioned dire confusion amongst the law officers of the Government. In anticipation of, and to provide for, the delay that will be caused by the applications which will be made to the Court on behalf of the traversers ; the lengthened argu ments which will arise; and the probable decision of the Court against the validity of the jury list, the Crown solicitor has served a notice! on the solicitors for the traversers, of the inten tion of the Attorney-General to " move the Court to-morrow (Thursday) or as soon after as possible, that should the trials not have ter minated on the 31st instant, each succeeding day, up to the 13th of April, shall be considered as part of Hilary Term, for time purposes of the said trials." The Cabinet Council summoned for yesterday (the second during this week) is sup posed to have had reference to this new " diffi culty" in Ireland. We venture to predict that the prosecution will be abandoned. It' Sir Robert Peel be not positively demented, he will avail himself of this new blunder to extricate himself from a , position which every day becomes more embarrassing to his Government, and more pe rilous to the country. STANDARD:— W e are accustomed to look to the /Wasik] Chronicle for instruction, as well as for the amusement which clever reasoning and clear writing are sure to afford. The instruction is, however, of a description somewhat narrow, and, if we may say so, professional. When our Contemporary's " leaders" are short, we are apprised that there is something plau sible to be answered, but when they ex tend to a very great length, we are pretty confident that - the day furnishes nothing that ca n be worked up into a decent case. With the Morning Chronicle, as with the rest of the world, rigmarole, as it is disrespectfully called, is the resource when facts and reasoning cannot be had. The Mornay Chronicle has to-clay a very long leading, article. The reader is aware of the infe rence. The purpose of this long article, as far as we can detect a purpose in it, is to show that the empire is suffering very grievously by reason of a suggested discrepancy between the decla rations and the acts of time present Government. Now we must deny both assertions; we deny that the empiresin integro, suffers anything • maintain ing on the other hand that, as a whole, the em pire holds a higher and happier position titan it ever held, certainly than it has held at any time the last 14 years. No less positively do we deny that t here has been any discrepancy whatever, between the declarationsand the acts of the pre smen t Government. We have spoken too lately of time actual state of the empire to allow a recapitula tion of all the advantages which it has obtained within the last three years to be necessary. Peace • conquered, and contirmed—territory profitably 'enlarged—commerce restored and boundless fieldsopened to commercial enterprise—the value of the public securities enhanced 10 per cent.— a • cadly deficient revenue replaced by a rich isurplus contribution to time Exchequer— the -rebellion, nursed up, in Ireland, by tetra years fof Whig-Radical fondling, broken in spirit and in strength, if not utterly subdued; and its mon titer meeting's dissipated by the wind of a con stitutional . cominoo law prosecution. And all this good ()fleeted without expedients and without iquackery..' Here surely there are no symptoms ()I grievous suffering to the whole empire—we say to the• whole empire, for time sufiering of the whole empire, through all its departments and classes, is time subject of the Chronicle's complaint. But general prosperity may no doubt be consistent with the suffering of particular classes, and may be even - connected with that t-uffering, and we see that to some extent this is the case with the British empire. In the case of- -manufacturea, more particularly, great prosperity is frequently time effect as well as the cause of . much suffering to the working classes; the effect, because, in the competition of the world, it must imply low wages ; the cause, inasmuch as it tends to bring touch money into the hands of . a few men, vho are 'the very men naturally disposed to make 'money the substitute for labour, and thus further to depress the rate of wages and to depress s it permattently. It is not, however, of tvt excess• of manufacturing activity that the Morning Chronicle complains, •and this, indeed, is the very last thing of which our Con vorary wosid -complain. The distress of time working Classes is, however, the only ex ception to the general prosperity of the umpire, and that we trust to . see soon remedied. The second- point „up on . ith time Moeuhtg we are at issue discrepancy between the declarations is time suggested ,s it i h nist d er e ,, clar h a . tions and time sets of the Present a negative,tere, front the impossibility Of proving%ev emttus t chal- Vnge time positive testimony, and v challenge it confidently, that no such alleged discrepancy te produced. 4 will not be sufficient totcaakn qualified proposition, strip it of the qualifyinge words, and .then call it a declaration. This,ve. Is low, is the manner in which the Opposition journals have endeavoured to establish the charge of inconsistency between declarations and, a-ts brought by the Morning Chronicle. But Length _such ingenious devices may be well t tough for newspaper war, no men are s soh fools a , to follow so gross a fallacy in the conduct of t meir affairs, and that in fact few have been a fisted by fallacies of the kind is pretty clear' fsom time general prosperity which it has - beeli' our pleasant. duty to describe. If alma' . haire teen such fools •as to surrender themselves to ts delusion, let them not blame times Gos ern 31.ent, Which has spoken distinctly 'eth,a guard e ily, but the dishonest journals that have Tr4isrepresented the Government. If' we were not afraid of falling under the suspicion which e have acknowledged to attach to all long articles, we should add a third issue with the .iforning , .Chronicle, in. the shape of a ques- ~.~i'#i a • . THE SUN, LONDON, .SATURDAY E‘ ENING, .TANUAR' tion whether it was by the perfect cur respondence between the declarations and the acts of the late Ministers they brought the empire into that happy condition in which Sir Robert Peel found it upon receiv ing the administration of public affairs—a prepared rebellion in Ireland—quarrels in the four quarters of the globe—depreciated funds—ruined trade—a deficien t and still declining revenue? This would be a wide discussion, and therefore we mere ly ask the Morning Chronicle to reconcile all the declarations of Lord Melbourne and Lord John Russel with their acts, in reference to these subjects only —Parliamentary reform, the corn -laws, and the degree of favour due to Mr. Daniel O'Connell. We seem to ourselves to remember rather gross discrepancies between the declara tions and acts of the two Noble Lords upon the questions named. PitICES OF SHARES N CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE .*ND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CIIANCERY, Jan.. 12. The Lord Chanceliar heard cause and lunatic petitions o-day, but no case of any interest camp before his Lord ;hip previous to the rising of the Court. LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. U. VICE-CHANCERY COURT, Jan. 1'). Unopposed petitions and short causes occupied his onour the Vice-Chancellor of England the whole Dividend per Names of Com panies. Amount of raid. Price, Share. Annum. 5i per cent. 41. Canals. Ashton and Oldham Ashby-de-la-Zouch..av Basingstoke Brecknock & Abergay Birmingham, 1-16th sh Do. and Livcrp. June Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry Crom ford Dudley Derby. Danube and Mayne Ellesmere and Chester Erewash ............ Forth And Clyde Grand Junction Grand Union Grand Surrey Grand Western Glamorgansh., ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham aluddersfle:d ...... ....av Kennet and Avon ...ay Lancaster av Leeds and Liverpool... Leicester Leicester & Northamp. 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He concluded by strongly condemning the ! defendant to go on . a trading voyage to the western coast• of fetched out a dark blue cloak, with a hark bar on it system pursued at the Model Prison. Africa. Whilst at anchor off the coast, Captain Murray being Here the officer preducel a la. k cress !tercet: clunk.) I After considerable discussion the Clerk of the Peace at the time on shore, the crew contrived to get at some spirits, went into Mary', reel's, but there was no of the was directed to address a letter to the Right Hon. the Se- and they all became intoxicated. Complainant partook of kind there. some of the spirits, but had no part in procuring them ;. tahteedre Mr. Dorey—l hail no idee about the cloak at all. I cretary of State for the Honle Department, acknowledg ing the receipt of the letter, recommending a peculiar , This were several l Kdrooomean Saturday board, i bh..thtthelowderwehneoht intoxicated, captain , went into the room and brought it out—that's all. dietary for the prisoners, and to inform him that the Ma-Daniel Forrester—The cloak in Mary's room was net gistrates, after full consideration, ' had been induced not . came on a t p o e a n rd e next day ' h t e u o r r ( d a e Y re n ehhe men to work. but being . :at all like this. I produced this to Mrs. and Miss Sunday they refused. Complainant being one of those w Ito Neville, and they said it was the description of cloak to adopt the diet recommended by him, and to enclose to ' refused, the captain ordered him forward to the forecastle for him the Report onwhich they had come to the conclusion. the pu r p ose o f d e li ver i ng him up t o th e n atives, some of whom a 'licit was worn by tno lady who took the lodging fur On the motion of Mr. Amyot, seconded by Mr.. were on board. Not wishing to be put into the hands and Miea Slats. Walesby, the following resolution was carried by a majo- placed at the disposal of a naked and barbarous people, he re- Mr. Clarkson—Was that all that passed upon that city of 11 to 7 :—" That the salary of the Rev. George fused to submit. A signal was then passed ashore, upon which occasion? Daniel Forrester —lt was• Henry Hine, the Chaplain of Westminster Bridewell, be a party of the natives armed with guns and cutlasses came on I Mr. Clarkson—Tell us now as distinctly what occurred increased from 3651. to 4 0 01, a ear to commence from board, and complainant was given into their custody , and h r after afterwards. -y , some time he was taken 20 miles up the country , where e e- 9 1th June, 1843 ; and, iu consideration of his increased Daniel Forrester—After I had taken the prisoner to mained seven months, and never saw the face of a white man re duties, the very satisfactory manner in which he has uni- the Mansion-house, and disposed of her securely, I during the time, except that once before being taken up the fortnly discharged them, his many valuable services. and country he saw Captain Murray. On that occasion he remon- turned to the house of Mr. Dorey, for the purpose ,of his length of service, that he be allowed a gratuity of 1051." strated on the cruelty of beieg left behind amongst a barbarous making a search. I accompanied Mr. Weare, and I Several other motions connected with the business of people, but the capta n took no heed of his entreaties. Com-. found this seal in a box. which lay open in the prisoner's the county were then adopted, after which the usual re- i plainant ultimately got back in another vessel to Liverpool , and room, and which box Mr. Dorey said was his. Ido not ports of the Governor cc the Westminster Bridewell, the reason why this charge had not been made before was that i know whether Mr.Wcare or I picked it up. I have had and the journals of the surgeon and chaplain of the he had not fallen in with the captain until lately. it in my possession ever since. same establishment, were laid before the Court for in- Captain Murray, in his defence, said that when he got on Mr. Clarkson here stated that the seal which repre board on the Sunday he fund everything in . a state of the ut spection, when the Sessions was ordered to stand ad- seated a small hand, with the fingers held upward. most confusion and all the men swearing riotously. He then • iourned, exactly fitted the imp! t. ssion made upon the wax with. learned that they had broached some spirit casks, and taken • which the will of Eliza Burchard was sealed. more than two detailectalarrati g ve all from which he would hahvons. The defendant ten e it a nt ea r d that the into a The Loan MAYOR compared the impression with the , p crew were in a state of mutiny. When he wante p d to search seal, and proved that they precisely corresponded. their chests to discover the spirits, the complainant and others The Loan MAYOR asked whether the prisoner had any swore that they would not suffer him. Things rose to such a legal adviser to conduct her case ? The prisoner said in height that he fired two guns, upon which the native king sent a vary faint voice that she expected an attorney to at down some of his people, and complainant, who was most riot- tend for her, but she apprehended he was in the country. Ow, and encouraged the others, was put ashore, whilst another The LORD MAYOR--I wish you to have every legal of the ringleaders was put in irons. assistance you may consider necessary, and I shall, if Evidence of the facts complained of was then given, and you wish it, at once adjourn this examination, to give Mr. BALLANTINE called on the defendant to put in bail, him. opportunity of procuring the aid of professional self in 801. and two sureties in 40/. each, to answer the charge Y" an at the Old Bailey. men. Mr. Pelham appeared on behalf of the Lascars on board the Mr. Clarkson • slid he had no desire at all to proceed Thames, to whose alleged pitiable condition public attention without giving the prisoner every possible means of de has been directed, in consequence of inquests held upon two fending herself under circumstances of so serious a of the men, whose death was supposed to be the result of character. neglect. Mr. Disney said he had employed a professional man, Sit'. Pelham stated that the persons for whom he appeared and was surprised that he was not in attendance. were 73 in number, belonging to an old Incliaman called the Mr. Clarkson--I think it is better, my Lord, as we Thames, which, for the last two months, had been in the port have the two females here at whose house Emma Slack, of London. The vessel belonged to Mr. Green, of Bristol, as she was called, lodged, to let the prisoner know all and the men hail been hired, at Calcutta, by one of their own they haute ve . her. countrymen, ev n to say against countrymen, who was answerable, at the hazard of his life or s ,e a The Loan Meerox—Very well. Perhaps it is the perpetual loss of liberty, for seeing that they were paid, as well as for protecting them against any ill-usage. He was in- better way. Does the prisoner or her husband wish to structed to say that they had been so badly treated during the ask Forrester any questions? They both replied fa the voyage, that she original serang ran away at the Isle of France, negative. after having lodged a complaint in one of the Courts there Mr. Clarkson—l shall now call Miss Neville. against the captain, named Baker, who was fined in a sum of Martha Ann Neville—l live with my mother, at No -2,000 rupees, and this fine was attempted to be pot up as a set- 7, Francis-street, Tottenham-court-road. My father is off against the claims of these poor Lascars for wages due to a tailor. In the month of March last year, a person them. When the serang ran away, the duty devolved on the came to lodge sit our hence, callin • herself Emma g Slack. tindal, or mate, named Kadder Brix, who was anxious to look Before - he came a person came to take the lodging after and protect his countrymen. After the late inquest some t• s fur her. humane persons called oa him (Mr. Pelham) to retain him on behalf of these poor Lascars, and he understood that their Mr. Clarkson—Lock at the rccueed. Do you believe chief complaint arose out of the want of a sufficiency of proper her to be the person? Witness—To the best of my be food. They were in a starving condition in addition, -to the in- lief she is. I believe her to be the person. juries they had received, and by which some of them had been Mr. Clerksee—When did she cad at your house? d e prived of the use of their limbs. They were about now to Witness—About twelve or one o'clock on Friday, the b e sent back to their own country in a ship called the Sophia, 10th of Match lost yea:, I think. which was to sail the next day, but they were unwilling to Mr. Clarkson—Tell us exactly what she said. leave without receiving their wages, which collectively Witness—She said she wanted a lodging fora lady amounted to a sum of 263/. 18s. Mr. BALLANTINE said he had nothing to do with the goes- who was cumin.. s cumin.. out of the country on law business. lion of wages. She said the lady could not give any reference, as she Mr. Pelham said, that what the parties now complained of was front the country, but she %soukd pay n w-ck in Ati was, that they were subjected to the tyranny of the master, vancis. She then event .sway, seiyiiig, that. she would let w ho was a cruel, uneducated man, denying them the absolute to , know in two hours les toted two hours for tier, out necessaries of life ; insomuch that they had even gone that she did not come until I was gone out. She had upon very morning without any breakfast. her a dark blue tind dark check cloak, and wore a black Mr. BALLANTINE directed Inspector Maddox, o f th e Thames boniest and a feather in it. From what I recollect, it: police, to inquire into the matter, and to ascertain if there was wan that kind ~ f cloak ( • •1 kwhich. pointing to the c in any foundation for the complaints. Forrester produced). It was a wocllen cloak— that kind Shortly after the departure of the inspector, Mr Barker, 0, cloakas to materiel and shape. broker to the Thames, presented himself before the Magistrate, ~,C i . • and stated he understood that a number of black men had been '''' r.arksiiii— You remember having been taken to making complaints as to food and wages. The fact was, that the house of Mi . Derey, in Oxford-street? Witness—l de. ;11 r. Clue son—Let us ikilOW w h a t o cc urr e d there?-- - they hail received more pay than they were entitled to, as they had done no work since they castle into the Down s, and it haa It was siaranged that I should have an opportunity of cost 701. to bring the vessel up. They were the greatest ras- s. eing the lady, and I went in and saw her accordingly , cals imaginab'e—had stolen everything thee could lay their an ; the inamem I SA:. her I thought she was time same hands on in the vessel, and would steal the ship itself if it were he I:, t iiii, had takei, the insigines fur Mies Slack. I said portable. ~,, eee lee peie•ie. v siiiii ". isi y ou r p ar e." Inspector Maddox returned a little before five o'clock, having m r. chti.),o,l___l)id yanr mother then come in and see carefully investigated the whole case. He found that the men the prisoner ? Witneee—She did. Mr. Weans the were allowed two whole sheep per week to last for three days, fli •the prisoner, D ' If o Ler, my mother, stile, orey, and myse a and to be cooked in their own fashion. For the other four then went up stairs, and I heard the prisoner speak days they were allowed fresh and salt fish. In addition to this they had four sacks of rice, weighing 1651 b., with a like amount several times in answer to Mr. Wears, and I was rather . of some other sort of pulse, with potatoes, greens, turnips, and strengthened than weakened in my belief, upon hearing other vegetables, and on the whole they appeared to be very her speak, that she was the person who took the lodgings well fed. Their great anxiety seemed to be to possess them- Mr. Clarkson—Did the same person who took the selves of the money which they said was due to them, but which lodgings for Miss Slack afterwards call to see Miss if they got there would be no likelihood of their leaving by the Slack ? Witness—She did. She came to see her two Sophia. or three times a week. Sometimes she used to come in a shawl. She used to come at seven or eight o'clock in the evening. The cloak she was in the habit of wearing wee very like that produced by the officer. Mr. Clarkson—How long did the lodger stay with you? Witness—Three weeks or a month and an odd day. Mr. Clarkson -By what name did she go ? Witness -- ' She went by the name of Miss Slack. Mr. Clarkson—For whom did the lady who took the lodging inquire when she called ? Witness—For Miss y Slack, and she used to walk in. - Mr. Clarkson—Who else visited Miss Slack ? Wit" ness—A dark gentleman used to call upon her. Sh e said that he was her lawyer. Dlr. Clarkson—llow often had he to call upon her ? Witness—He called once or twice a week. Mr. Clarkson—Do you think you would know taw ? Witness—l do not know whether I should know him or not. Mr. Clarkson—Did the lady who took the lodging remain long with Miss Slack on her visits ? Witness--• She remained but a very little time when she called , an d ` they used both to go out together, and stay out an hour or two. Miss Slack always came back alone. Mr. Clarkson—Do you recollect ever having seen A Sir. Sanders there ? Witnese—l do not. The person who called on her was a dark gentleman. I never h eard his name. Sir. Clarkson—You were not at home when the lA ging was taken? Witness—l was not ;my mother WO' Mr. Clarkson then called the mother of the last witness. Martha Neville said—On the day the last witness Men' Lions, at about four o'clock, when my daughter was 0 ... .,_ 1it ' is lady called and said she had been inquiring about ' and she was perfectly satisfied, arid should take the roon l- ' To the best of my belief the prisoner is the person. She then took a back parlour and a r ea m en th e seco nd fin t ' back for Miss Slack, who. s h e sa id, h a d come to town ''''„ ' law business. She said the lady might s tay a week . i °•,- two, or two or three months, aaeoteling to the law h u- i ness she might h ave t o transact. Sh e sa id s he wn a * t bring 'hiss Slick in the evening, and that she would not give a reference as the lady was from the country. n u o f she would p a y 10 s . a wee k . I hail not presence .. mind enou g h to as k is here she lived. A very few In_it nutes pas se d i n cense r s a ti oli , an d the prisoner we ', away. She returned sibieit eight or iiirei o'clock i n i cab with th e person she sal 1 was Miss Slack who he' ohe box with her. They went into the back parlour, and t f , prison e r soon a f ter i e f t h er . I opened the door soo" of terwards for this prisoner. but it a as always in the d a 0 She used to say " Miss Slack," and she used to pop i ll quick as lightning. ,oe Mr. Clarkson—Did she pass in au quickly that .7i o could not 5 , .e her distinctly ? Witness—l was i l of habit of helpin:: mv husbstid in his business, a nd • attention was net particularly attracted to the visitor. rio Mr. Clark.sen —Sta.e what you Saw on going t° house in Oxford-street, „ ho use Witness--I recollect being s• nt ,..,f0r to go toe. t he in Oxfurd- etreete I :;11.1, rite prisoner 111 vre. 1 5 c,...' t he 1 o'st of 111 . y ! - .)eliet• the priA,;tl, , r iii the p erso n w ho toes. the kedging from Miss Slack. When first I saw her in its' shop I did not recognise her, but when I went UP scathe and heard her speak, and observed her, I said, to the hest. of toy km) A1, , ,1gy. ahe seas the person who took, 'e lidging. She said th , lady who says I took the Joi lbo will say it "at her peril." I said lam the pereon said so. 'dli Mr. Clarkson said that, having produced the erlo c of witnesses to the identity of the accused, he shour, 00 upon the Lord Mayor to remand her until the i. $1 ,0 6 which Barber and Fletcher, whose accomplice s isn „ for charged with having been, were to be brought tl r examination. id be The LORD MAYOR said that every facility sh °lj , afforded to the accused to prepare her defence. a bsea The prisoner—Shall I be allowed to see my W I " as well as my lawyer ? th 1 The LORD MAYOR—Certainly. I distinctly to ld 1 ° .00 r when I saw you on Wednesday night, to prepare?toiti o self with a legal adviser. You will have a full opp o of doing so, and I repeat my advice to you. We eic ' The prisoner was then remanded till Monday „ t ee when a vast body of evidence will, it is expected, h e bese duced against the three individuals charged with extraordinary offences. In POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) GUILDHALL. _ Yesterday William Arscumb, a gardener, lodging in Daubeny-place, Pentonville ; Frances, his wife, and Henry, hit sun, were re-examined before Aldermen Johnson and Gibbs, charged with receiving a large quantity of Chusan and other dresses, the property of Messrs. Price and Partridge, of Cheapside, calico and woollen printers. The MAGISTRATES having consulted together, agreed to admit the husband to bail ; but as further material evidence was to be produced, which might implicate all the prisoners, the Aldermen could not discharge either of them now. The prisoners were remanded till Thursday. BO W-STREET. An interesting-looking young woman, named Eliza Austin, was brought before Mr. Jardine, charged with attempting to commit suicide by throwing herself from Waterloo-bridge. It appeared that on the morning of the 4th inst. the prisoner was observed to mount one of the recesses of the bridge, and precipitate herself into the water. An alarm was given, and one of the Thames police went to her rescue, and she was taken out of the water. She was taken to the floating station-house, and there she said she had attempted to destroy herself in consequence of distress. She was conveyed to King's College Hospital, where she remained until she was brought to this pffice. Her sister stated that she believed the prisoner was out of her mind. About a fortnight ago she had at tempted to destroy herself by poison. She was in a good situation in the west end of the town, and was not driven to the commission of the act with which she was charged by distress. The witness lived with her father, who was very badly off, and who had eleven children. They had no home to take the prisoner to. Mr. JARDINE, after questioning the prisoner, said she was evidently not in a fit state to be allowed to go at large, and he should send her to the authories of the Strand Union, who would take care of her. 'WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday six dejected and miserable-looking men, named Joseph Corbel, Smith, William Hinde, James Booth, William Carrington, and John Hantswell, were charged before Mr. Bingham, by William Horsford, one of the officers of the Mendicity Society, with mendicancy. ihrsford, while passing through Bunhill-row, at eleven o'clock, met the six prisoners, four of wham (Hinde, Carring ton, Booth, and Hantswell) were in a body in the middle of the road, singing a loud and doleful song, made up for the oc casion, on the subject of their diiresses, while Corbet and Smith were on either foot payment, following and begging of the passengers in the most importunate and obstinate manner. The prisoner Corbet, who had been a soldier, but discharged for misconduct, was an old and incorrigible offender, anti he had taken him into custody only a short time ago under the same circumstances. Booth and Hantswell stated that they were machinists lay trade, and natives of Stockport, where they had endeavoured to get employment in any branch of :heir business they could, but without success. They at last resolved to come to the metropolis, where they had been only six days ; but the same bad fortune attending them here, they had been induced by Corbet to join him and the others, in the hope o f o b ta i n i ng enough money for their shares to carry them back to their native place. They assured the magistrate, in a very earnest ' and apparently truthful manner, that they were not habitual beggars, that this was the first time they had ever asked for alms, and that they did not know they were offending by so UNION-HALL. Yesterday George Gardner was brought before Mr. Cot ingham, charged with stealing a cash-box, containing 271., ;he property of Mr. Ohler, a baker, at Kennington. The prisoner having a near relation in the complainant's employ went to see him on the 11th of November, and during his visit contrived to obtain possession of the cash-box, con taining the before-mentioned sum of money. He then started for Birmingham, where he remained for some time, and then returned to London, when he wa s t a k en i n t o c ustody.—The prisoner was committed. doing. Smith, Hinde, and Carrington said that they were mechanics, but out of employment, which of no description could they obtain anywhere. They all had wives and children, who were in a state of absolute starvation, and it was not until they had pawned and sold every article that would fetch a penny that they had adopted this course. They each told a tale of con summate misery and wretchedness, and implored the magis tate to do something for them. Mr. BINGHAM asked if they had applied to their parishes for relief ? They all, except Corbet, replied in the negative, and said they would sooner perish than expose themselves to the rebuffs and contempt of strange overseers to whom they would be obliged to apply. Mr. BINGHAM said that from the appearance and manner of the poor men, he was much disposed to believe that they were in the state of extreme wretchedness and distress they repre sented themselves to be in ; but in exact proportion to their distress and want was their right and title to relief from the parishes to which they belonged ; and if, upon a proper appli cation to their overseers, relief was refused to them, they had only to apply to himself or any other, the nearest magistrate, and that magistrate would compel the parish officers to perform their duty. As to Corbet, it had been proved that he was an old and practised beggar, and, as an example to others of his class, he should commit him to the House of Correction, with hard labour, for a month. Booth and Hantswell he should dis charge, that they might return to their native place imme diately, which he trusted they would do ; but Smith, Hinde, and Carrington he should remand for another examination, that inquiries might be made into the truth of their state ments, when, if they should be found to be correct, he would see what could be done for them. Directions were then given to the officers to make these in quiries, and report the result to the magistrate. LA MBE TH- S 7 BEET. After the ordinary business of the court had terminated on Thursday evening, Nehemiah Shakspeare, late an engineer in the employment of Mr. R. Johnson, cigar manufacturer, at No. 35, Gloucester• street, Commercial-road-east, surrendered to his bail, and appeared before Mr. Norton for final examina tion on a charge of having wilfully and maliciously caused the explosion of a steam-boiler, by which the lives of upwards of seventy individuals were placed in jeopardy. Mr. Duncombe, the solicitor, attended on behalf of the prisoner. It will be recol!ected that Mr. Johnston's suspicion as to the guilt of the accused rested upon the fact of his finding, on en tering the engine-room on the morning of the explosion, at eight o'clock, all the appearances to indicate that there was an abundant supply of water in the boiler, and the prisoner him self, in a conversation at that time, admitted that the pump worked so well that it more than sufficiently supplied the boiler without any other source. There were other circumstances which strengthened the suspicion, and those were, that imme diately after the explosion Mr. Johnston observed the prisoner smiling, even after he had said to him, " Well, Shakspeare, you have done a pretty thing ;" and believing he was so smiling, said to a friend who was with him, " See, the villain smiles," and though his master had then said he would give him into custody be left the yard under pretence of going for his jacket, and did not return before the Thursday morning, when he was given into custody. It will also be recollected, that on the last examination Mr. Fennell, an engineer, and Mr. Marshall, the maker of the boiler in question, swore positively that it was their decided opinion that the explosion took place solely from want of water. Mr. Johnston, the complainant, was cress-examined at very considerable length by the prisoner's solicitor. He said that between three and four months ago he purchased the boiler in question from Mr. J. Marshall, of Colchester-street, White chapel, and paid him 451. for it. He did not think at the time that it was new, and thought he got a great bargain. He did not know whether the boiler had been used before, or who used it, nor did he know the person who had set it. It was set by a person who was recommended to him by the foreman of the engineer who fitted up the engine, and the fitting up took place under the prisoner's personal observa tion. There was a collapse of the upperpart of the flue before the prisoner took charge of the boiler, but not to any extent, as it did not exceed the size of his hand. This was occa• sioned, no doubt, by want of water, but it did not seriously injure the boiler. Believed the plate, or substance of the boiler, as well as that part of the flue that gava way, to be three-eighths of an inch in thickness, and it was warranted to him to bear 501 b. weight of steam to the square inch. Had neither a steam nor water-gauge to the engine. Duyght, who was in the employment of Mr. Johnston, and used to drive the engine before the prisoner was engaged, admitted that the pumps which supplied the boiler with water had been frequently out of order, and that the prisoner and himself used to set them to right. He admitted that they had done so two or three times within a month. Williams, another servant of Mr. Johnston, in his cross eeamination, said that on the morning in question the engine was stopped twice, to repair the strap of a roller in the saw room. On the first occasion it was set to work, but had not taken many strokes when he (witness) saw his strap giving way, and called out to the prisoner to stop it, which he did, and in ten minutes after the explosion took place. Mr. NORTON—Then, was the engine stopped when the ex plosion took place ? Witness—Yes, Sir, it was ; I'm sure of that. Mr. Johnston—And it is still more extraordinary, if this be true, and I have now heard it for the first time, that four of the flanges of the fly-wheel, which were of great strength, and which were quite out of the reach of the boiler, should have been broken to pieces. Mr. Marshall, in his cross-examination, said he bad sold the boiler to Mr. Johnston four months ago, for 45/. It had been made by him about four years ago, as an experimental boiler, but had not been tried. He considered the boiler sold by him to Mr. Johnston a perfectly safe one with care, and attributed the occurrence solely to a want of water ; and added, it was self-evident it was so. This was the whole of the evidence in support of the charge. Mr. Duncombe called Mr. Cater, a boiler-maker of the South wark-bridge-road, who deposed that the boiler in question was such as should not have been put up o r considered safe ; on the contrary, it was highly dangerous for such a purpose. The witness, in reply to Mr. Norton, admitted that the im mediate cause of the explosion was the want of water. Mr. Bruton, of the firm of Bruton and Sons, John-street, Blackfriars, engineers, said he had examined the boiler in question, and considered it unfit for the purpose for which it had been used. In his opinion it was a " doomed" boiler, and its destruction with a pressure of steam was inevitable some time or other. In fact, he should pronounce it highly dangerous. Mr. Manwaring, of York-street, York-road, corroborated a great part of Mr. Burton's evidence, and said, that the sub stance of the tube in the boiler was not more than a quarter of an inch thick. Mr. NORTON observed, that with regard to the criminal charge against the prisoner he would at once get rid of it, as he did not think that any jury would find him guilty of it, and with respect to the negligence the witnesses called had re. mo y ved that charee also from his mind. In conclusion he could onl say, that it 'afforded him pleasure to acquit the accused of the charge. THE ALLEGED WILL FORGERIES AND TRANSFER FRAUDS. On Wednesday night Daniel Forrester, the officer, apprehenderl Mrs. Georgiana Dorey, the wife of a shop. keeper, who carries on business in Oxford-street, upon a warrant granted by the Lord Mayor, on the charge of having been concerned in the fraud alleged to have been practised in the case of Anne Slack. The prisoner was conveyed to the Compter after an examination had taken place at the Mansion-house at a late hour. Yesterday the prisoner was brought up to be formally examined as to her personal identity, previously to the day being appointed for the hearing of further evidence against Barber end Fletcher, when she will be placed at the bar sOth those individuals, and the whole of the transactions will be gone into in the most complete manner. Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Charles Freshfield at tended for the prosecution. There was no professional man in attendance for the prisoner, who appeared to be excessively dejected. Her husband stood next to the chair on which she was seated during the period of the examination, and evidently underwent a great deal of mental pain. The prisoner, who seemed to be about forty years of age, has a remarkably intelligent counte nance. She listened in silence to the evidence. Mr. Cotten the overnor, and Mr. Heath, the Deputy- Governor of the Bank of England were amongst the gentlemen who were present during the proceedings. Mr. Clarkson stated that he wee unexpectedly called upon to appear before his Lordship in consequence of a fresh result of the inquiries which had been, and were being made, in every direction, with the view to bring all the,parties who were engaged in the transactions he had already described as regarded Barber and Fletcher, to a condition of responsibility. In the coarse of the inquiries made by the offieers, who were so well known for skill and vigilance, it was ascertained that a female who had resided in Bristol. and was supposed to be con cerned in the transactions alluded to in a "very essen tial manner, was residing at No. 45, Oxford-street, with her husband, Mr. Dorey, who kept a linen-draper's shop, and Daniel Forrester went thither, provided with two witnesses, who, upon seeing the prisoner in the shop, identified her as the person who had hired the lodging at No. 7, Francis-street, rottenhans-court-road, fur the Emma Slack who was represented in the alleged will of Anne Slack, as the executrix and sole legatee of that lady. The prisoner used some words of indignant denial and menace upon hearing the accusation, but the witnesses were the more confirmed in the opinion thee formed as to her identity when they heard her speak, and saw her more closely. Forrester accordingly took her into custody, and, subsequently, additional matters came out, which gave still greater strength to the belief that she was not only one of those wile li e d accom plished the fraud in the case of Sleek, but raised a very strong suspicion that site had also lent a hand in the affair of the will of Eliza Burchard, the last case which had been brought before his Lordship. The vigi lant officer, after having deposited his prisoner in the Compter, went to Mr. Dorey 's house, supposing that he might, in searching amongst the prisoner's property, find something calculated to throw additional light upon the subject of the frauds. Mr. Dorey, it was proper to observe, gave every possible facility to the officer, who found, in a box in the prisoner's room, a small seal, the production of which would be a most important feature in the investigation. The prisoner was the sister of a female who was married to a Mr. Sanders, who for merly resided at Bristol, but who had, together with his wife, withdrawn to some place to which they had not, as yet, been traced. There was ground for sup posing that the parties who had thus disappeared from the time that publicity was given to these .proceedings, were implicated in no slight degree in the business to which so much public interest had been attracted. Daniel Forrester was then sworn—He said, in conse quence of information which I received, I applied for a warrant on Wednesday last against the prisoner, and I accompanied Mr. Weare, a gentleman in Mr. Freshfield's office, to Oxford-street, in which street , M r. Dore y , the prisoner's husband, resides. Mrs. Neville, and her daughter, Miss Neville, who reside at No. 7, Francis street, Tottenham-court-road, were in a cab in the neighbourhood of the house, and by an arrangement which was made, Miss Neville went in and su c ceeded i n seeing the lady of the house on the pretence of purchasing some black silk. - Miss Neville intimated to me that the prisoner was the person who took lodgings in their house for Miss Slack. I then told the prisoner that she was charged with being the person who took lodgings for E n ema Slack, or Miss Slack. She did not deny it at first, but she said, " At your peril say so." Mrs. Neville then came into the shop, and saw the prisoner. I did not exactly hear what she said at first, but afterwards she said she was convinced the prisoner was the person who took the lodgings. I said I was obliged to take her into custody. Afterwards, Mr. Dorey came in to the shop, but the matter was not explained to him for some time. He evidently understood nothing a b out it , an d h e at rh, did the then o V ti no, shotethaixekorisaidi she prisoner,she. ga,De, can idatpToi otr, rhlni prisoner, y d oitla ,:ne o h:daf, for araoennr says td, ladyas y tyio : t ) sme. ; ahanatals l dti imnr: remained nkte d itner) e stni n i soeeoa, and j.k a dni:nis The silent, Dpasb said onruoimdtsr prisoner nyi o : oesek u ile. le s pdkd p , t n d g e n p g l a s I sh t e ho re u p g l h ie t d y , o , u , s w i t: , u l ld w l o la u v ld e rather you vs ould explain to him ;" and I then told him that Mrs. Dorey was charged with having taken a lodging for Miss Slack in Francis -street, Tottenham-court-road. After some further conversation we went up stairs, and Mr. Weare put several questions to the prisoner, and asked her whether she had any objection, to write. Mrs. and Miss Neville were thus enabled to hear her speak a good deal, and they declared that they were convinced she was the person they had described her to be. I communicated to Mrs. Dorey that it was my duty to take her before the Lord Mayor. I said to Mrs. Dorey, "Where is the woollen cloak with the bar on it ?" The prisoner that it wits is Liati 6 (the ser vant girl's) room. Mr. Dorey then, instead of going into Diary's room, went into the prisoner's room, and - - - " Never put off till to-morrow what you e fitl 3 ll- to-day ;" and, therefore, if you me a n t o do a creditorl isso better not to put him off, but to tell him honestly that Yo u put him down among the things to be dose immed On the 10th inst. at Bath, the lady BIRTHS. late 15th Regiment ' Bengal Native Infantry, of a soo• a t of 9 ' At Conan House, Ross-shire, North Britain, the 15 of M. Boulderson, Esq. , of a son. h On the I lth inst., at Woburn-square, Mrs• vo- 13 o f a Ongdauhter. the /life the Ilth just., at Lorn.road, Brixton-hill, $. Mr. James Robinson, Ironmonger-lane, of a son. o f 0 of Captain Sc°: On the 12th inst., the wife of Mr. George Barker, ford•street, of a daughter - to ED. MARR fiV On the Bth inst.. at Kenningto I n, J. Ball Campbel l ' Oft ° Maria, daughter of Captain Pettingal, British Vice-C ° A Sinkirk. • On. On the 10th inst., at Berriew, Montgomeryshire , li te Dyer Green, Esq., to Sarah. youngest daug hter of the to Humphreys, Esq., of Berriew Rectory. out h ' On the llth inst., at St. Andrew's Church, Or e celll Rev. Thomas Helritore, Vice-Principal f St M a r P I o • • Chelsea, to Kate Wilson, third daughter of the hem, of Plymouth, Esq. th e 0%/CD. Ilee• ei On the 18th of November, at Agra, East !Oleo, t OO wife of Captain Philip Harris, of the 70th Regiree° , o f Native Infantry. Ow ; the 111° On h s pas-age from Bombay to Englanat ' n , e6th. .„fse• November last, Captain Ramey, of her MajestLsi th e ilire. On the 4th inst., at Newland, Edward D' I'Y ~.' d ert , .,o son of Edward Owen Jones, Esq., of Hay-hill. Giel!''" GO' On the 9th inst., at Hartlebury, Worce3tershirer . ~ P_ be ' Lewis, Esq. Wells Pee On the llth inst., at Belvedere, Tunbridge ..; ' o ils relict of the late T. Harrison Border E,q• , I % l ' ... r e, C g C On the 11th inst, at Eaton-place, 'Belgrave-W— - - .. Of! v a t J. Bernhard Smith, R.N. A../ eeniA r - On the 9th inst., in George-street, Berm ee.' - '' N• ff On the 11th inst., at Lambeth-terrace, Lambet h ' ar, Beck, Esq., surgeon, late of the Royal Artillery. on of '''' On the 10th inst., John Stancliffe , Ellis, surgeon, of Lower Tulse-hill, Surrey. London: Printed and Published by muitvo . 1( s on I No. 112, Strand, at The Slos Office, No. i1"v 1 44, the Conaty et Middleseh Satusdiy, Tony/ 15, ' the Wont e MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London Nero Pike Current of Jan. 12.) SUGAR.—Buyers of West Indic Sugar have come forward with increased freedom this week, and a further advance in prices has taken place for every description. In the private market this week, Berbice, low greyish brown sold at 575, mid grey 59s to 59s 6d .Demerara low yellow, 585 6d, Canis con, a m;xed parcel at 58s, Demerara low middling and middling 61s 6d; Jamaica fine and fine mid, 665; the range of prices is from 57s to 693 per cwt. To-day stiffer rates being asked for West India Sugar, together with the indifferent assortment at market, rather tended to operate against business, still on the whole the demand was good, and prices closed Is per cwt above those of last Friday. REFINED.—There has been an active demand for Refined Sugar of all descriptions for home consumption this week, and higher prices have been again paid. Treacle has sold readily ; boiled from West India Molasses at 21s, patent 22s to 255, best made 26s to 27s per cwt. In bonded crushed Sugar large sales have been made, and prices are still on the advance. Today stiffer rates were paid for Refined goods, and the Grocers purchased largely ; brown Grocery Lumps 755, and standard Lumps 75s 6d to 76s per cwt. Bonded Crushed Sugar is with difficulty to be had at 26s per cwt. Mau RITIUS. —This afternoon there were ready buyers of Mauritius Sugar, and 1 , 875 bags at auc tion sold at -former rates—good middling yellow at 635, middling 59s 6d to 62s 6d, low 575 to 583 6d, middling grey 58s 61, fine yellow 66s to 675, midd ing to good brown 54s 6d to 565, and low foxy 50s per cwt. EAST Istota.—All descriptions of Bengal Sugar have met with ready purchasers this week, and prices have further ad vanced 64 per cwt. In Java Sugar sales to a fair extent have been made privately at 18s to 2ls per cwt. Holders of Manilla Sugar are firm. This afternoon Bengal Sugar, fine white 68s 6d, good 66s 6d to 67s 6d, middling 63s 6d to 64s 6d, middling yellow 60s tot2s 6d, low 57s 6.1 to 58s, damp brown 50s is Ms 6d, and sound 54s per cwt. Batavia bought in at 1 is 6d for low dark brown, and at 14s per cut for washed. FOREIGN.—Holders of this description of Sugar are firm, and none has been offered at auction. To-day a cargo of old white Havannah, not yet arrived off the coast, was sold at the low rate of 25s for fair average quality, to be delivered at 'Trieste. . Mot.AssEs.- For West India, prices have advanced 6d. per I I cwt ; Demerara, good at 626 s to 263 tid ; Antigua, good 26s 6d fine 27s 6d ; Dominica 24s to 255, fine Barbadoes at 293 per cwt ; Bengal Syrup at 17s to 18s 6d per cat ; Foreign Mo lasses es to 7s per cwt. RUM, BRANDY, AD HOLLANDS.-For Rum of all descrip tions prices are still on the advance. Jamaica 32 to 31 per cent overproef, fair quality at 3s to 3s Id, good 33 to 35 per cent over 3s 5d to 4s per gallon. Demerara at 2s 83 to 2s 9d, f-r rather cloudy 34 to 36 per cent overproof, and really fine 10d to 2s 11d per gal. Leeward; Is 100 per gal paid for proof. Calcutta Rum proof, with ce:tificate, Is 7d to Is 70, and fine Is 8d per gallon. In Brandy prices are again higher for every description. Cognac best brand; of the vintage of 1838 selling hint; at 5s Bd, puns 5 s 6d; ditto, 1839, hhds 5s sd, puns 5s 3d ; ditto 1840, hogsheads 5s 3d, puns 5s Id; ditto 1841, hhds 5s Id, puns 4s lld ; ditto 1842, hhds 4s I Id, puns 4s 9d, and inferior sorts of Brandy 2s lid a3s 6d per gallon. Geneva, shipping sorts at Is 10d to Is I Id, fine pale 2s 4d to 2s 10d. Hamburgh Gin common is Is ed to Is 7d per gallon ; British Corn Spirits at 1 ('s to lOs 2d cash; Scotch and Irish Grain Spirits les to lOs 2d, and Malt Spirits 12s ed to 13s per gallon. To day Leeward Island Rum sold at Is lOLA proof; Jamaica 2i per cent overproof fetched 2s 10t1 fur common quality. Brandy at the rates quoted above. COFFEE.-The home trade arc much in want of clean de scriptions of West India Coffee, and the supply being scanty and far from ample for their wants, they were compelled to pay further advanced rates. Mocha has been only in limited request, at full prices. This afternoon Ceylon sold at a further advance of Is per cwt : good ordinary pale went at 63s 6d to 645, good ordinary colour) 63s 6d, fine ordinary 67s 6d to 68s, and fine and fine fine ordinary Plantation sorts 69s to 77s per cwt. The home consumption Coffee market has a firm appearance. COCOA.-For West India further reduced rates have been taken. Trinidad good red at 50s ed to 52s 6d, good middling to good dark red 47s to 495, middling bold grey 44s to 45s 6d, good 46s to 46s 6d, fine 50s, and sea damaged 41s 6d to 45s 6d per cwt. Sea damaged Guayaquil first class good grey went at 245, second class 22s 6d to 235, third class 20s 6d to 21s, and fourth class 19s 6d to 20s per cwt. TY:A.-A fair demand has prevailed privately for nearly every description during the week, and the rates previously established have been maintained. To-day prices were firm for Tea, but there was not much demand, the trade for the most part waiting for the sales declared for next week. Seices.-For black Pepper rather higher rates have been paid ; White good and fine at aid to 7d, and inferior at 44 to 5d per lb. Pimento common is 2d, and better sorts 20 to 3Ad per lb. Cassia Lignea is held with firmness. Nutmegs firmer. Cloves rather lower. Bengal Ginger at 69s to 79s for bold scraped ; Jamaica, 4118; to 1215 s for low to good bold. RICE.-Caroline Rice cleaned here at 26s for hrst, 24s for. I second, and 21s per ewt for third quality. Patna at 13s to 17s per cwt. Madras Rice fair yellow but broken at 83 to 8s 6d, I low mixed with Paddy 7s 6d, low white 8s 6d, damaged first and second class at 6s 6d to Bs, third class 4s, good ord repacked 8s to 8s 6d. sweepings as 6d to 6s 6d, common white 8s per cwt, low white at 8s to 8s 6d, and mid mixed 9s 6d to 10s. Bengal low broken white 10s to 10s 3d, middling bold lOs ed to 11s, and good lls ed per cwt. Java at the former currency. SAGO.-Ordinary Pearl at lls ed per cwt ; I3s to 13s 6d for good middling large Pearl. Sago Flour 18s. per cwt. St. Vincent's Arrowroot at 5d to 10d. Tousles Mois 6d to 6 1 .,d per lb. INDIGO.-The purchases of East India made have been upon a small scale in al descriptions for home use and exportation, and prices rule Is to Is 3d under those of the last quarterly sale for Bengal, and 6d to 10d per lb for other sorts. In Spanish Indigo prices have still a downward tendency. OILS.-Linseed Oil at 27s 6d to 27s 9d per cwt on the spot ; Rape Oil at 36s to 36s 6d for pale, and 35s to 3.55 6d per cwt for brown ; Cocoa Nut Oil at easier rates ; Palm good to fine 285 to 29s 6d per cwt. Olive Oil has been in good request, and former rates are fully supported. Sperm Oil, British at 68/ 155 to 72/ for low to fine, and very inferior at 66/ per tun. Cod Oil is 32/ lOs ; Pale Seal 361 10s. Southern Whale at 361 15s to 371 for good, and Northern 34155 per tun. This afternoon Sperm Oil went at 701 to 721; fine Southern at 34/ to 37/ 5s ; Newfoundland Whale at 291 to 351; Seal at 341 las to 351 for tinged, at 34/ lOs for straw, and 2915 s to 32/ for Brown. Palm bought in at 26/ lOs to 28/. TaLLow.-The trade have purchased Russian Tallow with caution on the spot this week, and prices have a downward tendency. P. Y. Candle of first quality 41s to 41s 3d per cwt ; for delivery in the next two months, 415; for the last three months of the year 41s 6cl to 42s per cwt. Town Tallow lat 40s to 40s 6d per cwt, nett cash. American at rather lower rates. This afternoon South American sold at 30s 9d to 41s 6d, New South Wales 40s to 41s per cwt. STATE OF TRADE. There has been rather a larger business done this week in the principal articles of consumption, but stocks have been sufficiently heavy to prevent any material advance in prices. The accounts to hand from Bombay, China, and America, have had no small effect on our business and the trade of the manufacturing districts, as it is evident, from the range of prices for goods in India, that no ship ments of much weight will be made should spinners insist on advanced rates, whilst the latest letters from the cotton-growing States of America are calculated to enhance the prices here of the raw material, as the esti mate of crop has been reduced, and shipments now arriv ing swill leave a loss that may fairly be estimated at seven per cent. on the amount invested ; luckily, however, the planters have been the principal shippers, and the losses will, consequently, be of far less moment to our merchants, whose orders have been given at rates much below the currency of the principal cotton markets in the States. One rather important statement is reported in some correspondence, to the effect that the southern banks were again assisting the planters to withhold their crops from market, and that, whilst the stocks in the port were accumulating, prices were also advancing, under the influence of such assistance. Let us, however, hope, that the severity of past losses has not so soon been forgotten. Here we have had a lively market, with large sales, chiefly to speculators, at prices a shade higher ; yesterday, especially, an enormous business was done, roughly estimated from 18,000 to 20,000 bales. The excitement in the share market has apparently blown over, and the transactions are not so numerous.— Liverpool Mercury. CHARACTER OF HANNIBAL.—If the characters of men be estimated according to the steadiness with which they have followed the true principle of action, we cannot assign a high place to Hannibal. But if patriotism were indeed the greatest of virtues, and a resolute devotion to the interests of his country were all the duty that a public man can be expected to fulfil, he would then deserve the most lavish praise. Nothing can be more unjust than the ridicule with which Juvenal has treated his motives, as if he had been actuated merely by romantic desire of glory. On the contrary his whole conduct displays the loftiest genius, and the boldest spirit of enterprise, happily subdued, and directed by a cool judgment, to the fur therance of the honour and interests of his country ; and his sacrifice of selfish pride and passion, when after the battle of Zama he urged the acceptance of peace, and lived to support the disgrace of Carthage with the patient hope of one day re pairing it, affords a strong contrast to the cowardly despair with which some of the best of the Romans deprived their country of their services by suicide. Of the extent of his abilities, the history of his life is the best evidence : as a general, his conduct remains uncharged with a single error. His knowledge of human nature, and his ascendancy over men's minds, are shown by the uninterrupted authority which he exercised alike in his prosperity and adversity over an army composed of so many various and discordant materials, and which had no other bond than the personal character of their leader. As a statesman, he was at once manly, disinterested, and sensible ; a real reformer of abuses in his domestic policy, and in his measures, with respect to foreign enemies, keeping the just limit between weakness and blind obst;nacy. He stands reproached, however, with covetousness by the Cartha ginians, and . with cruelty by the Romans. The first charge is sustained by no facts that have been transmitted to us ; and it is a curious circumstance, that the very same vice was long and by pa r ty v i o l ence to t h e great D u k e o f Marlborough, that theimputetiatt has been lately proved by his biogra pher tklia/e-been .utterly calumnious. Of cruelty, according cdniOdein principles, be cannot be acquitted.—Arnold's Rome, , Vol. 111. ACQUAINTANCESNIP..There to are some . men with a get acquamt g e a d r. . esstee A ra.voi n e whom, on the instant, we seem hour's accidental association in packet, or a hotel, does more toward a s g b e a c n c l a s to ll' to s m o treation and restraint than many months of daily with beings less congenial. They seem i us we part from them with regret ; and long afterwards, when their names are forgotten, we remember a pleasant fellow and a happy hour. It is not then that friendship can be made ; but we may learn from this the advantage of un pretending good humour and frank benevolence. Assurances. Albion Allred Lite Alliance Brit. and For Ditto Marine.. ....... Atlas Birmingham Fire British Fire British Commercial Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County Eagle Economic Life ...... European Li re Ditto New Freemasons Globe Guardian Hope Life Ditto Fire.......... Imperial Fire Ditto Life Indemnity Marine...... Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire Ditto Ship National Loan Fun , Palladium Life ..... Protector Lite Provident Rock Life yal Exchange Sun Fire Ditto Li fe....... University Life Universal Life Union Fire and Life Joint Stk Banks Australasia Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial London & Westminstr Ditto New... ... London Joint Stock Metropolitan Provincial of Ireland Ditto New National of Ireland..... Nat. Provincial Englnd Ditto New Gloucestershire ~.. Union of Australia..... Union of London Gaslight de. Coke Bath . .... ........ British Ditto Birmingham Birming. & Staflordsh Bristol .. Brighton Ditto General City of London Ditto New Continental Consolid Ditto New...... Equitable Imperial Isle of Thalia Independent ......... Phoenix Ratcliff South Metropolitan United General ..... Westmins. Chartered_ Ditto New .... . ... Water Works Birmingham East London Grand Junction av Kent •.. Nw Riv Lon. Bridg An. Manchester and Salford Vauxhall, late S. Lond. West Middlese ex. av Ytk Buldg Co. Les. Prop Iron Railways. Birmingham & Derby Birming. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter Cheltenhin & Gt. West Clarence Eastern Counties...— Edinburgh & Glasgow Ditto New Grand Junction Great North of Englnd Greet Western ... Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths Hull and Selby ....... Leech and Selby Liverpool & Manchestr Ditto Half-Shares Ditto Quarter-Shares London and Brighton Ditto Loan Notes London and Blackwall London and Greenwich London anti Birmingh. Ditto Quarter-Shares Ditto T h rds London and S. Western London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares Manchstr and Birming Ditto Extension. Midland Counties North Midland Do. M-Sh., iss. 10 tits. Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss. 51. dis Paris and Rouen Stocktfin & Darlington South East. and Dover Ditto New, iss. 25d1s. York and N. Midland Ditto New Shares Mines. Albicn Copper Alten Anglo Mex., iss.sl. p.m Ditto Subscription Bola nos Ditt., Scrip . BraziL Imp. 155.5/. p.m. Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U. Do. St. John Del Rey British Iron Candonga Ditto Registered Cobre Copper Copiapo Columbian, iss. 51. p.m General Mining Hibernian ....... ... Imperial Slate Compy. Mexican .... .......... Mining Co. of Ireland.. Real del Monte, Unreg Ditto Loan Notes Rhymney Iron Santiago de Cuba United Mex., iss.2/. pm . . Ditto scrip Ditto New Scrip Literary. Londn,with Sin. Ticket London University Russell King's College Miscellaneous Anglo Mexican Mint Australian Agricultur Brit. American Land, Canada ............ Upper Canada Bonds Copper Miners' Comp Gen. Steam Navigation Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wood Pay., iss. Mex. and S. American Newßrunswick (Land) New Zealand . ..... Penins. & Orien. Steam Royal Mail Steam Reversionary Int. Soc South Australian Thames Tunnel Van Diemen's Land rnornin; 315 300 89 I:105 I 31U 65 'l2lO 13 1200 155 100 117 360 020 280 I 2144 101% 21% 344 17;6 34 24 20% 6% 400 1/.los. 45• ' 16 3 , 12 11 16 2 40s 18s. 4% Irk; 205 12% Ibl 39% 40 130 10 5 i Mk, 19 209 214 5 237 28 74 1 4 15 45 23 l 32 1 4 265 120% 5t COURT OF QUEEN'''S BENCH, Jan. 12. (Sittings in Banco.) CAR FITE V. TUE LONDON AND BRIG HIGN RAILWAY COM CAN Y. This was an action brought by Dr. Carpue against the Lon don and Brighton Railway Company, to recover compensation for the injuries suffered by him in consequence of the accident. which occurred about two years ago, in the Copyhold Cutting, to one of the trains by which Dr. Carpue was passenger. The case was tried before Lord Denman in the sittings after Michael mas term, 1842, anti the jury had found for the plaintiff for 2501. damages. The Solicitor- General bad afterwards obtained a rule nisi to set the verdict aside, and anew trial had or a nonsuit entered, on the ground of misdirection by the Learned Judge, and also on the ground that the action had not been commenced within the time limited by the Act of Parliament, and also that the proper notice of venue as required by the Act had not been given. Lord DENMAN having read the notes of the evidence, and of the summing up, said that it would perhaps be more conve nient for the Court to hear the arguments on both sides as to construction of the limitation section of the Act of Parliament before proceeding to the other points. The ATTORNEY-GENERAL then proceeded to show cause against the rule, contending that the 253elsection of the Brigh ton Railway Act was never intended to apply except with re ference to the Parliamentary powers of the Company to make and continue the railway, and not to that business, the business, namely, of carriers, which that Company carried on in common with any other persons who went upon the railway. If their Lordships would look at the declaration they would see that the action had been brought against them as carriers, and not -as proprietors sf the railway. It had been brought against them, not as a railroad company, hut as persons entitled in common with all her Majesty's sub jects, to carry on the business of carriers. The declaration stated that they were proprietors of a certain railway, and of certain carriages used thereon, for the purpose of conveying goods and shattels, and passengers, upon th e said railway; and also upon certain other railways, to wit, upon the London and Greenwich railway, and upon the London and Croydon railway. Now, upon the London and Greenwich railway, and upon the London and Croydon Railway they were only carriers, and it would be odd if it should be held that they were under a dif ferent contract with their passengers with regard to that por ton of the journey which was performed over the London and Greenwich or the London and Croydon, and that which was performed over the London and Brighton Railway. The action had been brought against them as carriers, and as carriers only. They had contracted to convey the plaintiff upon other railways besides their own, and the contract was one entire contract, and the section of the Act of Parliament with regard to the limita tion to the time for bringing the action, and to the notice of venue did not apply. They were sued as carriers, and as car riers they were responsible for travelling at a rapid rate when the state of the railway was such as to render such a rate of t:-a• yelling dangerous. As carriers they were bound to know that the state of the road was not safe. If they were proprietors as ;sell as carriers, they had the better means of knowing the state of the read. The 253 d section of the Act applied to them only as proprietors, and not as carriers. The action had been brought against them as carriers, and therefore the 253 d section of the Act did not apply. Mr. HAYES and another followed on the same side. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL its support of the rule contended that the action had been brought against the defendants as proprietors of the railway, and net as carriers. The evidence which had been given at the trial had been g iven to p rove the faulty clnstrnction of the railway—now , if the action had been brought against them as carriers only, the evidence would not apply to the case. In the summing up the Learned Judge kad stated that the plaintiff was not bound to prove the cause of the accident, inasmuch as the defendants having the whole con trol of the railway, negligence was to be presumed against them in case of accident, and they were bound to show that the accident had not been occasioned by any negligence on their part. The case, had the trial proceeded, rested entirely upon the assumption that the defendants were the proprietors of the railway. If it had not proceeded upon that assumption, there would have beets no case to go to the jury. The statement in the declaration was that the defendants were the proprietors and owners of a certain railway ; now, that statement could not have been made against any other of her Majesty's subjects carrying on the business of carriers. The averment was that the accident had occurred on the railway of which the defend ants were proprietors. It was as proprietors only that the action had been brought against them, and as such they were entitled to notice. Mr. Justice PATTESON—The section says that they shall be entitled to notice in case of any action brought against them for anything done or omitted t be done, in pursuance of the Act. Now, as at present advised, I do not see that taking people into carriages as passengers, driving them negligently, and breaking their necks, can be called an omission. It is do ing something carelessly, not omitting to do, and certainly it is not anything done in pursuance of the Act. A clause of this sort ought to be construed very strictly. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL submitted that the action had been brought against the Company for having omitted to keep the read in proper repair, that that was an omission within the meaning of the 253 d section of the Act, and that, therefore, they were entitled to the notice. He therefore submitted that the rule for a nonsuit must be made absolute. Mr. SwAnie followed on the same side. The COURT then called upon the Attorney-General to pro ceed with the other branch of the argument, but it was ulti mately arranged that the argument in that part of the case should be deferred until to-morrow, as the Solicitor-General was obliged to leave the Court. HARE U. BARSTOW. This was an action brought by Sir John Hare, against the Secretary to the Yorkshire Insurance Cempany, to recover the amount of insurance alleged to be due to him for the damage done by fire to his oil mills, situated in Bristol, which had been insured by the Society. The defendant had con tended that the insurance having been effected on the oil mill, the plaintiff could only recover 2761., the amount of damage done to that portion of the premises used for crushing linseed, which sum was paid into Court, and that he had no right to recover for damage done to zny other portion of the premises. the case was tried before Lord Denman at the Guildhall in 1842, and the jury had found for the plaintiff for 2201. The Attorney-General bad subsequently obtained a rule nisi for a nonsuit, on the ground that there was no evidence to go to the jury, or for a new trial, on the ground that evidence had been admitted as to the value of the ,machinery, which was inad missible. Mr. ERLE now showed cause against the rule, and contended that it was aquestion for the jury to decide whether the term oil mills" was used for the purpose of designating the whole of the premises, or for the purpose of designating that portion only which was used for crushing linseed ; and it would be seen from the proposal that the term oil- mills had bee n used to de signate the entirety of the premises, which were known in Bristol as Hare's oil mills; neither could there be any doubt that Sir John Hare had intended to effect the insurance upon the entirety of the premises, and that he had imagined that he had so effected his insurance. In a case of that sort could it be said the construction of the policy should be left to the Judge alone, and that there was nothing to go to the jury ? He apprehended not, and there was no ground fur making the rule for a nonsuit absolute. With re spect to the evidence as to th e value of t h e machiner y , question was one entirely of value, u ssible, an d, a s the contest was, thehe a e p v p i rdeehneened was s that,clearly whether the insurance was meant to cover the whole of the it, evidence as to value was identification. He therefore mac in admissiblee ry , as o r only evid en one ce portion of sub mitted that t his rule must be discharged. ROBINSON followed on the same side. Lord DENMAN said that the Court would hear the remainder of the arguments to-morrow. ADMIRALTY COURT, Jan. 12. TILE SPIMP.—COLLISION. This was a cross-action between the owners of the bark Thames, of Newcastle, and those of the Speed, a large timber vessel, belonging to New Brunswick, to recover the amount of damage which each v essel , had sustai n ed in a collision that bad occurred in the River St. Lawrence, near Orleans Island, about 10 miles from Quebec, on the sth of October, 184'2. The Thames was a vessel of 150 tons, laden with coals and glass, bound for Quebec ; the Speed had a cargo of timber, and was c.iming from the same place. On the part of the Thames, was occasioned by the Speed's i h t ei w m as b c e o i n n t g en p d o e r d ted tht the . a inste collision ado being starboarded. On the other hand,: the owners of .the Speed alleged that the Thames had run into that vessel owing to her not having luffed to wind ward, as it was her duty to have done. The evidence was, as usual in these cases, totally at variance upon all essential points. The Queen's Advocate and Dr. Haggard were for the Thames, and Dr. Addams and DomHyford for the Speed. The Trinity Masters, by wh the Court was assisted, were of opinion that the Thames was exonerated from blame, which rested solely with the Speed. Dr. LUSHINGTON pronounced for the damage sought to be recovered by the owners of the Thames, and dismissed them from the' action brought against them by the owners of the Speed in both cases, with their costs. THE BROTWERS.-COLLISION• This was another — case . of consolidated cross actions, in which the owners of the bark Brilliant and the bark Brothers sued each other for the damage caused to their respective ves sels by a collision which occurred in the Channel on the 2d of October, 1843; the Brilliant being bound from London to Glasgow, in ballast, and the Brothers from London to the Sands ich Islands, with gunpowder and general merchandise. A similar conflict of evidence was exhibited in this case as in the last, except as to the wind, which (contrary to most examples) both parties admitted to be about N. W. After hearing Dr. Addams and Dr. Robertson for the Brilliant, and the Queen's Advocate and Dr. H. Nichell for the Brothers. The Trinity Masters were of opinion that the Brothers being on the starboard tack, it was her duty to keep the wind, which she did, and that it was the duty of the Brilliant to bear away, and that, by attempting to cross the bow of the other vessel the latter vessel had occasioned the damage. Dr. LUSHINGTON was of the sam e opinion, and dismissed the owners of the Brothers from the actions of those of the Brilliant, and pronounced for the daimage claimed by the owners of the Brothers in both cases, with costs. WESTMINSTER SESSIONS. The Epiphany Quarter Sessions for transacting county business was held yesterday, at the Sessions-house in the Broad Sanctuary, before a full bench of Magistrates. The first act was to elect a Chairman of the Sessions until the county day, inclusive of the Epiphany Sessions 1845 (standing order No. 4), when Mr. Sergeant Adams was unanimously chosen, on the motion of Mr. Walesby, seconded by Captain Berger, after which the Learned Sergeant took his seat upon the Bench, and briefly re turned thanks. The minutes of the last Quarter Sessions was then read by the Clerk of the Peace. The Bench next proceeded to rece:ve special Reports of the Visiting Justices of Westminster Bridewell and of the Committee for accounts and for general purposes, on the applications received from candidates for the matronship of the Bridewell, for which there were 41 candidates, amongst whom only 27 were considered eligible for the situation, After which, the general Re port of the Visiting Justices of the Westminster Bride well was received, when Mr. P. LAURIE entered his protest against the system adopted in many of the metropolitan prisons. He con tended that many of tho prisoners were discharged from those places in a state quite unfit to engage in any labour. During the short period in which the Model Prison, at Pentonville, had been in operation, no less than three persons had been sent to Bethlem Hospital, in a state of confirmed lunacy. He did not so much find fault with the diet as the system of solitary confinement, which be was confident produced insanity. In one instance, namely, that of John Rees, who had become an idiot, it was found that he recovered his mental powers upon being a ‘ llowed to hold intercourse with the other 7'HAMES-POLICE. Yesterday Captain Murray, master of the Coquette, was charged under the Merchant Seamen's Act with abandoning a black seaman, named Thomas Duncan, on the coast of Africa, about four and a half years since. The complainatt, a powerful and intelligent negro, stated, that about Ave years since he was engaged under articles by the 101. 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Scottish Union Irma Standard Life Incur.— Dalkcith Railway Edin. and Glas. Railwy Glaag. and Green. Rail. Dundaeand Arbe Us% I per cent. ( per Cent. t per cent. I per cent. - .per Cent. I per cent. I per cent. Spec cent. per cent. 0 per cent. per cent. ( per cent. per cent. t per cent. .I}4 per cent. per ccn t. DEATH OF LADY BURDETT.—We to announce the death of Lad Burdet J place yesterday morning in St. ames's-p minutes past eight. II A li Es ILI Dr Ca ~e: , Order,r",:iri M esuc itessrt!eil 1t,.. 301 n Th e or' k 4v , redu Pl,eted will 1 1 4 , 11 alado bility of An afirello%4; l t? e neral L l Pany, li e i • aft, RProni k it 64 2 C till k a til it %It Y of th Lo on, 4 Pit t i 5 p tali anti] Coo,. _ Balll ll e 0 2 . 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