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.............. ~ - ------- ...--- UNI VERSITY INTELLIGENCE. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNA LS. - FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OP YESTERDAY. OXFORD, MAY 18.—The Professor of Botany (Dr. Daubeny) Wiil begin his lectures on Tuesday, the 21st tithenstant; at two STANDARD.—The Factory Bill was last night read o'clk. - These lectures will be continued same hoar , a second tune in the House of Lords, and gave occasion ev , ry Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday (except during 1 fora debate of considerable length. T-he arguments ad-- IV hitsun week), till the conclusion of Act Term. duced for and against the restriction to ten hours were Ur. Daubeny's lecture (as Professor of Rural Economy)) in the library of the Botanic-garden last Tuesda7, on agric-ultu- the same repeated five or six t imes in the House of Commons, and it would be less excusable to ral colleges, and the best means of promoting a scientific wea sour readers with reference-. to them, be knowledge of agriculture, was numerously attended. We 01,-erved among the audience Earl Bathurst, Sir H. Verney, Lord Wh rnciffe and—Lord Brougham cause while a i .• .. a n--rued some distinguished foreigners. were, in the House of. Lords, resastang a restraint The public examinations in mathematics will take u s; oa to ten hours of the labour of factories'Mpon principles of .Tuile 4. The E xam i ners are —Mr. Reynolds, of Jesus ; Mr. "political economy, Sir Robert Peel was, in the House of A,llworth, of Brasenose ; and Mr. Waldegrave, of All Souls. Commons, vigorously and successfully.cutting away the. Mr. Brunel has gated that the railway from Oxford to foundations of that pretended science... In the House of Pi,kot will positively be opened, as originally intended, on Commons, Sir Robert-Peel moved his resolutions of the Dloe , !ay, the 10th of Jane; thus bringing the University 6t h inst.,. upon the subject of- the renewal of the Bank within a drive of two hours and a half from the me tro p olis. charter, in a speech distinguished, eveniuneng the s p eeches The Rev. J. B. Phillips, M.A., late of All Souls College, o f t h e Right Honourable Baronet`, perspicuity, has , ieen presented by the Dean and Chapter of Manchester fulness of information, and masterly - a rran g ement. After to le incumbency of St. Andrew's, Manchest er. P.IETERMENTS.—Barrow, Bev. cl I' . Stammers, M.A., to the a conversation, scarcely to be called aosdebate, in which r st ory of Thorpe-next -Haddscoe, Norfolk. several Members addressed the Housa,the resolutions were Setts, Rev. W. Keeling, to the perpetual curacy of Christ unanimously adopted. How c . ould it be otherwise in the Church, Norwich. case of propositions so good in themeelves— introduced Boddy, Rev. J. A., to the new church of St. Thomas, Cheet- with such consummate ability ? Every measure of such lism, Manchester. importance as the re-modelling of the Bank charter — Cooper, Rev. C. 8., rector of Morley, to be a rural dean which is, in effect, fixing the currency - of the empire - Co the deanery of Hingham. naturally engages the attention of -a vast number of Darell, Rev. W. L , M.A., to the rectory of Freetheme, powerful and well-informed minds, and when these minds Gloucestershire. concur, it is plain that we have in - their ag reement as Ellis, Rev. W., incumbent of Armin , near Goole, to the near an approach to a perfectly wise judgment as we vicarage of Luddington Lincolnshire. can ho James, Rev. W. 8., of J e sus College, vicar of Harston , to pe from human nature. But every su ch p erfectl y tit 3 rectory of Fen Ditton, near Cambridge, vacant by the wise judgment has two aspects—eone immediately -preferment of the Rev. J. Turner, MA., to the vicarage of practical, the other exemplary; the one relating to what Lnieaster. we may call the cause in court, the Other establishing Leach, Rev. 0., to the rectory of Hubberston, Pembroke- sound principles and affording precedents. Of these si ire. two aspects, the exemplary aspect —the assent to Stuart, Hon. and Rev. A. G. , 8.A. , to t he rectory of Cottes- principles—is the more important, - because it extends were with Barrow, Rutlandshire. beyond the particular subject and the moment. CAMBRIDGE, MAY IS.--CAIUS COLLEGE.—In the exami- We are far from underrating the immense value to the nation in anatomy and physiology, held on Tuesday, the 14th, Edward Lathorne Ormerod obtained the first place, and commerce, and, through its commerce, to the permanent ri II be appointed to the Caian Medical Scholarship. • . hapiness of the country, of the practical effect of Sir JEWS COLLEGE.—Mr. Stockdale, son., has just been elected R. P eel's proposed arrangement. We believe that no man a foundation scholar of this Society. can estimate, and that it is perfectly-impossible to over- NORRISIAN PRIZE—For the best prose essay on a sacred rate the beneficial effect of imposing; asthis arrangement ?abject, has just been awarded to the Rev. Joseph Woolley, will impose, a sober and steady pace upon thecom mer c ial MA., of Emmanuel College. Subject — " By one offering , advances f this industrious, bold; and enterprising Christ has perfected for ever them that are -sanctified."— nation - but this benefit, great as it is; falls incalculably Ii ',rem x., v. 14. . . short of ' the value of the mortal blow struck by the The Norrisian Professor of Divinity's lectures for Michael- arrangement at the false science—" political economy"— riles Term next commence on Friday, October 18, 1844. All that has landperniciouslydomineered in our eedergraduates desirous of attending the lectures to leave so song so . their names with the Professor before October 17. legislation, hardening the hearts of the rich, and torturing THE CHURCH. —The following appointments have taken and corrupting the poor. What are the fundamental place : doctrines of the political economists ? First , that all The Rev. Thos. Maude, 8.A., of Jesus College , t o the Rec- contracts shall be free to t wit tr seconade dly must be in , that every ir..cry of Hasketon, Suffolk. i n terference of the Legislature The Rev. D. R. Fearon, MA., of St. John's College, to the furious; and upon the authority of these dogmas Vicarage of Assington, Suffolk. ' it is that we are told, in defiance of truth, justice, The parishioners of St. Mary's-the-Less, Cambridge, have, and 'humanity, that infants and women, and help yvsented an elegant service of plate, value 1204 to their less men, are to be compelled to work any num tato incumbent, the Rev. George Ray, M.A., Fellow of St. her of r hours in the day that may suit an em l'Pter'S- College, on the occasion of his preferment to the C ol- I:•ge-liviug of Statherne , in Leicester shire. ployer s - profit -or cupidity, upon the fictio n, f orsooth, that they are 'free parties to a contract. Infant children and women free contracting parties—men " who may do what they please , only they must " or starve, free contracting parties ! ! How do the banking resolutions respect these rigid maxims; never , to inter fere with contracts, never to interfere wi t h trade? Why they stride over them as if such maxims were never seen or heard of. In the matter of contracts, the highest and most important that pecuniary contracts can be, in that department of trade which concerns the largest amount of property, and which is most 'universally diffused, the - Legislature takes the whole duty of arrangement and control into its own hands. :And most wisely does the Legislature take into its own bands.the management and control of these important Contracts and of this extensive trade ; and with equal, 'wisdom would the Legislature take into its hands the - nianagement of all contracts; and of all trade, if in 'others it could as well protect itself from the indulgence of its own caprice, as we trust it will in this vital matter. GLOBE.-Sir Robert Peel addressed himself,' in the 'latter division of his speech last night, to supply the defieient links which had been remarked in his pre vious exposition. In this supplementary essay he was zealouSly aided 'by - Mr. C. Wood, Sir W. Clay, and 'Mr. F. Baring. It is evident, therefore, that there 1 is no desire, , on the part 'of the Opposition,, to of d the ia -1 :cuss this as a party question. In fact, most intelligent supporters of . the plan are apparently to be found on those benches. The Minister's hack supporters hold their tongues to- conceal their igno rance; or disguise their tender leanings towards tam pering, in an opposite sense, with the Queen's coin. It has always been by the TOry organs, in ' times past, 'that have been breathed the most ardent aspirations for unlimited- showers of paper, as restoratives of pros perity. The only explicit expounders, however, of the doctrines still dear to those, real and rooted Tories, who retain their objection to all - payments, except either in rags, or in moneys screwed from the public by.monopoly, are the men of Birmingham. It is the religion of that place to believe in the power of promises to pay to solve every difficul. It appears to us, en the other hand, that Sir It. Peel infirmity on this subject is his persuasion that promises to pay become then dangerous, and then only, it would seem, when. they are promises to pay on de mand—ethat the monster evil of our credit and banking system is the freedom to issue convertible notes. Now this is what we said Sir Robert had by no means proved in his first exposition ; and what we now say his sup plementary speech has gone little farther in proving than his previous one. Neither can we find anything but echoes of the same irrelevancies in the speeches in his support. It was well observed by Mr. C. Buller, that " The most complete confusion appeared to exist, in the ideas of the majority of those who had spoken, between banking and currency. The object a the Right Hon. Baronet was to obviate the evils arising from the bad system of credit ; but his 'machinery was directed to an action on the circulating medium. In order to sup port his interference with the issues of- country banks the Right Honourable Baronet had quoted cases of failures .in those banks--forgetting, however, to mention how many of - them had been banks of issue. And it appeared the Right Hon. Baronet's argument tended much more against the system of banking than the system of issues. The great mischief of our banking arose, not from the issue of notes by country banks, but from errors in the banking system of another nature. Why, of eighty-one private banks that had failed in a particular period, only twenty-nine had been batiks of issue ; the other fitly-two had nothing to do with issues.—(Hear, hear.) The failure of one private bank in London had caused more mischief, too, than the failure of many country banks of issue." Take; for instance, one of the cases quoted last night by Sir - Robert Peel to show the insecurity of private banks under the present system : No. 6. The banker succeeded to a considerable property ; mortgaged his estate, overdrew his private accounts with the bank, issued promissory notes to the amount of 14,0001., bearing interest to depositors of small sums among the humbler classes of society ; 5,5901. of promissory notes pay able to bearer on demand." It appears in this instance, that considerably more than double the amount of paper issued in the form so particularly obnoxious to Sir R. Peel was issued by the parties in question in another form, which his mea sure will not touch. It appears in this, as in every other instance which can be named, that the part 'of the paper at present issued, which is most under check already; is-' precisely that about which Sir Robert's plan most exclusively busies itself ; and that part of it which is only' limited in amount by the banker's credit, and his disposition to use (or abuse) it, is the part which his project leaves free. Sir Robert may reply -that he , cannot meddle with credit, but only with currency. But, we contend, with Mr. Tooke, that the one is as much (or. as little) cur rency as the other. The difference is not between credit and currency, but between wholesale and retail. Sir Robert Peel leaves untouched the wholesale operations of credit currency. And yet it is evilient that the mass of transactions in banking—and unchecked transactions —are these wholesale ones. But Sir Robert pulls up the retail credit-currency—which is strongly controlled al ready by immediate convertibility; and by that very banking competition he deprecates. We should like to know, in addition to the points questioned by Mr. Charles Buller, what amount of loss the public has sus tained by the non-payment of joint-stock bank notes. We believe it would be found quite insignificant. THE FRENCH. RAILWAYS. • The Bills now before. the French Chambers, and which are exoected to be passed this session are these 1. :— The line from Paris to the Belgian frontier at Lisle, with . br. • !ches to Dimkirk, Calais, and Boiilogne. . From Orleius to Vierzon. From Paris to Dijon and Chalons, commonly called the and Lyons line. - 1 From Orleans throtigh Tours to Bordeaux. -From Montpellier to Nismes. AI these have been considered in Committee, and the re parrs are about to be presented this week. Leases will, be t:;iwited this session for all of them. .i.)n Wednesday last the , Minister , of Public Works pre scat:3d the four following additional Bills, comprising about L(,)(1 leagues of railway An extension of the Orleans and Vierzon line to Chit- L.:luroux and Lhnoges to the 'south-west, and to Bourges a Aft C lermont on the south-east, the utmost limits to which t;te lines .through the centre of France are proposed to be cderied, because of the physical difficulties of the districts. 7. The extension of the West line from Tour to Nantes. S. An extension of the Paris and Versailles line (left bank). bs.Chartres, with it view to the ultimate extension to Lemans, Rennes, and probably . to Brest, thus completing a 1..; eat North-western line, which was not included in the ge law of Jute, 1842. 9. The line from Paris to the German frontier at Homer t::l4, Commonly called the - Paris and Strasburgh line. the four last-named lines the Minister merely asks a vote , he construction of the works, deferring the authority to • :it leases to any company to another year. It was expected that the line from Bordeaux to Toulouse :tad Marseilles (to twits the Atlantic with the .Mediterra r, !an), and the line from Lyons, southwards to Avignon, would have been included in the presentation this session, bait they have been definitively postponed till next year, although a company was actually formed, and the capital R•ibscribed for the latter, who asked the hind for the seat of the railway, as the only assistance required from the State. The Journal des Debats, the organ of the Government, ap pears to entertain no doubt that the principle of moderately long leases, as proposed by the Minister, will now be adopted b:i the Chambers, in opposition to the entire completion of the railway by the State, and the granting of short leases to orking companies afterwards. It affirms that even , the girth line will not bear exception, although the Commissioner n - rts resolved—but only by a majorftv, of one—to report in fa7vour:of the short-lease system. 7 SOUTHAMPTON, MAT 20.—The Peninsula Com r...ny's steam-ship the Pacha, Captain Wilson, arrived here I‘-a. night at half-past ten o'clock from Gibraltar, and landed 1.77,r mails, which were forwarded by the two o'clock A.m. mail t 7 tin to Londoh. Her dates are—Gibraltar the 10th inst., t,adiz the 11th, Lisbon the 13th, Oporto the 14th, Vigo the 15th, She met with some very heavy gales on Saturday in the Channel. The Pacha has 57 passengers, mostly from Madeira, by way of the Royal Tar steamer from that place to Gibra!tar. She has also a full fruit cargo. The Duchess of 7.fancliaster:and suite are now at Gibraltar, and will return the next Peninsula packet to England. The Transit • earner -arrived in the docks this morning from Guernsey with :L cargo of bitapd,T. The emigrant ship St. George will sail .om the docks oti'the 24th with a number of emigrants for t 'atm* &c.; the passengers are brought dos . = to-day in a ,pecial train. The inward Royal mail steam-packet is hourly expected from the West Indies. THE HOUSES Or PAELIAMENT.—It appears by a return made to the House of Commons, that in 'the Lords of the -Treasury limited Mr. Barry's remuneration, as ar'hitect of the Houses of Parliament, to 25,000/., to be paid az intervals in proportion to the advance of the works. THE METROPOLIS ROADS.—Mouday, at noon, a meeting was held by the Commissioners of the Me t Turnpike Roads north of the Thames, at their office, 22, Whitehall-place, for the purpose of letting by auction the hest bidder, ,in the manner directed by Act of Par ,litment; for the term of one year, from She Ist of July next, tie various tolls .comprised in the sixteen districts north of the Thames. Tho Commissioners present were the Earl of Lonsdale, chairman ' who presided, and Messrs. Ashton, Aastin, Carpenter, Cox, and Holmes, with,Sir J. M'Adam, surve\ or. The room was crowded with lessees and others interested in this deseription of property. The fol lering are the roads, with the tolls which were let, and the trlees at which 'they were put up and disposed of:—The Kensington, Brentford, and Isleworth roads, were put up at 15,925/. ; Sold for 15,935/. The Tyburn and Uxbridge roads, 8,020/. ; 'went for 8,0601. The Highgate and Hemp statid roads, 17,010/. ; knocked down for 17,020/. • The o'd-hill, Green-lanes, and Seven Sisters roads, 11,0201.; bought for 11,0301. The City-road, 3,020/. • taken for 3,030/. Inc Hackney a n d L ee . b r id g e roads, 5,9901.'; bought for 6.)001. The above became the property of Messrs. Levi and Bolton. The Harrow roads, which were put up at 1,4301., Went up for 1,460/., to Mr. Tame ' • and the Kilburn and Edgeware roads were pu rc ha s ed by Mr. Hands for 4,116/, the set-off price being 4,1161. The whole •of the districts were let for 66,651/., being only 131/. more than the sum "asked for by the Commissioners. Three minutes were allowed between each bidding, the Noble Chairman determining the period by a minute'tithe and sand-glass piece_ Pousu FumsnEas, MAY 10.--The lamentation of the Jews in the kingdom of Poland is boundless at this inoment,• because the Government is seriously engaged in carrying into etfeet a measure which the Jews have hitherto biped to avert, namely, to • oblige them to military service. Orders . have just been received to levy the recruits in all the governments in the course of this month, and no longer to exempt the Jews. TAUNTON.---TUE LATE MLTRDER9.—We , are in formed that those abandoned women, Mary and Faith Sealy, -who left Wilton Gaol a few days .ago accom panied by the governor, to proceed to one of our sea ports, whence they have since embarked for Australia, confessed to. him that they had committed the murders with which they severally stood charged. Faith stated that she , poisoned her father, and that her confession made before the coroner ( a nd in which she declared chat she:fiad seen her sister mix the arsenic with the find given him) was false, she' (Faith) having. herself prepared the food for bim,.and , mixed the poison with it. Mary Sealy, too ; confessed to having murdered her aunt under the -circumstances described at the trial. More _horrible cases of depravity have, perhaps, seldom been heard. [And twenty-four greater blockheads than the ,two juries who acquitted these women have seldom been. sworn in a court of justice. The evidence in each case •Ift uo reasonable ground of any doubt whatever as to the guilt of the prisoners.] —Somerset County'Gazette. Did you ever read of a terrible coach accident with out an addition that no blame attached to the driver ? Did you ever know of the decease of an -.old woman of :hupwards tv:hundred years of age, who did not retain erfa , culties to th e l as t, an d rea d th e sma lle s t print .vith out the aid of specta c l es ? .Did you ever hear of a defeated candidate at a contested election,"who did not Assert that his party had achieved a-triumph ?—firinin • shirelndependent. . • CHILD MonDna AND S E.--An occurrence has lately taken - plaCe at . Welab near Lincoln, wick litts . eisited s great sensation in th Y tA k ocalitl ii iSome per , sump who Wet* taking young t. Tongue's rookery, found a bundle which cont s ki ain e in ed ued e i dead child, :'sed . one of the men most 'unfeelingly - ivy. The affair, however, caused a good deal :votsation' ;• it was 'Mentioned' to Aitn Robinson, -byr ,,rotive,l N o uokeeper, and she was obseried - ice •C•glifttsion, thOugh'at the Moment she passed the mat n ter niere-egpression of surprise. In the course ',the :Wei - link the dead child disappeared from the ivy :bush; apii could not then be found, and the same night .14)binson destroyed herself by taking a large dose of 1 ; Ar:TAnutu. The clii:d.was her's ; but nothing transpired tending to - show whether it-had been put to • death or oicd in the: hittlt through neglect. Inquests were held on botrbediev.! ' In the case of the woman a verdict of ~Fc,•to it *hp returned; in that of the child the jury re ' 3 :tlned'al:4et•dici of " Wilful murder" against the de ceased Anil POLIN I COURTS.—Two new police courts on urrey, side, of the water will shortly be opened for public ; the first at Stone's-end, in- the Borough, and the Keriningtoii-kane, 'Lambeth. This latter police Ely art i& to be established instead of.the Lambeth-street court, o•the4fagistratesaf that court will then for the future sit . t. 440 6. Lambeth-street is to ,be rcect t' :the. . police, And the Lambeth-street s e magistrates at the Kennington-lane art will relieve tfi t . t . % ll 4ien-hall Afagistrates of a great num , rti rr re of the L " arges ' of as itis in contemplation that the the new court should' take their prisoners instead, a bTlailtl4§"i" to be disposed of at that up at Union-hall as hereto : . It is also, retrsd:l4l la t th y e police court at the Town , '.all is re be fa-esta 4 4q , A , . _ . MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS CITY, MONDAY EVENING. ;:. ;~ TIMES.—Among the multitude of opinions and re commendations afloat on the subject of the currency, there is one by Mr. Leckie which seems to be peculiarly worthy of notice, and that is, to abolish the legal tender clause as now attached to the Bank of England ' paper, the effect of which would be, instead of locking it up in one place, to " saturate" the country with gold, thus leaving to the. Bank, in the event of a continental war, a supply to fall back upon. A correspondent suggests, that as the new banking measure of Sir R.. Peel provides for the registration of all the names of persons interested in joint-stock banks, .a similar enactment to include bankers generally, whether of issue or deposit, would be felt as add ing greatly to the security of the p ublic. Whit ()c -curred in the failure of Hammersley's is a case pre cisely in point, for if it had• been known to -the cus tomers of the Bank that only one individual was respOnsible to them, they would either have with drawn their deposits, or, by insisting . upon additions to the firm, have secured themselves against danger. Many instances, if not of the same kind, nearly approaching to it, may exist at the present time, and of the firm ac- Wally placed in the 4ist, it occasionally happens that not one name Of those actually in it appears, the old descrip tion being kept up long after the business has passed into other hands. The suggestion appears 'to be a very reasonable one. A letter from Mogador of the 19th ult. says: - . "The commerce of Mogador continues in the same crippled state. Almost every production of this country is lower in price in London than it is in Mogadoi, and yet the mer chants' Continua to carry on business! The only possible way for.them to . do businessis never to pay their duties _wlieu the yy u m e m u pea malts o account: o p . their e o n m t noi involvedidntetlot they e n n l c.po e rt -produce. , But, indeed, this. is their system. n f ih i&thousands themselves coun toryfido llars,ri n ev d e e r b . n t with to r "There are two or three joint-stock . coutpaniee 'advertised in the English papers for •I rii exploring the: mines and develop rinafiotnh,e for r ea t l h th e E of iil h p t e o r r o o r : e these can never come into ope chants is quite against them: policyßut enslaving Europea n. mer chants parties, he will." . the Emperor can trick reofadihn . a o v n enin.B: EXTRAORDINARY LONGEiTITY.-:--bied t ' Monday , the .17th instant, at Crossmolina, near B Grace,Devit, at the extraordinary ag e She was born in the year 1722, and had an accurate y r e e: r o s li of all the public occurrences of note in her native district" a full century preceding the last ten years. But of the events of that latter period she knew nothing, and even matters that regarded herself had no traces in her memory. Her mental faculties seemed unimpaired when she conversed of thingslong gone by, but she spoke like a child on the affairs' of later years. She had several children, but one only survives; cs 1 although he has reached his 80th year, she never called him anything but " my poor . boy Peter."--/dayo C onst ih d ion• . _ •,; gal • L 3,7 ,~:L_:~: HE SUN wEDNE k ,SDAY MORNING,_ MAY 22, 1844. LO NtDON, T, : len r dan .. c 4 e at a house in. Great I .reeling very he previous night POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) ! requested kis immediate a Chart-street, to visit a sick per, 564 . 4., 1 '. 3 ,•• • • MANSION-HOUSE. . exhausted from having been up aA. . N. : • ,A Mr. Groves, of Peckham, complained to Sir Peter attendance on a patient, he desired ,;44.. assistant to say 1 Laurie that a sort of lottery had been established at , that he was out, which was accordingly dour_, I and the 1 No. 7, in the Old Jewry, and that it was carried on evi-- person in question, whom he afterwards iVcertained to dently for the purpose of getting hold of the money o f , be the defendant, went away ; but he rettarra td back soon simple or unwary people, whom the bills and labels were ' after, and continued violently ringing the bell, at inter calculated to draw into the purchase of "good luck." 1 vals of about ten minutes, until two o'clock in ahe morn- The complainant stated that he had purchased the ticket ing; and as he then expressed his determiination to No. 5,050, which stated a day for the drawing. He, compel witness to go with him, he found it nt tcessary to however, found that the drawing-did not take place on send for a policeman. and gave the ' defe.adant into that day, after having incurred the expense of travelling custody. into town to witness the caprice of the goddess to whom In reply to the charge, the defendant, who wag' evi the temple in the neighbourhood of Cheapside had been dently - labouring . under considerable . excitement, s•‘id, raised; and he also found, that although the ticket i that his wife, having been taken suddenly and very s.e.- assured him who held it that the whole lot would be I riously ill, he went to >lr. Packer,, whom he had em drawn prizes, the prize to which he became entitled was p lo y ed on a similar previous occasion, to request his im not - worth twopence. He had, he added, every reason to mediate attendance. The door was opened by the as • suppose that the whole concern was one of those extra- 1 sistant, who, on learning his business, told him that Mr. ordinary humbugs which the genius of the present day ' Packer would attend immediately, whereupon he ye alone was capable a producing, and he accordingly telt I turned hOrne ; but that gentleman not having arrived, an interest in checking its progress by appealing P the he went back to ascertain the cause of the delay. H e Chief Magistrate. . was then, for the first time, informed that Mr. Packer Sir PETER LAURIE, who gave credit to the com- Was - raft-4. and naturally supposing that he had gone to plainant for the discrimination which led him to place his house, he hastened home in the expectation of find the present class of sinister dealers higher in the scale lag him there, but that not being the case, and his of ingenuity than the cadgers and maters of former wife's illness appearing to increase„ he repaired again to days, immediately dispatched a messenger to the left. Packer's, where he received the same answer la " lottery," which was stated to be' carried on in the before, with the additional remark that be had better house of Messrs. Taylor and Hewitt, tea dealers, at the seek assistance elsewhere. He accordingly went to oan corner of the Old Jewry, with his compliments , an d his other surgeon's, residing in Old - street, who , on b ein g wish to communicate upon the subject. knocked up, looked out at the window, and in answer to A young man of respectable appearance, who said his application, intimated that he would not leave his his name was Newman, accordingly waited upon the warm bed and go out at that hour of the night for any Alderman,and (MIL Groves having ft-stated the grounds one. Not knowing where else to apply, he pro of his complaint) declared that the lottery was con- ceeded for the fourth time to Mr. Packer's, whose foot ducted upon the most honourable and liberal principles, boy answered the door, and was repeating the same an and that when the complainant had called and repre- swer he had previously received, that his master was sented his objections, and what he considered to be his out, when, to his extreme surprise, that gentleman threw grievances, the amount of the ticket was offered to be open an upper window, and called for a policeman, on returned, but rejected. The distribution of property to Whose arrival he was given into custody. Had it been the value of 2,5001. was the resultsof the drawing, and the explicitly mentioned in the first instance that Mr. prizes consisted of Chines jars, vases, and pictures, and Packer would not attend, be should not only have other articles of drawing-room decoration. escaped the incarceration he bad undergone, but would Sir PETER LAURIE—How long is it since this- affair have obtained elsewhere that medical aid which the commenced? Mr. Newman--z-It began in February last. state of his wife - so urgently demanded. Sir PETER LAURIE—And there has actually been a Mr. 13114mi/ix asked - the complainant whether his drawing? Mr. Newman—There has been one, and Mr. assistant was in attendance, as he wished to put a few Groves, having drawn one of the small prizes, repented questions to him? his enterprise, and wanted his five shillings ; but he Henr y Neale, the assistant, here stepped forward, and also required to be remunerated for his troubl e and dis- on being sworn, admitted having told the defendant, appointment.—(A laugh.) when he first applied, that Mr. Packer would attend The complainant—l little thought that, at a place directly,, but being afterwards ordered to say that he where I was in the habit of purchasing my tea, I should was not at home, he returned that answer on each sub have met with such treatment.—(Laughter.) sequent application, and finally advised the defendant Sir PETER LAURIE—I see that this ticket is numbered to seek a:nether surgeon. 5,050. Is it possible that 5,050 persons were such fools Mr. Packer wished it to be distinctly understood that as to try their luck at such a game ? Mr. Newman — it was only the violent mode of application of which he You must not judge' from the number of . the.ticket the complained, as it was certainly not compulsory on me actual number of purchasers.. The buyers ch o os e from dical men to attend every clamorous sum mons the y 10,000 tickets ; and Mr. King, an accountant , drew two might receive. beautiful jars, estimated at one hundred guineas. Mr. BINORAM said that it must be considered on the Sir PETER LAURIE—I have no doubt at all that , a few other hand that defendant's wife was very ill'at the time, of the friends of the concern come in for the ' valuable but both parties appeared to have acted under a mis prizes.—(Laughter.) But Mr. Greves, althoug h a cus- conception, and all he could do under the circumstances as The defendant then withdrew with his friends evi tomer to the house, was not, I dare say, considered Wto discharge' the defendant. amongst the number. Pray where is Mr, Taylor, whose dently dissatisfied, and declaring that the matter should name is mentioned at the head of the responsible parties? Mr. Newman—He is, I regret to say, in a lunatic asylum. not rest where it did. ' Sir PETER LAURIE—And advantage is, I suppose, , BOW-STREET. taken of his melancholy condition to carry on this lottery. hanging about her in rags and tatters, and whose appearance &woman named Hannah O'Brien, whose clothes were. :Pere , you not aware :that you have been. committing an Indicated mr tedt . rdhjaatsihnee withwas the hheevictimg and d intoxication, annoying gentlemenw a sch arge a d t illegal act in - carrying it on ? Mr. Newman — We ha d before one o'clock this morning. in Parliament-street. no idea of the' kind, a_tioits commencement, and now it is endefb....EverlYtkta . .g•-has, been conducted on the fairest The case was fully proved against the prisoner, and it ap . . , PYPeIIgIF• i .:. I . r.: peared that she had frequently before been charged at this ~ . e complain,. ir thizi,AWild have imagined that a office with a similar offence. On . the 19th of last month she ' tr ,t eiinen 4,4 ( , ; I,yii tsVelba would have 'ventured to was sent to the House of Correction for a month, so that she s,F in StlN'a manner? " - ' . . ' had only been out of prison one day. Mr. Newnian—You were offered your five shillings. She said that, she was unable to obtain employment, sad The complainant—But I must be paid my expenses. she was compelled to beg. • . The inspector said that all the money the prisoner obtained Sir PETER LAURIE—I am actually tired-of cautioning. from humane persons was immediately spent in drink. ' the public against the various' plans by which money imprisoned prisoner up she would : t e osetit is wheedled out of their pockets. Every day produces 'and ii.itiAmapteiNd tenc . ed her to e te a r d o s n h t e h h 's imprisonment, again brought new dupes, who venture, with their eyes open, into all r f t or three months. sorts sorts of snares. In this case `the complainant has cer- „ . MAR LB OROU GH-STREET. tainly put a period to the existence of this Chinese lot- Mary Ann 211' Grath, a young woman of colour, and one of tery by the exposure he has given it here. I would ad- the lowest grade of prostitutes, was charged on suspicion of vise him to consult his attorney on the subject of what stealing , from the person of a gentleman unknown two sove he considers to be his claim upon the parties whose reigns and half a soverei g n. , names are subscribed to the tickets. ..It appeared that b e tween three and four o'clock this. morn- An old gentleman, who belongs to the 'Mansion-house ing, as Police- constable No. 136 of the C . division was pro ceeding on duty along White Horse - street,. Piccadilly, the household, designated the Lord Mayor's y oun g man, stated that his two daughters had drawn two p rizes, the prisoner was her w given into his custody of b a the entleman, who amount above value of which was about a penny each. — ( A laugh:) mentioned. H e ' sa id s h e had taken the money Sir P. LAURIE—The notification t hat all the tickets trowsers pocket while he was standing talking oollit 9f her: He s would be prizes, has, no doubt, had the effect of giving an , , wished that she might be searched on the spot, andlds money extensive sale, but, I trust, that the moment anything which he was confident slie had about her, returned to him. of this kind makes its appearance in the City, the Lord The constable told him it was necessary, before searching Mayor will be informed of it.- her, that he should go to the station-house with them, and The complainant returned thanks to Sir Peter Laurie, . enter the charge in the usual manner. The gentleman said and said that he should certainly act upon the excellent nothing would compel him to do that, as he, was a nobleman advice he had received. . and a Membe r o f Pa r liament. On hearing this the prisoner abused him i n disgusting A young man, named James Edwards , was brought ; imputationsthe most manner, and made against her accuser of an sbominable nature. up, charged with having defrauded several carriers by The constable on that account took the prisoner into custody. an ingenious mode of deception. The gentleman did not accompany them to the statiod-house. The case attracted a great number of tradesp eo p le to On searchin g the p risoner the mone y . ' was not found, and the the justice-room. ' constable said he believed she had swalloWed it. She was Mr. Thomas Moore, of No. 16, Old Change; carrier, detained. stated that at half-past six o'clock on Saturday evening, MARYLEBONE. the prisoner, who was unknown to him, brought a ham- Mathew •Ca r.e y an elderl man, who aspired to the , grade per to the office addressed as follows: — " To th e Earl of of" gentleman," and described himself as such at the police Liverpool, Buckstead, Sussex, per railway, May 15th, station, was placed before Mr. Rawlinson, on a charge of 1844," to go by one of his carriers, and claimed for car- . having been drunk on the previous night in Tha3 er-street, riage of the hamper 13s 2d. itness objected to pay Blanchester-square, and, while in that happy state, of grossly so large a sum ; but, observing on the ticket, which was Sergneganstev r ga em resz n ect 4 ab i l; females. proved the h one of W. Kenworthy's of the Axe in Aldermanbury, Mr. RAWLINSO2 I9 4— What you say e charge. Si that 6s 6d had been paid upon the hamper_ at Shrews- this is a serious charge? Prisoner n (with ;mat indifference)r— -' bury, he thought it best to pay the amount required, —Oh, I'm sorry, very sorry. In fact, I had drank more than which he did accordingly. The prisoner said it was a I ought to do. hamper of mineral water, an article which his Lordship Mr. Rawiasson . --You call yourself a gentleman, I see. had weekly from Shrewsbury. Witness, when the pri- Pray, what. are you? Prisoner-1 am a gentleman. soner had departed, shook the basket to ascertain whe- Mr. RAWLEISON—Have you no profession? Prisoner— ther it contained liquid, but found it did not; and Yes. Sir, I'm a stone cntter.. . Mr. Rawusisax—NN ell, Sir, as you are a . gentleman, I shall suspecting that something was not completely impose a gentlemanly line, and I hope * it will stop for the right, opened it and saw instead of the mineral future the gentlemsnly practice you seem to have indulged water, a heap of bricks. Witness then ran in. You are fined 40s. out in the direction taken by the prisoner, but could not Prisoner—l can't pay it. . • find him. On returning home, however, he met him Mr. RAWLLISON.—.Then you *shall go to prison. carrying another hamper, which was directed to " the ' UNION-HALL. Hon. Mr. Cavendish, and contained stones,' as was William Silcock, who represented himself as holding a Go afterwards ascertained. - The prisoner, upon beinent situation, was charged with. assaulting Charles spoken to by the witness, threw down the hamper, and Mellish; . under the following circumstances. attempted to escape, but was taken into custody. - The complainant stated, that on the preceding afternoon Mr. T. J. Holt, an agent to Messrs.' Kenworthy and the defendant rus h e d into the shop, where he was, and with- Co., of the Axe Inn, stated that the prisoner - was not in out assigning 114-nrpellasionnaiiteha deniedrged him with robbing him of the employment of that house, and that the hamper did a lie s° ,de e f e i l idant still persisted in c the accusation, and as not come from their house ; and that the bill was forged, on t atfe e m • thy , to eject him he was struck him with the offence, ruck by him. although the beetling of it was genuine. How the pri- Mr. TI P tAILL (to defendant)—How . do yea account for such Boner got the printed copy he did not know. conduct ? Defendant —The fact i 3, I met with an old friend A City policeman stated that he took-into custody . the iii- the service, and he treated me to sonic whiske • and . 3 not prisoner, who had in 'his possession seven tickets filled having drunk any of such liquor for a long time it was so up, purporting to come from different carmen; and ad potent that it completely deprived me of my senses. All I dressed to several Parties, five blank tickets, and the know - is, that after I left my friend, I was robbed of a sove enormous number of 101 pawnbrokers' duplicates for reign, but how I came to charge the young man lam at scloss articles of all descriptions. The prisoner said, upon to km ) w . being apprehended, - that it was distress that had driven said that it was evident th e w hi s k e y was th e Mi. T R AILL cause of the defendant's extraordinary conduct, and he should him to the act. - tine him 103. for the assault , or seven clays' a ' ••imprisonment. Mr. R. Gifford, book-keeper, at the Elephant and The defendant having paid the fine was then discharged. Castle;Newington,ntated that at half-past nine o'clock on the morning of Saturday - last, the prisoner brought a rush basket to the office and produced a ticket, saying he wanted 19s. ,sd. for' it. Witness hesitated about pay ing so much money, especially as twopence was all the profit derived by his employer, but the prisoner observed that if there was anything wrong there was Kenworthy's ticket, and they could set it to rights. At last witness paid the money in a sovereign and took sevenpence in change. The basket was addressed as follows:—" The ir on . wm. Cavendish, Compton 7 place, Eastbourne, Sussex, per ' Kenworthy Rail, thence per coach, May 15, 1844." It was sent according to the address, but it was soon returned, and it was found' to contain bricks and other rubbish, amid Messrs. Kenworthy knew' nothing at all about it. The policeman produced a book containing French prints of the worst description that he found iii the pri soner's hat. Sir PETER LAURIE, in committing the prisoner for trial, said, if he had the power, he would punish the fellow more severely on account of the book, which no doubt was for sale, than for the offence with which he was directly charged. CLERKBN WELL. MURDER AND ROBBERY. the Thames - Police-courtcaedHlbavenenrssetrbtioyi a,a l t n ninl o dea u smt r , iut t i re l i i d( a .)eu t rgel a itvii i i awt n th a i atnhtbioinrueoattmel the xi : Yesterday morning considerable excitement was created at d Luke Williams, proprietor of the Chequers public-house, robbed t b r a b e e d re r et u 6,eWe platipirop4liFtw-hiwactkalltp,iirlaei slightest chance of recovery, the report proved but too - true. It seems. that Williams, though a married man, and nearly sixty years of age, had formed a connexion with a young woman - named Rosetta Bragger, who resided at 6, Bruns wick-place. He had frequently been robbed in that house before, but in consequence of is attachment to the young woman, always refused to give the parties in charge. About ten minutes to nine 'o'clock in the forenoon of yes terday, information was conveyed . to Sergeant Harris, the eating inspector, that Williams had been robbed, and was then lying insensible at his own house, in - a most precarious condition. He immediately directed Wiseman ' 156 K, Who had been on duty in Dorset - street the previous day, together with Munford, another constable of the K division, to lose no time in taking into custody all the parties supposed to be implicated in the robbery and assault, and-, accordingly, about three o'clock, James Halstead, a coalwhipper, Alexander Nicholson, a milkman, Mary Anne Ashe.- and her sister; Rosetta Bragger, who was the chief attraction of Williams to Brunswick-place, were brought up to.this Court, Halstead being charged with having assaulted Williams, and the three latter with having robbed him of about 301. Police Constable Wiseman stated, that on Sunday morning, about half-past 8 o'clock, having been informed by Mrs. Williams that her husband had been robbed in Brunswick. place of a 20/. note, a 51. note, and some sovereigns, he went to the place, and found Williams outs* the door, and was answered from the window by the prisoner Rose, who re fused to admit either of them. Williams then broke a pane and undid the sash, when they both entered, and found the two female prisoners and their mother: Williams refused to give any of them into custody until the prisaner Nicholson, who resided in the house, and had part of the money, came home, when he would give him and Mary Ann Ashe in charge. Witness called again at 4 in the afternoon, and saw Williams, as he thought, insensibly drunk on a chair. Mary Ann Ashe was there, and another sister, named Louisa ; but Nicholson had not returned. The mother of the female prisoners told witness that Williams had been fighting with a man outside, who first lent him a shilling, and then knocked him down. Mrs. Williams then came and took her husband kome in a cab. Yesterday morning about 9 o'clock, by di rection. of Sergeant Harris, who ordered him to take all the parties implicated into custody, witness apprehended Nichol soil on the charge of robbery. At the station-house Nicholas n admitted that he saw Williams on Saturday morning with his waistcoat-pocket full of sovereigns, and received a sove reign from.him to get a half-pint of rum. Witness a:. , ked Nicholson, who appeared to have been drinking, what money he had then about him, and he answered about a sovereign in silver ; but, on being searched, 21. and 6d. in silver, and 4d. in copper, were found upon him. - About 11 o'clock the , two fernale prisoners were apprehended at a cookshop in Broad-street, Ratcliff. Since then, witness ascertained that Williams, who, he understood, was still insensible and not expected to live, had shown two Bank of England . notes at a public-house in Brook-street. When witness first saw Wil liams he had a severe black eye, which he said he had re ceived-from a man named Bragger, not yet, in custody. and who. either is, or passes as, the husband of the female prisoner of that name. • Elizabeth Hilliers, proprietress of the King's Head, at the corner of Periwinkle-street, Ratcliff, saw the man Williams at her house on Saturday with two notes and some gold and silver, . Which he pulled out of his pocket. The gold and silver might amount to about 4!. or 5!. They fell from hitu at . the bar ; but she picked up the money and returned it to him, wrapping the gold in the notes, and saying " You foolish man, take care of your money." -Rebecca Ashe, the mother of the female prisoners, said that on Sunday morning, between 11 and 12, Williams came to the' house drunk, and Halstead was authorised by Nicholson to turn• him out, upon which Halstead and Williams' struck at each otheronce. George Bragger said he went to Dorset-street to see his brother for the purpose of having a walk, when ho met two policemen who told him Williams bad been robbed. Nichol son came there; but the policemen did not take him into custody. He slept with Nicholson, who went out at half past five on Monday morning to sell 1113 milk. The !Hun John Shea, and Margaret Shea, who said she was his wife, were charged with an assault on police-constable Cale, 54 E, and with assaulting three other constables. It appeared, from the evidence of the officers, and of several civilians, that the prisoners, who were perfectly sober, were fighting in Warwick-place, Gray's Inn, be tween six and seven on the previous evening. Cale went up, and desired them to separate, and taking the woman by the shoulders, ordered her to go in an opposite direc tion to the male prisoner, so that the quarrel might not be renewed. She seemed willing to do so, but when he attempted to remove the male prisoner, she returned, and both used the grossest language. Finding remon strance useless, Cale took John Shea into custody; but he had no sooner done so than the ruffian knocked hint down on the pavement. The officer rose, but was twig° more thown upon the flags with the same dreadful vio lence. When Cale attempted to raise himself from the ground the fourth time, Shea threw himself upon him, and, thrusting his hand between the policemens leather stock and his throat, and forcing his knuckles against his windpipe, would unquestionably have strangled him had not several civilians come up at the moment, and with much dif fi culty dragged the prisorier'away from him. One of these persons deposed that upon their arrival the constable was quite black in the face, and seemed to be in a state of suffocaticrn from the prisoner's violence. The prisoner kicked Cale on the body, and endeavoured to inflict injuries on the most delicate and vital parts of his frame. The female prisoner seized 38 Gby the hair of the head, when he came to the assistance of his brother officer, and attempted to excite the mob to rescue John Shea. On their way to the station-house, in the morning, both prisoners Made oi most violent and determined resistance—and Sergeant Dodd, 9 E, Jarvis, 41 E, and police-constable 95 E, received some severe blows from them. The prisoners laughed during the examination, and seemed to treat the matter with the greatest indifference. The male prisoner, who is a desperate and powerful fellow, appeared in Court without a coat. He refused to make any defence. Mr. GREENWOOD sentenced him to a month's impri sonment in the House of Correction, without fine, and the female to twenty-one days' imprisonment. IV OR SMP- STREET. Thomas Smith, a young man of very respectable ap pearance,_who was described as a wine agent, residing in Great Chart-street, Hoxton, was brought before Mr. Bingham on a charge of having disturbed and an noyed Mr. Charles Packer, a surgeon, in Pittield-street, by ringing his door bell without lawful excuse. trsiutias e n , Igrsca precedingaanndd mi complainantnmfnoeirinformed tt,ies immediately stated, mtene that tlawht afterwards someod n ish a ihebs his a s s i stant door se t s w i hs e ta li d, na e ts culledo c' violentlyca o c e l c a nu o dpn -. '....--.i~.-. said he had been all day at the house No. 6, Brunswick place, with-the' exception of having ran across the street to the Lamb to get a drop of beer. When he returned he saw t -Williams on the ground, bleeding at the mouth, and Halstead I over him. Witness said, " Come : we've had quite enough of that ; let us have no more of it." Mr. Rose, surgeon, of High-street, Shadwell, saw Williams at ten o'clock on Sunday night, when he was quite insensible, witness believed from some external injury. The left eye was black and the lower lip cut and swollen. Witness could not swear positively whether the injured man was re duced to his present state by drunkenness or external violence, until after a post mortem examination. Mrs. Williams could testify as to his state before the injury ; but she was at present at his bed side. Witness endeavoured to rouse him, but in vain ; and there was no likelihood of his surviving two hours longer; neither was it probable that his depositions could be taken. _ _ The constable, Wiseman, said that the witness Bragger was brother to the man not yet in custody, and who was sup posed to have inflicted the blow alluded to by the surgeon. He had thrown every Possible obstacl, in the way of the inquiries instituted by the police. Mr. BALLANTYNE—Then why is not he in custody? By his own showing he was amongst the people implicated in a transaction likely to end in a man's death. Bragger was immediately transferred to the dock amongst the other prisoners. - Mr. BALLA/m-1:E remanded the prisoners until Wednes day, and directed that immediate notice should be given if Williams so far recovered as to be able to make depositions. We have since learned that the unfortunate man died in the course of the evening. The deceased was fifty-eight years of age, and was formerly a courier in the service of her Majesty's Government. lie was superannuated a few years ago on a pension of M. per annum. THE RECENT MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. (FURTHER PARTICULARS.) A correspondent sends us the following particulars . of the melancholy accident at London-bridge Wharf, from an in quiry instituted on Monday at the peilice stations in the city and at Wapping. The boat into which the children ventured belongs to a waterman named Williamson, and at the time of the accident it was rowed by his son, a youth nineteen years of age, who had been duly indentured to his father, and was, consequently, so far qualified to ply for hire upon the river. The'boat, however, was not licensed, as it had been purchased only a few days, and the necessary instructions furnished in the 2d and 4th by-laws of the Master and Wardens of the Watermen's and Lightermen's Company had not been complied with. From the number of those already known to be lost, and those rescued, it ..is evi dent that more were taken on board the skiff than the law allows, as the proviso distinctly states that if more than eight persons are carried, the party is liable to a fine of 5/. By an Act passed in 1742, such an offender would be liable not only to the amercement,but to a disqualification, amount ing to a prohibition from plying at all for twelve months. This statute, however, is rendered obsolete by the above by law, passed during the mayoralty of Alderman Lucas. The following is a correct list of the personsknown to be missing, and of those subsequently restored to their friends:--Lost, Julia Lane, aged twelve years, resident at Brin's-court, Southwark ; Robert Thurlow, eight-and-a-half, 12, ShUftes bury-place, Aldersgate-street ; W. Newton,. thirty-eight, Allen-street, Goswell-road. Up to this' afternoon (Monday), other inquiries have, been made, but it is not quite clear that the parties inquired for were on board the boat when she was uliset. Restored, George Field, William Bird, Charles New ton (brother to the above, who went down); Joseph New som, and Henry ThUrlow. A lad of the name of Leicester, who was supposed to be dead when taken into the Castle public-house, in St. Mary-at-hill, recovered after consider able ',attention, and was eventually removed to home. Another boy was restored at the Steam-packet Hotel, and furnished with a change of clothing by the landlord. . kis to be hoped that the authorities will take immediate steps to stay the nuisance of these overcrowded boats, in so danger ous a part of the river. None of the bodies have at present been found. DREADFUL ACCIDENT ON THE BRUSSELS AND ANTWERP RAILWAY. ANTWERP, MAY 18.—A dreadful aciident has occurred on the railroad from. Brussels to Antwerp, at a station four miles from the latter town, named Bad Goed. The train which arrived at this station about five o'clock was, while in full progress, thrown off the line, and brought in contact with a luggage train. The concussion was fearful in the extreme ; three- persons were brought in dead last night, fifteen grievously wounded, and about forty with contusions more , or less serious. The accident is said to have been occasioned by the carelessness of the railway servants in attending to the points, so that at the junction with the Ostend line the car riages were thrown off the line, and came into collision with the baggage-train. Strange to say the engine, the tender and one carriage continued upon the proper line, but were violently separated by' the concussion from the remain ing carriages. Another account states that the rail was under repair, and that one rail, which had been replaced, was imperfectly bolted and fastened at the extremity to wards Brussels. -As the train passed over it the fastening was loosened, and after the passage of the first carriage the end tilted up, caught the wheel of the next carriage, which was thrown eff the line,' and thus occasioned the accident. The carriages were crowded with passengers, and among them several English people. One Englishman was carried to the hospital of St. Elizabeth, but after having his wounds `dressed was able to be removed to a private residence. I could not learn his name at the hospital, as his stay was short, and no record made. Another had his face severely cut and contused, so that his features could not be recognised ; and a third, who had left 'his own carriage .and was tra velling-with his courier, was severely wounded in the legs, brit riot, it is to be hoped, to require amputation. An Eng lish lady is also named as baying been killed, but I will not repeat the name, as it ia a common one, until I can ascertain if the report is correct. Four German bakers who had been in England, and were returning to their employment, got into a carriage Whicl'had been recently painted, but left it for another in consequence of the strong smell of the paint. , It was a providential removal, for the newly painted car riage was literally crushed to -atoms. A Belgian advocate had both his legs so frightfully jammed, that amputation appears inevitable. Some accounts say that there are already ten persons dead, bat I hope it is exaggerated. The numbers I have reported were given me at the hospital. THE PRINCE OF WALES.—We have great pleasure in announcing that, the first presentation to Christ's Hospi- tal of the Prince of Wales, recently become a Governor of that Royal foundation, has been conferred on a son of Mr. Hunt, .the indefatigable . Secretary of the Royal Cornwall ' Polytechnic Institution. We believe Mr. Hunt owes the se lection of his son entirely to his well-.deserved reputation as a ' philosophic investigator, whose .00.440 Vere made .known at the palace by, Sir John Herschell; 'on fCtiyarding a copy of Mr. Hunt's recent publicati4u, - entitled Researches on Light." Her Majesty and the Prince expressed, through Colonel Anson, theit pleaSdreArk:liitvitig the bpportunity of proMoting the interests of seiencele.Cornwall by the Use, of the Prince of Wales's influence) West Briton. , LORD THANET'S Fox. , :-The late Earl of , Thnnet . , was in the habit of removing every ..year, with his hunters and hounds, from Hothfield, near. Ashford, in Kent, to an other seat he had in Westmoreland. • 'A short time, previous to one of these removals, a, fox bad been run to earth near Hothfield ;, and, upon being .dug, out, .he pr?i,ved t( * ;, be, se ex traordinary large and fine a, one; ihat_LordTli*et , itirected it to be conveyed to Westmoreland: the course, Of the next season a fox was rust to earth' again at Hothfiegi und, upon being dug Out, the huntSman, whippets-in, and' the earth-stoppers, all declared that it was the same fox which had been taken into Westmoreland, as it had an unusually large white blaze on its forehead. Lord Thalia, was exceed ingly energetic in his expressions of diShelief of the state ment of his people, but they persisted in their assertions; and, having ear-marked the fox, he was again taken into Westmoreland, and turned loose in the neighbourhood of Appleby Castle. In hunting the next season at Hothfield a fox was killed at that place, which proved to be the one in question, and which had thus twice found its way from West moreland into Kent. By what instinct or exertions of its faculties the animal was enabled to do this (the distance friom one place to the other being about 320 miles), it is not easy to form an idea. Its well-known cunning would, one might suppose, be of little avail' in such an emergency, except in enablingAiA o nElAtosptoc. ~IN . Hull re food.—Chester li Chronicle. LlFE. —Yesterday was married, at. St. George's.Church,..Hanover - square, by the Rev. Gilbert Elliot,. :Viscount ,Melgund, eldest son of the Earl of Minto, to mina Eleanor Elizabeth Hislop, daughter of the late Sir Thomas and the *Lady . Emma Hislop. There' were present on the interesting occasion the Eirl ' and Lady Minto, and Lady *John Russell, Lord and Lady Auck land, Hoii. ItObert`Ederl, and several other noblemen and gentlemen' of distinction.' At the conclusion 'of the ceremony, the happy . pair, together with their friends, proceeded to the residence of the bride's mother, in Wilton-crescent, where a splendid dejeuner was given by her Ladyship. • THE-NEW-ROYAL EXCHANGE AND THE WRI: UNGTON. STATUR:—For some days past several men .have been employed , in laying a foundation and basement, in which 'great progress has .been. made, in front. of the,New Royal Exchange, ter, the reception of the Wellington statue. The Appt, selected for the erection of it is. about the extreme end westward of the Bank-buildings, and opposite the Globe Assnrance-offiee. A very strong foundation of concrete has beim laid down to depth of above twelve feet, and on that will be raised ASOlid block of brickwork, which, it is expected, will be finished in it few . days. Opposite the western front of the New Royal •Exchange a lofty seafiblding is now raised, on a level with the- pediment, for the purpose of having placed there the figures,from the designs and execution of Mr. West macott and his assistants. BARRINGTON:-...INCENDIARY FIRE.—On Thursday evening last, about .11 o'clock, a haulm stack, the produce of eight acres, standing on a field in the occupation of Mr. Woollard, was destroyed by fire ; there is no doubt it was in tentionally fired. A few nights previous a quantity of win dows were broken in the dwelling-house of Mr. Woollard. There is a sharp look out kept for the perpetrators of these outrages (no doubt committed by the same party), and if caught, they will no doubt meet with that punishment they so richly deserve. The fire was - plainly seen from Cambridge. —lpswich Express. FIRE AT BRATIFIELD..—OR Sunday afternoon, be tween four and five o'clock, afire broke out in some straw on the preMises of Mr. Joseph Everson, of Bradfield, the same farm (the property of the Rev. Robert Davers) on which a fire took. place last year ; but by the very commendable exertions of the labourers, the Suffolk and Norwich engines being also promptly on the spot, though their services were scarcely needed, the damage was confined to the destruction of a harve,t waggon and about six loads of straw. Mr. Everson is insured..-Ipswich Express. INCENDIARY FIRE AT BOOKING.—The inhabitants of Braintree and Docking were again alarmed on Thursday night, about half-past nine o'clock, by the cry of fire, flames having burst out' in a shed at the back of a barn situate in Panfield-lane, -in the latter parish, close to the town of Braintree, in the occupation of the Rev. A. Fletcher, of Fins bury, London. The raging element rapidly extended to the barn and other farming buildings,. a haulm stack and hay-stack, all which were in a blaze before the Brain tree and Bocking engines (four in number) arrived, and were in a short time destroyed. The buildings (late the property of John English, Esq., deceased) were insured in the Essex Equitable Fire-office, and we are informed 'Mr. Fletcher is protected by insurance for all that is destroyed belonging to him, his carriage excepted. The looker states that he went round the premises about a quarter of an hour before the fire, and all appeared to be right; he has, there fore, no doubt that it was wilfully occasioned.—Essex Herald. The dry weather and cold winds have caused some alarm 'for the growing crops, especially for the spring corn and grass; and we hear that the beans and peas are, in some places, very much injured. The w h ea t, within the last fewdays, has given way considerably on some dry soils ; but on the whole it is looking well, and if we should be favoured within a week with rain, we are told we may have an abundant crop of both hay and straw. The stock is doing welly but the fat markets are hoary,—BrOton Gautte. PRICES OF SHARES IN CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, TOESDAY, MAY 21. Dividend per Arinum. Amount Share. lilames of Com panies. Canals. Ashton and Oldham Ashby-de-la-Zouch-ay Basingstoke Breckneck & Ahergay Birmingham,l.lfithsb Do. and Liverp. 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 Huddersfield . ..... ....av Kennet f.nd Avon ...av Lancaster 3V Leeds and Liverpool... Leicester Leicester & Northamp Loughborough -.ay Monmouthshire ...... Montgomeryshire ....... Melton Mowbray Mersey and Irwell Macclesfield Neath Oxford Peak Forest av Regent's (or London).. Rochdale 3V Shropshire Somerset Coal Da. Lock Fund Stock Stafford and Worcester Shrewsbury Stourbridge Stratford .On. Avon...av Swansea Severn & Wyc & Trent & Mersey, 1 4 sh. Thames & Medway..av Warwick and Binning. Warwick and Napton Worcester & Birming Wilts and Berks av Wisbeach Wey and Docks. Commercial East and West India London Ditto Bonds Bristol ....... ............ .av Do. B nds, var. amounts St. Katharine Ditto 80nd5........ Ditto Bonds Southampton Bridges Hammersmith ...... Southwark, new subs. Ditto New of 714 pr c Waterloo Ditto Old Ann. of Si, Ditto New ditto of 71 Ditto 80nd5....••.....• Vauxhall. av Assurances. Albion Alfred Life" Alliance Brit. and For Ditto Marine Atlas Birmingham Fire British Fire 1 British Commercial Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County Eagle Economic Life ...... European Life Ditto New Freemasons Globe 'Guardian Hope Life Ditto Imperial Fire.. ...... Ditto Life .. . Indemnity Mari ne Law Life ...........« Legal and General Life London Fire Ditto Ship ...... ....... National Loan .Fund Palladium Life Protector Life Provident Rock Life R •yal Exchange Sun Fire Ditto Li fe....... University Life Universal Life Union Fire and Life Joint Stk Banks Australasi' Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial London & Westininstr 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 di. Coke Bath British Ditto Provincial Birmingham Staffordsh Bristol 8right0n.................. Ditto General City of London Ditto New Continental Conso Ditto New Equitable. Imperial Isle of Thanet Independent .." Phenix Rateliff: South Metropolitan United Genera 1,,,, ,,.,,, Westmins. Chartered Ditto New ........ Water Works Birmingham East London Grand Junction ay Kent Nw Riv Lon. Bride An Manchester and Salford Vauxhall, late S. Lond. West Middlesex av Yrk Buldg Co. Les. Prop Iron Railways. Birmingham & Derby Binning. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter Cheltenhm & Gt. West Clarence Eastern Counties." Edinburgh & Glasgow Ditto New Grand Junction.... Great North of Enginfl Great Western Ditto Half Shares • Ditto Fifths ..« Hull and Selby ....... Leeds and Selby ... ... Liverpool & Manchestr Ditto Half-Shares Ditto Quarter-Shares London and Brighten Ditto Loan Notes London and Blackwall London and Greenwich London and Birmingh. Ditto Quarter-Shares Ditto Thirds London and S. Western London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares Manchstr and Binning Ditto Extension Midlanzl North Midland.. Do. %_Sh., iss. I 0 dis. Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss. 51. dis Paris and Rouen Stockton & Darlington South East. and Dover Ditto New, iss. it dig. 'Yarmouth and Norwich lurk and N. Midland Ditto New Shares Mines. Albion Copper ...... Alten Anglo Mex., iss.sl. p.m Ditto Subscription Bolanos Ditto Scrip Brasil. Imp. iss. 5/. p.m Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U. Do. St. John Del Rey British Iron Candonga Ditto Registered Cobre Copper Copiapo Columbian ? iss. 5/. 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.2l. pin Ditto Scrip Ditto New Scrip...„ Zit erary. Londn,with Sin. Ticket "London University Russell .............. King's College Miscellaneous Anglo Mexican Mint Australian Agricultur Brit. American Land, Canada ..... Upper Canada BOnds (Mn. Steam Navigation Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wood Pay., iii. 11. Mex. and S. American New Bruns wick (Land) New Zealand Penins. & Orien. Steam Royal Mail Steam Reversionary Int. Soc. South Australian Thames Tunnel.. Van Diemen'a Lan d'" Paid. X & di. 1 100 0 0 41 13 4 ieo 0 0 'lOO 0 0 5i per cent. 4/. per cent. 41. 404 8/. 15s. 71. 11. 56. 9I 12s. Bd. 1. 10.. 341. 101. 171. 301. 316 17s. tid. 101. 6 percent. 28 154 204 14 101. 151. 321. - 105. 101. Si. 10s. 41. 11. 4a. 3 per cent. % per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. 31. 10s. 5 per ceet. 5 per cent. I per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. % per cent. 11. 07 Bd. 18s. Id. per cent. 11. 71. 36. lOs. 4 percent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 13s. 6d. pr 51.51. 4 per cent. Ti. per share 5 per cent. 3/. 6s. 5 per cent.l tc 395. bds. 534 per cent. sye t per cent. 5 per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 4s. 2s. 6d. per cent. 'l9s. I.'h. & bds. 1/. ss. 108. 'los. sper cent. per cent. 5 per cent. 11. ss. 4r. S per cent. 13% per cent, 11. 4s. 5 per cent. lON per cen 51. It per cent 6 per cent. 5 per cent. sper cent. bper cent. per cent. per cent. 8 per cent. 6 per cent. Hs per share 6s. per share 10 per cent. per cent. 16s. ss. 1/. 7s. 51. and bs. 454/. and bs. per cent. r cent. 11)4 104 Hl per sh 15s per ski 21. 6 per cent. 5 per cent." 6 per cent. 5 per cent 6 per cent. i% per cent. 31. 12s. 21. 101. -.21.101. 2/. 10s. sper cent. 4/. 161. ' 1/. 14s. 10s. per sh 1/. Is. per cent. 21. 10s. Hs. per ph. W. ss. perch 7s 10d per sh ►0 per cent. 3)4 per cent. 94 - ss. per sh 2361. per sh. Ns. per eh. 4 per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 14/. per sh 10/. pn ill. 11. 14s. Xper share 314(1 per sh 91.175. pr sh 113 s per sh 11. IL 10s. • It. ss. 15s. U. 111. 10d. 15 per cent. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. .- 1/. 11. Si 17s. ed. JO per cent. 106. per sh. 14 104 perch. K4l. 14 15i. (per cent. per cent. andl ta.6d. b. tper cent. ;per cent. IN per cent tiper cent LIST OF SCOTTISH COM MAY 15, l f per cent. ()per cent. bper cent. I per cent. ?per cent. tiper cont. tiper cent. Spa cent. 7per cent. irper cent. bper cent. t per cent. bper cent. B per cent. bier cent. per cent 4 percen t Bank of Scotland Royal Bank British Linen Compny. Commercial Bank Glasgow Union Bank Western Bank Central Bk. of Scotland Caledonian Insurance.: Hercules Insurance North Brit. Insurance Insurance Co. of Scott. Edinburgh Life Insur. Scottish Union Standard Life Insur Dalkeith Railway Ellin. and Glas. Rallwy Glasg. and Green. RaiL I;Dundersand Arbr Rail. EARLY INCUBATION.—We day last a covey of sixteen young partridges were seen on the lands of leppoch. This is exceedingly early of the sea son for the appearance of such youngsters in our northern oliniAto,—Rofs-ohirs dickertiser. 100 0 0 Stock Stock [47 9 0 Stock 50 0 0 50 0 0 63 2 8 50 8 0 108 0 0 70 10 3 100 0 0 100 0 0 200 0 0 40 0 U 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 • 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 10 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 • 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 • 50 0 0 20 0 0. 40 0 0' 20 0 0 77 10 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 • 50 0 0 50 0 0 55 0 0 25 0 0 30 0 0 50 5 0 100 0 0 50 0 • 50 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 • 25 0 0 100 e 0 41 13 4 100 0 0 30 0 0 100 0 0 Cl 3 12 9 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 16 13 4 12 15 4 100 0 0 32 0 0 41 6 10 13 15 9 100 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 70 0 0 100 0 100 0 0 50 0 U 50 0 0 50 0 • 20 • 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 5 0 0 15 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 0 35 0 0 . 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 20 0 0 ?.0 0 55 0 20 • 50 0 10 0 600 25 0 50 0 25 0 40 0 75 0 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 SO 0 0 100 0 0 Is '6 • 5 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 C 50 -0 100 0 0 100 0 0 70 0• 0 SO 0 100 0 0 23 0 0 50 0 0 12 10 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 50 0 0 12 0 • 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 0 2 0 0 32 0 0 70 0 0 SO 0 0 40 0 0 7 0 0 100 0 0 100 • 0 40 • 0 45 0 0 15 0 0 20 • 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 0 0 50 0 0 25 • 0 31 0 11310 0 100 0 t) 1 25 0 ( 1 150 0 0 21 0 0 25 0 0 15 0 0 75 0 0 7 10 7 10 0 40 0 0 13 0 • 55 0 0 20 0 0 10 10 0 9 0 0 59 0 0 7 0 0 1 150 71 0 50 0 0 10 0 0 4000 2 10 0 100 0 9 100 0 0 10 0 0 90 0 0 35 10 0 32 10 0 14 0 0 1 10 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 goo 75 • 0 25 0 0 5000 100 0 25 0 50 0 90 0 oioaoo o seY o 0 0 50 Y 0 O 20 0 0 PANIES' PRICES 1844. 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 12 10 0 1 0 0 2 10 0 50 0 • 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 • • inderstand that on Fri MARKET NEWS—YESTERDAY . HAY MARZZTS. SMITIIFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 21 158 to 31; use ful ditto, 31 3s to 31 10 - s ; tine Upland ditto, 3 / lOs W 3l 13s ; Clover Hay, 3/ 5 s t o 5 53 ; Oat Straw, 116 a to It 854 Wheat Straw, 1/ 8s to pabulum,s load. Owing to the in creased supplies of grain p, the demand for both Hal and Straw ruled excessively heavy, at in some instances lower prices. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 2l lOs to 3l 3s ; use ful ditto, 31 5s to 3/108; fine Upland ditto, 3/ lOs to 3/166; Clover Hay, 315 s to 5l; Oat Straw, 1/ 78 to 1/ 9s; Wile a ! Straw, 1/ lOs to 1/ 128 per load. Supply but moderate, an trade very dull. WiIITECILAPEL.—Coarso Meadow Hay, 2/ 16 1 to 31; useful ditto, 3/ 3s to 31 8s ; fine Upland ditto, 31 106 S e 3/ 15s ; Clover Hay, 315 s to 5/ 83 ; Oat Straw, 11 68 to 11 81 ; Wheat Straw, 11 Ss to 1/ 103 per load. A full avBg B supply, and a heavy demand. COLONIAL. SUGAR.—The market for British Plantation is without change, only about 100 hhds having been sold at pre vi w e n rates. The public sales have contained only chiefly bags Bengal (partly in bo n d), w hi c h was d); taken in, being held abo ve th e va l ue . During the P a ! week a fair business has b een d o i ng in Foreign ., c°",, - listing chiefly of two l arge cargoes of white Havann; (about 4,000 boxes), which h ave b een so ld afloat, at ah ea :f 31s 6d, deliverable at St. P e t ers b urg h, and a small carg ° . yellow ditto, at 20s 6d, d e li vera bl e in the Mediterranean' The 284 chests 47 barrels Maroiin, offered by suction , which were all taken i n , h ave su b sequen tly been - posed of (fur export) at 23s for the white, and 18s nu for the brown, being the extreme value. The quan ti q of British Plantation landed last week at the East and India Docks was 835 hhds, 105 tierces, 160 barrels; and th * A iwere taken for home consumpti on 401 hhds, 42 tierc el '4 barrels. The stock in the same pl aces i s 1,948 hhda,' '- tierces, 239 barrels. and Rum.—The quantity landed last wee k a t the E West India Docks was 80 puns 7 hhds ; there were taken f o r n s home consumption 126 puns 27 hhds,and exported 8 8 ,,t, 22 hhds. The stock in the same plac e i s 8,329 p un s 1,666 nuT o Elem.-525 bags Bengal at aucti on , so ld a t 103 61 to 1' for good mid white, being about the former value. vele SALTPETRE.-1,737 bags Bengal only p ar tly foUnd at 23s to 25s 6d for 19i to 6 per ce nt. re f rac ti o n, Whic' previous prices. sp ot ' TALLOW.—P.Y.C. is 40s 3d to 44)s 9d per cwt on th e and Town at 42s per cwt. Prot TicA.—The R ublic sales to-day are sma ll, rather Pr o , .3,000 packages. They went off with spirit, though wit any advance ; and green teas being scarce , we re nesrg sold at full rates. Pouchong was taken in. (From the London New Price Curtent of May 21 0 7 3 8 91 SUGAR.-This afternoon the principal feature in the r oe • India Sugar market was a public sale of 125 hhds newYi; badoes, being the first parcel brought forward this season : o r quality was superior to that of last year, the chief part tike sisting of bright yellow, and containing only a small crow / t o of foots. There was a good attendance of the trade, a n n o tiff whole sold with spirit rather above the general calna,.„`6d, fine bright yellow fetching 66s to 66s Gd, good 63s to 6S ate middling 62s to 62s 6d, and low Gls per cwt. In the elf ice market there was rather more business transacted, and hhds were disposed of at previous rates. REFINED.-To-day there was rather more business t lll/I fl o acted in Refined Sugar, but at lower .rates; brawn_, Luigi selling selling at 76s 6d to 775, and standard Lumps 778 ba w ,, g . o l per cwt. In bonded Crushed Sugar there is a good deal ( at 25s 9d to 265. Loaves are firm in price, and in demand. MAURITIUS.-Prices have further declined 6d to ls b l s 'is cwt : the demand, however, has been good, and 6,1 00 6 .0 at public sale were all disposed of-fine yellow at 63s t o 6d to good 61s Gd to 62s 6d, middling 59s to 61s, lowL 57 ed, 58s 6d, good to fine brown 53s to 575, middling 52s to 34'; good to fine grey 61s to 63s 6d, and low to good ;Pid6l,3 57s to 60s 6d per cwt. Ohl EAST INDIA.-This afternoon Bengal Sugar was not ° to t in request ; 2,341 bags 56 chests at public sale were sold' d to 6d under former rates; fine white went at 645, good 62300 638 6d, mid 61s 6d to 625, middling yellow 57s to 58 3 : . and washed white 59s 6d to 63s per cwt. FOREIGN.-This afternoon 1,249 boxes of yellow Hava t iff Sugar were offered at public sale, and all taken in at 120 e rates; fine at 22s to 23s 6d, good to 21s 6d, micldnnif i der to 20s 6d; there were buyers of the latter 6d per CWt a o et. the taking-in rates ;19 bo x es of wa eh e d so ld at 19s Per up MeseAsses.-For W e st Indi a ra th er l owe r rates i ffy . been accepted St. Kitt's low quality at 22s to 23e, St; 2"1 0 cent's 245, Demerara good 25 5 , an d D om i n i ca g o o d to no t o d s to 28s per cwt. Bengal Syrup 15s to 17s per ewt pee afternoon Antigua taken in at 26s t o 26 s 6d for goo d, minica at 26s 6d to 275, but Grenada sold at 21s Per - for low. c 0 reduction on former rates of Is to 29 Pe i r e d i tt has been accepted for British Plantation. Trinidad goo",_. r 44, to 48s 6d to 495, good middling 4Gs 6d to 475, middling „ 1 per 465, good grey 43s to 455, and middling 42s to 428 32s cwt. Foreign has met with more attention ; Bahia at to per cwt. This afternoon Trinidad Cocoa taken in . at 44s 6d per cwt for middling quality. ih p eal SAGO.-Jamaica Arrowroot taken in at 8d per .- lee Sago taken in above the value; middling small brown flo ur $1 and good large white Pearl 18s 6d per cwt. Sago F it) 19s to 20s per COFFEE.-There has been more inclination shown t° or chase Nest India Coffee, and former rates have .be en tained. Mocha has sustained the former value' 68 0 1 afternoon Ceylon real good ordinary went at 52s ed or ss country damaged, first class 51s to 52s 6d, sea damse l !, 4801 class 51s to 525, second ditto 50s to 51s, third ditto 47s ' a tly and triage 32a. African at the 8d per lb duty only r,20 sold, ragged coloury worm eaten at 368, pale 30s, dainalsiO the esuntry 28s to 32s 6d ; bold yellow pale was take n pi( 31s, and considered cheap. Berbice taken in at 7os for middling. ' tail ° TEA.-The rates previously established are fully ells_ boo for Tea; indeed, for the better qualities of Green buY,e li be ig been compelled to pay a small advance, the suelni,. scanty. Congou, common for cash has fetched 1s to ;i s se and good common Is id to is Id. Twankay, Is 25d per lb for common. Hyson, Young Hyson, Imperi Gunpowder have met with ready purchasers at .stiff it In Ponehong prices do not give way.. Flowery Pek - zo dull of sale, but in Orange Pekoe, a fair,business heow - o f transacted. To-day there was ess demand for TO all sorts. • RICE.-This afternoon Bengal Rice sold at very full to e" good middling white fetched Ils to Ils 6d, fine hold e Af se pearly 12s, very small dusty 9s 6d to 10s, sea damaged, c ' : 0 4 second, and third class 9s 6d to lls per cwt. Carolintr quality went at 14s to 15s, and mid 13s to 13s 6d per 2in RUM, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-The principal feater: c fo r the Rum market has been the Government contrat ie o f 100.000 gallons, half East and half West. India, they/I I : e el , A which has been taken by Messrs. Ruck, Son, and Fent„sat 2s Did per gallon proof strength, being under P' - got market rates, and id lower than the last contreek_aot. Jamaica no decline in prices has taken place at Prior; Leewards are held for previous rates; Demerara Tl,7• lo tti less in request, but former prices are supported., ,1 41 01 Rum at is 100 to is lid, proof, with certificate. be'..-.lipt• upon the fiillowing terms :-Oognac, best brands ot, t d , 595 1 , age of 1838, hhds be 7d, puns 5s sd; ditto, 1839, 18 4 " L puns 5s 3d; ditto 1840, hhds 58 3d, puns 5s Id; diti o lid; hhds Si 2d, puns 5s ; ditto 1842, hhds 5s d, ge 1° middling qualities 3s 2d to 4s 6d, and inferior. 3s per gallon. Geneva, for exportation, at le V t y :l e C° 111 „, fine for home consumption 2s to 3s per gallon. reqg „ ae rdsl Spirits at lOs 2d per gallon cash. To-day proof LI; 39 o"" 2d, Calcutta proof is 10d, Demerara strong as, : 1 ; 11 1 to Jamaica 26 to 28 per cent overproof 3s 2d to 3 s 4 0, to "" fine over 3s 5d to 3s 6d, 34 to 36, 3s 8d to 3s 9d, good 10d to 4s 6d, and very superior 4s 9d to 53 pei• Brandy little better than nominal. pe *re fill % INDIGO.-Merchants remain firm, and former ret- - _,, 0 11/ 11 tained ; the quality that will be offered at the APP7I-,, sale is expected to be very large. Spanish is held WI , 561 ness and is wanted. At Oils.-Southern Oil fine quality at 29/10s W - eoiL t fot_A to 28/15s, and middling 27/ to 271 lOs per tun , Ol s on other sorts of common Fish Oil prices on the declin e ; Pbrougbto at 331, and Cod 33/10s to 341 per tun. Sperm Oillo• l !,„;. e9l, previous rates, prime British at 751 to 76/, and inferir toe v " 74/ per tun. Linseed Oil at 26s 3d to 26s 6d per ew,`; to 9 5 1 Nut Oil at 29s Gd to 30s 6d per cwt. Palm Oil 2 '„ A ie, 1 / 0 and low quality 23s per cwt. Rape Oil at 39s f or ,r l / 100 38s per cwt for brown. African (around Nut Oil ' 7 " - • 351 per tun. oaf; TALLOW.-On the spot P. Y. Candle at 40 3 to the cwt : for delivery 41s 3d to 41s 6d is the,value f 0 At 341 three months of the year. South American TalloW tes 3 5s ur to 38s 9d, and inferior 32s per cwt ; New South WIIItt to 38s 6d. Town Tallow at 39s to 398 6d per of t, I,* • Vo gt ire , MONSTER TRAIN.-On Thursday week - traordinary luggage-train, consisting of s eventy-tvi_r., t ies drawn by three, engines, passed up the Midland Couli po oOP It started from the Derby station, where an immelt, 4* of e persons assembled to see it.-Iferapath's fou r , ra . ,. • 0f,,„ [ADYERTISEMENT.]-A WONDERFUL liv.t OLD SEA CAPTAIN'S BAD LEG BY lIGLLOWAT Atoll MENT AND PILLS.-Captain James, of the b r ti lying at Liinchouse, was lately cured of a vi a fifteen years' standing, in which there were t vl bo se cers. He had previously been laid uP f" w orse , 0 , crutches for two years. To make the matter „ lop h 0 was nearly eaten up with scurvy, which the ?r ic o or e ever, soon eradicated from the blood. ST ja sailors find these medicines the finest real e l the pi ~f world, as they heal all ulcers and wounds, will' tr o v: 11 remove every scorbutic humour and impurity, blood.-Sold at Professor Holloway's Rs ° Ana 244 ,Strand (where advice may be had grati2oe;cis almost all respectable Chemists throughout OIL world. On the Ist inst., at B eibral Til ta.r 3 ; Mr& J 4 ill ' j'llli:a.l46 d 1, daughter. it - n jaine On the 17th inst., at NeWington-srescent, ....-, ' _ kg road, Mrs. Thomas Horne, of a daughter. grs• ul' On the 17th inst., at Lesson House; Dome L - - poo l, Bingley Garland, of a son. On the 17th inst., at Manor House, Froglial , , 14 . 5111 , .., L I Mrs. T. Husband, of a daughter. g . ifistall . '' On the 17th inst., prematurely, Mrs. G. .-'• Denmark-hill, of a son, still-born. ;„,,,disl l4Sill* On the 18th inst., at Henrietta.atrea l, ‘,""--- no ' Mrs. W. Tlcur, of a son. gt. m - On the l ay Bt h inst., Mrs. William Edmu nd.r s. El'" stan's• bill, of a son. ' Ad; ,04. On the 15th inst., at 'Mengel-gross , Old Xent.l9 H. a Stead, of twin sons (one still born.) ' ..,. — , . O MARRIED. ..,„ :„koiref ~. L On the 16th inst.. at Knowle Church, war"' Oisav - , A ,44 West, Esq., of Alscot-park, Gloucestershire, tl. spr ial" . third daughter of Joseph Moore Boultbe e, Egg' °''' $Ol4 House, Warwick. in Wad e lloe On the 16th inst., at Baldock, Georg .Da •X' -- g o ..- of Baldock, He ft s, to Ann, eldest daughter of (4/0. ,-- Hicks, Esq., M.D. DIED. - • ta nt- On the 6th of Februiry, at Moulme i n' Ao ig 's • , c ,jj, . .a Robert Wood Spry, aged 27. • ,4 t h of PP'" At sea, on board the Thomas Coutts,' en the A ..i to H. F. Boaden, Esq. . Ja oll° it On the 15th of March, on the pa'ssage . fr,°l l , Di . )1,0 2 Bermuda, Mr. William Wilbrahatp, mate 01 ~u'r , 55 4 ship Illustrious, aged 20. late °I son, . ' On the 13th inst., Captain Marley I.lutc .1000 Regiment, aged 31. • I, f in IC IO " On the 13th inst., at Bilting, Godmel— ? , ' n og, Henry Baldock, Esq., aged 58. _ t it e genr rr On the 16th inst., in Upper Albany-t. ~ • p Henriette Julie, the wife of F. Langley', Esq; es Ti t ylar On the 17th inst., Jane , t he wife of Chart 1010 Holland-place, Clapham-road. . SOO * On the 17th inst., at the Rectory, Ewh urs4 - - -"' Watts, Esq. Maids-hill W , OnthEe s l q 7 . th inst., at Park-place , Gentle, Vi . Ur i ' l l London: Printed and—P-nblishd by 110 1 '-'`' i , l ,. SO1; • No. 112 , Strand, Printer, at The Sias .0,,.% -e botv Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy', II ' Illiddlesox, Wednesday, May 32, 1544 „ ” ;Price. 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