The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-08 00:00:00

THE SCOTTISH BANKS. Our columns this day contain additional evidence of the feeling that is excited throughout Scotland, by the more than suspected determination of Sir Robert Peel to meddle with our one-pound notes. The county of Renfrew and the county of Fife have both passed strong resolutions in deprecation ofany change. It has been said that the Scottish people are more in different to it than they were in 1826 ; and it has been said also, that at present any great movement upon the question would be premature, inasmuch as the determination of the Government is only sus pected, but not known; and that it will be time to stir when we are sure of the danger. The first allegation of the indifference of the Scot tish people, if believed in England, would soon prove the death-blow to our currency ; and we shall duly chronicle every meeting that takes place, whether of county or of town, of Cham ber of Commerce, or of Guildry, of employers or of employed, to show that the indifference, if it ever existed, is rapidly giving way to a feeling more akin to indignation, that the whole industry of a peaceful and uncomplaining country, should be sacrificed for the theoretical whims of crotchet mongers or currency quacks, whether in office or out of it. As regards the second allegation, Sir Robert Peel has, over and over again, in Parliament and elsewhere, expressed his disapproval of the Scottish banking system. lie is backed, moreover, by some great financial pam phleteers, both Whig and Tory, and by a strong majority of English Members,. who will pay but a slight regard to a question on Which they are unin formed, and to a people in Whose concerns they take little or no interest. To wait till the Bill is introduced will be to wait till the Bill is car ried; and we would urge upon all those who are so inapprehensive and unsuspicious, that they must delay till the hand is in their pocket before they will grapple with the robber, however well known his character, or menacing his gestures ; that there is more than sufficient evidence of the intentions of Government to justify not only alarm, but some thing better—speedy and decisive action to avert the evil. Scotland, which has but a small number of re presentatives in Parliament, and which has been so peaceful and so prosperous under her present banking system, as not to occupy the thoughts of the Legis lature (except at grouse-shooting time), should, fur that reason, be more jealous when the Government does condescend to notice her, more especially when the notice is uncalled for, and a grievance instead of a benefit. It becomes, therefore, the paramount duty of all who are interested (and who in Scotland, be his circumstances and avocation what they may, is not ?) to join • together and remon strate strongly and firmly against any interference. It is well that the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce should take the lead in the movement ; and that the Corporations and Guilds of Edinburgh should also raise their voices in the same cause ; and that Ren frew end Fife, and even Ross and Inverness-shires, should speak out their opinions ; but it would also be well if some other counties and the great cities would speak out ;—if Lanarkshire, fur instance, would tell Sir Robert Peel to ltt it alone—and if the citizens of Glasgow would, to the number of twenty or thirty thousand, let the. Premier know that the feeling ex pressed in various parts of Scotland is not that of moneyed men alone ;—not of proprietors of lands, or mills, or shares in banks only, but the opinion of the sensible and hard-working people. If this were done, as we have no doubt it will be, some impression might be made in the right quarter; and we might be able to say now, in 1844, with as much truth as Malachi Malagrowther said in 1826—" To whatever deep and passive slumber our native country may have been lulled from habits of peaceful acquiescence, the Government have now found a way to awaken her. The knife has gone to the very quick, and the comatose patient is roused to most acute possession of his feelings and his intellect. The heather is on fire far and wide; and every man, woman, and child in the country are bound by the duty they owe to their native land to spread the alarm and increase the blaze. The city of Edinburgh has uttered a voice be coming the ancient Queen of the North. The law bodies and the gentry of Mid-Lothian have set the example of petitioning Government and proclaiming their sense of the measure designed; it has been fol lowed in other counties, and I trust to see it soon spread into the smallest burghs, into the moat wild districts of Scotland. There are none which the im pending misery will not reach—there are no Scotch men so humble that they have not a share in a na tional insult, so lowly that they will not suffer from a national wrong—none that are uninterested in main taining our right both individually and as a people— and none, I trust that have not spirit to do so by all legal and peaceable means." The pen of the gifted writer of this stirring appeal would, if he were still amongst us, have been again employed in the same cause, but his spirit remains in his written words : _ 0a... • • " Scotland," said he, in 1826, " has not felt the slightest inconvenience from the want of specie— nay, it has never been in request among them. A tradesman will take a guinea (sovereign) mere un willingly than a note of the same value—to the peasant the coin is unknown. No one ever wishes for specie save when on a journey to England. In occasional runs upon particular houses, the notes of other banking companies have always been the value asked fur—no holder of these notes ever demanded specie. The credit of one establishment might be doubted for the time—that of the general system was never brought into question. Even avarice, the most suspicious of passions, has in no instance I ever heard of, desired to compose her hoards by an accu mulation of the precious metals. The confidence in the credit of our ordinary medium has not been doubted even in the dreams of the most irritable and jealous of human passions." Such an opinion, coming from such a quarter, would force, conviction even upon the mind of a Minister, if the men of the present day would back it, and let him know, in language not to be mistaken, that its truth has not been affected by the eighteen years that have elapsed since it was uttered. He might also be reminded, that during those years England has gone through several severe financial struggles, and seen the failure of banks in every part of the country, but that Scotland, with herone-pound notes, odious as they may be upon the Stock Ex change of London, and in the bureaus of Down ing -street, has been free from panic, and never once raised a complaining voice upon the matter.—Glas gow Argus. A NIGGER'S IDEA OF THE MOON.—" Coffee, which do you consider de most useful of de planets—de sun or de moon?" "Well, Sambo, I tink the moon orter take the fits rank in dat ar"tickler." "%V ha, wha, wha, why you tink so, entree?" " Well. I tell 3-ou—kaze she shines by night, when we want light, and de sun shines by day, when we do not!" " WA, Coffee, you is the greatest nigger I knose on —dat's a real fac.' EXTRAORDINARY INCREASE IN THE VALUE OF PROPERTY.—From a recent return made by order of the vestry of St. Maulabone with respect to assessments in Oxford-street, it appears that in the year 1777 a house, situated on the north side of Oxford street, near Or chard-street, was rated in the parish books at 151. per year. In the present year (1844) the same house lets at 2201., and is rated in the books of Marylebone at 1201. DEMOLITION OF GUY IN THE STREETS.--A most amusing incident occurred on Tuesday in Guildford street, near the . Foundling Hospital. It was the anni versary of gunpowder plot, and, with.a laudable wish "to produce something novel," many of the itinerant fruit sellers bad, for the nonce, converted their fruit-carts into a Guy Fawkes vehicle. The carriage was (hewn by a donkey, and upon the "plafond" of the same, sat a living and highly de , sled impersonation of Guid o h i mself , look -- • ing as great as Mr. Thompson's King in Hamlet ; the " steed" was led by his confederate. Now, one of these luckless pairs of wights happened to meet in Guildford street a party of rolicking Irishmen, who " happened " to be armed with rather stiff shillelaghs ; and some way or other, also happening to have Popish predilections, , did not feel pleased with the oration, which ended with " Halloo, boys ! halloo. boys, God save the Queen ;" and without ceremony or intimation set to work and i knocked poor Guy off his perch, nearly detcolishirg cart, donkey, and all. The affair, though only the work of a moment, excited no little amusement. Yesterday morning, an accident occurred in the workhouse garden, which was followed by a fatal result. The directors and guardians determined, a short time since, to build some cottages adjoining the workhouse, for the use of aged married couples who might become itrnates ; and, yesterday morning, some labourers were em p:oyed in removing the garden wall at the back of the workt:.oose, for the purpose of clearin g the site of the intended ' ,:rections. In order to effect this object, the earth had been cleared away from one side of the wall to the foundation, a depth of about three feet ; and one of the labourers, named Sidney Smith, was stooping to pick up some stones, when the wall, which from the foundation to the summit was about six feet high, began to totter. Mr. Bartlett, the Governor, who had just come up to the spot, observed the motion, and shouted to the deceased to take care. One step would have placed him out of danger ; instead of will( h he raised himself from his stooping position, and looked towards the wall, only in time to see a sec tion of it, 15 feet long, strike against the lower part of his body. He was knocked down and crushed by the falling mass : as soon as he could be extricated from which he was taken to the Infirmary. Mr. Rugg, sur geon, was sent for, and promptly attended the sufferer ; who, however, was so severely bruised that he only sur vived till ten o'clock. Deceased was between forty and fifty years of age ; he was a widower, and resided in Pimlico.—fl,igidon Gazette. EXTIA - . a. ORDINARY INSTANCE OF SAGACITY IN A FOX. A fox, which was kept chained in a kennel of a gen tleman in Newark, a few night ago slipped its collar, and in tine t h oug h morning, every endeavour was made to find it, no trac es could be discovered for the whole of that day and the following but on the morning of the third day, greatly to t on a e st ; astonishment of the owner, the animal was found in its kennel, tl having tra velled.been away. many miles during the time it i i s , , ,,, th i t , it the What makes the fact more extraordinaar „-, o,nimal has been domesticated ever since i Y t üb, and therefore could not possibly have the . slig ee h n tes a t _ wletige of the surrounding country. . \a' 16/41 ~# SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The quiescent state of the political atmosphere in Ireland has experienced a slight inter ruption. Dr. Maunsell—whose speech in the Dublin Corporation in favour of rotatory Parliaments ex cited considerable interest among all parties in Ireland at the time of its delivery—has published his oration as a pamphlet, and appended to it an elaborate " Note, on the present state of political parties in Ireland." The position which Doctor Maunsell occupies in the Conservative party, would give considerable importance to any publication on the state of political parties which might issue from his pen ; the causes he assigns for the present disorganised state of that party in Ireland, and the telling blows he aims at the Government, give ad ditional interest to his present production. Apart from Dr. Maunsell's proposed remedy for Ireland's maladies, by holding the Parliament in Dublin once in three years, or oftener—the fallacy of which we de monstrated at the time it was broached by the Learned Doctor in his speech before the Dublin Corporation —there are some facts and opinions put forth in the " Note," which, emanating from one whose position enables him to see and know what is passing around him, will excite considerable interest on this side of the Channel. Assuming, as an unquestionable fact, " that the policy of English statesmen has, from the remotest periods, led them to govern Ireland, through the medium of a party," Dr. Maunsell attributes the present disorganised and enfeebled state ofthe Irish Pro testant party to the dissolution of the Orange ledges. " The revival of the Orange Institution in 1830," was, according to Dr. Maunsel I, " a general party movement —the result of there-action that succeeded the depression of the Protestant party by the passing of the Catholic Relief Bill of 1829. It was actively supported by the aristocracy of this country, and was joined in by the middle and lower classes, under the belief that it was at least favourably regarded, if not directly en couraged, by those English statesmen who then formed the Conservative opposition in Parliament. The head of the movement was a Prince of the Blood ; its responsible, and often active local agents, were the highest of the Irish aristocracy, and included many Members of both Houses of Parliament." The connivance of Sir Robert Peel and the Duke of Wellington in the proceedings of the Orange men was often asserted during the proceedings in Parliament which resulted in the breaking up of the confederacy. The fact that deputations were given by the Grand Master to non-commissioned officers in the army, empowering them to constitute Orange lodges in their respective regiments, was proved beyond all question. The doings of the Duke of Cumberland, the " Prince of the Blood" alluded to by Dr. Maunsell, and his man-of all-work, Colonel Fairman, were established in evidence. The direct breach of the Articles of War which these pro- ceedings in the army involved ; their dangerous re sults on military discipline; and their unconstitutional character and tendency—of these no doubt could be entertained. Yet the " English statesmen " who passed the Cetholic Relief Bill did not hesitate to sanction the establishment of these Orange institutions, and to defend to the last their introduction into the army, for the purpose of neutralising and counteracting the political power conferred on the Catholic population by that measure ! Such is the statement made by Dr. Maun sell, who reproaches these "English statesmen"—the "leaders of the Conservative opposition," with even tually abandoning the Orange lodges to their fate. " The Whigs were wise in their generation ; they persevered in their assaults upon Irish Orangism until, in a moment of panic, the English Opposition leaders were weak enough to advise, and their Irish allies in the House of Commons were imbecile enough to per petrate, the act of pusillanimous treachery which led to the dissolution of the Orange body. This act," continues Dr. Maunsell, "was the beginning of that breaking up of the Irish Protestant party which is now all but finally accomplished." We desire no stronger confirmation of the imputation upon Sir R. Peel's dishonesty in the matter of Roman Catholic Emancipation than is here supplied. It furnishes a clue to the practical exclusion of Catholics from posts of honour and of trust, under Sir Robert Peel's ad ministration of the Government. It explains why— notwitstanding the removal of Catholic disabilities by the Legislature—the insidious distinctions between Catholics and Protestants were kept up, and the contests between the professors of rival creeds were continued. STANDARD.—" There is some soul of goodness in things evil," says Shakspeare ; and we so far subscribe to the proposition as almost to regret the reign of the Whigs, for we do not recol lect a single day of the Whig dynasty upon which the journalist had to ask himself the question, that now recurs with such painful fre quency—" What has one to write about ?" The Whigs were indeed capital hands at raising food for newspapers—such benefactors to the press as Sultan Amurath was to the owls of the desert, whom he provided for amply with " ruined villages." Sir Robert Peel will do nothing for our order—we have no pleasant speculations of European wars, Canada rebellions, defeats and disgraces in Asia, monster meetings in Ireland, Chartist risings in England— not even a falling revenue and a lively per spective of national bankruptcy, wherewithal to interest our readers. All is peace abroad, in spite of some of us; peace at home, notwithstanding the laudable exertions of others : all is peace, and the Three per Cents. are at or above par. We have nothing to engage us but deliberations upon the best means of improving the condition of the labouring classes, and tattooing the face of the country with railroads • but, as Mr. Hood says, " There's no romance in that." The truth is, we are hard " put toi t" for topics, and the public does not deal fairly with us if it fails to make allow ance for a little impropriety and a great deal of sameness—oh, do not call it dullness—in our lucubrations. Let our condition be candidly considered. Write we must, but what ? Essays, in the manner of the " Spectator," " Guardian," " Rambler ?" This is easier said than done. But, were we as competent to the task as we are the re verse, would the people read our essays upon abstract topics, such as engaged the pens of Addison, Steele, and Johnson ? Are the treasures bequeathed by those great masters in fact read to the extent that they ought to be by professedly reading men ? We fear not. Sure at least we are, that of the readers of newspapers not one in a hundred would rea-1 such essays as those we speak of. The age is practical and specific; people read with a view to some distinct object to be obtained, some e ell-known interest to be defended, or some well defined danger to be resisted. When we are left without these resources, what have we to do? Why, there is nothing, for it, but to try to magnify some thing—a Otaheite affair, or the misdoings of the Bridgewater Union, or the disposal of the Old Fleet Prison, or to imitate the respectable example of rats, who, shut up in a trap without food, relieve the monotony of their position by biting and eating one another. The exaggerations and the squabbles of the newspapers always bear an exact ratio to the paucity of topics, and the absurd extra • vagance to which we push the one and the excessive Litterness with which we prosecute the other, may ' al ways be taken as the best proof of public pros perity, and of course of good Government. We have a .'CSN' such proofs before us. The Morning Chronicle points our attention to an example of most 'absurd exaggeration, not merely in the details of the affair referred to, but in the importance imputed to the „hole subject : " In the Times newspaper of yesterday appears the following advertisement 6 To EGG-MERCHANTS AND IMPORTERS.--Wanted, fr.,m 300 to 500 chests of eggs of low quality, to be de livered into warehouse in London, on or before Friday next, the Bth inst. Letters, pre-paid, with lowest prices, including cartage in, for cash on delivery, to W. L., New Corn Exchange Tavern, Mark-lane.' " In another and more conspicuous part of the paper, in a communication from Portsmouth, appears the fol lowing paragraph : " Upwards of 100/. worth of rotten eggs have been Turchased within the last few days from the various im porters in this and the adjacent towns, by London agents, for service on the 9th inst. in London. "This is egging on the ruffians and blackguards of the metropolis with a vengeance ? From 300 to 500 chests o f eggs, 'of low quality' (of a high quality ?) to one order ; 1001. worth of rotten eggs purchased in one day at one town, with the advantage of five clear days 'to keep' and do due honour to the pageant of Saturday next. The Times is determined that nothin g s h a ll b e wanting to complete the ovation of Mr. Alderman Gibbs. 6' We have taken no part in the discussion about Mr. Gibbs's accounts—not because we did not think his conduct highly censurable, and still more foolish. But another and a competent tribunal will decide upon the worthy magistrate's guilt or innocence. Until that decision is come to, we will not pronounce him to be guilty. We have some reason to think that the decision will prove him innocent. If it should turn out that he has only been ruilty of great and foolish obstinacy—of what people call pig- headedness'—we think most men will be disposed to think that he has already suffered quite enough for such offence. But under no possible circum stances can the brutal persecution threatened in the dis• graceful paragraphs we have quoted be justified. If Al derman Gibbs were a common malefactor, every just and honourable feeling would revolt against such an outrage. Everybody knows how easily the refuse of a city like this can be incited to outrages like those to which they are in vited by the correspondents and advertisers of the Times, and how malignant and interested opponents can meta morphose such an outbreak of venal blackguardism into an indignant expression of public opinion.' But we hope the only effect of such abominable proceedings will be to awaken the sympathy of men hitherto indifferent, or even hostile, and at once protect a fellow-citizen from insult and danger, and save the metropolis from the dis c race of tolerating the tyranny with which it is menaced." NN e 7 r e all gi y ve the article at length, because we admire the good spirit o f t h e Whi g j ourna li s t, an d concur ver y ge in n its opinions. We make the extract, however, THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 8, 1844. chiefly as an example of exaggeration-1001. worth of rotten eggs (we suppose no one would knowingly give 101. for all the rotten eggs in the world), purchased to pelt a Lord Mayor ! Why, there is not one such egg in preparation ; and we will venture to say that there is not a being above the most degraded class in London, who would use such a missile upon such an occasion, how abundantly soever they might be provided for him. This is all mere trash, ex aggerated trash, but not, as the Chronicle seems to fear, brutalising trash. The English people are in no danger of lapsing into brutality upon such suggestions. Even thirteen years ago, when advised to resort to the use of " brickbats and bludgeons" in the political contest, the Londoners at least proved themselves " wiser than their teachers," and the in tervening thirteen years have not been wasted with out improvement. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OF THIS DAT. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. TIMES.—From certain indications in the Money Market it may be inferred that the new Banking Bill is now exercisim; a decided influence upon it, and that this influence is of a salutary description. Every one who has paid any attention to the matter, is aware of the multitude of new and extended schemes for railways which have lately been introduced, and of the eagerness with which they have been sought after, not so much for investment as for the sake of the premium at which, with scarcely an exception, they have been brought into the market. From such beginnings, at many former periods, panics in the money market have usually arisen ; and could the means of aiding these specula tions have been furnished them, as they were for merly, in the shape of local notes, issued at discretion and without control, there is little doubt that this would now be the case. Luckily for the country, the local • banks situated in those districts when such schemes are mainly encouraged and dealt in have all or most of them reached the limit which is permitted them by the new law, and are sending up to London for supplies of bank-notes for such of their customers as require aid, which must be governed, however, by a very different principle from that which might regulate their own issues; and the caution thus induced, will soon check, without further harm, all gambling in railway shares, and any purchases, except for investment. No notion prevails that the banks themselves regard this as an inconvenient restraint upon them, as a prudent banker would be as scrupulous in issuing his own notes as those for which he must girt sterling value, and his having reached the limit of hi, circulation is always a sufficient answer to those cus tamers whose advances he would think it right to stop. but whom he would not venture to disoblige if they knew he possessed the power of issuing without cost to himself. The English Stock Market is taking a very firm tone, from the increased operations of the Government broker. Besides purchasing 15,0001. Three-and-a- Quarter per Cents. on account of the savings'-banks, which exceeds his usual purchase by 5,000/., he has this day bought 15,000/. Three per Cents. for the South Sea guarantee fund. Similar operations were effected yes terday. As may be readily supposed, the circumstance of 30,000/. being brought daily into the market has at. influence on the value of money, which is easy at 2 per cent. POST.—According to some of the reports current, it would seem to be the intention to have the whole French loan of three hundred millions of francs, or say twelve millions sterling, paid up by instalments restricted within the very short period of three months. It is scarcely possible, if that be the case, that a financial operation of such magnitude should not materially derange the money markets of Paris and London, if not of other conti nental capitals. There can be no question that a con siderable portion of the loan is destined for disposal in this market, and that, indeed, it would not be under taken by any firm which should not be backed with a large subscription list of English capitalists before pro ceeding to tender for it. The withdrawal of such a sum as twelve millions from active circulation in the two countries, and even in reference to this, might create serious inconveniences. For it may not be lost sight of that the French Government are under no exact pres sure for the money at present, as all the chief appropria• tions for the current services of the year were supplied by the Chambers in the last session. The only plausible reason assigned why the entire remaining part of the loan authorised is now to be called up, should such prove to be definitively the determina tion, is, that it would be most advisable to profit by the actual easy state and abundance of money, and the ab sence of any disturbing political elements. As the loan is realised, the proceeds will be paid, according to cus tom, into the Bank of France, there to lie till drawn against. Some portion may be required for carrying on the extensive fortifications, the construction and im provement of the arsenals, docks, dockyards, and other public works, decreed and now actively in progress on the largest scale, in several of the principal ports of France, such as Havre, Cherbourg, Toulon, &c. But France alone will receive the benefit of the portions so required as put in circulation. As the execution of those works, however, will be thrown over several suc cessive years, the proportion of the loan which shall be returned into circulation cannot be considerable for some time to come, and the mass would be lying dormant in the coffers of the Paris Bank. The loan itself, by the abstraction of so much capital, might prove an awkward obstacle to the progress of railway enterprise in this country. It may be supposed, however, that the subject has not escaped attention in the highest banking quarter, where it should naturally excite some solicitude. PRIVY COUNCIL. Yesterday a special meeting of the Judicial Com mittee of the Privy Council took place at the Council Chamber, Whitehall. The Lords of the Council pre sent were the Vice-Chancellor of England, the Vice- Chancellor Wigram, Mr. Baron Parke, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, and Sir B. Bosanquet. The meeting of their Lordships, was special for the purpose of considering the claims of the Earl of Dundonald to the extension of his patent for rotatory engines. On the case being called on, The NOBLE EARL, who appeared at the bar, ad dressed their Lordships stating, the nature of his in vention according to his specification, the great ex pense he had been put to in its invention, between 14,0001. and 15,0001. Added to this, the Noble Earl observed that he had not hitherto reimbursed himself one shilling of that expense, although the machine had been found fully to answer in many of the public offices. Under these circumstances the Noble Earl prayed their Lordships, under the New Patent Act, would further extend the existence of his patent. Mr. WADDINGTON, on the part of the Crown, would leave the matter entirely in their Lordships' hands, especially as there had been no caveat entered against the renewal. The VICE-CIIANCELLOR of ENGLAND observed, that as Lord Dundonald had sworn that he had not received the return of a single shilling for the great outlay he had made, no person could be injured by the renewal of the patent. Their Lordships, after some consideration, came to the determination to advise her Majesty to extend the patent for 14 years. This determination will, we pre sume, be submitted to her Majesty to-morrow in Council. _ _ Their Lordships, immediately upon the conclusion of case, broke up. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY.—Nov. 7. LORD MOYSTON V. EARL SPENCER-JUDGMENT. The LORD CHANCELLOR gave judgment to-day in this case, which was an appeal motion from the judg ment of the Master of the Rolls, who had refused to suppress depositions on the ground that one of the Commissioners, Cyndrick Lloyd, Esq., was a near re lation of the plaintiff in the cause, and connected with him in business. His Lordship refused the motion, with costs, observing that it was unnecessary in the due administration of justice that the rule of the Curt should be strictly adhered to, to insure impar tiality and secrecy in the Commissioners. EX-PARTE VAN SANDAU. The further arguments in this part-heard bankrupt petition occupied the Court the remainder of the day. VICE-CHANCELLOR'S COURT, Nov. 7. The Vice-Chancellor of England did not sit to-day, in consequence of having to attend the Privy Council. (Before Vice-Chancellor KNIGUT BRUCE.) PALIN V. GATIJERCOLE. This case, which was expected to come on to-day, on a:motion to commit the defendant, was not mentioned till the rising of the Court. The petitioner, the Rev. W. Palin, the Rector of Stafford, Essex, and the defendant, the Rev. Michael Augustus Gathercole, the editor of the Churchman newspaper, who had been ordered in contempt for disobeying an injunction that bad been granted against him. At the rising of the Court, Mr. JAMES Russsu. said he had a motion to make for a committal for contempt, but as the defendant had given a counter notice of motion to dissolve the in junction, he would delay his motion till that was brought on and disposed of. It is generally believed that the reverend defendant will defend himself, and that the whole matter is put off till the next motion day. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 7. (Sittings in Banco.) The Court was occupied the whole morning in hear ing motions for new trials in cases tried before Mr. justice Patteson, who took his se a t to -d 27 i n t hi s Court with the other judges, for the purpose of those motions being brought on. THE BARON DE BODE V. THE QUEEN. This was a traverse to an inquisition on a petition of right, which was tried at bar. The verdict had been given on the facts for the suppliant, but the statute of limitations had been pleaded, and also that the debt had not occurred during the reign of her present Majesty. On these pleas a verdict had passed for the Crown. The Solicitor-General had also on the first issue requested the Court to put it to the jury whether a certain specific sum had been paid by the Government of France to that of England, in satisfaction of this claim of the Baron de Bode. On this issue the jury found for the Crown. Mr. M. D. HILL now moved for a rule nisi to have the first issue found for the suppliant, on the ground that the question submitted to the jury did not arise from the traverse to the inquisition, but from an allega tion in the petition with which the Court had nothing to do. Also, for a rule to enter up judgment for the suppliant, notwithstanding the finding as to the statute of limitations, and as to the fact of the debt hav ing accrued in a former reign, inasmuch as the statute of limitations did not apply to cases of petitions of right, and that the fzet of the debt having accrued in a former reign, ha I nothing to do with the matter at issue. The COURT granted the rule on all the points. BAIL COURT, Nov. 7. Sittings at Nisi Prius before Mr. Justice WICHTMAN and a Common Jury.) PRICE AND ANOTHER V. BAXTER AND OTHERS. This was an action brought to recover a sum of 551., for work done by a person named Brain, as a copper plate printer. Mr. Watson and Mr. Wills appeared for the plaintiffs; and Mr. Martin and Mr. Smith for the defendants. It appeared that Brain was employed by a person named Birch to print some copper-plates for "Faust." It turned out that Birch had not capital to go on with the work, and ultimately became insolvent. The Messrs. Baxter, the Bible publishers, of Paternoster-row, took up the publication, and employed another pub ,isher to bring out the work, as it was not in their line of publication. The Messrs. Baxter made advances on the plates worked off for Birch, and 371. 16s. for the series of plates printed, after which it was alleged the Niessrs. Baxter undertook the continuance of the work. subsequently to this Brain became a bankrupt, and the present plaintiffs succeeded to his rights. It was contended on the part of the defendants that Brain did the work for Birch. and not for them ; and that the official assignee debited Birch for the accounts sent into him after Brain's bankruptcy. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 7. THE NEW JUDGE. Mr. Erle, Q.C., was called within the bar as sergeant at-law, having been previously invested with the coif by Lord Chief Justice Penman, in the usual form, St the Judges'-chambers. The Learned Gentleman is created a sergeant preparatory to his being called to the bench. He will take his seat with the judges of this Court (Common Pleas) to-morrow, in the room of Mr. Justice Erskine, who has retired, in consequence of the bursting of a blood-vessel some months ago. THOMAS V. DUNN.—THE CHINESE COLLECTION. This was an action upon an agreement, in which the jury found for the defendant, the proprietor of the Chinese Collection, Knightsbridge. The plaintiff yesterday, in person, moved the Court or a new trial, on the ground that the verdict was tgainst evidence. Their Lordships adjourned the hear ing to this day, when Mr. Thomas proceeded with the application. The verdict was for the defendant upon the first plea. which was, that the agreement was a forgery. The jury were, as plaintiff contended, governed in this finding by the evidence of several engravers, who swore that certain signatures must have been forgeries, on account of their exact similitude, the witnesses believing, from their long -xperience, that no person, repeating his signature bona tide, and without any designed imitation, would produce autographs so perfectly alike. He was now prepared with counter affidavits from other engravers, accompanied with numerous autograph signatures and addresses from letters and envelopes received by the plaintiff prior o the action, some of them being from parties opposed to him in this cause. These autographs were verified by the post-marks. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE observed that the signa tures were not the only grounds uponwhich the jury rested heir verdict. But the evidence was too long for him to over now upon his nntes, the trial having occupied two days. Mr. Thomas said that he was prepared with evidence, locumentary and otherwise• to rebut all the other material .vidence for the defence. He then went into a length ened detail of the transactions between him , and the defendant from their first introduction to the rupture between them. The chief points were, that the plaintiff was engaged by Mr. Dunn as his agent to contract for the construction of the building for the Chinese Collec ion, and to obtain certain leases, includirg the lease of the ground (on which the building now stands), and that of an adjacent cottage. On condition of his executing these agencies to the satisfaction of the defendant he was to receive the sum of six guineas a week. as long as the rents of the exhibition would produce that sum. Towards the close of November, 1842, he received notice from Mr. Dunn that his engage ment should terminate on the 31st of the ensuing December. In the course of a correspondence which then commenced between the plaintiff and Mr. M.Turner, the defendant's attorney, the latter stated that Mr. Dunn had no recollection of signing the agreement, and that it must be a forgery. Subsequently Mr. Dunn made an affidavit to the effect that the signature was a forgery ; but afterwards he stated that he had no recol lection of making the affidavit, and that he was under the influence of opium when he was sworn to it. The plaintiff went into a detail of correspondence and transactions to show that the agreement had been entered into. He also, at great length, explained cer tain discrepancies between the case which he set up in Chancery and that which was tried here, and which ap parent discrepancies had, he said, erroneously influenced the jury. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE observed that the jury were influenced by the fact that in September, 1842, the plaintiff was negotiating with Captain Sibon, the pro prietor of the Waterloo Model, for an engagement at six guineas a week to superintend that exhibition. This ne gotiation appeared to the jury to be incompatible with the existence of such an agreement as the plaintiff in • sisted upon. •Mr. Thomas said that he was prepared with proof which had not gone to the jury, to show that this was a negotiation for the renewal of an engagement, which he had before held for nine months, concurrently with that in Mr. Dunn's establishment, and with the full know ledge of both parties. He had been five years in the service of Captain Sibon, without a constant or regular personal attendance at the exhibition being either ne cessary or required by his employer. It was known to Mr. Dunn and Capt. Sibon, that he could and did effec tively manage the two establishments. The LORD CHIEF JUSTICE reminded Mr. Thomas, that after having received notice of discharge from Mr. Dunn, he wrote a letter, which was interpreted by the jury into an admission that th• defendant had the power to terminate the engagement upon a month's notice. Mr. Thomas said, that at the time he was not resolved to press the agreement to a suit at law ; but when the imputation of forgery was cast upon him, he was con vinced that a settlement by arbitration would not be enough to vindicate his character. Therefore he brought this action, and was resolved, with their Lordships' per mission, to persevere in it. Mr. Justice COLTMAN said that the Court could only decide according to what had appeared on the trial, and what might now be presented upon affidavit. They could not act upon Mr. Thomas's statements, as to what he might expect to prove upon a new trial. The plaintiff put in an affidavit, directly contra dicting the evidence of one of the principal witnesses for the defence, and concluded a speech of nearly an hour's duration, by an able review of the whole case, and imploring the Court to give him the opportunity of disproving the charge of perjury which had been set up against him. The COURT would look into the affidavits, and the evidence given on the trial, before they would deter mine whether or not a rule to show cause should be granted. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 7. (Sittings in Banco.) ESDAILE V. LUND. This action was tried at the London sitting after last tern, when a verdict was entered for the plaintiff on one issue, and for the defendant on the other. The SOLICITOR- GENERAL moved for a rule nisi, call in; on the defendant to show cause why the verdict Should not be entered for the plaintiff on the second issue, or for a new trial, in consequence of misdirection, and the verdict being contrary to evidence. A scire facias was issued against the defendant Lund as a share holder in the Yorkshire Agricultural and Commercial Banking Company, upon a judgment obtained against the public officer of that Company, under the provisions of the 7th Geo. IV., and in favour of the London and Westminster Banking Company. The first plea upon which issue was joined was a plea that the judgment was fraudulently and collusively given, to enable the York shire Bank to recover a call of 3/. per share from the plaintiff. Upon this plea the verdict was given for the plaintiff. The second plea was that a writ of scire facies was issued against a person named Tomlinson, another shareholder of this Banking Company, that the plaintiff obtained judgment and took him in execution, and that, with the consent and under the direction and authority of the plaintiff, Tomlinson was discharged out of the sheriff's custody, whereby i t was averred the debt due from the defendant was satisfied. The defendant called a person named Ackland, a sheriff's officer, who proved the arrest and the discharge. Several writs were inclosed in a letter to Ackland from Messrs. Roy, Blunt, and Co. the soli citors to the London and Westmin ster Banking Com pany, and he was directed to apply to Mr. Seymour, a solicitor in York, who would inform him as to the per sons of the various defendants. Mr. Tomlinson, whose individual debt was 881. 65., was released on paying that amount ; and the writ being endorsed 20,0001., the de fer.dant pleaded this discharge in his second plea as a satisfaction of the writ for 20,0601 against all the share holders. The Learned Counsel co ntende d that the parties in York did not act under any proper authority from Messrs. Roy, Blunt, and Co. , t he s o l icitors to the London and Westminster Banking Company, and was proceeding to argue that there was no le g al stay of pro ceedings against the shareholders ge n era l ly , when he was interrupted by the Court, directing h im to take a rule for a new trial. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nov. (Before Mr. Cororruis6ion GOULBURN.) IN THE MATTER OF ROBERT BANNISTER, DRAPER, OF PORTSEA. The bankrupt, whose examination hy Mr. E. J ames we gave at length in our yesterday's paper, was this 3av brought up for re-examination, and when asked if he wished to add anything to his statement respect ing Williams, said that he had gone that morning up to Oxford-street, and at the Boar and Castle recog nised the same waiter, who distinctly recollected seeing him (the bankrupt) there with another person, and that person afterwards taking away goods from the room they occupied. The waiter was then in Court, if his Honour would examine him. Mr. E. JAMES submitted that on the face of that case the answers of the bankrupt had not been satis factory, and that therefore his Honour, in the exercise of his duty, should give him into the custody of a messenger of that Court. He thought that on looking at the whole of the examination the story bore inter nal evidence of having been fictitiously concocted, and he (Mr. James) was as certain that the person Williams was an ideal personage, as that the name Williamson, in which parcels of goods were sold, was a name adopted for the occasion. The Learned Counsel then recapitulated the main features of the case, and contended that the whole account was just such a one as a man inventing a plausible story would relate. It was laid down in Blackstone, that a general answer by a bankrupt that he lost, by selling goods under prime cost, was perfectly unsatisfactory. In his first item he specified goods sold to Moses and Son of the value of 1,0401., but when closely pressed he is forced to admit that he did not sell more than 7501. worth, thus saddling himself with a sum of about 300/. Looking at the whole circumstances under which the bankrupt stood before the Court, he thought that his Honour would be but doing simple justice between the creditors and the bankrupt by ordering his committal into custody. Mr. LUCAS, in replying for the bankrupt, contended that some limit should be applied .to the term unsatis factory. It was well known that in the trade there were goods known as "job goods," which were fre quently sold at half their value; and, according to the bankrupt's own statement, he met this man Williams, who assisted him to dispose of such. The bankrupt had affirmed the truth of that transaction upon oath, and his Learned Friend Mr. James could only assert that it was fictitious. Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN reminded the Learned Counsel that he was not there to argue the question of fact, but whether the answer of the bankrupt to a certain question, or the whole tenor of his examina tion, was satisfactory. Mr. LUCAS thought the very best test of the satis factory nature of the bankrupt's answer was its truth. All that they were to inquire was, was there any thing inconsistent on the face of his statement with what might have happened ? He thought that his answers had been entirely consistent, and he thought also that the Court would feel convinced that they might have had their origin in the truth, and that therefore it could not exercise the extreme jurisdic tion sought for by Mr. James. Mr. Commissioner GOULDURN said that the case had not occupied more time than its importance de served or demanded. The case was somewhat out of the ordinary course in all its parts, and it would therefore, he thought, be the proper course for him briefly to review the whole proceedings. The facts were these, and they were very extraordinary. It appeared that he had commenced business with a capital of 7221., and incredible as it might seem, he in four :nonths— the period which elapsed from the cotnmencement of his business till the date of his fiat— had obtained goods to the amount of 17,033/. Os. 11d., and this, too, at a time when he was leading a most infamous and profligate life; to use his own words—in saloons, and theatres, and similar places—at a time when he had depots in different parts of the country, in Southampton, in Derby, and other places, for the purpose of disposing of these goods to any person and at any price. The bankrupt, it appeared, had but one object from the first, namely, to get rid of these goods, and then to enjoy in some foreign clime the amount received in this fraudulent manner ; but by the activity of his creditors—and especially was praise due to Mr. Quilton—he was captured in the island of Madeira, and brought back to this country. But the question was, were the answers given by the bankrupt sufficient to satisfy any reasonable person ? Was it altogether, he - would ask, out of the range of probabi lity that this story of the bankrupt was true. He met, it appeared by his own statement, this person, whom he had formerly known, and his wicked pur • pose—for it was nothing else—being uppermost in his mind, he said at once to Williams, " Can you sell some goods for me ?" He answered, " I can." He (the Learned Commissioner) did not find the state ment so grossly improbable that he could commit the bankrupt to prison, from which he could not perhaps get free unless by perjuring himself—taking it for granted that the present story were true. But then this other question arose, what was to be done with him ? He had kept no hooks, his accounts were made up from memory, and wholly unsatisfactory. He would, taking all circumstances into consioeration, adjourn the further hearing of the case sine die. Mr. REID, solicitor for the creditor under the fist, in reference to the credit given so readily to the bankrupt, said that the bankrupts were in very ex cellent repute in Derby, and their accounts were well kept up with the highly respectable house of Phillips, of Manchester, which recommended him to other houses in the trade. It was impossible for them to know of his irregular proceedings in London, and therefore it was that credit was given to the amount stated in these proceedings. He then maae an applica tion under the 32d and 35th section of the sth and 6th Victoria, c. 120, which orders, that where the bankrupt has removed, concealed, or embezzled goods to the amount of 10/., he shall be prosecuted by the assignees in the Criminal Court. Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN — You may take the order. I think this a most proper case in which to put the Act of Parliament in force, and punish the bankrupt. INSOLVENT DEBTORS' COURT, Nov. 7. IN RE EDWARD WEST. In this case, which has been already reported in The Sun, the insolvent, who was an extensive broker in the City, had been before the Court about a month ago, when his petition was adjourned in order that the in solvent should render an account of certain chattels which he possessed in Portsmouth. Having complied with the order of the Court, he was this day discharged from custody. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) CLERKEIV WELL. George Combes, living in Coram-street, _ was charged with breaking the jaw cf an unfortunate girl, named Anne Gorman. The poor girl was standing quietly by the wayside in Chalk-road, on Tuesday evening, when the pri soner came up and told her to accompany him. knowing he was a violent character, she refnsed; upon which, without further provocation, he dealt her such a blow with his clenched fist as broke her jaw, and felled her to the ground, where she lay in sensible for half an hour. Her head was terribly swollen, and she articulated with pain and difficulty. She was then conveyed to a surgeon. The prisoner, far from showing any feeling for the poor creature, walked off laughing. The case for the prosecution having been con clusively established, the prisoner, in defence, endoa voured to set up an alibi, in which he completely failed. Mr. ComnE—Will you make the poor creature some compensation for the grievous injury you have done her? Prisoner—l won't give her a farthing. Mr. CoMaE—Then you will pay 51., or go to the House of Correction for two months. Johanna Harrington was charged with cutting and wounding Anne Connor. The complainant, who is a poor woman living in Baldwin's-place, Gray's Inn-lane, asked the prisoner, on the 16th ult., for a debt she owed her, and Har rington, without making any reply, lifted an iron hooped can, and struck her on the forehead with the iron rim of the vessel, producing a frightful wound, from which she bled until she fainted. The prose cutrix was then conveyed to the hospital, where she has remained up to this time, and at one period her case was considered dangerous. She was still ex tremely weak, and was obliged to sit whilst giving her evidence. Mr. COMBE fined the prisoner 51., or two months' imprisonment ; but the prosecutrix desiring a com promise, the Magistrate said, if reasonable compensa tion were made to the poor woman, he would mitigate the fine. Two persons named M'Gregor and Jones were charged with passing bad coin. They were captured last night, by police-conatable, 405 N, after passin a quantity of bad coin on numerous shopkeepers. When the male prisoner, M'Gregor, was arrested he swallowed some bad money, and made so desperate a resistance that it required the combined exertions of four constables to take him to the station, several of whom he kicked and knocked down. A large quantity of coppers and four penny pieces were found on M'Gregor, which he had obtained as change for the bad sixpences. M'Gregor said if he had a knife he would have stabbed t he constable who arrested them.—They were remanded. WORSHIP-STREET. Wednesday Mrs. Martha Brassington, the school mistress of the Bethnal-green Union Workhouse, was summoned before Mr. Broughton upon a charge of having ill-treated one of the children under her care, named Jane Kingston, ten years of age. It appeared from the girl's statement that she had been for a considerable period in the workhouse, of which her parents, with four of their children besides herself, were also inmates. She had been only three weeks under the care of the defendant, who had beaten her during that time on several occasions. On the evening of the 15th of October last, after par taking of supper, consisting of bread and cheese, with the rest of the children, she went into the scullery to procure a draught of water, not having been supplied with any at the table, when a girl named Gornder, who was employed in wsshing up the tins, told her that she hal no business in that apartment, and threatened that she would report her conduct to the mistress. The defendant soon afterwards came up stairs, and on being made acquainted with her con duct, she struck her several severe blows with her hand on the back and shoulders. The defendant then ordered her to go down on her knees and beg her pardon, and although she immediately did so, the beating was afterwards renewed, and she was finally sent to hed. On the following morning she went to her mother, who was separated from her in another part of the building, and acquainted her of the ill usage she had received. The girl's mother stated that she was first made ac quainted with the facts by another child who wit nessed the infliction of the punishment, but whose name she declined to mention, as the defendant had threatened to beat her informant in a similar manner if she could discover her. On ezamining the child's person, she found that her back and shoulders were f completely black and blue, and covered with bruises. She immediately complained to Mr. Fairfield, the master, of the ill-treatment the child had sustained, when that person told her if it had been he instead of the governess, he would have beaten her ten times worse. Witness then told him that she would go be fore a magistrate and seek redress, and demanded her discharge for that purpose, but the master at first re fused to grant it, and told her that if she did go before a magistrate she should go in the workhouse garb, but he ultimately allowed her to leave the house. She requested the master, immediately after the child had been ill-used, that he would allow it to remain with her, but he positively refused to do so until all the marks on her person had disappeared, when her re quest was complied with, and the child had been since ' excluded altogether from the school. The witness added, that in consequence of her interference on behalf of the child, she had been since compelled to work at the wash-tub, although she had a child at the breast, and that the only food allowed her was dry bread and water, or occasionally some gruel. Rowland, the summoning officer, deposed that he examined the child's person the day after the occur rence, and found its back and shoulders impressed with finger marks, and very much discoloured. In reply to the charge, the defendant said that the complainant was a very forward and disobedient child, who was constantly infringing the regulations of the house ; and that having done so on the present occa sion, she had certainly given her a few trifling slap IP the back, but felt confident that no marks could have resulted from them. The defendant called four girls, inmates of the establishment, who proved that the complainant had infringed the rules of the house on the occasion alluded to, and who described the conduct of the defendant as being uniformly kind and indulgent towards the chil dren under her control. Mr. BROUGHTON said that there was great diffi culty in deciding on cases of this description, but he was clearly of opinion that the defendant had, in the present instance, gone beyond the bounds of modera tion in the punishment she had inflicted on the child, and he should require her to enter into her own re cognizance in 301., and find two sureties in 201. each, to answer the charge at the sessions. BROMLEY. Jas. Leech, a man in the employ of Mr.P. H. Dyke, one of the magistrates for Kent, attended before Sir C. Farnaby, the Rev. T. Scott, and Mr. Goodhart, to answer an information laid under the Assessed-tax Act, charging him with being upon certain lands belonging to Mr. Fox and Sir John Lubbock, with a dog and gun, in pursuit of game, without having a certificate, for which offence he had • forfeited a penalty of 201. Mr. Fox, a brewer, and the owner of some land at Farnborough, deposed that on the day named in the information he was in ohe of his fields and he heard a shot fired, and a few minutes afterwards he observed a dog apparently hunting for game. Shortly after wards he saw the defendant, who had a double-barrel gun, go from the field into a plantation which ad joined it, belonging to Sir John Lublx.ck, and the defendant asked him if he had seen the rabbit he shot at. Witness told him he had no business to shoot on his land, and defendant denied that he had done so, adding that he had leave to shoot upon Sir John Lubbock's property. Witness had since, how ever, written, to Sir John, and ascertained that the defendant's statement was not true. Sir C. FARNABY observed that the mere consent was not sufficient. It had been stated over and over again that there must be an express command or authority. The defendant denied that he had shot upon Mr. Fox's land, and said that with regard to Sir John Lubbock's, he had the permission of that gentleman to shoot all the rabbits he could, on account of the depredations and mischief they committed upon the crops. Mr. Dyke here said he should wish to put the Bench in possession of what he knew upon that matter, and he was accordingly sworn. He then stated that the defendant was jointly employed by him self and Dr. Taste to look over their property, and as they had been planting very largely, he had in structions to destroy all the rabbits he could, on ac count of the injury they did the crops He had asked Sir John Lubbock, whose property adjoined theirs, whether he desired to preserve the game ; and, as he was a large planter also, he very readily agreed that he had no desire to do so, and expressed his wil lingness to concur with them in destroying the rab bits with which they were so much infested, and which, as the Bench were well aware, did so much damage to the crops. He had, therefore, given the defendant orders to destroy all the rabbits he could, and he was sure that Sir John Lubbock was no party to the present proceeding, as his servants and the de fendant had frequently acted.together to effect the very object which was now soughLtolbe.complained of. The Rev. Mr. ScoiT,o'heit il ielliat where land was planted, rabbits, no doubtO cat deal of mischief. Mr. Dyke said they "wpie'i**xj . ttn with them, and they occasioned very great injury: Sir C. FARNABY asked the complainant whether he saw Leach actually shoot upon his land ?—The com plainant replied that he did not, but he saw his dogs hunting about in pursuit of game, and he contended that was sufficient. Sir C. FARNABY expressed his opinion that, under the circumstances, they could not convict, and he at the same time observed that if the complainant had any plantations he would no doubt be very &ad to have the rabbits killed. The other magistrates concurred in the'view taken of the matter by Sir C. Farnaby, and the informa tion was accordingly dismissed. UNION-HALL. Thomas Beavan, a youth, the son of a very respect able man, was charged before Mr. Cottingham with stealing a watch, the property of William Eve. It appeared the prisoner went into the complainant's shop and had hi. 4 shoes repaired. He took• an opportu nity of walking into the room adjoining the shop and took a watch off the mantel-piece. Having given the watch to a little girl to pawn, she was stopped, and this led to the apprehension of the prisoner. The prisoner's father gave a melancholy account of the incorrigible habits of his son, who, he said, was convicted at a late sessions for felony ; but on account of his youth he was only sentenced to 21 days' imprisonment. The punishment, however, had not the slightest effect in shaking his evil propensities,and although he had a good home and every comfort, yet he was in the habit of staying out and committing all kinds of excesses. Mr. COTTINGHAM said that he should now commit the prisoner, and that on his trial the record of his formercon viction could be produced, which would probably cause the Judge to sentence him to transportation, but instead of being sent abroad, he would be sent to the establishment in the Isle of Wight, and there taught a trade, by which he would be enabled to obtain his bread in an honest way. He was then committed. FATAL STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT. Yesterday the inquest was for the third time resumed before Mr. Carter, on the body of Edward Everest, a wate man, who lost his life on the 25th ult., by his boat coming in collision with the Waterman steamer No. 6. The evidence previously given was very conflicting. The body of William Morgan, a seaman, who perished with the deceased, has not been recovered. Ralph Sutton, waterman (who had been at the time standinz on the new Tunnel-pier), saw the steamer and the skiff about fifteen yards apart ; the steamer, going at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour, stopped im mediately she struck the skiff. The captain was on the paddle-box, and witness did not think he could prevent the accident. A schooner was aground by the lower Tunnel-pier, which caused the accident Robert Wilson, a waterman, said, he did not see the occurrence, but he came to speak as to the situation of the schooner, and the effect of the eddy caused by it. Mr. C. Hay, a juror, and a member of the Court of Assistants of the incorporated Watermen and Lighter men's Company, said, " Oh, if this man saw noth_i - a g o f the accident there is no occasion to hear him." The CORONER—This witness is here to speak of facts, and those facts are for the future consideration of the jury. The witness then went on to confirm the last witness's evidence. The CORONER said, perhaps the jury were satisfied an eddy was caused by the schooner, and it would be for them to say what effect that had in causing the collisi( Mr. Hay observed, that there were legal gentlemen present, and they would do as they thought fit. Every body knew an eddy was caused by the schooner. Mr. Clarkson said it was not his intention to lead the jury. All he wished wc.s, to suggest what might be a saving of time, and not to ask advice from the gentle. man who had made the remark. Mr. Hay said there had been remarks made which had been insulting to the whole jury ; and he bad under • stood the foreman had undertaken to speak to the Co roner on the subject, and he was surprised he had not done so. Mr. Clarkson appealed to the Coroner whether any re mark of his could be construed into an insult? The CORONER— Certainly not, Sir. It will be impos sible, gentlemen; to carry on the inquiry if this state of things is to continue. Mr. Clarkson then handed to the Coroner the names of the persons on board the steamer, and left it to him whether he would call them or not, as he had deter mined, after what had taken place on the last day, to offer no evidence himself. The captain, who was pre sent, would not probably be called, but the mate and the man at the wheel, who were under his control, were competent to be heard. The CORONER was of opinion that those under the captain's control might be heard, but the captain could not be sworn, though he might make any voluntary state ment. Mr. Ilay—Suppose the mate chose to do anything without the captain's authority, would the captain then be responsible ? Tho CORONER said, if the mate took charge of the ves sel during the unavoidable absence of the captain, and anything involving loss of life took place, the mate would be responsible. Samuel Brisco, the mate of the steamer Waterman No 6, said she was going at the rate of ten miles an hour, but, if she was going at the half-speed, the accident could not have been avoided. deorgC Thornton, the engineer, received instruction Sept. 29.... Oct. 5 ...... 12 19 .... 26 Nov. 2 45 9 46 1 46 3 46 3 46 0 46 1 34 5 33 9 33 6 34 34 9 35 7 20 5' 37 336 8 20 6 :17 5 36 8 20 6 97 10 36 11 20 8 38 0' 36 9 20 11+ 39 3 37 0 21 2 1 37 3,36 8 33 0 33 b 34 0 33 10 31 - g 3S IMPIRIAL AGORIGATZ AVIRAGZS OT TUX SIX WigKg Wheat......... 465. Id. Oats 8ar1ey.....„.. 341. 41. I Rye DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. Wheat Od. Oats Od.l Hs. 61' Barley .......... 41 Od. I nye 5 . 6d.1 Pease 94 fla, HER MAJESTY'S STAG HOUNDS.— The meet ‘ 3ll Wednesday, which took place about two miles fib the residence of Mr. Cox, at Hillingdon, near Uxbridge; was attended by nearly 100, including a s p r i n kling 0 ` the officers of the regiments at Windsor and liounsloeh and many of the sporting gentlemen of the neighbour hood. It was fully expected that Prince Alb er t wal l have honoured the meet with his presence. Ills Rejt Highness, however, who will not hunt with the Queet?' buckhounds this week, shot over the royal preserves ° Windsor Great Park. An untried hind, upon being 11 0 .' carted at Pole-hill, went away at a tremendous spa ° straight ahead to Bone Farm, and thence toward row at racing speed, where it made for Pinner, doublizt to the right on the Harrow station, and cr oss ing ti l l Birmingham Railway near Stanmore. Aft er a s pl e nal run, and perhaps one of the fastest on record, of el° hour and three minutes, the hind was taken near 3 1 ' Tilbury's farm, at Pinner, and there housed. Upwarl of fifty, notwithstanding the severe pace throughout tb o run, were up at the take. the meet to-day will be , New Lodge. THE PRINCE'S HARIERS.—His Royal Highnel Pr nce Albert's pack of hariera met on Tuesday. s Staines-moor. A hare was found on Mr. Steven's fir o l near Horton, which afforded a beautiful ten minute!, burst, going away to Staines-mead, wher e it clonbli: s l back to Wraysbury, and round again t o M r . Steven land, where it was run into and killed. The hereof ! presented to the proprietor of the farm. A h a re b been previously found near Staines-moor and choppet roi We find the following in the Glaneur J 1 ilthin of the 25th ult.:—" Since the opening of this . rsP,: road through Alsace our physicians have b'een called render assistance to cure several diseases caused by tit yelling in open carriages. Travellers - run i n a ll haSy in order to arrive at the station-house b e f ore th e start;il4 of the train ; they enter the waggons in a state of fer spiration, and are exposed to currents of cold air. Hen,'" we see neuralgias, pleurisies, and consumptions multi' plied, and even acute opthahnia, caused by the ashes Of, ried into the eyes by the wind. Several physicians har given the epithet 'railroad catarrh" to the cough now s ° prevalent in our district." 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ASTHMA BY HOLLOWAY'S PILLS.—Read the foP.oW case:—James Holmes, a cotton-spinner, res;.ding Arcoates, Manchester, h a d b een ast h mat i ca l . for thv eo last three years; he was frequently so bad, that ‘vt rising from his bed he could scarcely spee.k or draw breath, and would cough and spit for he if-an-hour tog4l. ther, and often thought he should choked; he : 1 0 much reduced in strength, and afte r every other toed of cure failed he used these won;Aerful pills, which bP i t removed every symptom of ast h ma, and he is noig id free from it as when Eq) was a child.—Sold Holloway's Ointment) at Professor Holloway's establ i c) ment, 224, Strand (where advice m a y b e had gre w , and by almost ari respectable vendors of mecll' throughout the civilised world. BIRTHS. On the Bth of June last, at Perth, Western Australia , lady of Lionel Samson, Esq., of a son. On the Ist inst., the wife of the Rev. J. R. Crawford, el Head Master of the Western Grammar School, of trio , ' boy and a girl. On the 2d inst., at Cambc,rwell, Mrs. H. F. Goss, of s ~,19141e' On the 3d inst., at Hampton-wick, the wife of M. T. man, Esq., surge;,, of a son. On the 402, inst., at Welbeck-street, Cavendish-square , lady of Paul Wilmot, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son. iln the 4th inst., at Oxford-terrace, Hyde-park, the of Charles Whitlaw, Esq., of a son. __,/ MARRIED. On the 31st_u1t., at St. John's, Hackney, William Venai Islington, to Emily Selina Stephens, the - youngest (long of the late Mr. Joseph Stephens, ship-owner, of Hackney DIED. On the Ist inst., at Manchester, Mr. Robert Burn, in 00, 33d year of his age, third son of the l a t e M r. John Bug!' t y. compiler of the " Commercial Glance." H e succee d e d to foe labours of his father in the conviAlation of the Glance W I " a short period. On the 25th ult., at Mallet-place, Spa-road, Bermollo, both on the same day, Janet, a ge d n i ne years , and )..1:!!,, ,o oli aged five years, daughter and son o f C a pt a i n J o hn 'w" Corbin, of the John Bull steam-ship. On the sth inst., at Clapton, Leonard Pickering the infant son of J. A. D. C. Hartley, Esq. On the sth inst., at Greenwich, Eleanor, the • cife of George Cooper, surgeon. P l ' On the 28th ult, Alethea Henrietta, the r:fr e o f the John Yonge, of Puslinch, Devonshire. 6 111° On the 31st ult., at St. Andre de F', ntenay, near Normandy, the Rev. Robert Evans, ar 4o d 81. Gr d oi On the 2d inst., at Polmont, ne; ir F a l k i rk, J am es 4 Esq., one of the Proprietors, and :; or man y y ears roanstiV the North British Advertiser. On the 21st ult., at Naple-,, m G. R. N. Wright, Esq• On the 29th ult., at O Assby Vicarage, near Stocktc 0 Tees, Philip, youngest PAn of Robert Wylie, Esq. ,(10" On the 30th ult., Dlrs. Anderson, of High-street, Cs town, aged 70. tli i , id On the 91st ult.. fi • - .., , n - , tat Inniskeel House, Donegal, Relit!, Rev. John Barrett ,, G. On the 2d inst., E mma Caroline, the wife of Seal Ravnsley, Esq, '. if se On the 2d inst., at Walgrave, Northamptonshire, Ann, wife of the Rev. J o h n C ox . . 0. 0 On the 3d inst., at Pontriffeth, Frances, only daug' titer heiress of the late Thomas Mostyn Edwards, Esq. tt 1 t ill On the 4th inst., at Castl e H ouse , G u ildf or d, Chr alo-- e wife of Francis Hartwell, Esq. Gre s./ On the sth inst., in Fitz r oy- square , Thomas I,bbott Esq., aged 86. Gre ell' On the sth inst., at Lavender-hill, Surrey , S am uel wood, Esq., aged 80. edar ic On the sth inst„ at Eaton Mascott l Sh ro p s hire, Fr Williams, Esq. On the sth inst., John Watson, Esq., of Jordan edit s° , Nine Elms, Battersea. On the Ist inst., Henry John, second son of Mr. J. 130 ' Fortress-terrace, Kentish-town. --•."? ° f i iii bt London : Printed and Published by KURD() Tw" ,v ..,.-- LIP} No. 112, Strand, Printer, at Th e S a n Office, ,74°. t t 0 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in th, Coula " bliddlesex t Friday nytniber 8, 1844. from the captain to ease the steamer, to stop her, ane turn her astern. He immediately stopped her with easing her, and then turned her astern. Although hi could get the engine to back in about eight seconds, the boat would go three times her length on a flood tide be fore she would come back. The orders were given ee quickly as possible, and as quickly obeyed. The Foreman of the Jury inquired how far the beta, would go with the flood tide, if the engines were atoppeol and not put astern ?—(A laugh.) The witness, with great simplicity, answered=—Whir she would go a long way, Sir ; she would go to 1 atte' sea.—(Laughter.) The jury, after four hours' discussion, returned a Tor diet of—" Manslaughter against Samuel Sims, the maseer of the Waterman steamer No. 6, for killing and slayini Edward Everest." The verdict was received with very great surprise bf the people in the room, which was crowded to excess. MARKET NEWS.—(THIS DAY.) NAY AXARXIITS. SHITHFIELD.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 41 100 Useful ditto, 4/ 12s to 5/ ; fine Upland ditto, 51 3s tO 5/ 8s ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/ ; Oat Straw, 118 s to 1/ 10s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ lOs to 1/ 12s per load. Both Hay and Straw met a dull inquiry, at late rates. CUMBERLAND.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 12s to 4/ 12s; Useful ditto, 41 14s to 513 s ; fine Upland ditto, 5/ 5s UP 5/ 10s ; Clover Hay, 415 s to 51 18s; Oat Straw, it 9s tO 1/ 11S ; Wheat Straw, 11 12s to 11 13s per load. A fair average supply, and a steady demand. WHITECHIPEL.—Coarse Meadow Hay, 31 lOs to 411001 Useful ditto, 41 12s to 51; fine Upland ditto, Si 3s to 518 s ; Clover Hay, 4/ 10s to 6/6s ; Oat Straw, 11 8s to 11 lOs ; Wheat Straw, it lOs to 11 12s per load. Supply good, and trade dull. MEAT MARZETS. SOUTHALL, Nov. 6.—Our market to-day was, on the whole, well supplied with fat stock, the demand for which was in a very sluggish state, at barely last week (rotations. Beef, from 2s 4d to 3s 10d; Mutton, 2a 60 1 to 4s ; Veal, 3s to 33 10d; and Pork, 2s 4d to 3s sa _per 81bs. Supply :—Beasts, 49; Sheep, 1,640 ; Wye* 40; Pigs, 50. ROMFORD, Nov. 6.—Prime Mutton was in request, at full prices; otherwise, the trade was dull. Beef, fro]) 2s 6d to 3s 10d ; Mutton, 2s 6d to 4s ; Veal, 3s 41 to 3s 10d; and Pork, 2s 8d to 3s 6d per Sibs. Suckling Calves, 18s to 31s ; quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 20s: and Mulch Cows, with their Small Calf, 161 to 191 each LEWES, Nov. s.—Beef, from 2s 8d to 4s ; Muttoo. 2s 6d to 4s ; Veal, 3s 2d to 3s 8d; and Pork, 2s 6d to 3s 6d per 81bs. A full average supply, and a sluggish demand. CORN AVERAGES. GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITISH CORN. For the Week ended Nov 2, 1844, made up from the Returns of the In pectot in the different Cities and Towns in England and Waldo per Imperial Quarter. W, heat ..... 46s 0,1 Oats I I Barley AVERAGES OF THE LAST SIX WEEKS. Weeks ending WHEAT. BARLEY.' OATS. 1 RYE. I BEANS. 'wit seri mu LH: the Sit] pi a 1 had aaic eau eve 1)111