The Sun. — London, England, 1844-01-27 00:00:00

. 1 ~. ~ [ti `' ~ FRANCE. CHAMBER OF DEPUTIES.—SITTING or JAN. 24. At two o'clock M. Sauzet, the President, took the chair, when the debate on the address was resumed. The paragraph under discussion was the following : " Your Majesty announces that you hare concluded treaties of commerce with the King of Sardinia and the republics of of the Ecuador and of Venezuela, and that you are engaged in negotiations with other States in various parts of the world. W e hope, Sire, that those treaties and negotiations, whilst they maintain to national labour the protection that its state demands, will open a wider career to the intelligent activity of the country." M. Gaiithier de Rumilly, the first member inscribed to speak against the paragraph, said that he fully concurred with the Minister of Commerce in the propriety of adjourning the debate until the presentation of th e C us t oms Bill announced by the Minister. M. Cumin Gridaine next rose, and assured the Chamber that the Bill was ready, and would shortly be submitted to the approbation of the Chamber. M. ITaillandier afterwards asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs, if the negotiations with the United States, relative to the tariff, had been attended with any result ? M. Guizot replied, that the American tariff was not directed against French trade alone, but against the trade of all na tions ; that England had been aggrieved by it as well as France, and that there was no chance of obtaining redress from the present Congress, who were anxious that the tariff should continue in force. All the negotiations had hitherto produced no result ; but the next Congress would in all probability be more accessible to the complaints of England and France, and then fresh negotiations might be entered into with some chance ef success. M. Taillandier observed, that France might have recourse to reprisals; but M. Gaisot was of opinion that it was advisable to wait for the meeting of the next Congress. In answer to another question addressed to him by M. Ville neuve M. Guiset declared that the treaties already concluded would be presented to the Chamber, tugether with the Cus toms Bill, and that no other treaty should be concluded before the presentation of that Bill. M. Lacrosse, who neat addressed the Chamber, complained of the little solicitude of the Government for the maritime re lations of France, of the neglected state of the colonies, of the abandonment to the Brazils of 10,000 square leagues belonging to French Guiana ; of the neglect of French interests in Mexico, guaranteed by the treaty of 18.39 ' • of the non-payment of the indemnity stipulated therein in favour of despoiled French citizens ; and ef the insufficiency of the naval force maintained by France in the Gulf of Mexico, &c. M. Guizot, in reply, said that the negotiations relative to the frontiers of French Guiana, which were formerly pending in the Brazils, were now conducted in Paris, and that they would be brought, he hoped, to a speedy conclusion. As respected Mexico, be admitted the truth of some of the complaints ef M. Lacrosse. It was perfectly true that the Mexican Government now arbitrarily levied on foreign merchandise duties ef 20 per cent. ; that it had adopted a system of measurement which subjected French vessels to pay navigation duties by one-fourth or one-third greater than before ; that it had laid exorbitant duties on the export of precious metals, and had finally pro hibited French citizens from carrying on any retail trade within the republic, and allowed them only six months to dispose of their property. The Government, he said, had not overlooked those grievances, and its remonstrances had al ready induced Mexico to abrogate on the Bth of November, 1843, the measure relative to the tonnage. The English capi talists residing at Vera Cruz, who supplied the French retailers with goods, were interested in the decree being revoked, and the English Government had on her side addressed energetic remonstrances on the subject to the Mexican Republic. M. de Mackau, the Minister of Marine, in his turn, assured M. Lacrosse that the naval station in the Gulf of Mexico was sufficient for the protection of French trade in that Gulf. M. Glais Bizoin next inquired if the Minister of Marine had adopted measures to terminate the disastrous warfare raging on the banks of La Plata? M. de Mackau rose, and communicated to the assembly two diSpatches of Admiral Massieu, dated the 20th of October and llth of November, 1843, from which it would appear that the resistance of Monte Video was prolonged by some French ad venturers settled in that country, and that the struggle was drawing to a close. Thus, continued M. de Maekau, France was on the point of reaping the fruit of the firm and enlight ened policy pursued by her during the last four years en the banks of La Plata. M. Mermillod, who followed, denied that the struggle was maintained only by French adventurers, and added that the most respectable merchants of that nation had been the first to give the signal of resistance and take arms to save the town from an assault by the troops ef the ferocious Roses. The Ad miral commanding the French station had offered a refuge to 17,000 Frenchmen on board the two or three vessels under his orders, on condition that they consented to lay down their arms and abandon their property ; but no efficacious protection. he insisted, was afforded to French citizens in that quarter, and be concluded by entering a protest against the offensive expressions used by the Minister towards the French residents at Monte Video. M. de Mackau again ascended the tribune, and repeated his previous statements ; he contended that the Frenchmen who had taken arms, and thus renounced their quality of French citizens, had forfeited all right te the protection of the French flag • but that all those who had taken no part in the civil war would be efficaciously protected. Admiral Massieu had lately concluded to that effect a treaty with General Oribe, who pledged himself, in case he reduced Monte Video, to respect the persons and properties of the French who had not interfered in the civil discords of the country. M. Glais Bizoin here rose and said, thatsince Marshal Sebas tiani bad pronounced those words, " Order reigns at Warsaw," he had not heard a more cruel expression than that used by the Minister of Marine, in his exultation, at the idea that the resist ance of Monte Vides was drawing tclvtoeke, The voice of the, speaker was here drowned by •• • • • the rest of his observations did not reach the gal "RlFlrk'. - 0:-sCorcler 'vas re stored, the President put the pars disenisintfto the( vote, and it was carried without ea.y • • The President then read the next pintgratli=" "We shall examine with care the measures necessary for the execution of railroads and various other public works. We hail with eagerness the assurance that the Bill which is to be presented to us on secondary instruction will, by satisfying the wishes of the Charter relative - to itie'•liberty or instruc tion, maintain the authority and hifftteriteor the State over public education." Two amendments to the latterituttorifie4aragraph were proposed, The President having observed that it was necessary to • divide the paragraph into two parts, and discuss separately the passages relative to railroads and public instruction, M. Muret do Bard was called to the tribune. The Chamber, however, paid no attention to his speech, in, 'Whiekite understood him to condemn the mode of constructiarinfthe railroads under the law of June, 1842. M. de Larochejacquelin, who spoke next,. denounced the avidity of the Companies, and recapitulated the enornsoas pro fits realised by those of the Orleans, Rouen, and Paris Rail roads, and that of Avignon to Marseilles. M. Lacave Laplagne, the Minister ef Finance, terminated the debate by observing that it was premature, and might be attended with inconvenience. The Chamber next proceeded to discuss the question of the reedom of instruction. CITY OF WESTMINg R ME- CHANICS' INSTITUTION. Dr. Hunter (of the Westminster Hospital School of Medi cine) gave last night a most lucid and interesting discourse on the structure and functions of the human body. The con spicuous feature of the lecture was its illustration by means of an anatomical model of the entire human subject. This enabled the Lecturer, as he referred to the several organs of digestion, respiration, circulation, and absorption, to demon strate their precise situation, form, and relation to other parts. The description of the apparatus by which these processes are carried on, was thus rendered peculiarly impressive. As in architecture and engineering, a substantial type of the original, such as a model presents, surpasses all other expedients by, which an idea of complicated details can he imparted—so in the animal mechanism, what wouldbaft3e the pencil of the most faithful limner to represent in diagram, is made as distinct (perhaps to the general observer more so) as the nice original, in this beautiful " counterfeit presentment" of the "human form divine." Nothing could surpass the breathless eagerness of the audience to mark the removal of the successive layers of muscle, disclosing the contents of the chest ; and as the Doctor brought these severally into view he gave a descrip tion (divested of all technicality) of the masticatory organs, the gullet, stomach, liver, heart, and lungs; thus tracing the food, from its pleasant stimulation of the nerves of taste, through all its transformations in the animal laboratory, till it becomes part of the textures of those vessels themselves, and of every sub. stance, of which, that " breathing world," a man, is complicated. To show the beautiful mechanism of the gullet (or oesophagus) and that even fluids do not pass through it by mere weight or gravitat'pn, he instanced the mountebank's feat of " pouring water t a hill" by drinking it while standing on his head, and therefore pouring up instead of down. The lecturer ex plained the difference between the voluntary and involuntary or unconscious functions, and exemplified it by showing that in the nutritive system the voluntary action ends with the swal- lowing of the food, beautifully observing that here nature asserts her power, and takes the completion of the process into her men hands—for all beyond is automatic, and proceeds alike, without man's thought or volition. Dr. Hunter treated his subject in the reverential tone of a true teacher, and in uttering his own deep admiration of the infinite wisdom displayed in the human structure, he evidently rendered every one present a lively participator in this ennobling emotion. GENERAL POST-OFFICE ORDER.—MAILS FOR BYD NET, Naw SOUTH WALES.—The Postmaster-General has issued the following new regulations with respect to the transmission of the mail to New South Wales in future : " A contract having been entered into by her Majesty's Government, for the conveyance of mails, monthly, from the United Kingdom to Sydney, a mail will, in future, be made up at this office on the evening of the last day of each month, and all letters and newspapers addressed to the colony in New South Wales, will be included in such mail, unless specially marked 'by private ship.' The rate of postage to be charged en all letters for New South Wales not marked by private ship,' will be one shilling for a letter not exceeding half an ounce; two shillings for a letter not exceeding an o unce , and so on—which must be paid in advance. British news. papers, duly stamped and posted in conformity with the regu lations required by this department, may be forwarded to New South Wales by these packets free of postage. Such news papers as are forwarded by private ship will be liable to a postage of one penny as at present. WINDSOR AND ETON CHURCH UNION.—WINDSOR, THUZSDAY.—At the quarterly meeting of the members of this union, which took place yesterday at the Town-ball, the following were amongst these who were present and took part in the proeeedings:—The Rev. the Provost and Vice-Provost of Eton, the Rev. Dr. Hawtrey and the Rev. R. Okes (the bead and lower masters), the Rev. Messrs. Gossett, Canning, Bow er, Piio, Levett, Butterfield, T. Abrahams, Good, Dulnuisham Career, Bent, &c. The chai r ' Tans' &c. ; Sir John Chapman, Major taken by the Rev. Mr. Canning, Canon of Windsor. From was highly of the Treasurer, the funds appeared to be in a hie p rosperous state. It was, therefore, resolved that the fellaing grants should be recom mended to be made at the ensuing i-200/. to the parent Societies (viz., 501. ea ch atonnthleal meet i ng y g for the Pro pagation of the Gospel and the Additional Se Curates' Society, and t 5/. each to the other four), and 2001. tobe an apropriated to bieatso the l oca l purposes , in conformity with the designs union. Thanks having been voted to the Rev. Chairman, ° meeting broke up. MARRIAGR IN HIGH LIFE.—On the 23d instant , at Allerton Park, Yorkshire, Carrington Smyth e , Esq , of th e Bth Royal Hussars, eldest son of Sir Edward Smythe, Bart. , of Acton Burnell', to Louisa Mary, daughter of Lord Stoll:ton. The lovely bride is the youngest of his Lordship's numerous family. After an elegant &feline, which was attended by many members of his Lordship's distinguished family, the hay pair left Allerton Park for Derbyshire. INCENDIARY FIRES.—The Hereford Journal of yesterday gives the particulars of three incendiary fires in the vicinity of that town ; the first case occurred on the farm of Mr. Lewis, of Brinsopp ; the second at Lye Court, Brilley, in the occupation of Mr. Thomas Cave; and the third occurred in the stable belonging to Mr. John Davies, upholsterer, of St. Martin's•street, in the city of Hereford itself. VALUABLE Coms.—We are informed that the col lection of coins, £cc., made by the late Mr. Thomas, a London grocer, and about to be sold by Messrs. Christie and Manson, is estimated to be of the value of from 16,0001. to 18,0001. Literary Gazette. T &LT N; THE WILL FORGERIES. MANSION-HOUSE. RE-EXAMINATION OF BARBER, FLETCHER, AND MRS. DOREY. Three o'clock yesterday afternoon was the hour fixed for the re-examination of the persons charged with the commission of these forgeries. As soon as the doors were opened, the Court was crowded in every part. Mr. Clarkson attended to conduct the prosecution; Mr. Chambers appeared for Barber; Mr. Ballantyne for Fletcher ; and Mr. Wilkins for Mrs. Dorey. At three o'clock precisely the Lord Mayor took his seat on the bench, and the prisoners, Wm. Henry Barber, Joshua Fletcher, and Georgiana Dorey, were brought up in the cus tody of the Forresters. The male prisoners were placed in the dock, the female was accommodated with a chair at the table immediately below the bar. Mr. Clarkson—Let Griffin also be put to the bar. Forrester—He is not here yet, Sir; he is gone for. Upwards of half an hour elapsed, however, before Griffin made his appearance, when he was placed in the dock. Mr. Wilkins expressed a desire that Mr. Weare, the clerk of Mr. Freshfield, should leave the Court, so as to be out of hear ing, unless the counsel for the prosecution would pledge them. selves that he was not to be examined as a witness. Mr. Clarkson—l shall not pledge myself. Mr. Wilkins—Then I desire he may leave the Court. Mr. Clarkson (after consulting Mr. Freshfield)—l shall not call Mr. Weare. Mr. Wilkins—Do you pledge yourself that Mr. Weare shall not be called as a witness, either here or elsewhere, against any of the prisoners ? Mr. Clarkson—l will not pledge myself to that. Mr. Wilkins—Then I demand of you, my Lord Mayor, that he should be ordered to leave the Court. Mr. Clarkson—Mr. Weare is the managing clerk of Mr. Freshfield in this prosecution, and it may perhaps, although I sin not aware that it will be, but it may be necessary to examine him, but surely that is no reason for turning the person who has assisted in managing these prosecutions out of Court. Mr. Wilkins appealed to the Lord Mayor's justice to desire Mr. Weare to leave the Court, and to Mr. Weare's sense of decency to do so. If he had not been misinformed, Mr. Weare's zeal in behalf of this prosecution, had outrun his discretion ; and he therefore, if it was intended, either here or elsewhere, to examine him as a witness against any of the prisoners, requested that he should leave the Court. The Loan MAYOIt (to Mr. Clarkson)—You do not intend to call him here? _ _ Mr. Clarkson—No, my Lord. The Loan It'Aiwa—Then I cannot see any necessity for his leaving the Court. The following witnesses were then called: — Sarah Hawkes—ln 1840 I lived in Little Guildford-street, Russell-square. I knew Mrs. Dorey as Miss Richards. I was then an embroiderers. I had lodged in the same house with her and her mother in Berwick-street, She called on me in the summer of 1840, and said I have called to ask a favour of you. I asked what it was ? She said, to have some letters in your name to a Mr. Jones. I then lived at 24, Little Guildford-street. I said I had no ob jection. Shortly after that, one letter came addressed to the name of Jones, 24, Guildford-street. It was addressed to me for Mr. Jones. I took it to Mr. Wybrow's, where I was requested. He is a seller of music in Rathbone place. I left it in the shop for Miss Richards. She told me the letters related to some property, that I used to hear her mother talk about. _ Joseph Cookson—l am one of the constables of Barton upon-Humber. I married a 'sister of the prisoner Fletcher, and have known him from childhood. I had a son named Robert. . _ I was at Barton in 1839. My son Robert was a sailor. I was employed by Fletcher in June, 1839, to purchase a vessel for him. lie came to Barton on the 13th or 14th of June. Mr. Ballantyne asked to which charge the evidence applied? Mr. Clarkson—To all. Mr. Ballantyne—Then I object to it. I object to any gene ral evidence, and I ask under what charge Mr. Fletcher is being now examined? Mr. Chambers also desired to know if the first charges were now the subject of inquiry, or if they were closed. Mr. Clarkson was giving evidence upon all the charges, and the purport of this evidence was to show that Fletcher was making preparations at that time for what he had done sub aequen tly. Mr. Chambers did not object to the adoption of that course— all he was anxious for was to prevent any prejudice from being excited. Mr. Ballantyne still objected, bet The LORD MAYOR decided to admit the testimony. Mr. Clarkson (to witness)—Did he say anything to you about getting money? Mr. Ballantine objected to the question, as irrelevant to the subject under discussion ; and called for the decision of the Lord Mayor on the subject. Mr. Clarkson replied ; and The LORD MAYOR decided that the question might be put. Examination resumed—He said he was making money very fast by hunting out unclaimed dividends. I said, But, Sir, are you not afraid you should be overtaken ? He said, No ; the parties are dead, there is no fear whatever. I said, But, Sir, suppose you should be overtaken ? Oh, ho said, send you across the seas. He mentioned the names of two parties for whom he had got them, but one party is dead, and the other is not in custody, and I do not think it desirable to name them now. I have not had advice, but I think not. He then told me of a Miss Richards that he had get money for, but it was only a small sum, 2001. or 300/. Miss Richards he said laid her money out in fancy goods and kept a stall in the Pantheon. He said the money came from unclaimed di vidends, and that he and his rogue of an attorney shared the plunder—that is the person not in custody yet. He said he had been at law with the Bank of England. That he advanced 350/. - ,to a woman to proceed against the Bank, because she had not property to go to law with ; he advanced the money to get it, 'and she got it. I had at that time a daughter named Mary Ann. She was then living at Liverpool or Leeds. She was invited up to London by him, and she came up. That was after his visit to Barton. I think I have stated all that passed on the subject of unclaimed dividends. Cross-examined by Mr. Chambers—lie did not mention the name of any person who is in custody except Miss Richards. Mr. Chambers—Can you write down the name of the rogue of an attorney, who is not in custody, and hand it to the Lord Mayor? Witness—l can if it be desired. Mr. Chambers submitted that it should be done, which was acceded to by Mr. Clarkson and the Lord Mayor. Mr. Chambers—Can you also write down the names and addresses of those other parties ?—Yes, Sir. I have not seen him since. These communications were made at different times during the three or four days he was at my house. He said nothing about continuing or discontinuing such prac tices. He did not tell me how his rogue of an attorney shared the plunder, nor did he enter into any particulars as to his mode of proceeding. The names of the other three parties were those of persons for whom he had got dividends. My son is in the island of Sicily. I was sent for to come to Lon don about a week ago. I was in town on Monday. I had come on the preceding Friday. By Mr. Ballantine—l live at No. 1, Hay-street, Barton-on- Humber, and have been a constable since 1836. I lived two years at Liverpool with my son. I did not propose to come up here myself. I received a communication to come up on Wednesday week. That was in consequence of a communication I had myself made, I think. I have no doubt but that I made a communi cation. I wrote up to London, on seeing the advertisement in the paper, three or tour days before. I went to Messrs. Freshfield, stating the particulars I have stated. My daughter is here. She was living with me when I made the communication. It was six weeks after I saw the advertisement before I wrote up. I do not know that there is any reason for my not having done err before. Cross-examined by Mr. Wilkins—l am appointed constable by that township. Ido nothing but constable•ise. I was a farmer at Barton before I went to Liverpool. I failed in business, and my creditors took what there was. I was not bankrupt, nor did I take the benefit of the Act. There was no compounding. My landlord seised, and I afterwards paid my creditors what I could. I did nothing while I was at Li verpool. I lived upon part of the money that my son earned, and some I had myself. He was in the Liverpool po lice. That was from 1834 to not 1836 quite. I think I lived at No. '2O, Alarylebone. It was opposite Great Cross Hall-street. I did not seek to get into any employment. I have been living at the Bull, in Leadenhall-street, since I came to town. I have seen the gentleman (Mr. Weare) twice. I received Si. at Barton for my travelling expenses. It cost me 4/. Bs. for me and my daughter by railway. I was not in Court last Monday. Mr. Freshfield took my examination last Friday. Mr. Wilkins—Do you expect any money? Witness—Of course, I do. Mr. Wilkins—You expect to be paid pretty handsomely? Witness—Why, for my time. I was a constable at the time this conversation took place with Mr. Fletcher, and it is about a fortnight since I first made this communication. Re-examined—lt was the magistrates' clerk of Barton who advanced me the money to come up. Mary Ann Cookson—l am the daughter of the last witness, and live with him. In 1839 I came up to see my uncle Fletcher. He was living in Westmoreland-place, Southampton-street. I stayed with hies between three weeks and a month. After I had been there three days he spoke to me about unclaimed divi dends. He said that he was getting a great deal of money by the unclaimed dividends. Mr. Chambers—l beg to draw your particular attention to the conduct of one of the witnesses, who actually had the im pertinence to seize my collar, and that witness is the constable who was just examined. He had written down the names of the parties as I had desired him, and when I attempted to look at them, he seized me by the collar and I thought he would have clawed my face. Mr. Clarkson—Cookson, how is this ? Cookson—l had written down the names to give to the Lord Mayor, and I thought the gentleman had no right to look at them. The papers were then handed to Mr. Chambers, and he desired Cookson to write the addresses of the parties, which ho said he could not do. Mr. Clarkson then recommended Cookson to leave the room. Examination resumed.—He said that he had got a great deal of money by unclaimed dividends, and that he had got it more than once. A person of the name of Tucker frequently came there. He always talked about money after Tucker went away ; and he said if I would do as he would have me, be could get me some. I asked how it was to be done? and he said, of course, I must appear to be another person. I asked him how I must do that? and he said it would be by false swear. ng ; and he said I should have to kiss the Bible, and say I was another person that I was not. I told him I thought I should be doing very wrong to kiss the Bible, and bring a curse upon myself. He said that was quite ridiculous ; the Bible was a fable, and if I went by that I should go wrong. I told him I thought it very wrong, and that I would have nothing to do with it. He said if I would do as he would have me, there was money he could get me very shortly. He frequently talked about it. I did not at that time know what unclaimed dividends were : I asked kim, and he told me, as far as 1 can recollect, that it was something about the Sinking Fund Commissioners. He mentioned Miss Richards as a person for whom he had got money. Mr. Wilkins—l ask Mr. Clarkson if he were before a judge, would he give such evidence as this ? Mr. Clarkson—l certainly should. Mr. Wilkins—Then I will pledge my reputation as a lawyer against yours, that no judge would admit it in evidence. It is a cruel and oppressive attempt to prejudice the public mind against the prisoners through the medium of the press. The Loan MAYOa decided that the question might be put. Mr. Wilkins—When that poor woman, suffering from illness, has been visited by magistrates in prison. The Loan MAYOR—Whom do you accuse ? Mr. Wilkins—l accuse you, my Lord Mayor. The Loan MAYOR—Then, Sir, y ou accuse me of that which is f a l se . Th at woman sent for ' me, and stated she wished to make a declaration to use, and I refused to bear her, and toM her sTi t h o r e. a LORD p oi l lß y kDi t n o sc h i e As r yti c o o ea u s_ n a sel . say s h d e ig n e s r h en e t states that which is false. Mr. e LWoilak— ninsMalleyoaar me. Th—lwill not hear you, Sir. What you have asserted is altogether false. Mr. Chambers, as Counsel for Mr. Barber, bore his testi. timony to the attention with which the Lord Mayor had eon ' ducted the investigation, and the examination was resumed. A lady came to tea with us, and we afterwards went to her house to tea. He said she was a nice lady ,and a confidential friend of his. Ido not recollect an other occasion when I bad a conversation with hint about it. There was a shop to 10 in L. OND. Pimlico, and he endeavoured to take it for me and his daughter. He said he could put us in there and do a great deal for us. It was a high-rented shop, but no doubt we could make it do if we would try. He was to take it, and we were to pay him at some future time. Miss Fletcher's name was to be over the door. I declined to have the shop. The lady who came to tea and he fre quently talked about the unclaimed dividends. I do not recollect the street we went to to see the lady, except that it was near Oxford-street. We went to see her at a music shop, over which there were in large letters, the " Temple of Apollo." The lady we went to at the shop was called Miss Richards. I never beard her Christian name. I told my uncle frequently 1 could not do that which he had suggested to me. In consequence of that I left his house, for I saw that I was not treated with that familiarity which I had been. Cross-examined by Mr. Ballantine—l have been living with my father at Barton ever since I left Fletcher. By Mr. Chambers—l left Fletcher in December, 1839. He never mentioned to me that he had an attorney whe shared the plunder with him. Tucker used constantly to come there. He was short, and had light hair. I never heard where he lived. My father did not communicate tome the conversation be had had with Fletcher before I left to go to London. Tucker used to come at all hours. I never saw any papers prepared by him. He would sometimes stay three or four hours. I never inquired as to his business. I should know him again if I saw him, I have not been taken to look at any person bearing that name. Mr. Chambers—How many names could you give of parties for whom Fletcher said he had got unclaimed divi dends ? Witness—Three. Two besides the name of Richards. He never gave the addresses. He never said what had be come of the money that he had got. I understood that if I would do as he asked me we were to share. Mr. Clarkson—Among other names that he mentioned did he mention the name of Barber? Witness—He did. Mr. Chambers—That is fairness. After I had conducted the cress-examination with the greatest delicacy, the counsel for the prosecution put the name of my client in their mouth. I hope this will go forth to the public as a specimen of the manner in which this prosecution is conducted. It is wrong there is no doubt of it, and let those who are fair decide if it is wrong. —( Cheers. ) Mr. Clarkson—My Learned Friend has elicited the cheers of some persons, and he is we'come to them, but as my Learned Friend had alluded to names in his cross-examination, I had a right to ask for names in my re-examination. Mr. Chambers—l demand that in future proceedings here every witness, except the one under examination, should be or dered out of Court. _ _ _ POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) BOIV-STREET. Seven young girls were brought up from St. Giles's workhouse, cluirged with creating a disturbance. They were all about 14 years of age. The Governor of the workhouse said he had had two very comfortable rooms fitted up, and good fires kept, for these girls. Last night they broke the locks off the door, pulled open the skylight, and got on to the roof of the workhouse ; and after having blackened their faces with the soot, they commenced dancing, and making a great noise. The prisoner Knight said the Governor had locked them in two rooms, so small, that they were obliged to sit on each other's knees, and so they were determined to get out. They were half starved in the workhouse, for they got but a pint of water and a pound of bread a-dat. (The prisoners looked very plump and fat.) She said she liked the prison, where she had often been, better than the workhouse, for it was much more airy there, and they had fine open yards to walk about in. They got good food there and plenty of dinner. For her part, she liked the country house much better than the town house ; and when she left the country house for town, she always felt her health decline. —(Laughter.) Mr. JARDINE said it was evident that such a girl would corrupt all the rest. Knight—l am as quiet as a lamb ;so are we all. Mr. JARDINE sentenced five of the prisoners to three weeks' imprisonment, and the other two, Donovan and Hickey, who were young, to be sent back to the work house. •The prisoners, when they left the bar, set up a loud hurra, and Knight expressed her regret that the sen tence was not three months. respectably-dressed young man, who gave his name as lolix Renshaw was placed at the bar b e f ore M r . J ar di ne, Jharged with riding a horse furiously in the neighbourhood of I 'Strand. The officer stated that he saw the horse in question standing ippeeite The Sun office, and he observed several persons sanant the horse, and gallop up and down the street. He saw he prisoner get on the horse, and ride furiously up Welling km-street, and he then took him into custody. The prisoner said he wanted to sell the horse to Mr. Youog, iseproprietor of The Sun, and while he was waiting at The Sun office door for that gentleman, several newsboys rode the same up and down the street. Mr. JARDINE discharged the prisoner, as it did not appear vat he had authorised the boys to ride the horse. Still, if it .ad been proved to his satisfaction that the prisoner had gals roped the horse furiously in the street. he would have fined him savily.—He was then discharged. CLERKEIV WELL. FRAUDULENT PERSONATION OF A POLICE OFFICER.-- ATTEMPT TO BRIBE A MAGISTRATE'S CLERK.— William Taylor, a furniture dealer, residing in Turnmill-street, Clerk enwell, was finally examined on a charge of falsely and fraudu lently personating a police constable of " the detective force," under circumstances of a very aggravated nature. Mr. C. Stoddart appeared for the prisoner. Police-constable, 243 G, deposed that on Sunday morning last, between twelve and one o'clock, a.m., he was on duty in Cross-street, Hatton-garden, when the prisoner addressed him, saying he was an officer of the detective force, and that he could produce his authority, at the same time drawing from his pocket a pair of handcuffs. The prisoner then went to the ' beer-shop, No. 26 in the street, and knocked at the door. He was not admitted : and then requested witness to come to the door with him. Witness consented. They knocked at the door, and were admitted. When the prisoner entered the shop, he said, " I am an officer of the detective force." Mr. GREENWOOD—Did he mention the name of the divi sion? Witness replied in the negative. The prisoner was given into custody by the barman. Wm. Clarke deposed that he was acting for Mr. Mayes, the landlord, on the night in question, who lay in a room adjoining the shop dangerously ill, from a concussion of the brain. The prisoner had twice ineffectually attempted to obtain admission as an officer of the detective force, but as the house was closed witness refused to admit him. He was admitted subsequently at the instance of the police officer. He wanted drink, which was refused. He then said he wanted to search the house. Witness directed the police officer to do so, and he did search it, even the roam where the sick man lay. When asked for his authority, the prisoner produced a pair of handcuffs. His manner was boisterous and insolent. Witness at last gave him into custody. Mr. Joseph Liddell deposed that he was in the house on the occasion referred to. Had been sent for, as it was expected the landlord would have died on that night. The prisoner was very noisy, and witness begged of him for God's sake not to dis turb the sick man, but the prisoner jeeringly said, " The sick man should have the physician before the undertaker." Mr. GREENWOOD—Are you an undertaker am. When the prisoner wanted to have the house searched I directed the officer to do so, lest Mr. Hayes might be disturbed. Inspector Penny deposed that the prisoner was net a member of the metropolitan police force, detective or otherwise. Mr. Stoddart said the prisoner had been in the Birmingham police force, and had been sworn in a special constable for the city. The prisoner had freequently assisted the police in de tecting thieves. He was not sober on the night the offence was committed. Mr. GREENWOOD said, upon the previous occasion the pri soner had produced a document purporting to be his warrant to act as a police-constable of Birmingham for the year lin. The paper, on inspection, turned out to be an ordinary notice to appear at special sessions in 1841, and of course no authority whatever. If he had been a policeman, the fact would have rather aggravated his offence. Prisoner—l went tothe house on scent for a thief. Mr. GREENWOOD—You had no warrant or authority what ever. The law very properly looks upon this as a very bad offence. Dividend per Annum. 54 per cent. 41. 4 per cent. 41. I. IS4. 71. 1!. 54. lgl 126.11 d. 124 15s. 11. 10e. 341. IW. 171. 301. 3)4 17s. tkl. 101. 0 percest. 26 151. 20:. 1/. 104. 13/. 324 1 Os. Mr. Clarkson—Why did you not do so before? Mr. Chambers—Because I thought the case would be con ducted with forbearance and without laying traps. Re-examination resumed—He often mentioned Mr. Barber's name to me, but I never saw Mr. Barber. We were to have gone to him once, but we received a note from him. Mr. Chambers —All this ought to have been mentioned before. She might as well have mentioned Barber's name as the name of Richards or Fletcher. I shall demand a right to cross-examine. Mr. Clarkson—You may cross-examine as long as you like. Mr. Wilkins, in order to afford his Learned Friends time to cool--(A langh)-*would take that opportunity of apologising for the wrong which he had been induced to commit by attend. ing too implicitly to the instructions which be had received. The Learned Gentleman then, in the handsomest manner, ex pressed his regret for his warmth. Mr. Ballantine also bore testimony to the kindness and pa tience of the Lord Mayor. The witness then in answer to Mr. Chambers, stated that she had been talking to the attorney's clerk, while her Esther was being examined, but not on the subject of her evidence. Mr. Freshfield—l lam conducting these prosecutions. I have been in the constant receipt of communications from England, Scotland, and Ireland upon this subject, and I think I shall be enabled to produce impartial evidence from Scotland, more particularly in the case of Stuart. Cross-examined by Mr. Chambers—l have not taken any steps to get any of those parties taken into custody who were mentioned by the constable of Barton. I do not think there was any one of them unknown. Mr. Chambers—There is a gentleman we all know, whose name is Tucker. It is not that gentleman ? Witness—No. I may also state that what the witness stated with regard to Mr. Barber did not, in my opinion, affect Mr. Barber at all. Mr. Chambers—That is very kind of you. Mr. Clarkson—We may go farther, and state that there is reason to believe that the person named Tucker is not an at torney at all. Mr. Clarkson thon applied for a remand, and gave his Learned Friend notice that he should perhaps have to renew it, and he did this, in order that his Learned Friend might, if he pleased, apply to the Court of Queen's Bench. Mr. Chambers said that, seeing the great probability of this last case going to trial, and that his client's great object was to be restored to his fair fame and character, he thought in his fair, proper, and legal judgment Mr. Barber ought not now to ask to be committed on the first three charges. He had stated at the outset that Mr. Barber had acted only as a profes sional man, and he thought that what had come out this day would tend to his vindication, and would tend to show that throughout he had only acted as an attorney, although he had acted indiscreetly as an attorney. It therefore became his bounden duty to proceed to watch the evidence adduced; and to express a wish that every name, every new discovery, should be the subject of inquiry, believing that every inquiry would be to prove Mr. Barber's innocence. After hearing Mr. Freshfield's evidence, he would not press for a committal, but would withdraw all opposition to the course which it had been proposed to adopt. He would not object to the further postponement of the case. Mr. Ballantine did not oppose the postponement. Mr. Chambers begged to say, that anything that he might, in the heat of the moment have said that might seem to have cast a reflection on Mr. Freshfield, had been completely soft ened down by the candid explanation which Mr. Freshfield had made, that what had been stated by the last witness did not, in his opinion, operate to the prejudice of Mr. Barber. He expressed his regret for what he had been induced to say in the heat of the moment. The case was adjourned to Friday next, at eleven. 101. 81. [Os. 41. U. 44. 3 per cent. per cent. 4 per cent, 4 per cent. 31. 10s. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 04 pet cent 4 per cent. 4 per cent. IN per cent. I/. Os. Bd. 18s. Id. per cent. 11. 7a St 10s. 4 percent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. 13s. 6(1. pr sh 5/. ss. 4 per cent. 7s. per share 5 per cent. 31. 5 per cent.l & 30s. bds. Tper cent. 5 per cent. per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 4s. 23. 6d. 12 per cent 'l9s. 11, bds. it. se. 10s. 'los. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent 14 ss. 5 per cent. Cqi per cent 11. 4s. 5 per cent. 10% per cent 51. S per cent. 8 per cent. S per cent. 5 per cont. 6 per cent. ( per cent. per cent. 8 per cent. per cent. 21s per share 6s. per share IS per cent 5 per cent. After commenting on the impropriety of the prisoner's con duct, the Magistrate sentenced him to pay a fine of 51., or a month's imprisonment. Mr. Mould (the junior clerk) said, that in the early part of the day Duke, the usher of the Court told him that the pri soner wished to speak with him in private. He replied to the communication that he did not wish to have any private inter , view with the prisoner. When he (Mr. Mould) came into r Court, during the momentary absence of the Magistrate, the prisoner whispered to him, saying that he understood the clerk had great influence with the Magistrate, and that if he (Mr. Mould) would exercise that influence in his favour, he would reward him handsomely. The proposal was indirnantly re jected, but he did not consider it right to communicate the matter to the Magistrate until the ease was disposed of, lest it might create an unfavourable prejudice in his Worship's mind. Mr. GREENwoon told the prisoner it was a most audacious proposal, and one for which he might be prosecuted at the Old Bailey, and if convicted severely punished. He would recom mend Inspector Penny to communicate the affair to the Com missioners of Police, who would say whether or not it was a case for prosecution. Inspector Penny having taken down the clerk's statement, promised doing so. The prisoner said he had not then the money to pay the fine. He was locked up. WORSHIP-STREET Thursday John Davis, alias James Blythe, Henry Robin son, and George Hirt, whose former examination for extensive burglaries, committed in the premises of wholesale firms in the City, have lately appeared in our columns, were brought be fore Mr. Bingham for the completion of the former charges, and to answer a fresh charge of burglary, committed in the warehouse of Messrs. Wood and Co., warehousemen, in Red Lion-court, Watling-street. The substance of this last charge was this :—Mr. Robert Oakley, Messrs. Wood's chief clerk, and who, with his family, resides on the premises, went carefully over the warehouse at all the e e h n g ig it h s t a o h f d Monday,fointehgs, on the 27th of November, a which he left secure; but at five the followi n g morni ng he was rung up by James Brett, a City policema n, who o n passing the door had found it twelve nd e a o m 'c i l n o e c d k open. As there were no marks of violence on the warehouse door or shutters in the lower part of the house, the upper part was examined, when one of the attic windows was found open, a corner of one of the panes, large enough to admit a man's arm, having been cut with a diamond, and an entrance ob tained here from one of the adjoining houses, as in all the other burglaries with which the prisoners have been found to be connected, and the premises quietly quitted by the usual means of egress. On examining the warehouse it was found to be completely ransacked, and a large amount of property carried off by the burglars, among which was a quantity of plated articles from the private apartments, the whole robbery being so quietly effected that not a single member of Mr. Oakley's family was disturbed by the thieves. The prisoner Davis or Blythe, it will be recollected, was detained and given into custody by Mr. Sowerby, a pawn broker in Shoreditch, while offering as a pledge a handsomely. worked silver s nuff-box, part of the produce of an extensive burglary committed on the premises of Messrs. Riley and Storer, silversmiths, at the back of the Goldsmiths' Hall, and which forms one of the present charges against him, and on Taylor, an officer, searching him, in addition to a second snuff box of the same description, and a quantity of duplicates, three small gold seals were found in one of his pockets. Three seals were now produced, and sworn to by Mrs. Oakley, the wife of the first witness, who had used them only a few hours before the burglary was committed, and placed them in her writing-desk, which she had left in a parlour in the upper part of the house, but which desk was found in the morning on the basement story broken open, and its contents strewed about, the seals having been abstracted. The prisoner Davis had dealt for clothes with a tailor named Davies, residing in New Union -street, Little Moorfields, and between nine and ten in the morning of the 11th ult. the pri soner called at Davies's house daring his absence from home, and, producing a large brown paper package, requested the wife's permission to leave it with her till lie called for it. She consented, and heard nothing further of the prisoner for a fortnight or three weeks afterwards, when she read an account of his examination at this Court on the other charges ; and becoming alarmed lest she should become implicated with him, she broke open the parcel, and found its contents to eens:st of part of the property above described ; and being satisfied it was the produce of another robbery, she repacked the parcel, directed it to the Police-court, Worship-street, and carrying it over the water, sent it to this Court by the Parcels Delivery Company. The depositions being then taken by Mr. Vine, the chief clerk, all the prisoners were fully committed to Newgate for trial, Hirt on one charge of receiving, and Robinson upon three, and Davis upon five charges of burglary. ilk. 11. be. 11. 7.. U. and Us. 4541. and bs. 10 per cent. 4 per cent. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Jan. 25. LORD W. PACKET V. THE EARL OF CARDIGAN. Mr. Sergeant C/dAIINELL moved for a rule to show cause why the defendant should not have judgment, as in the case of a nonsuit. The action was brought against the defendant for an alleged act of criminal conversation with the plaintiff's wife, and the cause was set down for trial at the last Guildhall sit tings, and was specially fixed for Friday, the 22d of December last. A few minutes before the Lord Chief Justice came into Court the record was withdrawn ; and it will not have been forgotten that Lord William Paget addressed on the same day, t• the leading Morning and Evening newspapers, copies of a letter which he had forwarded to Lord Cardigan, charging him, in terms so coarse and violent, that it was considered necessary to suppress the greater portion of the letter, with having bought the plaintiff's principal witness, Winter, who had sud denle disappeared from the Guildhall, on the morning appointed for the trial. In support of the present motion, affidavits were made by the defendant, his attorney, Mr. Powell, and the clerks who had the conduct of the cause, stating, in the most positive and unqualified terms, that neither he nor they were, directly or indirectly, concerned in procuring the absence of Winter.—Rule nisi granted. 81 per ch 315 s per sh 21. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent 6 per cent. 44 per cent. 34 21. 101. 2/. 10.. 21. 10.. per cent. 4/. 18s. 11. 14a. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 26. (Sittings at Nisi Prins, before 11 . 1 r. llama RoLiz and a Com. mon Jury.) Two undefended rases (Robinson v. Manners and Cockerill v. Hurd) were disposed of. In both cases verdicts for the plaintiffs were given. In the first place fur 2491., and in the second for 341.135. 3d. 105. per sk U. is. 4 per cent. 21. 10s. Ss. per sh. 91. ss. per a h Ti 10d per sh 10 per cent . ?56 per cent. 11.55. per sh .%1. per fill. 12s. per ah. 4 per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 1%4 per sh 101. per ah. 11. 14s. Sl.per share Ss 4,1 per sh 91.175. pr sh 113. per sh 11. 11.103. 11. sr. 155. 1b lls. lid. 15 per cent. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 11. 11. Si. 17i. ed. 1. It.. 10 per cent. XII. per sh. U. 101. pirr oh. „ FATAL RA ILWAY ACCIDENT.--OD M onday' evening last William Benmont, aged 42, was found lying on the line of the Manchester and Sheffield Railway, at Newton, in a dying state, and expired before any assistance could be rendered him, from injuries received by one or more trains passing over him. The deceased was a ” banksman " at the Newpit, Newton, and about 6 o'clock on Monday evening was sent on an errand down a private railway which joins the above line, when, by some mistake, he got on the Manchester and Sheffield line, and was knocked down by one of the trains. When found his right leg was completely severed from his body, and lay at a distance of 12 yards from it. His head and body were also severely injured. An inquest was held on view of the body before Mr. Hudson, coroner, at the Cotton Tree Inn, Newton, on Tuesday last, when a verdict of " Accidental death " was returned. ihnoic ACT.—Hannah More, in a letter to her sister, in 1762, relates the following interesting incident : " The other morning the Captain of one of Commodore John son's Dutch prizes breakfasted at Sir Ch arles Midd leton's , and related the following little anecdote: —One da y he went w ou a t s of there hisaowsntorsmhipartoosed,ineon board of another ; while h e which in a short time made an entire wreck of his own ship, to which it was impossible for him to return. He had left on board two little boys, oue four and the other five years old, under the care of a poor old black servant. The people struggled to get out of the ship into a large boat, and the poor black took his master's two children, tied them in a bag, and putting in a little pot 'of sweatrneats for them, slung them across his shoulder, and put them into a boat. The boat by this time was quite full ; the black was stepping into it himself, but was told by the master there was no room for him ; that either he or the child ren must perish, for the weight of both must sink the boat. The exalted heroic negro did not hesitate a moment. Vary well,' said he, ' give my duty Wray master, and tell him I beg pardon for all my faults,' and then—guess the rest—plunged into the ocean never to rise again, till the sea shall give up ber dead. I told it the other day to Lord Monboddo, who faifly burst into tears. The greatest lady in this land wipte m e t o make clegy of it, but it mop" N, , S A7T1141-13, A V-- /,t G) -JANUARY 27, 1844. PRICES OF SHARES N CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE .a.ND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. :LONDON, FRIDAY, JAN. 27. Names of Com panies. Canals. Ashton and Oldham Ashby-de-la-Zouch..ay Basingstoke Breckneck & AbergaY Birmingham, 1-16th sh Do. and Liverp. June Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry Cromford 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 and Avon ...av Lancaster all Leeds and Liverpool... Leicester Leicester & Northamp Loughborough ........se Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire . Melton Mowbray Mersey and Irwell Macclesfield Neath Oxford Peak Forest it Regent's (or London).. Rochdale iv Shropshire .......... Somerset Coal. Do. Lock Fund Stock Stafford and Worcester Shrewsbury Stourhridge Stratford .on.Ayon...ay Swansea Severn & Wye & Rail Trent & Mersey, 4 sh Thames & Med way..av Warwick and firming. Warwick and Napton Worcester & Birraing Wilts and Berks av Wisbeach Wey and Arun Docks. Commercial ......... East and West India London Ditto Bones Bristol ar Do. Bnds, var. amounts St. Katharine. Ditto Bonds Ditto Bonds Southampton Amount Share. Paid. Xs. t Bridges Hammersmith.,,,.,, Southwark, new Subs. Ditto :New of 73si pr c Waterloo Ditto Old Ann. of 84 Ditto New ditto of 71. Ditto 80nd5........ Vauxhall av Assurances. Albion Alfred Life Alliance Brit. and For Ditto Marine Atlas Birmingham Fire British Fire British Commercial Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County Eagle Economic Life ...... ..... European Life Ditto New Freemasons Globe Guardian Hope Life Ditto Fire Imperial File Ditto Life Indemnity Marine Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire Ditto Ship National Loan Furo., Palladium Life Protector Life Provident Rock Life It yal Exchange Sun Fire Ditto .......... University Life Universal Life Union Fire and Life Joint Stk Banks Australasi , Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial London & Westminstr Ditto New........ London Joint Stock Metropolitan Provincial of Ditto New National of Nat. Provincial Englnd Ditto New Gloucestershire .... Union of Australia Union of London Gaslight & Coke Bath British Ditto Birmingham Binning. & Stafford'h Bristol Brighton Ditto General City of London Ditto New Continental Cons° Ditto New Equitable linperi 1 Isle of Thanet Independent Phoenix Ratch South Metropolitan..... United General Westmins. Chartered.. Ditto New ......... ........ Water Works Birmingham Eist London ........ Grand Junction. av Kent ......... Nw Riv Lon. Bridg An Manchester and Salford Vauxhall, late S. Lond. West Middlesex av Yrk Buldg Co. Les. Prop Iron Railways. Birmingham & Derby Birming. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter Cheltenhm & Gt. West Clarence Eastern Counties Edinburgh & Glasgow Ditto New Grand Junction..„ Great North of Englnd Great Western Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths Hull and Selby ....... Leech and Selby Liverpool & Mancliestr Ditto Half-Shares Ditto Quarter-Shares London and Brighton Ditto Loan Notes London and B 1 ckwall London and Greenwich London and Birmingh. Ditto Quarter-Shares Ditto Thirds... London and S. ..Vestern London and Croydon Manchestvr and Leeds Ditto New Shares Manchstr and Binning Ditto Extension Midland Con .ties North Midland Do. %.Sh., iss. 10 dis. Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss. 5/. dis Paris and Rouen Stockt n & Darlington South East. and Dover Ditto New, its. 25 dis. York and N. Midland Ditto New Shares..,, Mines. Albion Copper Alten Anglo Mex., iss.sl. p.m Ditto Subscription Bolanos Ditt Scrip Brazil. Imp. iss. 51. 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 „ v . 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 10. 0 0 Stock Stock 147 9 0 Stock be 0 0 50 0 0 83 2 11 50 0 0 100 0 0 70 10 3 500 0 0 25 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 250 0 0 250 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 1000 0 0 20 • • 20 0 0 20 0 0 Stock 100 • 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 500 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 25 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 . C 20 0 0 10.1 0 0 5 0 41 Stock 100 0 0 100 0 0 20u 0 0 40 0 Lit erary. Londa,with Sin. Ticket London University Russell King's College Miscellaneous Anglo Mexican Mint Australian Agricultur Brit. 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All paid! 16 0 0 18 0 0 19 0 0 5000 2* 0 0 100 0 0 75 0 0 31 5 0 v 8 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 30 0 0 39 0 0 80 0 0 2S 0 0 48 0 • le i 25 0 0 100 0 0 2 0 0 82 0 0 TO 0 0 30 0 0 40 0 0 7 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 40 • • 45 0 0 15 0 0 20 • 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 9 M a 0 20 0 0 31 9 13 10 0 100 0 0 25 0 0 150 0 0 21 0 0 25 0 0 15 0 0 75 0 I 7 10 0 7 10 0 40 0 0 13 0 0 55 0 • 20 0 0 10 10 0 3 0 0 59 0 0 7 0 0 150 • 0 50 0 0 10 0 • 40 0 • 2 10 $ 100 - 0 0 LOG 0 0 10 0 o 90 0 0 35 IS 0 32 10 0 3 $ 0 II 0 0 1 10 0 5 0 0 3 0 0 7 0 0 75 0 0 25 0 0 SO 0 0 50 - 0 0 too 0 e 25 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 O 0 O 0 O 0 O 0 PANIES' PRICES 1844.; /I 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 10 • • 12 10 • 1 0 • 2 10 • 50 0 • 50 0 0 25 0 • 25 • • 1 GOODS V. HARRISON. Mr. Sergeant Manning and Mr. Dodsou conducted the cue for the plaintiff, and Mr. Watson appeared for the defendant. Till!, was an action to recover the balance of an account for goods sold and delivered. The plaintiff and defendant are wine-merchants, the former carrying on business in Fenchurch street, and the latter in Fore-street. The plaintiff sold to the defendant a quantity of cheap French wine, for which the sum of 1601. 14s. sd. was agreed to be paid on delivery ; 1401. was paid, leaving a balance of 204. 141. 5d., for which the present action was brought. The defendant had from time to time, and in the hearing of witnesses, promised to pay the amount, sub- Jegnently refusing to do so on the ground that the wine, which is known as " Sparkling Burgundy," and which was sold to him at tis. 6d. per dozen, exclusive of duty, was of an inferiorquality, a circumstance which caused some merriment in Court, owing to its extremely moderate price. A sample was also produced in Co ml. On the part of the defendant it was contended by the Learned Counsel (Mr. Watson) that the wine in question was drank by persons in warm climates, which, perhaps, was no trivial oause of the mortality of many of the inhabitants of those climates—that the species of wine, known as " Sparkling Bur gundy," was sold in large peantities to the animals who attend -masquerades. The wine did not correspond with the sample ...listed by the defendants ; and the very fact of this being so, was ,ufficient to warrant him in refusing to pay the amount which .he plaintiff claimed. The defendant wrote to the plaintiff 'Wing that the wine was so bad that he could not dispose of it, and requesting Mr. Goggs to send for it, or he would sell the wine by auction for whatever it would fetch. - On the part of the plaintiff, it was contended that the defen lant bad had ample opportunity of :examining and satisfying 'limeelf of the real quality of the wine. There could be little doubt that the whole of the wine was equal to the sample, that no Usieit wee Intended, the bargain being made in all fairness. Verdict for the plaintiff., 201. °Ws,. It. GRINYELL.. This was an action brought to recover the amount of a pro missory note at two months' sight, given by the defendant to the plaintiff for goods sold and delivered. The daintiff is a publican and maltater in Worcestershire ; the Intendant at the time the debt was incurred, being a general Water. The defendant, in a letter addressed to the plaintiff, signed " Your unfortunate Creditor," admitted his liability to .uty the amount, but that at that time he was unable to do so, awing to his distressed circumstances. The counsel of the lefendant complained of the extreme hardship of bringing the lase from Worcester to London for trial, the expense of ringiag the witnesses to town being more than the amount of he debt. Witnesses were called to prove the delivering of the "roods, and the signature of the promissory note.—Verdict for the plaintiff, 261. FEROCIOUS DOGS--ANDREWS V. SIMPSON. Mr. Jervis and another appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. Thomas for the defendant. This was an action brought by the plaintiff, against the de fendant, to recover compensation for the injuries which he had sustained, by having been bitten on the arm by a ferocious dog belonging to the defendant. Both parties are hair-dressers, the defendant being a master, carrying on business at No. 7, Lower Marsh, Lambeth, and at two other places. The plaintiff is a journeyman, and was employed by the defendant to assist him in his business, at the rate of eighteen shil lings a week. A few days after entering his service, he had occasion to go to the back of the premises, and knowing that a ferocious and malicious dog belonging to his employer was kept there, he desired a lad, who was in the habit of feeding the dog, to go out and secure him in a shed. Immediately on entering the yard the plaintiff was seized by the dog, which fastened its teeth closely in his right arm, and was dragged, without relaxing his hold, into the shop, where the plaintiff bled profusely, and the wound be ng eon • sidered dangerous he was taken in a cab to Guy's Hospital, where he remained fora considerable time. On leaving which, though cured, he was totally unable to gain his livelihood as a hairdresser. The plaintiff'smother applied to the defendant for redress, or to give her son some pecuniary aid, as her son, from the severe injuries which he had sustained, was incapacitated from filling his usual avocations. He told her she might "go to h-11 and seek redress." The dog, for which the defendant gave 51. 55., had bitten a child in the hand, and was well known in the neighbourhood as a ferocious and dangerous animal, and had been ordered to be destroyed by the Magistrates of Union-hall. On the part of the defendant it was contended that the dog had seized the plaintiff whilst running across the yard, believ ing him to be a thief; that the dog was not at large, and that considering the extreme poverty of the parties, a very small amount of damages would be amply sufficient. Verdict for the plaintiff, damages 2.51. ITEttawr or CLOUDS.—Owing to its rarefaction, the air beyond a certain height is incapable of sustain inK clouds. The principal masses of clouds are sus feet, tamed in he air ezthewt,ertge being a ilig tg li h e t r . betweenmore et 400 han ,s amu a e n 7,00 ..... d Ca s m. bridge Advertiser. 11. 44. 14 15.. (per cent. 1; per cent. 5 per cent. .1 Bs. and/ ia.e.d. bs. j tper cent. ;per cent. Ili per cent ti per cent. LIST ov SCOTTISH COM JAN. 24, 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 Scotl. Edinburgh Lite Insur. Scottish Union Incur Standard Life Insur Dalkeith Railway Edin. and Glas. Railwy Glasg. and Green. Rail. Dundecsind A rbr Rad. (per cent. Cper cent. per cent. f per cent. ?per cent. Cper cent. Cper cent. Elper cent. 7per cent. 0 per cent. bper cent. Cper cent. :percent. per cent. Ilk per cent. 2)4 per cot t l i 27 i3es fnl 4Z 44! 52,4 iO4 164% 161 217 la The inquiries on Thursday at the Russian Embassy, in Dover-street, after the health of the Baroness Brunnow, by the nobility:and foreign corps diplomatique, were numerous, and the answer was, that her Escolleacy who stub the fit Ult won 40 pre9Odiag day. 60 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 - 5 0 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 55 0 0 50 0 0 5 0 0 10 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 250 0 0 All paid 2 0 0 S 0 0 38 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 ( 50 0 0 10 0 5 13 0 10 0 0 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 2 10 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 • 6 0 0 6 5 0 20 0 • MIDDLESEX SESSIONS. Price. 136 1(14% 101% 2114 3 1 3% 24 20% 7t% 17% 5% 15% F% 6% 5i 400 11. lb. 114 46 IR4 16 2 40s 18c. 4% 170 205 12 43}i 40 130 151 2S '205 II 51 00 10 1 4 594 14% 234 no 71% 194 59 21:14 10 , 3% 1,4 11% f 34) 245 16% 107 N 49 aSIA 54% 2.24 34. 122 55 334 2r: 3 6% 6 20 90 IN 6 lh (From the London New Price Current of Jan. 26.) SUGAR.—The transactions in the West India Sugar market have been upon a small scale only this week. To-day the small parcels of good and fine yellow West India on show sold readily 1 at full and in same cases at rather higher rates; inferior de scriptions brought fully as much money, and more desire was shown to do business ; in all 1,150 hhds have been sold for the week. REFINED. —Only a moderate demand has prevailed for Re fined Goods for home consumption. this week, and rather lower rates have been accepted in some instances. Prices are still going down for Bonded Crushed Sugar, and the purchases made have been upon a small scale only at gas 6,1 to 25s 9d per cwt for first quality. -The market is still firm for Loaves. Treacle has been more in demand at 10s 6d to I la. Bastards ISt to 19s for yellow, and at 14s to 15s 6d per cwt for brown. Pieces at 20s to 23s per cwt. To-day the home trade were large buyers of Refined goods, paying 75s 6d for Standard and 74s 6d for brown grocery Lumps. Jilauttyrzus.—Sugar of direct importation and of good quality has been sought after; several parcels have been sold at former rates ; in one contract 800 bags were disposed of, tilt) bulk at 63s per cwt for strong grey. EAST INDlA.—Manilla Sugar has been little inquired for, and went rather lower. In Java prices are unaltered. This afternoon the demand for Bengal was checked by the advanced rates asked; at public sale, 1,334 bags were offered, the sound nearly all taken in Is to 2s above the value—viz., good white s at 68s t;cl to 69s 6d, middling 67s 6d to 68s, ordinary yellsm 60s 6d, middling 635, damp partly sold at 61s 6d to ir;9s, washed 60s to 65s 6d, and damp yellow 57s to 60s per ew e . Foartc sr.—Yellow Havannah is held for late prices*, white may bo had at low terms; brown and yellow Brazil art held for the former currency. MoLassas.—Purchases in West India cannot be ras.de upon lovier terms, but the amount of business done has been, trifling during the week. COFFEE.—AII clean qualities of West India are much wanted by the town and country trade, and rather hig'ner rates have been paid. This afternoon Ceylon Coffee was d isposed of at 6d to Is advance; unclean Berbice low middling at 88s, good and fine ordinary 60s to 655, low 46s to 50s; Mocha, mid bright yellow 700 6d to 71s 6d ; Costa Brim taken in at 50s for good ord. Company's Java sold at 47s to 48s for good ord pale yellow ; sea damaged 43s to 43s 6d for fir st class, and 36s 6d for second and third class. Sound good ord Ceylon at 64s 6d to 6.5 s per cwt. COCOA.—The good and fine qualities of West IndiA have commanded former rates, but interior sorts are difficult e.f sale. In Foreign little has been done privately, Bahia taken in. at 31a for good red. TsA...The largo public palm wore brought to a convituiva Yesterday was 'appointed specially for hearing ap peals, of which thirty stand upon the list. Out of the thirty cases which stood upon the list, no fewer than twenty-eight were appeals between several arishes, one against the other, with regard to the set gement of casual paupers, the support of illegitimate children, most of which were quashed in consequence of technical informalities. The sums expended upon these appeals, including attorneys' costs, lawyers' fees, and the attendance of agents and witnesses, must have been enormous ; and if even they had not been quashed, one or other of the parishes must have taken the burden of the pauper, and thus the rate-payers' pockets suffer for the litigation. Henry Smith, of the White Hart, Catherine-street, Strand, appealed against a conviction by David Jardine, Esq., of Bow-street Police-court, which concerned the convenience of a large body of men, whose business hours were those when others were at rest—namely, the newspaper compositors. The first witness called was Mr. Inspector Mullins of the F division. He stated that on the night of the 27th of May, he entered the appellant's house, and on entering a parlour where there was no li g ht he found four or five men and two women ; one woman and two of the men were lying asleep on the bench. The par ties inside the bar, and in attendance, professed igno rance of any person being in the room at the time, and said they always closed it at twelve o'clock. Mr. Smith had gone over to the Morning Post newspaper office, to receive his weekly paTments for the refresh ments supplied to the printers of that establishment, at the time. Several prostitutes were in front of the bar when he (the inspector) first entered the house. The waiter at once brought in a light when it was called for. He believed it was a house where a great many printers connected with the Morniwi Chronicle, the Morning Post, and most of the weekly papers, were in the habit of going to have refreshment after their respective papers were " made up." Mr. BODKIN, for the appellant, said he thought the Bench should, taking even the wording of the convic tion, quash it. It said the house was disorderly, and, in support of that, stated that some men and women were asleep, but it stated nothing about intoxication or riot. The CHAIRMAN said that this decision would press hard upon a landlord. Surely they could not designate a sleeping person as disorderly.—(A laugh.) Several witnesses were called, who proved that the room in question was always closed shortly after the theatres, and not opened again until seven o'clock in the morning. On the morning in question Mr. Smith had gone over to the Morning Post office to get his weekly accounts from the printers, and at that time several persons were outside the bar, so that individuals might have entered this room unperceived by those in side the bar. It was proved also that the coffee-room was frequented by a number of printers from the Post and other morning papers, who were never done work before four or five o'clock in the morning. The CHAIRMAN said it was the unpleasant lot of a most useful and valuable set of mwn to be compelled to stop up all night in their honest and respectable voca tion. It would be most unfair to prevent them from having some place where they could get refreshment, both during and after their working hours. Such being his opinion, and also that the premises upon which the conviction had been made were ill-founded, he should, with the concurrence of his brother magistrates, order the conviction to be quashed. MARKET NEWS.-(YESTERDAY.) CORN—EXCHANGE. We have received about an average time-of-year supply of English wheat up to our Market since Monday, yet the show of samples was trifling. The finest parcels found buyers, at full quo tations ; but, in other kinds, exceedingly little was doing. [he transactions in Foreign Wheat were wholly retail, at previons rates. The supply of Barley was not larger. Superfine malt ing parcels were quite as dear ; but grinding and distilling sorts had a downward tendency. The quantity of Malt on show was small, yet the transactions in it were trifling, at late rates. 'I here was a large supply of Irish Oats on offer, which kept the Market in a dull state, yet prices were not lower. Other Grain as on Monday. ARRIVALS. Wheat. Barley. I Data. I. our English 4,390 yrs 5,050 qra. 4,854 r s,CtiosaclA. Irish.. ..... • 2,910 , 3 ,430 Foreign 1,990 I,fBo Malt, 7,670 qrs. EiMITHFIELD. Although our market was very scantily supplied with Beasts, the demand for that description of stock was extremely dull. However, the primest Scots found buyers, at prices about equal to those obtained on Monday, but the value of other breeds suffered a depression of 2d per Blbs. The numbers of Sheep were comparatively small, yet the Mutton trade was heavy, at barely stationary prices. In Calves, only a moderate business was doing, but previous rates were supported. Pigs were in fair average supply, and steady demand at late rates. Mitch Cows sold slowly at from 161 to 1915 a each. a. d. to s s. d Interior Beasts 2 8 210 Interior Sheep ... 210 3 • Second quollty ditto... 3 u 3 2 Second quality ditto 3 2 3 Crime large Oxen '4 4 3 8 Coars....woolled ditto a 8 310 Prime Scots, Scr.. Large coarse Calves.. 4 0 4 (ii Loge Hogs .......... 3 0 13 6 Prime small ditto suckling Calves, each 20 0 30 01 Quarter old Pigs, warble • 24 o SU 1-rl.l' AT MARKET. Beasts t Sheep Calves. rips 581 1 2,130 1 148 840 NEW - GATE AND ADP ENRaLL Owing to the large supplies of Meat on offer, the general demand was heavy, on the following terms : At per stone, by the Carcase s. d.tes d. tes. d riga, interior 2 4 2 8 Mutton, inferior 2 • 210 . muddling. 3 2 3 4 --- prune large ..... 210 3 0; prime 55m.11...... 8 2 34 4 I'ork, large 2 e 3 8 Veal 4 0 b 01 small 3 4 4 0 BOROUGH HOP MARKET. The supply of New Hops on show is still scanty, while a large business has been again transacted in those descriptions, and Weald of Kent and Sussex qualities have advanced fully 2s per cwt. ; the value of other kinds being firmly supported. Old Hops command a brisk sale, at an improvement in value of from 2s to -ks per cwt. COLONIAL. SooAa.—The business done in British Plantation continues to be on a very limited scale, but previous rates have been ob tained for the small quantity sold. The transactions only amount to about 750 hhds, inclusive of 100 hhds Barbadoes, which found buyers at 60s 6d to 67s for mid to fine greyish yellow. MOLASSES.—There has been less inquiry kr this article, but for the parcels sold, fully previous rates have been obtained. Matutertue.--1,580 bags brought to auction went off without spirit, and in some instances at comparatively low prices, but being an indifferent importation, affords no guide to the market generally ; low brown to good yellow brought 50s to 62s 6d. Ihe business done privately has been limited to small parcels, at fully former prices. BEN6AL.-1,514 bags and 25 casks went off heavily at about previous prices, via., 65s to 68s 6d for mid to fine white Benares, low to tine soft yellow date kind 57s 6d to 63e, and mid to good brown Khaur at 50s to 535. The transactions privately this week have been trifling. FoftettisT.—No transactions have taken place, consequently no alteration can be quoted in value. COFFEE.—There has been a fair business done during the week, in most descriptions admissible for home consumption, and rather higher prices have, in some instances, been ob tained, but the transactions have not been extensive. Com mon good ord to fine ord Ceylon have been sold privately at 62s 6d to 655, but chiefly at 63s to 635 6d for good ord. The public sales have contained 1,578 bags Ceylon, chiefly British Plantation kind, 148 bales Mocha, and 2,011 bags Costa Rica, the former of which mostly sold at 75s 6d to 87s fur fine fine oral to low mid calory; good ord ditto 645, a few lots 63s 6d; mid clean garbled Mocha 699 ; ord ditto 38s 6d to Sits 6d, which prices are also rather dearer. The Costa Rica was nearly all taken in at 48s to 69s for good ord to mid, being about previous rates. Foreign sorts remain without demand. Cocox.—Very little business has been done. 242 bags Bahia were taken in at 31s for good to fine red, being barely the previous value. Rust.—No transactions have taken place worth reporting, and consequently no alteration can be quoted in value. Rtes.—The public sales have offered 4,713 bags, which chiefly sold at 756 d to 10* tor ord to gond white Java, a few lots fine ditto lOs 6d to I Is. Privately some common Madras has been sold at 8s 6d, and low yellow cargo Bengal at 161 to 8s 6d. being for the lower sorts rather cheaper. Good white Bengal was taken in at 11s. SALTPETRE. -1,017 bags were all taken in at 24s 6d to 25s for 12 to 12i per cent. refraction. In Nitrate of Soda there is no change to notice. SPICES.—The improved demand for Pepper has rather in. creased, and fur the parcels sold gradually advancing prices have been obtained, establishing a rise from the lowest period of fully id to id per lb. 695 bags sold readily at 3bd for good half heavy Batavia, and 23d fur good black and earthy Sumatra, a few lets ord ditto 2 5 ,0 to 20; and at which rates some transactions have also Taken place privately. Pimento conti nues in demand at fully last week's prices-211 chests Cassia Lignee found buyers, but at rather lower prices, via., 51s 6d to 56s 6d for ord to mid COTTON.—There has been less activity for this article, but for the parcels sold former prices have been obtained. TALLOW,—P. Y. C. is steady at 41s 3d per cwt on the spot. TEA. —The market has been steady since the conclusion of the public sales, and the consumption this year has increased. There are small sales again to-day. on Monday; the demand throughout was good for all descrip tions of black Tea. Green attracted attention. The trade on the whole were disposed to get well stocked, at what may be termed low prices for black Tea. To-day there was little de sire shown to purchase Tea ; at public sale 5,777 packages were offered, 2,355 consisted of Pouchong, which chiefly found buyers at 4 1 4 d to Is for low spuriou s to go od o r d, being the full worth; but of other sorts of Tea a small part only sold, yet former rates were sustailesk CASSIA Llol4lA.—This afternoon Cassia Lignea was ie better request privately; good ordinary fetched 55s to 50, low middling to middling 57s to 625, good to fine 631 to 67s per cwt. HUM, BRANDY, AND H97,, A,N15....-JILLDILiCk Rum, $4 to 35 per cent overproof rather high flavoured at 4a 6d, 33 to 3e per cent over 3s 4d to 41, middling 3s Id to 3s 3d, and common 28 to 30 per cent over 2s 10d to 3s per gallon. Leewards at Is 10d to Is 10 1 ,4 d for common, and at Is lid proof for good brown. Demerara 35 per cent and upwards 2s 10d to 3s. Proof Calcutta Rum at Is 7d, with certificate. For Brandy advanced rates paid. Cognac best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds at 5s 9d, puns 5s Id ; 1839. hhds 5s 6d, puns 5s 4d ; 1840, hhds 5s 4d, puns 5s 2d ; 1841 hhds 5s 2d, puns ss; 1842, hhds ss, puns 4s 10d, and low to middling sorts 3s to 4s per gallon. Geneva for shipping Is 10d to Is lid, and fine pale for home consumption 2s 4d to 3s per gallon. English Corn Spirits are lOs for large and 10: 2d per gallon for small parcels. Saco at lls 6d to 123 fur common, and at 15s to 16s for middling bold Pearl; 16$ to 16s 6d for middling grey, and 17s 6d for good middling. Sago Flour is 18s to 18s 6d per cwt. Tapioca, fine at 6o to 6id, good 4 3 /4d to sd, and inferior 2d to 33d ; Jamaica Arrowroot fetched 7d per lb for good, and ' St. Vincent bid per lb. RICE.—For Java rather lower prices have been accepted. Madras at easier rates. For Bengal prices are barely sup ported. Cleaned Rice at 21s to 26s for Carolina, and at 131 to 17s per cwt for Patna. Inntoo.--.The quarterly sale of East India concluded on Wednesday. To-day East India Indigo was sought after, and several parcels were disposed of at the rates previously es tablished. There has been an increased desire shown to buy Spanish Indigo. COCHINEAL.—This afternoon three parcels of Cochineals amounting to about 187 bags Honduras, were brought to publi• sale ' and sold at ste a dy a a t es ; s il vers a t 4 s 2d t o 4 s 6d, an d two blacks at 5s 4d to 5s 7d per lb. Otas..--.1 he trade have purchased common descriptions of Fish Oils with caution all the week. Seal, pale of first quality at 36/ per tun ; Cod, 32/ to 32/ lOs ' • Southern, 33/ to 37l per tun for low to fine quality. Sperm Oil at 72/ for British, and 70/ per tun for American. Linseed Oil at 26s 6d to 26s 9d per cwt. Rape, pale at 36s to 36s 6d, and brown 35s to 35s 6d per cwt. Cocos Nut Oil 32s to 33s per cwt. Palm, good and fine at 28s 6d to 29s per cwt. North American Lard Oil 42/ to 43/ per tun. This afternoon Ceylon Cocoa Nut Oil taken in at 33s to 331 6d for fine. Palm Oil sold, good at 27s 3d to 27s 6d, low to mid 22s 6d to 26s 6d, and very low at 2 1s per cwt. Olive Oil brought advanced rates, Gallipoli at 46/ to 47/, and other sorts 421 to 43! per tun. TaLLow.—Town Tallow at 42s to 42s 6d per awt, nett cash. P Y Candle on the spot at 40s 9d to 41s for first quality. For delivery 41s 6d to 42s for the last three months of the year. American Tallow at rather lower rates. To-day for Russian Tallow 41s was the value of small parcels on the spot ; 2d sort Yellow Candle 39s 5d to 405 6d ; North American Tallow at 33s 3d to 40s 9d ; South American 38s 6d to 39s ; East India Tallow at 39s to 40s 6d ; North American Stearine Lard taken in at 34s 3d to 375; North American Lard 32s 9d per cwt. COAL MARKET Ships arrived since last rnarket.day, 4. - A. 6 Davison's West Hartley l5 0 Walls End East Helton •••• 19 ; Hastings Hartley .... l5 Walls End Hetton /0 3 Walls End Clenncll l5 6 W a ll s End Larribton ... ...... 20 ,‘ • Walls End Hilda ... 17 9 Walls End R usse ll' s H e tt o n 11 . Walls End Hedley l7 9 Walls End Stewart's 2O 9 Walls End Hotspur l7 3 Walls End Barrett l9 9 Walls End Killingworth ... 18 0 Walls End sarrington Tees 16 6 Walls End Peareth ..... ....., 15 9 W a l s 'En 1 Cl arence H e tt o n ld 60 Walls End Wharnclin Hi 9 Walls End Hopper ...... ..... 17 • Walls Endßelmoht 20 6 W. E. Braddyll'stiettot, PRICES OF SEEDS Per Cwt. , Per Quarter clew English RAN, C10ver...35s 563 St. Fein —s ses 40 i 4 0 S Old DDittoDitto . ...... ..—s —s —s Rye Grass —s s, New Foreign Ditto.- ...—s 35s 54 s P a c e y G ra s s ••. -,, —s .....•AI Old Ditto Ditto —s — s — s Li nsee d, f or f ee di n; ..— s 54s _,. New White ( lover 453 54's 60.3 Ditto, for sowing ........—s 4)25 ODi Old Ditto Ditto —s -- a—s Ditto, for crushing ....—....s 50 6 53 ) Nt.w Treloil... —s 12 s 24 s H emo , 3, ‘ ;,. 41 , Old Ditto —s —s —s Canary —s 603 614 Fr.• foliurn -8 —s .—ti Per Bushel. ce —sEnglish Carrawxy — s 40 8 d is Wh ite Mustard....lo3 Od to 12s„, Foreign Ditto 4os 46 r o iB Brown Ditto ills Od to I Coriander —s 14s '2os Tares 4a Cd to .. On Friday night and Saturday morning we 1 44 two of those unusually high tides at Yarmouth, which On . times make their appearance here at new moo n , w h en the iv°, is in a peculiarly favourable quarter. On the beach the wat e r came up beyond the west-end of the jetty, and flowed past ant°'" of the most northerly buildings ; while on the S ou tht o wn no n ' pike, from the Toll-gate south to the Nine-houses on the north' the road was covered with water, to the serious inconveniel of many of the inhabitants, but to the pecuniary advantage ? Mr. Clifton, whose Yarmouth and Gorleston om n ibus was i ts constant requisition to convey passengers to and from sa arke We are happy to say we have heard of no accident whatever arising from these tides.— Cambridge Advertiser. 'ETROPOLITAN BENEFIT SOCIETIES' ASYLIN' The usual half-yearly meeting of the members of the ah°' excellent Institution, was held on 'I hursd a y , a t th e L o ndon A le ; chat - tics' Institution, Southampton-buildings. The chair eft taken by Richard Itamsden, Esq., who presided in an admirably mariner, and to the great delight and satisfactio n of the audien ce , The Secretary read the Report, which was of the most cheehro ing description. It announced a considerable increase in amount of receipts during the last year, and the prospect ° 4 speedy extinction of the debt, which had already been reduce more than one-half. It described in glowing terms, the cl e fort and protection enjoyed at the Asylum in Ball's-pond UY t nemerous inmates and announced that the time was fast ir proaching when the two wings might be added to the Ag 11; After some excellent speeches from the Chairman, Mr. Do" (the founder), and other gentlemen, the Report was uneel o mously adopted. The Committee for the next year was the y appointed, and the auditors were also nominated. Th e who , concluded with what was, doubtless, the most interesting ger; of the proceedings, namely, the announcement of the row of the ballot ( which, we ought to have mentioned, had gone °g ; for two hours previous to the presentation of th e R e p o rt) I _,° the election of three inmates of the Asylum. Th e sc rutinegf, announced the number of votes which each of the candida t 7 (34 in number), had received, and the result was, that t:: election had fallen on John Frembly, 3,716 votes ; NV ells, 2,883 votes ; and John Chamness, 1,703 votes. : vis successful candidates (with the exception of the last, wh'' bedridden) presented themselves on the platform, and exprer.r their warm acknowledgments. They b o th seemed very e spectable and very venerable old men, and were greatly che gf FATAL FALL. SINGUL AR T REATMEN T of T of Surreaxe.—On Thursday, M r . P a y ne h e ld an inquest parish school-room, St. Mary A xe , on th e body of Elisabeth Moore Murdock W a lli s , age d 22, wife of ' William Wallis, bill broker, or No. 40, in the above ,tree It appeared by the evidence that the deceased was, sui let to fits, and that on M on d ay n i g h t l ast, whilst ascenu'nw par kitchen stairs, she fell down and fractured the base of her skull. The c oo k an d t h e groom i mmed i ate l y ra n to "lab assistance, and carried her up stairs to bed. Her tern! j were bathed with vinegar, but she remained senseless, .1;e was not heard to speak from the time that she fell. N e i ' the deceased's husband nor Miss Rampling, a y 00403101 then on a visit, thought it necessary to send for oL d ia assistance, and allowed the deceased to remain in r c j o ek. the same state until the f o ll ow i ng morn i ng a t eight ° isee Mr. Brown, surgeon, was then sent for, but deceased w - t he yond recovery, and died in three hours. Mr. Wail l '' t est deceased's husband, was sent for by the Coroner, in erderediol he might explain his reason for not procuring earlier 1 ° re ar aid. Upon his arrival he said that his wife frequentlY le vered from her fits without the assistance of a aurgeon4 spoke to her in the cou rs e o f th e n i g h t , b ut s h e gave dine answer. He, however, did not think that there was all f r ees ger. He considered she was suffering from a fit, and O v a , - the effects of the fall. One of the witnesses said that t t - och ceased bled from the ear, and the Coroner remarked tha t clear proof of injury to the skull should have shown the i dic s of tance of instant medical relief. The returned a ver n ose " Accidental death," and added, that they felt much lurraaiti arid regret that a surgeon should not have been called Wi t nine hours after the accident. Carter °II' SUICIDE AT WATERLGO-DRIDGE.—Mr. +.oo o proceeded with the inquiry, at the Feathers, W sl o ped road, as to the death of Elizabeth Donelley, aged '23, wh o „ G oo' from the parapet of Waterloo-bridge, on Tuesday et t. ",tioto William Johnson steted that, on the afternoon in tit t _ e ter ier about half-past three, he was driving a cab over W 4, 0 0 . bridge, when he, observed a female ist the third recess " n Surrey side. She got upon the seat. and then dehiw ela sse took off her bonnet and shawl. Having done this , s he be fore' bered on the parapet, an d th rew h erse lf i n t o the river 00 01 he had time to prevent the act. The body was take n 40 4 the river in about twenty minutes afterwards, and ceerk a tilde was made to restore animation, but without effect. the de' Osmond, of 8, Vere-street, Clete-market, deposed that ceased was her sister. Her (deceased's) husband W.- of 6 ' John Bregan Donelley, of the firm of Noble and GO" t ime , Billiter-square, City. He had separated from her f° ° ;;, tire in consequence of her excessively dissipated habits. tips last time, which w as th e. 4 t h o f D ecem b er, she wa s rerYlehe" and he kissed her, saying, 't ßetsey,if you don't alter, toe make away with my se ' l f." F rom that t i me h e h a s ne seen or heard of, and it is feared he has committed s_a, a ft The next day he sent her a sovereign, but when that _7 ogle pended she came to live with witness, as she was utte r l y , / 011 tote. She had pa.wne.l everything she had, and on the, n ' the! destroyed her life sold her stays to purchase spirits. `f ii , morning she had obtained an order from the Strand Un tilhuteld. go into the workhouse, while they sought for her f o e; On the fellow;,ng morning s h e h ear d t h at t h e boclY ° pew ceased had been taken out of the river, and she had no d bet she did it t in d er great exc i teinent, produced by drink 9 1 ,* v P ei died of 'the workhou s e. Af ter a - s h ort deliberation tifeoilf, returned, a verdict, " That the deceased destroyed her.s t ioiolir' in estate of t emporary i nsan i ty, produced by excess ive& wh i c. TASTE FOR WINE.—We see from a return ton has 'just been handed to us by a friend, that the cons ma Mr a dei ra w i ne i s rapidly increasing in this coup to s ins ; quantity which paid duty in 1E43 was 68,906 gall° 11 1; a s t t !op e,1,513 in 1842, showing an increase of 17,3 93 g ° ( 1 1 , of 1/1- 0 year, in which the consumption of most other Via, 0 0° 0 decreased. If the Portuguese Ministers posses seo n sense (which, however, is a very uncommon posse sei, ° lo of t Ministers of State) they would have availed thes•ase` e i n g ° of f change in the public taste to the utmost, by ag e N OP o . commercial treaty which would have given the in t h it , e ge of the British market for the wines of Portuga I an" , ions. —Liverpool Times. On the 21 s t i ns t., M rs .Caron, of.Wwest li Elm C age , the Essex, of a aughter, , sr/ On th , .. 22d inst., at Monist Dudley Reveres, TiPPer wife of Samuel Sheldon Dudley, Esq•' o f a daughter . r" Or., the 234 inst., at Walworth, Surrey, rs• Ito'.fe, ea daughter. On the 24th inst., at Wimbledon, Cragie, C. B. of the bsth Regiment, o f a 14laduygohfteer.°1°rierti the On the 24th I inst ., at Ilmn, Staffordshire, La d y an a son. On the 25th inst., at Blaekheath, the wife of S. 0.11_71112 Zoete, Esq., of a son. On the 12th ult., at CMhaiirloßttßeirlEowl);, Prince F-d" r4 °f -I t 'l l: 1g l t a h t e e H H o o n n .. Chief y J t u G st r i a c y e Jarvis, to Elisabeth , daughter DIED. la nd ` ' 8 On the 19th inst, at Weymouth, Mrs. Elisabeth Falb On the 20th inst,, at Croydon, Mr. Natizau On the 20th inst., at Wood-street, Cheapsilie , Mr. Davies, chemist. C a stledligi w yra poise, On the 20th inst., at Dyrham-park, near Bath, M rs . .silbut"' On the 20th inst., Sarah, the wife of Alexander kw Esq., of Cadogan-terrace, Chelsea. t roth On the 21st inst ., at Muddiford, near ChristchurcbiPtrolol the Hen . Charles Hobert St. John, younge st son o Viscount Bolingbroke. NG, °S Lon(i--n : Printed:lnd i'ublished by MURDO ill io Str No. 112, Strand, at The Sex ()tee, No. 1 0 •4"' # 44„ the C ounty of itlittdieses, Saturday, - hoof: ..1 - i t tccrtn ? ' l, qant 1 I 4 , , it tion, N 'Hest, of L( B Sir 1k (;etipt, b 4tni, ort !VDU 4011 n