The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-06 00:00:00

SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—We are glad to add our own hearty tri bute to the general satisfaction with which the a . )- pointment of Mr. Erle to the vacant Judgeship has been welcomed. Men of all parties confess that, in plain language, there was no one in the field whose claim ranked so high ; and through the very rare con currence in him of great powers with amiable and honourable qualities, there is perhaps scarcely a barrister on his side of Westminster Hall, however slight his personal acquaintance with him, to whom the news of his elevation did not convey the thrill of pleasure with which we receive the tidings of the good fortune of a friend. As to what are called party claims for preferment, lawyers, we be lieve, think little abont them ; the public, which has the substantial interest in the appointment of good Judges, still less; the Rigby, Tadpole, and Taper generation must settle this fresh ground of quarrel with Sir Robert as they may. There is one point of view, and one only, in which we hail the elevation of this accomplished lawyer with feelings approaching to regret. The vacant place was in the Court of Common Pleas ; and thus the Court which has the least work to do, which from its admirable medimval constitution is expressly cal culated to do as little work as possible, receives a fresh addition of vigour at a time when the judges of both the other Courts are notoriously overtasked. This is the more vexatious, as the same Court enlisted the last young and hearty recruit in the person of Mr. Justice Cress well. Both these juvenile and energetic spirits will vegetate in a region whose climate seems to render exertion as impossible as it is needless—the very Castle of Indolence, where " No living wight could work, ne cared even to play"— where the judicial pun falls rare and pointless, and the advocate fights as one who beateth the air. The prospect of such ease after a hard-working period of honourable toil may he pleasant enough to Sir William Erie ; but for our parts, when we see youth and strength taking their ease in the Park at three o'clock, while the veteran part of the judicial corps is grinding on through its ever-growing heap of business till long after the candle-lighting hour of a London November, we feel continually reminded of that most unequal division of labour in the old apologue, when the son rode the ass while his aged father walked by its side. Seriously speaking, it is very strange that no steps are taken towards the abatement of this most real grievance. We all know that the business of circuit is literally too great for the judicial strength —men endowed with no more than ordinary nerves and viscera can scarcely stand it. The latest example of failure is that of the excellent and amiable judge whom Mr. Erle succeeds, and whose health we trust will yet be restored to him, though he is lost to the profession, at least in his recent character. The least fatiguing por tion of their duties is that performed in London. It is really of no small consequence that their labours should be lightened as far as they can be, during this period, by equal repartition. It is of much greater and more obvious importance to the public that the avenues of justice, clogged as they are with delay and expense, should be disem barrassed, as far as possible with the aid of the present machinery, before we are forced to put on additional power. There is a very large amount of business, connected with the public interests, which can only be disposed of, according to existing law, by the Court of Queen's Bench. There is another smaller portion, which is appropriated to the Exchequer. The Court of Common Pleas—since the last apparition of the belted knights, who were wont to decide on pleas of land—enjoys a delightful exemption from all busi ness of its own; excepting some infinitesimal doses of work administered to it by recent statutes. The ad ministration of private justice is open to all the three. The Common Pleas, in common justice, should exe cute as much of it as both the others together. It executes, probably, not half as much as either. The great body of the bar are excluded from practising in it by an arbitrary and absurd regulation. Wil liam IV. tried to remove this, along with other anti quated nuisances. Tie carried Reform ; but he could not open the Common Pleas. The Sergeants made better fight than the Boroughmongers. There is not a single reason advanced, or attempted, in favour of the existing practice ; and yet—so powerful are the sons of Zeruiah—we feel almost tempted to prophesy that the Union will be repealed, the debt of Pensyl vania paid, Young England in power, and balloons made serviceable, before " the Court of Common Pleas is opened." STANDARD.—Mr. Erie has succeeded to Mr. Justice Erskine upon the bench of the Common Pleas. Mr. Erie's professional eminence fully justi fies his promotion, which gives great satisfaction at the bar; not less satisfaction because the Learned Judge's elevation cannot be ascribed to political prefe rence, inasmuch as his politics, as far as they could be known through the moderation of his demeanour, were opposed to those of the present Government. Nothing has tended more strongly to preserve the veneration of the country to our judges, and to sustain the cha racter of the bar, than the perfect impartiality with which judicial seats have been almost uniformly bestowed, we should say with absolute uniformity, but for some deviations between 1830 and 1841. However, the character of a class is determined by the preponderance of usage in such matters, and the usage has greatly preponderated in favour of a total disregard of political and party con siderations in the selection of judges. There may be some young men, or persons with short memories, who regret that Sir Robert Peel and Lord Lyndhurst did not so far imitate the Whigs as to look for Mr. Justice Erskine's successor among their own political friends. In reverting to the old practice, however, the" Ministers have best served the Conservative party, by placing its conduct in honourable contrast with that of the Whigs whew in office. No party ever lost anything by a wise and just use of power, when it possessed power. It was the four months' administration of - Christmas, 1834, that laid the founds tiQn of the Conservative administration of 1841, which has already lasted three years, and promises to last three times three and more. MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Nov. 5.) SVC AR.—To• day importers of West India Sugar ma nifested firmness, and obtained fully former rates, in deed good and fine yellow kinds in some cases brought prices rather above those of Friday. The foggy state of the weather preventing the trade from pro perly inspecting the samples checked business, and the private purchases were only 300 hhds, gro cers and refiners were desirous to purchase all qualities. At public sale, 130 hhds 20 tierces of Barbadoes went briskly, at prices Is above those of the former sale for middling, good and fine yellow, and 64 per cwt for low sorts ; tine fetched 62s 6d to 66s 6d, good 59s 6d to 60s 6d, middling 57s to 58s 6d, and low 55s 6d to 56s 6d per cwt. The market closed with a firm appearance for West India Sugar. There was no public sale to-day of Bengal or Mauritius. REFINED.—To-day several purchases were made in Refined goods by the home trade ; standard lumps at 725, and brown grocery 71s per cwt. Bonded crushed Sugar is firm at 28s 6d to 295. Loaves are in excellent r quest ; Turkey 2i to 41bs at 36s to 40s ; Hamburgh 6 lbs 32s 6d to 335, 9 to 10 lbs 30s 6d to 31s, 13 to 14 lbs 3Qs, Tittlers 20 to 30 lbs 29s to 29s 6d, Prussian 40 to 45 lbs 28s to 295. Pieces are in excellent request at 22s to 25s ; Bastards yellow at 18s to 19s, and brown 17s. Of Treacle some parcels have been sold at 12s 6d. Dutch Crushed Sugar is fetching 26s 6d to 27s Gd per cwt. MAURMUS.—In consequence of a reduction on pre vious rates of Is to 2s per cwt having been accepted for brown and inferior yellow sorts, of which the supply has principally consisted, buyers have been induced to purchase several parcels ; middling good and fine yellow have been in good demand at the former currency, and the supply at market has been in sufficient for the demand. At auction, 1,631 bags were sold—low and low mid brown at 40s to 425, middling 44a to 455, good 47s to 48s, fine 50s 6d, middling grey 52s ; a few lots of yellow fetched 52s for low, 53s 6d for mid dling, 60s for good, and 2 casks very low brown 35s 6d per cwt. There has been no arrival since this day week, and the stock in first hands is small. EASt INDIA.—This afternoon Java Sugar was sought after, but stiffer rates being asked, operated against business ; 347 baskets 1,000 bags, at auction, were only partly disposed of, fine yellow at 21s to 22s 6d, good 19s 6d to 20s 6d, damp 19s to 19s 6d, washed 18s to 19s, good sound brown 16s 6d to 17s, ordinary 16s, washed 15s to 165, clamp 14s to 17s per cwt. MOLASSES.—Prices remain firm for West India, and a fair d( mlnd has prevailed for the better descriptions ; a parcel of good Antigua has been sold at 24s per cwt, but at present there are few purchasers of common sorts ; holders, however, are not inclined to press sales, prices ruling very low. In East India little has been done. For Jamaica Honey further reduced rates have been accepted. FOREIGN.—There has been little business transacted by private contract in yellow Havannah Sugar, and only 400 chests have been disposed of at 19s to 22s per cwt. To-day a floating cargo of 440 chests brown Bahia was sold, deliverable here for refining under bond, half white at 225, and the remainder brown at 18s per cwt. COFFEE.—This afternoon Ceylon Coffee met with eager purchasers, and further advanced rates were paid; the parcels offered at public sale, amounting to 1,257 bags, were mostly disposed of at a further advance in prices of 6d to is, making the rise on good ordinary since Friday of 2s to 3s per cwt, ordinary pale at 545, good ordinary pale 54s 6d to 555, fine fine ordi nary62s grey Demerara sort 65s fid to 67s 6d, fine ordi nary6d, pea berry 70 s 6d t o 78 s , low middling coloury Jamaica kind 70 s to 75s Gd, broken and triage 50s to 555. Wi t h Mocha the . market was better sup plied, but the t ra d e operated with caution, and 579 bales 10 cases at auction, were nearly all taken in much above what buyers were incli ne d to p y, greenish at 755, low mid 66s G a tl , to food 68s, mid lon g b erry common green Mysore 45s ; a few lots were sold at r °s to 6 s for low mid green Mysore sort, 51 a 6d for)fi inferior 38s: 219 bags Bengal were witlig e rw a ord and bags Padang were sold at 24s to 24s 6d for middling , l°° being cheaper. 88 bags Mysore sold at 40s f or green. 5 bags Madras at 66s 6d to 70s for yellow. 9 casks 11 bags of Dominique were taken in at 58s to 60s for fine and fine ordinary, and good ordinary 48s per cwt. CocoA.—This afternoon West India met with atten tion, 131 bags of Trinidad, and 22 bags of Grenada were offered at public sale; the former sold at stiff rates, m d red at 40s 6d to 45s 6d, and ordinary grey 39s 6d _ _ 40s 6d, and the latter at 42s 6d to 44;per cwt. TEA.—There has been an increased demand for nearly every description of Tea since this day week, and the general tendency of prices is upwards. For the lower sorts of Congou there has been a brisk demand from the trade and speculators : common selling at laid to lOid, good common I Id to 1 lid ; in the better sorts the transac tions are upon a more extended scale at rather higher rates, but mid coarse has been selling at Hid to ls, but mid and blackish leaf is Oid to is 2d, good is 2id to is 6d, fine is 6d to is Bd. Pekoe Flavor is 9d to 2s 6d. Pouchong has been in good request, and prices rule firm ; the sorts most in request are those from sid to 9d. In Twankay, common selling at is lid to Is 2d ; brightish leaf is 3d to is Bd, and Hyson kind, is 9d to 2s sd. Scented Orange Pekoe 3s 4d to 3s 5d per lb. Hyson has been much inquired for, common fetching 2s 6d to 2s Bd, mid 2s 6d to 3:, and superior 3s 3d to 3s 6d. In Young Hyson the transactions are upon a more extended scale of stiff rates, faint fetching 2s to 2s 2d, and better qualities 2s 4d to 3s 3d. In Imperial several purchases made at 2s 9d to 3s 6d. Gunpowder is much wanted, and the par cels disposed of fetched 3s 3d to 4s 6d per lb. SPlcEs.—This afternoon, at public sale, 106 bags of Malabar Pepper were taken in at 3-ad for good brown heavy; 688 bags of Sumatra were only partly sold at 2id per lb for rather stalky, being barely former rates; 158 bags of white Tellicherry, all taken in at 5d to sktl for small Coriander sorts. With Nutmegs the market was better supplied; 22 chests at auction were sold at 3s Sd to 4s 6d for brown Singapore, 3s 3d for inferior. Of Mace 14 chests fetched 3s 3d to 4s 4d, low is 6d to is 7d. Of Piemento 30 bags were sold at 4-4-d per lb. for mid. RUN, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.—The home and ex port demand has fallen off for Jamaica Rum, and the business transacted has been limited since this day week, but there is still no decline in prices to notice. The total purchases since this day week are 60 puns at 3s 10d to 5s 6d for 30 to 36 per cent over proof ; arrivals, however, have fallen off considerably of late. Leeward Island Rum at 2s 4id to 2s 5d proof strength; Demerara, 3s 3d to 3s 6d for strong qualities. Calcutta at 2s 3d to 2s 3id per gallon, proof strength, with certificate. In Brandy large purchases have been made at firm rates ; holders are de cidedly less inclined to realise ; in France prices have opened higher than was expected. The quotations here rule as follows :—Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 5s 2d, puns 5s 04; 1839, hhds 4s 1 Id, puns 4s 9d ; 1840, hhds 4s I ld, puns 4s 9d ; 1841, hhds 4s 10d, puns 4s 8d ; 1842, hhds 4s 7d, puns 4s 5d ; low 2s 1 Id to 3s 3d, and mid to good mid 3s 4d to 3s 10d per gallon. For Geneva there are few shipping orders ; is 9d to is 10d is the value of export sort, and 2s 6d to 3s 6d for fine fit for duty. The price of English Corn Spirits has declined 2d ; it is now lOs 2d per gallon, cash. CINNAMON.—The quarterly sales of Cinnamon were brought to a close this afternoon. The demand through out was limited, and of the 2,300 bales offered, only 1,300 were disposed of at prices showing a decline of those of the last sales of 3d to 5d for good firsts, seconds, and thirds; ordinary sorts went from last sales' rates to 2d to 4d per lb decline. Java and Tellicherry was all taken in; Ceylon, first sort sound sold at 4s to 5s 6d, second sort 3s 4d to 4s 6d, and third sort 2s 9d to 3s 9d per lb. RlCE.—lmporters of Bengal Rice are not inclined to submit to lower rates, in consequence of the stock here not being more than adequate to three months' consump tion. Privately several parcels have been disposed of at full rates, midding and good middling white fetching us to Its 6d, and good 12s per cwt. Java at auction sold at and after the sale, middling white rather broken at lOs 6d to 1 ls, good bold 12s to 12s 6d, and sea damaged 5s to 9s 6d per cwt. Madras yellow sold at 8s to 8s 6d, and small parcels of white 9s to lOs per cwt. Cleaned Rice has been in good demand, Patna at 13s 6d to 18s, and Carolina 23s to 27s per cwt. The consumption of East India continues large. OlLS.—There has been a better demand for common descriptions of Fish Oils since this day week, but no improvement has occurred in prices. Cod has been selling at 33!, pale Seal 351 to 35155; Southern, good to fine 301 to 321 10s, and low to mid 271 to 29/ 10s; Coloured Seal at 321 lOs to 331 per tun. Of Southern the stock is rather less, and of Seal not above half of what it was last year at this peviod. Arrivals of Cod are near at hand. For pale Seal prices are 20s to 255, and for Southern 5/ to 7/ per tun lower than on the sth of November, 1843. Sperm 881 to 901 per tun for fine British. Linseed Oil at 23s 6d to 23s 9d per cwt on the spot, and for forward delivery ; prices are, however, kept low by the large supply. There are few buyers of Rape, and the crushers expe rience difficulty in obtaining 35s 6d to 36s for pale, and 34s 6d to 35s for brown : the supply is good. Cocoa Nut 27s to 29s per cwt. Palm has met with a good sale at former terms. Prices are steady fur Olive Oil, and several parcels have been sold, Gallipoli at 43/ to 441, Spanish 41/ to 421, Barbary and Levant 391 to 401 per tun. FRUIT. —To-day new Turkey Pulled Figs were in ex- cellent request at 655, and Sultanas 68s per cwt, being, however, lower rates. Valentia Raisins met with eager purchasers at 503 per cwt, at which the market is firm. In old Currants there was an immensebusiness transacted at 45s for Patras, and 42s for Island Fruit. At public sale 41 butts 12 caroteels new damaged Patras Currants were offered, and sold at 45s to 50s per cwt. INDIGO.—The demand for East India was good in the middle part of last week ; several purchases were made by the home trade and exporters. On Thursday 270 chests of Bengal, mark H F and Co., were disposed of ; since then, however, the market has been in a quiet state, and in some instances there are sellers rather under the rates of the last quarterly sale, in consequence of the accounts come to hand from Calcutta. COCHINEAL.—This afternoon the market was largely supplied with Cochineal, three parcels of Honduras, amounting to 381 bags, were offered at public sale, and nearly the whole sold but at rather lower rates ; low to fine silvers fetched 4s ld to 4s 9d per lb. TALLOW.—lmporters of Russian submitting to a fur ther reduction in prices has occasioned an excellent de mand on the spot, old P.Y.Candle has been selling at 40s 6d, and new at 4059 d to 41s per cwt. Upon these moderate terms some of the trade are inclined to get well into stock. For forward delivery several contracts have been entered into, and 40s 6d to 40s 9d are the rates paid up to the present year. Town Tallow at 42s to 42s 6d nett cash. Other sorts of Tallow are rather cheaper. At auction New South Wales sold at 39s to 39s 6d for good quality, and South American at 38s to 39s 9d per cwt for good and fine. The stock of Foreign Tallow has been fur ther increased. BEST METHOD OF PROTECTING BUILDINGS FROM LIGHTNING. Were our houses, magazines, and ships, built of iron, or did they consist of a framework of iron filled up with stone, brick, or wood, they might hid defiance to the ravages of accidental or wilful fire, as well as to all the lightning of the tropics. Strike where it might, the deadly fluid would be conducted quietly to the ground. In the meantime, however, we must have recourse to a less perfect system of protection, till advancing knowledge and receding prejudice shall have introduced iron buildings, and iron ships, as well as iron ploughs, iron roads, and iron bridges. As the conducting powers of lead, tin, iron, zinc, and copper, are as the numbers, 1-2-- 2.4-4 and 12, copper is the best material for con ducting-rods. The quantity of metal in the red should not be less than what, is contained in a cylinder half an inch and two-tenths in diameter. The me tallic rod should be flattened rather than round, so as to have the greatest surface that is consistent with strength. The conductor then formed, should com municate with all the detached masses of metal in the building, such as leaden ridges, gutters, and metallic pipes. It should be placed as near the wall as pos sible, and pass directly into the ground. It should be attached to the most elevated point of the building, and if the structure is to consist of numerous ranges, such as the new Houses of Parliament, long, pointed rods should project from the most prominent parts into the atmosphere. In place of adopting the usual method of external conductors we would recommend the introduction of a vertical iron bar into the thick ness of the principal walls of the building. These bars should communicate with a horizontal wall-plate of iron uniting the whole, and from this wall-plate should rise all the external conductors which are to project into the atmosphere. These iron-plates and bars might be so united as to form a sort of carpentry which would add to the strength of the edifice.— The Builder. COURSE OF EXCHAI Amsterdam CF. 12 6 Ditto, at sight l2 4 Rotterdam 2U. 12 64 Antwerp 25 95 Hamburgh M.B. 13 13 Altona l3 13 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 65 Ditto, 3 months 25 90 Marseilles Bourdeaux 25 95 Frankfort on Maine l2l Petersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 Vienna, effec. 11.3 M 953 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36* Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 Seville TGE.-(YESTERDAY., Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 50 Genoa 25 85 Milan Venice ........ Naples 39i Palermo, per oz llB Lisbon 55 Oporto 55 Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldys sight Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars...£3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons..... 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 91 1 Silver in Bars 0 4 11A On Wednesday last, William Stiles a coal guard in the employ of the Great Western Railway, was em ployed im conveying a train of trucks laden with coal from Dunhall to Exeter, two trucks were left at Hole station, when Stiles got off the truck on which he was riding, to perform his duties at the station, and the en gineer stopped the engine to enable him to do so. After stopping the engine, several of the trucks moved forward by their own force. Shortly after the engineer heard an alarm, and on getting off to see the cause, found the deceased jammed between the outside framing of two of the trucks. The deceased called to the engineer to go a-head, and they moved on the engine as promptly as possible and released him. He was taken to the sta tion-house, and a surgeon sent for ; but before he ar rived the deceased begged to be taken home, and was placed in a chair on his truck and brought to Exeter. Mr. W. P. Kingdon attended him on his arrival here ; Sabot': tewouelldve his body was much bruised, his hands cold, and no pul befelt o'clock on o tl i r W wr e i d st n . esa T a h y e p n o ig o h r t fello w w es d te ied rn Times. THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 6, 1844. PRICES OF SHARES LA CANALS, RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. LONDON, TUESDAY, NOV. 5. Dividend Per Amount Names of Com• of panies. Share. Paid. Annum. 4 per cent. V. Canals. Ashton and Oldham... Ashby-de-la-Zouch—ay Basingstoke ..... Breckneck & Abergay. Birmingham, 1-16th sh. Do. and Liverp. June. Chelmer & Blackwater Coventry Crom ford Dudley Derby ... Danube and :Mayne Ellesmere and Chester Erewash Forth and Clyde Grand Junction Grand Union Grand Surrey Grand Western Glamorgansh., ay. cost Gloucester & Berkeley Grantham Huddersfield ..........av Kennet :ad Avon ...ay Lancaster ...............av Leeds and Liverpool Leicester £ s. d. 97 19 0 113 0 0 100 0 0 150 0 9 B 15 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 41 13 4 133 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 172 13 4 100 0 0 150 0 0 44 10s. 81. 4 per cent. 4/. 401. .15s. 71. IL ss. 81 12s. Bd. .I.los. 341. 101. Leicester & Northamp. Loughborough ........av Monmouthshire Montgomeryshire Melton Mowbray Mersey and Irwell Macclesfield ........« Neath ........ Oxford Peak Forest 111` Regent's (or London).. Rochdale. Shropshire Somerset Coal Do. Lock Fund Stock Stafford and Worcester Shrewsbury, Stourbridge ........ Stratford -on-Avon...AT Severn & Wye & Rail. Trent & Mersey, ah. Thames & Medway..av Warwick and Birming. Warwick and Napton Worcester & Binning Wilts and Berks......av Wisbeach Wey and Aru n .....« 171. 301. 3% 17s. ad. 101. 6 percent. 2$ 20« 11, 101. 154 321. - 10 s. Docks. Commercial ..«....»..... East and West India... London 0000000000 ...•..••••• Ditto Bonds .......... Bristol.... ..... Do.Bnds,var.amounts St. Katharine Ditto Bonds Ditto Binds Southampton Bridges Hammersmith..., ... Southwark, new Subs. Ditto New of 73 pr c. Waterloo. Ditto Old Ann. of 81,. Ditto New ditto ail. Ditto Vauxhall. ..... Assurances. Albion Alfred Life - .......... Alliance Brit. and For Ditto Marine Atlas Birmingham Fire British Commercial Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County ....... Eagle ........ Economic Life ...... European Life Ditto New Freemasons Globe Guardian Hope Ditto Fire Imperial Fire Ditto Life Indemnity Marine Law Life Legal and General Life London Fire Ditto Ship ..... National Loan Fund Neptune Marine Palladium Life Protector Life Provident Rock Life ......... 11Pyal Sun Fire .........«..» Ditto Life...« University Life Universal Life. ....... Union Fire and Life Zoint Stk Banks Australasi7..... ....... Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial ..... ....... London & Westminstr Ditto New....... London Joint * Stock Metropolitan-- ...... Provincial of Ireland Ditto New National of Ireland Nat. Provincial Englnd Ditto New ........ Gloucestershire ~.. Union of Australia Union of London Gaslight & Coke Bath ........ ....... ••••• British .„....... ........ Ditto Provincial..—. Birmingham ..... Binning. & Staffordsh. Bristol Brighton ..... Ditto General City of London Ditto New Continental Consolid Ditto New Equitable Imperial Isle of Thanet Independent ...... Phoenix Ratcliff........ ..... South Metropolitan United General ..... Westmins. Chartered Ditto Water Works. Birmingham East London Grand Junction .av Kent ......... Nw Riv Lon. Bridg An. Manchester and Salford Vauxhall, late S. Long. West Middlesex......av Yrk Buldg Co. Les .Prep Iron Railways. Birmingham & Derby Birmint. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter Caledonian ......... Chester and Holyhead Eastern Counties Edinburgh & Glasgow Grand Junction.....,., Great North of Englnd Great Western Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths ....... Harwich (Braithwaite) Hull and Selby ....... Lancaster and Carlisle Leeds and Selby Liverpool & Manchestr Ditto Half-Shares London and Brighton Ditto Loan Notes London and Blsckwall London and Greenwich London and Birmingh. Ditto Quarter-Shares Ditto Thirds London and S. Western London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares Manchatr and Birming Midland Counties North British ......... Norwi h & Brandon Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss.s/. dis Paris and Orleans Paris and R0uen....., Rouen and Havre Stockton & Darlington South East. and Dover Yarmouth and Norwich lork and N. Midland Ditto New Shares Z & 41. 100 0 0 41 13 4 leo — o o ;no 1 0 104 10e. 1. 4s. cent. per cent. 41 per cent. 4 per cent. 31. 10s. 5 per cent. per cent. 1% per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. i( per cent. 11. Os. Bd. 113 s. Id. per cent. 11. 7s. 9►. 10s. 4 percent. 6 per cent. 6 per cent. as. 6d. pr sh 51.55. cr share per cent. at. 6e. per cent. Ic 30s. bs. $p per cent. 5 per cent. per cent. eper cent. per cent. 4s. 2s. 6d. per cent. :19s. 12 sh. B.c be. U. se. 10$. 10s. 5 per cent. sper cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 11. ss. 4r. 5 per cent. 6% per cent. 11. 4s. 5 per cent. W% per cent 51 R per cent. 6 per cent. 5 per cent. 5 per cent. 6per cent. per cent. per cent. a per cent. 6 per cent. Ins per share 6s. per share 10 per cent. per cent. 16s. IL ss. 11.71. 51. and bs. t%l. and bs. I er cent. scent. 196 101. 81 per sh 15s per sh 21. 5 per cent. 5 per cent.: 5 per cent. 5 per cent 6 per cent. I% per cent. W. 12s. _ . V. 104. 21. 104. 24 108. 5 per cent. 44 ifs. 14 14s. 2/.135. p. •h . 11. 48. per cent.. S. per eh. ss. per sh 10 per cent. 1)4 per cent. 58. per sh 2%1. per eh. 12s. per .h. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. 1341. per eh 101. per sh. 11. 14s. taper share .3s4d per eh it 17s. pr st 113. per 81. IL 111.55, se. It 118. lOd. lb per cent, per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. IL 11. SI. Ts. ed. 1.108. leper cent. 10s. per sh. 11. 101. perch. Mines. Albion Copper Alten Anglo Mex., iss. 51. p.m Ditto Subscription Bolanos Ditto Scrip..„ Brasil. Imp. iss.s/. p.m Do. Mocaub. & Coc. U Do. St. John Del Rey British Iron ..... Candonga. Ditto Registered Cobre Copper ...... Copiapo Columbian, iss. 51 p.m. General Mining „. Hibernian ...... Imperial Slate Compy. Mexican ........ Mining Co. of Ireland.. Real del Monte, Unreg Ditto Loan Notes Rh ymney Iron Santiago de Cuba United Max., iss.2l. pm Ditto Scrip Ditto New Scrip...„ Literary. Londn,with Sin. 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Dundeeand Arta RaiL On Monday, the 4th inst., a general assembly of the Academicians was held at the Royal Academy of Arts, in Trafalgar-square, when Mr. William Dyce and Mr. William Calder Marshall were elected associates of ha; institution. LAW INTELLIGENCE. 'Priv 31U 63 - 450 110 162 10% 640 101% 1 8 61 2gt 24 1211 6% 5% 400 IL'f3s. 49% 1 6, 189 Val 45' 15% Ibo 434 10 164 35 25 27 1:14 22 20 25 129 93 36 25 1% 13% 59% 213 124 129 8(14 202 90 X 464 11% 9g 214% 265% 42% 25% 11S 20 26 6 314 91( 4% 118 I 'Gig 2734 Mk pm 1 I 171 et 4,, 3SX 104 12% 22 1 4 18 21s. 50 POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HO USE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 5. IN THE MATTER OF JACQUES BBSSET. HABEAS CORPUS. In this case the prisoner Besset had been a mer chant, carrying on business in London and in Paris. He became a bankrupt, and the French Government demanded that he should be given up to them under the provisions of the extratradition treaty, as a person guilty of fraudulent bankruptcy in France, and who had escaped to England. He was arrested, taken to the Mansion-house, and committed to Giltspur-street Compter by the Lord Mayor, preparatory to his being surrendered to the French Government. Before that surrender could take place, application was made to Mr. Justice Wightman, at chambers, for a writ of habeas corpus, on the ground that the offence of fraudulent bankruptcy was an offence un known to the laws of England, and that, therefore, it was contrary to law to arrest a prisoner, or to keep him in custody on such a charge. Mr.i Justice Wightman considered the matter of such importance that he refused to decide at cham bers, and directed application to be made to the full Court. On Saturday Mr. Chambers obtained the writ of habeas corpus, and this morning the keeper of the Compter appeared on the floor of the Court with his prisoner. Mr. CHAMBERS, on being called on, moved that Jacques Besset be discharged. The return to the writ of habeas was then put in and read. It set forth the warrant of the Lord Mayor for his committal on the charge of fraudulent bankruptcy committed in France. Mr. JAMES said that an objection had been taken before Mr. Justice Wightman that the prisoner was not in a position to apply for a habeas corpus, he being a French subject, accused of a crime committed in France, and in custody under the convention. Probably it would be better to take that point first. Lord DENMAN—Perhaps SO. Mr. CHAMBERS contended that there was nothing to show that the prisoner was in a different position from other persons, and that the other side could not now raise the question upon affidavit. Mr. JAMES replied that he had a right to show by affidavit that the prisoner was not in a position to apply for his habeas. Lord DENMAN—The words of the Act of Parlia ment are, " that such person shall be committed upon such requisition aforesaid, and delivered up in case requisition shall be duly made." Now the words of the commitment are, " until he shall be delivered by due course of law." There is not a word about any requisition having been made. How can you explain that, Mr. James ? Mr. JAMES—There has been a requisition to the Secretary of State. The Secretary of State had issued his warrant, that has set the magistrate in motion, and he has committed the prisoner until he shall be released by due course of law, instead of until he shall be delivered by requisition. Such a discrepancy might or not be a reason for ordering a prisoner's discharge, but he contended that the prisoner being a criminal, a subject of another country, accused of a crime committed in another country, was not entitled to his writ of habeas. It had never been stated under which Act the application was made, the Act of Charles 11. or that of George 111. The prisoner was a fugitive criminal from another country, accused of that which is not a crime in this country. By the Act Charles 11. the relief by habeas was confined to subjects of this country accused of crimes which could be tried in this country. Upon that point there had been an express decision in the case of the King and M'lntosh, 1 Strange, in which the Court decided that a person in custody for treason committed in Scotland was not entitled to his habeas corpus, because he could not be tried for it in this country. The Act of 56th George 111., w as only an extension of the Act Charles 11., and enacted that persons confined for anything but criminal, or supposed criminal matter, should be entitled to his habeas—thus remitting him to his re medy at common law. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS—What is his remedy t common law ? Mr. JAMES apprehended the writ of habeas ; but he submitted that at common law a fugitive criminal from another country could not be entitled to his writ of habeas. He apprehended the question was, whether a person in custody for a crime committed in France was entitled to his habeas. Lord DENMAN—That is to aay, whether our gaolers are to be gaolers for France without the con vention. Mr. JAMES emitted that the Court could not discharge the prisoner on account of the wording of the warrant—for to he delivered up by due course of law would be to be delivered up in conformity with the requisition, or in the event of their being no requisition, his being discharged under the provisions of the Act of Par liament. He also submitted that if the warrant were bad, and the depositions set forth a crime, the Court could remand him back to the same custody. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS—That is only in cases in which the prisoner could be tried in this country. Mr. JAMES admitted that the Court would be taking upon itself to decide whether a crime, according to the law of France, had been committed by a Frezch man in France; but, inasmuch as the magistrate would have the power of issuing a fresh warrant, he submitted that to give effect to the Act of Parliament, their Lordships would remand him to the same custody. Mr. Justice COLERIDGE—Setting the magistrate's warrant out of the question, have we, proprio vigore, the power of committal under the Act? Mr. JAMES apprehended that the Court had the power to remand, and that it could exercise that power, on finding a crime set forth in the depositions. He submitted that the depositions ought to be read, and the prisoner re-committed by the Court, in the event of any crime appearing in those depositions. Mr. Justice WrGurmaN—That is to say that we are to discharge him under the warrant, and commit him ourselves de novo ? Mr. JAMES—Yes, my Lord. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL attended by desire of the Lord Mayor not to oppose the prisoner's dis charge, but to submit to whatever the Court might direct. Lord DBNMAN----It is a great misfortune that this, the first application made of this very important Act of Parliament, which may affect the administration of justice throughout the whole of Europe, should be made in such a very defective manner. We have no power to interfere. The gaoler has no power to detain this person, except what is given to him by this Act of Parliament ; and when we look to the wording of the Act of Parliament, we find that in this case the directions of the Act have not been followed. It is clear he cannot be detained. We have been applied to to remand him as having been guilty of some crime. We can know nothing of the commission of any crime except what appears upon the warrant. We have no power to take cognizance of any crime committed in another State, except under the provisions of the recent statute. It would have been unnecessary to pass that statute if we had possessed such a power as that which we are now asked to exercise. It should be distinctly understood that this writ of habeas is issued under the common law, and not under the Act of Charles 11. or George 111. The writ was , secured by the petition of right, and was known to the law long before those Acts were passed. The prisoner must be discharged. Three men, named Sadd, Clow, and Vaughan, were brought before Alderman Wilson for final examina tion, charged with having committed a murderous as sault upon an active constable, Locke, who attends at Nicholson's-wharf, in Lower Thames-street. The complainant was assisted into the justice-room by a policeman. His head was bound up, and he seemed to suffer extremely from internal injuries. At one time his life was considered to be in imminent danger, and he is still in a very serious condition. The complainant stated that on Saturday, the 26th of October, as he was taking a man from N icholson's wharf to the station-house, whom he had taken into custody for drunkenness and, causing obstruction to business, his prisoner began to be very violent upon reaching Thames-street. A mob collected around him, and a constable walked up to his assistance. When he reached St. Mary-at-Hill, the mob became violent, and forced him away from his prisoner and the constable, and he was knocked down and kicked. While he was getting up he was kicked on the thigh by the prisoner Sadd. " I told Sadd," continued the complainant, " that I should know him, and have him when I got out of the mob." H e threatened to do for me, and excited the mob by call ing upon them to kill me. I was afterwards knocked down, but I don't know by whom, and when I got up again I was struck, by the prisoner Clow, in my face and eye. I was then knocked down almost senseless, and kicked all over when down- The pri soner Vaughan also excited the mob against me by calling upon them to kill me. After I had been taken to a surgeon, who applied leeches to my face, I went, with the assistance of the police, to Thames-street, to look for Sadd, and I found and took him into custody at the bottom of St. Mary-at-Hill. He said to me , " Don't take me, and I'll tell you who hit you." afterwards went, assisted by two officers, to Dock head, and took Clow into custody, and he acknow ledged that he had struck me. I have been very ill since from the injuries I received, am. l have been confined to my bed. I began to spit blood on the same day, and have continued to spit blood up to yes terday, in consequence of the kicking I received, and I hist my sight for several days. I cannot sleep at all. Sadd said he had never kicked the complainant at all. Mr. Baton, for Clow, said he should re:serve the do. Fence of his client for the trial. Mr. Hunt, for Vaughan, cross-examined the com plainant, but elicited nothing at all centradictory to the statement made by the injured party. It was proved by another witness that Vaughan kicked the complainant, as well as called upon the mob to kill him. Mr. Cornelius Smith, of 56, Gracechurch-street, surgeon, stated that he attended the complainant on Monday (his assistant having attended the com plainant on Saturday) , and found him suffering from internal injuries about the chest and body, and from both external and internal injuries of the head and face. The injuries were of a severe character. The com plainant complained of spitting of blood and difficulty of breathing. He was improving, but not yet free from danger. Alderman \\Timor; refused to take bail for any one of the prisoners, and stated that it was his determina tion to send them all for trial for the felony at the Central Criminal Court. The prisoners were committed for trial. An immense crowd, in the midst of which it was evident there were several smugglers, attended to hear the examination of William Slack, a stoker on board the Ocean steam-vessel, from Rotterdam, who was charged upon an information with having been found on board that vessel in the port of London, the same vessel having concealed in her one hundered and forty pounds weight of tobacco, upon which the duty had not been paid. The Lord Mayor-and Alderman Wilson sat to ad judicate, and very great interest was excited. The prisoner had been brought up on Monday, when he was by mistake mentioned as the steward of the vessel. The Solicitor for the Customs attended to prose cute. A solicitor also attended for the prisoner. Coleby Atkinson Davis, officer of the Customs, stated that in consequence of information which he had received that a quantity of .tobacco had been brought to the river by the Ocean from Rotterdam, he proceeded on board that vessel at Blackwall. He and a brother officer had waited her arrival, and she came into the river, not in consequence of stress of weather, but in the regular course of business, bring ing her Majesty's mails. Witness proceeded directly to the prisoner Slack's berth, and asked him to pro duce all the tobacco he had in his berth, or concealed near his berth. The prisoner produced three pounds of tobacco and a small quantity of spirits from the back of his berth, and said that was all he had. Witness told him that if that was all he could produce he should suffer no hurt, for that was but a small quantity, but he (witness) was sure a large quantity was concealed in that vicinity. Witness told the prisoner to stop and wait the issue, for no harm could come to him for what he had produced, and proceeded to take up the flooring boards adjoining the engine. The prisoner started up the other ladder as quickly as he could, left the vessel, and went on to the pier, but witness halloed " Stop," after him, pursued, over took, and brought him back, and told him he must wait the issue of the search. The vessel then, having landed her mails and passengers, went on to London, and witness proceeded with the search. After about three hours' search he found, on the starboard side, • above the prisoner's berth, that a piece of board had been, with great art, made th• means of concealment. Behind the two planks which passed up to the beam of the engine-room a piece of timber was fitted in, and puttied and painted over like th• rest. That piece, which appeared to the eye to be part of the solid mass, was capable of being removed by the application of a screw. Upon the removal of that little door, the timbers of the vessel were to be seen, and between the timbers was a hollow space, leading down to the bilge ' • a string was attached, from which a great number of packages were suspended, encased with lead, in such perfect security that they might lie in the bilge water without sustaining the slightest damage. The contents were tobacco, and from the manner in which it was deposited it equally defied injury from steam or salt water. Some of the pack ages were lying between the timbers to a depth of ten, others to the depth of eleven feet, in the space, and some were four pound, and others six pound packages. There was no possibility of discovery that tobacco was in the vicinity of the place of conceal ment, for the encasement was not only impenetrable, but the cord attached to each package, and communi cating with the beam, was strongly impregnated with pitch or tar. The LORD MAYOR observed that the time occupied in preparing and depositing the contraband articles must have been considerable. The witness said there could be no doubt of that, as after he had found out the place of concealment, he was occupied two hours and a half in removing the packages. They had been wedged in by a forcing in strument. He found the screw which opened the secret door upon closely searching one of the berths Upon his cross-examination by the prisoner's so citoi, the witness said the prisoner introduced him to the berth, but not without hesitation. The prisoner trembled very much when he saw what was going forward. The witness was understood here to intl. mate that he found the screw in the berth of the second engineer, who had run away upon finding that the vessel was about to be searched. The prisoner's solicitor—Now, did you not know the exact spot in which the packages lay, before you went into the vessel at all ? Witness—Not the exact spot. We had information of the neighbourhood in which the tobacco was deposited, but not of the exact spot. . _ _ - The prisoner's solicitor—And you pretend that the discovery arose from your ingenuity ? Witness The discovery of i the exact spot arose from our in genuity, certainly. We knew that the tobacco was about the engine-room. I don't think you would have found it, Sir, if with the same information you had been there.—(A laugh.) The prisoner's solicitor—Did you not handcuff the man ? Witness—Certainly. We would not have done so if we did not know him to be guilty, and we did so becaus we knew he would have escaped if he had an opportunity. We were convinced that he and another were guilty. The other got away. The prisoner's solicitor—Pray, are you not an in. terested party in this case ? Witness—Of course I am. The prisoner's solicitor—To what extent ? Wit nese—The informer gets a third, and I get a sixth. The prisoner's solicitor—Did you ever see this man engaged in a matter of this kind before ? Wit ness—Never. I never saw him before at all. The prisoner's solicitor—And you cannot say any thing against him as to any former charge ? Wit ness—Nothing at all. The prisoner's solicitor submitted that it would be unjust to commit his client under such circumstances. He had been two years on board, and had a wife and family, and could not have entertained an idea of ex posing them to the destitution consequent upon his detection in an affair of this kind. It appeared that one of the engineers was the party really engaged, and the prisoner was, at all events, entitled to the be nefit of the doubt. The LORD MAYOR said there appeared to be no mitigatory circumstances in the case at all. It was quite evident the prisoner must have had guilty knowledge that the tobacco was on board, if he was not a participator in the fraud. It was evident, too, from his behaviour when the officer went on board, as well as from the fact that a great deal of time must have been occupied in depositing the tobacco, that he was perfectly aware of everything connected with the offence. The prisoner was then adjudged to be guilty, and to pay the penalty of 100/. BOW-STREET. Yesterday Mr. G. W. Jones, the Secretary of the Hammersmith Suspension-bridge Committee, attended in obedience to a summons obtained at the suit of Mr. G. Lewis, Secretary to the Master of the Horse to her Majesty, to show cause why he had exacted a toll from Mr. W. J. Goodwin, her Majesty's Inspector of Stables, on a pair of horses drawing one of the royal carriages, on the 21st ult., contrary to the provisions of the Company's Act, by which the Queen's horses are specially exempted. Mr Bolton, of the firm of Bolton and Price, Lin coln's Inn, attended for the complainant, and was about to open the case, when Mr. Thomas, the defendant's counsel, questioned the jurisdiction of the Court, and urged that the Ham mersmith ben'ch was the proper one to take cognizance of the present case. Mr. Burnaby, the chief clerk, observed that, as a general rule, all matters appertaining to the Palace and her Majesty's household were submitted to this office, as the chief Police-court. Mr. JARDINE said, there could be no doubt as to the jurisdiction of the Court, and, as the summons had been granted by Mr. Twyford, he should not hesitate to hear the complaint. Mr. Bolton, after directing attention to the several provisions of the sth George IV. (the Company's Act), by which her Majesty's horses were exempted from toll, stated the particulars of the alleged demand, and observed that the complainant had only been induced to request the interference of a magistrate by the frequency of these interruptions on the part of the Company's officers, and the impediments and imper • tinence to which her Majesty's servants had been con sequently exposed. 111 r. Goodwin examined—l am inspector of stables and veterinary surgeon to her Majesty, and had occa sion to pass over the suspension bridge on the 21st of October with a small britschka and a pair of horses belonging to her Majesty; the former had the royal arms emblazoned upon it. I was accompanied as usual by a servant in her Majesty's livery. On reaching the toll-office Mr. Jones, the defendant, stepped out and requested me to atop, at the same time demanding where I came from and whither I was going. I refused to tell him, but said he knew my grounds for claiming exemption, and if he de manded the toll I would pay it, and he must take the consequences. Mr. Jones was a stranger to me personally, but the toll-keeper knew me well, as I had been in the habit of going over the bridge for years previously, sometimes as often as three or four times a week, without paying toll. Cross-examined—l have been asked questions be fore, but have invariably refused to state where I was going, as I felt that the inquiry was impertinent. I have always stated that the horses and carriage be longed to her Majesty, and were therefore exempt. On the occasion in question I was going from Hamp ton-court to the Queen's-mews at Pimlico, on her Majesty's business ; but I admit having repeatedly passed over the bridge in the same carriage on my own business, and having then also declined to pay the toll. Mr. Thomas—Then, I think, the case ought to end here. Mr. JARDINE—Were you on those occasions with her Majesty's carriage and horses? Witness—Cer tainly, your Worship. Mr. JARDINE—Then the Act clearly exempted him, inasmuch as it specified " her Majesty's horses," without any restriction whatever as to the service in which they might be engaged. The witness was further cross-examined by Mr. Thomas, but nothing material was elicited from him, except an acknowledgment that Mr. Jones and the toll• keeper were both civil to him, although he consi dered the inquiry relative to his mission an imperti nent one. Mr. Jones explained that about five years ago, in consequence of a complaint made by the Company upon this point, the secretary to the Master of the Horse authorised him to ask persons who claimed exemption in the Queen's name, the question which he had put, as civilly as possible, to Goodwin, but which he refused to answer. Defendant denied that he had applied for the toll ; it was paid by Goodwin without any demand being made. He also denied the assertion of the latter, that he claimed exemption. Mr. JARDINE thought that no one could suppose that Mr. Jones had been impertinent, in the general acceptation of the term, but; on this occasion, seeing that the carriage had the royal arms on it, and that the defendant might have known from the toll-keeper who and what Goodwin was, he was of opinion that the question ought not to have been put. He would hear the next case before poonouncing his decision. A second charge, precisely similar in its nature, was then preferred against the toll-keeper, William Moore, for demanding the toll of Goodwin on a sub sequent day. Mr. JARDINE repeated his conviction that the de mand, in the face of the Act, was altogether unjusti fiable. He felt it hia duty, therefore, to inflict the mitigated penalty of 51. in each case. Mr. Thomas said the decision would be appealed against. MARLBOROUGH-STREET. The following letter was yesterday handed to the reporter from the bench : " A. and B. inclose a five-pound note, which they request Mr. Maltby to apply to the relief of the first poor persons he may think deserving of assistance, and request the receipt of the same may be acknowledged in the daily papers." CLERKEIV WELL. Mr. Thomas Ashworth, a chemist and druggist, was charged with embezzling property to a consider• able amount belonging to his employer, and with at tempting to commit suicide. John Latham, a Bow•-street officer, deposed that at three o'clock on the previous day the prisoner came to Bow-street station, and asked witness if he had not received information of a quantity of books having been stolen from a Mr. Ambler, and on witness re plying in the affirmative, he said, would you know the man who stole them ? Witness said he w ould not. The prisoner then exclaimed, " I an► the man who committed that robbery, and I wish to give my self up." Ile was then locked up. Mr. Amhler, a wholesale bookseller, residing at 27, Compton-street, Clerken well, said about a month ago the prisoner came to him, assured him that he was in indigent circumstances, and requested some kind of employment. Witness, k;,ow ing that his friends were highly respectable, in some time after entrusted him with Prayer•books and Bibles as samples for country customers. In a few days after he received a letter from the prisoner, dated from Bexley, in Kent, in which he stated that he had lost the books, and requested forgiveness. The prisoner's friends having promised to make good the loss, witness commissioned the prisoner to take some books to Mr. Young, in Titchfield-street, Soho. The prisoner delivered the parcel, and borrowed money from Mr. Young. Witness subsequently learned that he had pawned the first parcel of books in several ' pawn-offices. The hooks were produced by several pawnbrokers' men. The prisoner's step-father, an elderly gentleman, residing in Baker-street, Clerken well, stated that the prisoner was insane ; his father had been seven years in a lunatic asylum, and died mad there, and his brother, a solicitor, cut his throat. The prisoner's father had predicted that his son would die mad and he verily believed the prediction would he verified. The prisoner had twice attempted to commit suicide— once by throwing himself into the New River. He had been in affluent circumstances, but was now much reduced. Inspector Barton deposed that on the previous night, a short time after the prisoner was locked up in the cell, the constable, upon going the "rounds," saw the prisoner suspended there by his neckcloth. He was at once cut down, and was quite black in the face, and animation suspended. The police.surgeon was sent for, and he was, after a considerable in- terval, restored. Mr. GREENWOOD directed Mr. Taylor to be seat for, that he might examine him regarding the state of his mind. Mr. Taylor came and did so, but statea the result to the magistrate in private. Mr. GREENWOOD decided upon remanding the pri soner, and added that Mr. Taylor had required fur ther time to inquire into his state of mind. The prisoner, who conducted himself throughout with perfect composure and decorum, was remanded. MARYLEBOIVE. On Monday an elderly gentleman, namel Blake, was charged under the circumstances detailed in the following evidence : Caroline Mitchell, a little girl, nearly 13 years old, said that on Friday last, between eleven and twelve o'clock, she met the prisoner in Queen-street. He beckoned to her, and on her going to him he asked her name and address, which she gave him, and he made an entry of the same in his pocketbook. On Sunday she was standing at her father's and he beckoned to her and asked her if she could come out of an evening. She replied that she sometimes came out for her mother, and he pressed her to meet him at the corner of Nutford-place, at eight o'clock He then gave her a shilling, and begged that she would not tell her father or mother what he had don,. On the same afternoon the prisoner, whilst she was standing at her tither's door, beckoned to her, and asked her if she could not come out of an evening, and on her saying that she was frequently sent out by her mother upon errands, he said he should like to see her at the corner of Seymour-place. He also said he should like to give her a ride in a cab, and some cash besides, if she would go home with him. He took her to an adjacent mews, and there put his arm round her neck, at the same time saying he would give her some cakes. He also a` red her if she would come out for a few hours, and ride in a cab with him. William Mitchell, the father of the girl; stated that on his daughter communicating what had occurred respecting her interview with the prisoner, he met the latter, and collared him, and held him until the arrival of the policeman. It was further shown that on the way to the sta tion-house the prisoner offered money to a consider able amount to the witnesses, in order to induce them to forego any charge that might be made against him. Mr RAWLINSON, after hearing the evidence of other witnesses, came to the conclusion that it was his duty to fire the defendant 51. for the assault, and to require him to enter into his own recognizance in 1001., and two sureties of 501. each, for his keeping the peace and being of good behaviour to all her Majesty's subjects for the next twelve months. _ _ The required sureties were given, and the prisoner was liberated. WORSHIP-STREET. Yesterday a neatly-dressed little woman named Jane Brown, was charged with having attacked James Golding, a greengrocer at Shacklewell, with a drama sword, and attempted to stab him. Inspector Howie, of the N division, stated that at five on the preceding evening the complainant came in a great fright to the station house, saying that he had gone to the prisoner's house that afternoon to request payment of a bill for sundry goods he had supplied to the prisoner and her husband, and on knocking at the door it was opened by a woman, to whom he delivered the bill. As soon as he had done so the woman called out to the prisoner, who was up stairs, and who im mediately ran down and attacked him with a drawn sword she had in her hand, and with which she swore that she would run him through the body if he attempted to advance a single inch into the house. Directly this threat had been uttered she made a sudden and violent thrust at him with the sword, which penetrated the breast of his coat, and made a large incision, which he exhibited, but by a rapid re trograde movement he fortunately escaped the serious consequences which would otherwise have certainly ensued. The inspector added, that the cut which he observed in the man's coat was on the left side. imme diately over the heart, and the cloth was cut com pletely through to the extent of several inches. Seeing that there were obvious grounds for the com plainant's alarm, he dispatched Braman, a constable, to the house, and he, on arriving there, found her still in the passage with the sword in her hand, which she was flourishing about in a very menac ing manner ; by a statagem he however, contrived to take the weapon from her, and conveyed her and the sword to the station. The inspector said, that for some time past a great number of tradesmen in that neighbourhood had been making almost daily com plaints at the station of impositions practised on them by the parties living in the house, and requesting that the police would lend their aid in recovering property they had been incautiously induced to leave there The prosecutor was not in attendance, though he had given him notice the night before to appear. Mr. BINGHAM said, as that was the case be was compelled to discharge the prisoner; but that wouli not preclude the complainant from obtaining justice, as he could take out a warrant against the prisoner another day, and make her answer for the outrage she had committed. The prisoner, who maintained a grim look of de fiance as she stood in front of the bar, and would not condescend to utter a single word in answer to what had been proved against her, was then discharged , and walked majestically out of Court with an air of triumph. A fellow named George Le Corps was charged by a woman of very respectable appearance, named Platt, with having struck her such a violent blow in the mouth, that it was instantly filled with blood, and two of her front teeth were knocked completely out, one of them having been picked up off the floor by * policeman, and the other very nearly choked her from its being dashed down her throat. Her husband, who interfered for her protection, also received two violent blows in the face from the prisoner. Tbe wantonness of the assault was fully proved, and the prisoner was fined in the sum of 50s. to the Quee n ' and, in default, was sentenced to a month's imprison* ment in the House of Correction. TFIAMES POLICE. Yesterday, Captain Barker, an eccentric mariner (late master of a merchant ship, and now "out of $ berth,") charged a woman of the town with robbing him of a silver watch. The prosecutor, when he first got into the witness' box, appeared half-seas over. Mr. 13aonuarP thereupon questioned him as ta, whether he had not been drinking, and he said he h ad not taken anything that morning but a pint of beer' The magistrate ordered the case to be put back for two or three hours, and also gave directions that strong drinks should in the mean time be prevented from reaching the captain's mouth. At two o'clock, the prisoner was again put to th e bar, and Mr. Pelham appeared to defend her. Timothy Hayes, an Irish policeman, No. 201 g , said he met with the parties at four o'clock in th e morning, at a coffee-stall in the Commercial-ror They were wrangling, and the captain charged tae prisoner with stealing his watch, and he followed he to a house in Buross-street, where, sure enough , "", found a silver watch, with a silver chain, belonging another gentleman, but he could not find the captain s ' Mr. BRODERIP —Where did you find the other watch ? Hayes—Well, thin, it was in the gins e. man's fob. Mr. BRODERIP—Then it was not stolen? Hades —But it might have been.—(Laughter.) *t? Mr. BRODERIP — And what sort of a house wa s Hayes—Och, a very respectable house the inside O f it, and only tre (three) females there. Captain Barker (loudly)—Don't tell stories. ~., In cross-examination by ..rlr. Pelham, the pol ice ' man said the captain and the " lady" had a conversedtion, but he couldn't identify the words; but sh e sal she was not guilty of the charge. Mr. Pelham—Then, you have identified the 'Or al. Captain Barker—Don't tell stories ; hold hard. 0 Mr. BRODERIP inquired if the prosecutor had bef A drinking since he left the court ? and Hayes rep l t " Nothing at all, e'er wortchip, ounly a bottle of s eu i water. I kept him by himself to himself in the ha room " lot The Captain said he had been to the " Ea r ," h if Effingham" concert-room to hear a song, and boa ", watch last about eleven o'clock, and took it out w s „, " what time it was. "He had not been drinking r hold It.r. - I—he had only drunk two glasses of be e As he was coming down by—hold hard!" 10 After a long pause, he slapped his hand on ..„ thigh, and sung out—" I have it 1 London Hospita l and that's where I fell in with her. I missed t j ai watch as soon as ever I went into the house, a n was there about a quarter of an hour." ..la n' Mr. BRODERIP—WeII, you are a very odd C ud , What was you doing all that time ? Witness -- tiling her up in my arms to be sure. tch Mr. BRODERIP—And had you seen your vva eh safe before you began cuddling her ? Witness---Y Sir. ; t ae Mr. BRODERIP—And after the cuddling 3 , gone ? Witness—Yes, Sir, certainly.—(Lang t he Mr. Symons, the chief clerk, who was taking 00 depositions, said it was quite impossible to fht robbery on the woman at the bar on such testirneri4 The man first said he missed the watch directly of entered the house, and subsequently that a quarter an hour elapsed before he missed it. iota Mr. BRODERIP ordered the policeman tage tbe witness-box again, and asked him in wha t 5- 0 0 was the complainant? Hayes—Well, he told and nothing—he said he had missed his watch: (l ' e laughter.) of? Mr. BRODERIP—What can you be thinking et Was the complainant sober? Hayes_Oc49 1 wurtchip, she was perfectly sober. t he M. man—the man. Attend b - Magis!.l ate. r to M . ISRODERIP—The policeman dies not aPP ea t he know the meaning of words. Does he knot' meaning of the term " complainant ?" Captain Barker—Hold hard : helm a.port- Hayes, after a pause, answered the question saying " the prosecutor, yer wurtehip." Mr. BRODERIP—Was he drunk or sober?- —Not perfectly sob Her. it? Mr. BRODERIP—ave you any doubts abou t Hayes—Yes, I have indeed. ssf Mr. BRODERIP—Now do attend to me. i-e - oei one thing and mean another, I believe. What ni 5 / you doubt he was not perfectly sober? 11337:07 His fate was perfect, but his spathe was bad; t my doubts.—(Roars of laughter.) Mr. BRODERIP—Now do tell me what you 1111,1 t, Was he or was he not sober ? Hayes—He Was Sir, when he gave her in my custody. Mr. BRODERIP—Have you made any 'otber A quiries about this robbery ? Hayes—l inqu ire " them both, Sir.—(More laughter.) A Oil Mr. I3RODERIP said it was in vain to proceeu No the case, arid inquired for an inspector, and be IS' informed by Sergeant M`Cardell, No. 4 K, that or spector Rutt, who had been in the Court all them r de , lug, heed called away on business. Mr. 13 ,. sa rip then said, it was very much to he wished tl4 hoif inspector should always be in attendance to heat the policemen gave their evidence, and to gibe _ /1 :11 01 mation ..hen required ; and he directed M'Cr e A lear report this case to Inspector Rutt. It was a robbery had been committed ; but from the way in which the pr,secutor gave his evidence, wre the more peculiar way in which the policeinaP 00 his, the woman must be discharged. Thep oli ce ," was no doubt a most excellent and well-meaning hi o but he did not know the meaning of words or W ;‘ r e ; do on the occasion. He said a brothel was 11 0 ,110" spectable house ;" the prostitutes in it he &cite " ladies," and other parts of his evidence we re ! del indescribable. The man was from the sister e°l4-000 and whether he understood the English languag n e f, t the meaning of some words he had made us e e ll was impossible to divine. 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Bart., of a son. , of ° On the Ist inst., at Camberwell, Mrs. Robert S P elle daughter. ‘ ,.,, i2 Lip p On the Ist inst., in Selkirkshire, the wife of IL v — L pincott, Esq., of Over Court, Gloucestershire, of a Vg:AcjAo`" On the 2d inst., at Eaton-place, the lady of T. v. Esq., M.P , of a daughter. rig, tbs On the 2d inst., in Nottingham-place, Regent's-Pa wife of Robert William Peacock, Esq., of a daughter. ,„hoo , On the 3d inst., at Barnard Castle, th e wife of P' ... Of 1 Hepworth, Esq., of a son. On the 2d inst., Mrs. James Roberts., Botolpirlsl3." daughter. I ' . Y./A RBI E.D. the P d r On the 24th ult., at Weston Church, near Bath , 0 18 fi Edward Spencer Phelps, R.N., to Sophia Elizab eth,' viving daughter of the late Rev. Robert G a tehouse . ,„ r oek e On the 30th ult., at the Cathedral Church of Peery; o f to the Rev. Henry Pratt, to Mary Ann Davys, &ugh" Bishop of Peterborough. lift• o k are, J On the 3d inst., at Trinity Church, Trinity-so"oghte r W. W. Wheeler, to Miss Sarah Sharpe, second "" Mrs. Sharpe, of Bland -street, Dover-road. DIED. " ' " . 1 01 1 . 11414 On the 4th inst., at Felix Hall, the Right tol Western, in his 78th year. of Ed On the 23d of September, Charles, eldest ar" s°, ll of Wilkinson, Esq., of Dorset-square, Regent's-p' or , EA' On the 26th ult., at Dreghorn, Archibald Trott eldel' , mari, Dreghorn. On the 28th ult., at Wimborne Mins ter, s• daughter of the late Rev. James Mayo. fA' On the 29th ult., Robert Harvey. the infant " oil o the / John Forssmann, Esq., of St. Petersburgh. fg" On the 3d inst., in London, Anna, daughter 0 ..,.-v. 3 70 , , Pennefather, Esq., of New park, Cashel, Tipp.e,r - A,,,s a I, 01 On the 3d inst., at Doughty-street, Mary 11a 1'100' On the 3d inst., Ann, the wife of Mr. Sera ll' t fi e s Coventry. ota ss On the 2d inst., at Hackney, Richard Migue i .,' , Too. the of the late Anthony Jones, Esq., of Kingston, Jl i ,,, gal' On the 2d inst., at Hawkhurst, Kent , ElizabeL. AO& wife of Henry Young, Esq. Dorra:l t ill. On the 3d inst., at tipper Tooting, WillisTnedford Esq., eldest son of the late it. Borradaile, Esq' ° 1,0,204' On the 2d inst., Mr. Thomas Old, aged 80. o f ~ On the 3d inst., George Mitehell Tweedie, Esq.' wife of , house, Wandsworth. t ,,. art ee, On the 3d inst., at Hartlepool, Caroline '' li;11 WO Christopher Davison, Esq. Br i g hton , On the 4th inst., in Sussex-square , Anne, wife of R Carr Foster, Esq. , of - Nu, .................,••40 - ------- / - 1 1 0 13 110 ---.-'-.----- URD t I o . London : Printed and Published by Di -co, ..- el e Ne. 112, Strand. Printer, at Th.. Sus ° 8 11' s virr --- "‘ Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoi,),3!‘ bLiddleses,Wedneidig limas 6,110" a