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prussic acid in each—considerably wore than sufficient to destroy life. In answer to a question from Mr. Duckett, sen., Mr. Letheby positively declared that there had been no im proper intercourse between the deceased persons. Elizabeth Keely, staying with her sister, a lodger at Mr. Duckett's house, proved letting Mr. Duckett, jun., and Miss Williams in at half-past six o'clock on Sunday evening. They went into the parlour, and she heard no more of them. The Coroner having remarked on the very melancholy and mysterious nature of the case, The jury consulted, and ultimately returned a verdict —" That the deceased persons, Charles William Duckett and Elizabeth Williams, died from imbibing a certain quantity of prussic acid, bu t by whom or how adminis tered there was not sufficient evidence before the jury." SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THIS EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. STANDARD.—The Chapter of the diocese of Exeter have addressed to the Lord Primate a memo rial, praying his Grace to consult with the Bishops as to the best means of establishing uniformity in the order of public worship. The course pro posed by the Chapter is no doubt open to some objections, and objections of considerable weight have been offered against it ; but, looking to the evil consequences that must flow from the present state of affairs if much longer continued, and unable to discover any better means of correct ing that unfortunate state, we must express our anxious hope that the proposition of the Exeter Chap ter will be favourably received and firmly acted upon. We have besides a complete confidence that the Bishops will decide with a full knowledge of what suits the age in which we live, and decide without pre judices and wisely. The characteristic of our time is practical common sense, which, with out slighting imagination in that which is its pro per sphere, the sphere of innocent pleasures, rejects it absolutely from all the serious business of life. This makes us severe and strict in all our graver concerns, and there is none so grave as reli gion. It makes also (though not in the bad sense) jealous and sceptical. Whether it has originated in our political inquiries or elsewhere, we will hardly submit to anything without a reason for it, and a good one. And in truth our best religious teachers are somewhat to blame for this disposition, if the dis position (which we are far from thinking) is one to be lamented. What are " Butler's Analogy," and " Paley's Evidences," but practical commentaries upon the Apostle's command to " prove all things ?" Now, this being the temper of the time, as is well known to the Bishops, we have no apprehension that their Lordships will not see the necessity of adapting their arrangements to it, and take care that while public worship shall be conducted "decently and in order," no ceremonies shall be imposed that have not the sanction of uninterrupted usage or manifest utility ; sternly rejecting whatever is merely sym bolical, or otherwise only calculated to work con fusedly upon the imagination. Such things, in this mature age of the world, are objectionable as puerilities—injurious to the grave temper proper for religious worship ; and their puerility is cer tainly not atoned for by their known con nexion with Popish errors, both in those who first introduced them, and in those who would now revive them. We repeat our conviction that the Bishops will see the necessity of restoring the order of public worship universally to what it has been during the last two or three generations, without the least regard to time-repealed rubrics, and obsolete customs. The worst of revolutions, it was said by Lord Somers, and afterwards by Mr. Fox, is a counter-revolution ; and the most offensive of innovations is the renovation of what has been long and deliberately discarded ; the reason is the same in both. The counter-revo lutions and renovations are victories gained over their former superiors by a lately depressed party, and the history of the world tells how such victories are always used. The Bishops will be cautious how they draw upon themselves, or, if they are car e l ess about themselves, as we truly believe they are, how they draw upon the sacred Establishment of which they are. the guardians, the odium of giving a triumph to the Tractarian party, by setting up innovations or renovations abstractedly distasteful to the people, and rendered more intolerable by their apparent connexion with Popish errors. GLOBE.—Since we roused the attention of the public to the state of our relations with Brazil there has been nothing but restlessness in Downing -street and Whitehall. The organ of the Board of Trade is told to browbeat the Ministers of Brazil; and forth with " insolent Brazil" is held up to scorn and j indignation for attempting to profit by the foolish and selfsought perplexities of its super-subtle pre sident. But this course being found inexpedient, the apologist of the Foreign-office is instructed to bold the language of conciliation, and to justify even the Brazilian tariff! Accordingly, we learn that " the sole object of it is revenue,"—that Brazil has no " hostile intentions towards us,"—that she is ac tuated only by one motive, " which Brazilian Ministers are bound to make the law of their conduct —we mean the interest of the state whichtheygovern." Now, this is all beside th e ques ti on. T he intentions of razil towards us may readily be supposed to be dictated by her own views of her own interests, and by a very natural desire to increase her trade, and, of course, her revenue. About her intentions towards us, we may concern ourselves but little. The ques tion the public is interested in is, as to the intentions of our own Government towards Brazil, which, as far as they can be gathered from existing in formation, have reference neither to the exten sion of our trade nor to the increase of our reve nue ; but appear t , on the contrary, calculated at once to narrow the one and restrict the other. The attempt now made to clothe the wretched policy of our Cabinet with a sentimental regard for the inte rests of our merchants, we discard as altogether childish; as the last resource of men who, struggling both against events they either did not or would not foresee, and principles they can no longer oppose, and left destitute of any intelligible defence of their policy, seek to disguise their failure under the chimerical pretence of protecting our merchants from the evils of over-trading and over-credits. Their course in opposition left them no alternative but to allow the Brazilian Treaty to expire without making any attempt to renew it, and to risk the in jurious consequences to our trade; and it precluded them from all frindly negotiati on w ith a P ower with which we had long enjoyed an advantageous trade in that very article which we still import, refine, and export ; but which we are not allowed—in deference to the political casuistry of the Board of Trade--to enter for home consumption. We import and carry on a direct trade in the article to the extent of 13,000 tons annually. IVe supply both our own colonies with refined sugar, and foreign countries with still larger quantities of raw sugar ; but not a pound may we eat at home ! We may carry on any amount of trade in, and consume all or any of, the products of Brazil— her coffee, or her hides, or her tobacco—and even her sugar—provided not a pirticle of the latter find its way into the tea or coffee of the labouring classes of this country ! And, beyond even this, we may import free-labour sugar as it is —(absurdly as falsely) called from Java, which now competes with the slave trade sugar of Brazil in continental markets, and thus increase the demand for the sugar of Brazil and Cuba there; but to consume ourselves that which our policy forces others to consume, is forbidden by the dictates of humanity ? Hence, as Mr. M'Culloch observes, "though we do not sweeten our tea with sugar produced by Brazilian or Cuba slaves, we clothe ourselves with wool, manure our lands with bones, and manufacture our paper of rags which are paid for with this very sugar ! It is obvious, there fore, that in so far as buying their produce goes , we are direct encouragers of slavery in Brazil. And thus it is, that while our present system lays our trade with Brazil and Cuba under a disadvantage, and obliges our people to pay double its natural price for an important necessary of life, it pro motes that very slavery we affect to deprecate !" Such sophistry as that to which we have ad verted has indeed only to be stated, in order to be scouted by every intelligent and honest mind. And what is the plea put forward by the Government for these absurd inconsistencies —put forward, too, by a paper peculiarly affecting a knowledge of mercantile affairs—that "it was indispensable that a salutary and foreseen check should be given to the export trade now and for the next few months" —and " to change the slovenly, and in many instances desperate system of doing business now practised in Brazil ?" Com ment upon such puerility as this were wasted. It is further stated, that " if the Budget of 1841 had bean adopted at the moment it was brought forward, it would not have changed in any one particular the subsequent policy of the Brazilian Government. Mr. Baring proposed the reduction of the Sugar Duties absolutely and unconditionally; and no stipulation for the renewal of the commercial treaty, or for the main tenance of low import duties on British goods, was so much as required of the Brazils." Now, if this were merely the dictum of the Times, it might be al lowed to pass without much consideration. But if it be derived from any higher source, we hope the day is not far distant when we may find it confirmed in Par liament by some one competent to speak, and having a full knowledge of all the facts of the case. We shall be anxious to hear any one, speaking with the authority of the Board of Trade, say that the reduction then pro posed by Mr. Baring, absolute and unconditional as it was, " would not have changed in any one particu lar the subsequent policy of the Brazilian Govern ment ;"—that is, if w r .e are to understand by this that the reduction o posed would the sugar duties then pro not the sugar us to negotiate and re new a favourable Brazil, without that interruption to our trZiewithi. fleyoni 1h.0rn;10,4 p oky or Lich now immediately p resent Government. zant—that Mr. If,. however, this; and this onl policysoniFar duties, Baring's evell-timed.eductionY'of Brazil t would not have Chan,Od the old wards this country , wjai 11 was singularly favourable to I . 0 - - • • '/•-/ • - . • • ; — Ty ,\C'c' 344. .THE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, our trade ; then we agree with the Times, and admit that such would have been the case. We recommend our Contemporary to inquire further into this matter before it again lends itself to making random assertions upon a subject on which it is but imperfectly informed. But then, Mr. Baring, in 1841, made an absolute and unconditional reduction of the sugar duties. No doubt he did. And what did Sir Robert Peel say in 1842, when he was courting Free Trade "cheers" to sustain him in his amendments of the Tariff?— " Make every possible effort," said he, "to obtain re ciprocal advantages from other countries; but, if you fail, you should not refuse to buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest, for the purpose of punishing other countries." And again, in 1843, referring to the same period, he said, " I then declared that I consi dered that our domestic interests in all these arrange ments were of primary consideration. I laid down the principle, that it would not be wise in us to punish ourselves, because other countries refused to adopt si milar arrangements as to their import duties. These principles I laid down last year, and I adhere to them still." The principle on which Mr. Baring acted is here adopted, defended, and justified by Sir R. Peel. More favourable terms than those of Brazil towards us could not be proposed or expected, whilst Brazil had a right to expect more favourable terms from us. Her tariff was an encouragement to our ma nufactures. Our tariff was a discouragement to her produce. Mr. Baring, therefore, did wisely in unconditionally reducing our Sugar duties, as a preliminary to a renewal of a beneficial treaty with Brazil, and which at that time was in our power. In 1841, however, the members of the present Go vernment refused to relax the prohibitory duties on foreign sugar, because a moral consideration was in volved, viz., the question of the slave trade ! They adhered to their refusal even in 1843, upon the mo tion of Mr. Hawes to reduce the duty on foreign sugar to 34s.—the identical amount they subsequently adopted for their duty, on their miscalled free-labour sugar ; which, admitting it to be such, if imported, only opens the markets, to which it previously went, to a corresponding supply of slave-labour sugar. by this interruption of the view, and for the obstruction of light and air. The defence was that there had been no injury to the property, and no obstruction of light and air. The evidence was lengthened and extraordi nary, the plaintiff's witnesses maintaining that the pro perty was materially injured, and the defendant's as positively averring the contrary. The jury, after about an hour's deliberation, returned a verdict for the plaintiff on all the counts—Damages, 40s, which, in this action to try a right, carries full costs. lOURT OF EXCHEQUER, Nov. 28. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before the LORD CHIEF BARON, and a Special Jury.) THE ATTORNEY•GENERAL V. CANDY. THE ATTORNEY -GENERAL V. DEAN. In this case the Solicitor-General, Mr. Jervis, and Mr. Wilde were for the prosecution, and Mr. Wilkins, Mr. Chambers, and Mr. James for the defence. It was an information filed by her Majesty's Attorney- General against the defendants, for illegally importing a quantity of silks without paying the duty. The SOLICITOR- GENERAL said it had been agreed that the jury should find the single value of the silks at 1,4114 and give a verdict for that amount. Verdict accordingly. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. CANDY. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. DEAN. In these cases it was agreed that the jury should re turn a verdict for the single value of 8481. Bs. Verdict accordingly. THE ATTORNEY -GENERAL V. CANDY. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. DEAN. In these cases it was agreed that the jury shoald re ,urn'a verdict for the single value of 2,0161. Verdict accordingly. THE ATTORNEY -GENERAL V. CANDY. THE ATTORNEY-GENERAL V. DEAN. In these cases it was agreed that the jury should re. ;urn a verdict for the single value of 3004 Verdict accordingly. CONSISTORY COURT, Nov. 28. The Court opened this morning 'pro forma, at the usual hour, but owing to the severe indisposition of Sir Herbert Jenner Fust, who was unable to attend, it was in consequence ordered to stand adjourned till the next Court day. WINTER ASSIZES. HOME ClRCUlT.—Maidstone, Nov. 28. (Before Mr. Justice WILLIAMS.) SINGULAR CHARGE OF ARSON.—JOhit Wilson, alias Rowland Howell, aged 30, described as a tailor, was indicted for f e l on i ous l y sett i ng f i re to a stack of hay, the property of John Stephens, at Farnborough. William Stephens, the prosecutor's brother, deposed that he had a farm at Chelsfield, in the parish of Farnborough, and between two and three o'clock on the morning of the 6th of September he was awoke by an alarm of fire. On getting up he found that one of the haystacks was in flames, and before the fire could be extinguished the greater portion of it was consumed. He afterwards saw the prisoner in cus tody, hut he knew nothing of him, and to the best of his knowledge had never seen him before. Wm. Tompsett, a police-constable of the R division, who is stationed in this neighbourhood, deposed, that upon hearing the cry of " fire," he got up and went towards Mr. Stephens's premises, and when he got close to them he met the prisoner, who told him that there was a haystack on fire. He asked the prisoner which road he was going, and he said to London ; and witness asked him to give information of the fire to any policeman he might meet, and request him to come and assist, and the prisoner promised to do so, and proceeded on his way towards town. Witness then proceeded to the stack-yard, and found the stack in question on fire all over. Cross-examined by the prisoner —The place where I met you was in the high road from Sevenoaks to London. William Leverick, a sergeant in the same division of police, deposed that between two and three o'clock on the morning of the fire, he was on Farnbury common. It was shortly after the alarm had been given ; and he met the prisoner coming towards him in a direction from London. The prisoner accosted him, and said, " Sergeant, are you going to the fire ?" Witness asked him where the fire was, and he replied that it was just through the village. He then asked him what the fire was, and he replied in a hay-stack. Witness asked him one or two other questions, and he at length said, " 'Tis no use your going any fur ther. I am the man who set it on fire." Witness asked him why he had done it, and he said his ob ject was to be sent out of the country. He then asked him how he had fired the stack, and he replied with a lucifer match. Witness then told him that, after what he had stated, it was his duty to take him into custody, and he accordingly did so, and locked him up in the station-house; and shortly after wards he sent one of the constables to take charge of him. On the same day, in the presence of a consta ble, he asked the prisoner whether he recollected what he had said to him in the morning, and he re plied that he did, and it was quite true. When the prisoner was in the station-house he gave the name of John Wilson, but afterwards, when before the magistrates, he said this was not his real name, and that his right name was Rowland Howell. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS asked the prisoner whether he wished to put any questions to this witness ? The prisoner replied that he should wish him to he asked, whether the magistrate before whom he was examined did not entertain a belief that he was in sane ; and request him (the sergeant), in consequence of that belief, to make inquiries in London respect ing him ? The sergeant said the magistrate certainly did en tertain that opinion, and requested him to make some inquiry, and he had ascertained that the prisoner had been before charged with some offence, but was ac quitted on the ground of insanity. Mr. Justice Wfwasis—What was it induced the magistrate to believe that the prisoner was not in his right mind ? Witness—From his appearance while he was under examination, and his conduct at the time he was apprehended. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS—State to the Court the whole of what occurred. Witness--When I first met him he appeared very much excited, and not like a man in his right mina. He was flourishing a large hedge-stake about, and at first I thought he was going to strike me, but he did not attempt to do so. When he got to the station house, he put the stick down in a corner, and said, " I don't think I shall want you any more." The witness added that he was fearful the prisoner would attempt to commit some violence upon himself, and he therefore placed a constable to watch him. The prisoner, who was an exceedingly well-spoken and apparently intelligent man, here observed that he should wish the sergeant to be questioned with regard to his treatment after he was removed to the Sidcup police-station, and whether he was not placed under estraint ? The sergeant said he was not aware of the fact, but there was no doubt that it was considered all along that he was not in his right senses. The prisoner asked whether the surgeon who exa mined him at the station did not say that he was at the time labouring under delirium trenzens ? The witness said he could not speak to that fact. This was the case for the prosecution. The prisoner, on being called upon for his defence, apologised to the Court for the time he had occupied in questioning the witnesses, and said that with the permission of the Learned Judges he would read a few observations he had reduced to writing in answer to the charge. He then proceeded to read an excel lently worded defence, which commenced by ob serving that poverty prevented him from producing any witnesses, but still he trusted the facts as they already appeared would warrant the jury in believing the statement he was about to make. He then went on to say that he had been confined in a lunatic asylum for two years, and was only liberated about a year ago; but his mind had been wandering since that period, and, for some time before this occurrence took place, he had been in a very low and desponding state. At the time in ques tion he had been to Sevenoaks to look for work, and, being unsuccessful in obtaining it, increased his despondency, and passing by the place at the time of the fire, he was induced, in a moment of delirium, to make this groundless charge against himself, and for which he declared there was not the slightest founda tion. He proceeded to state that, ever since he had been in custody, he had been treated as a person not in his right mind, and, while at the station-house, under remand, he was not allowed to use a knife or fork, and his neckerchief was also taken from him, in order that he might not do himself any violence, and similar precautions had been adopted since he had been in Maidstone gaol, where he had never been left by himself, but was continually watched. He begged the Court would explain to the jury the different result that would follow from the event of his being acquitted on the ground of insanity, and an unconditional ac quittal ; and he said, that rather than the former verdict should be returned, which would probably have the effect of immuring him in a lunatic asylum for the rest of his life, he would retract his plea of not guilty, and plead guilty to the charge; although he at the same time declared that he was entirely inno cent; and that he only made the statement he did to the sergeant under the influence of an excited ima gination. Mr. Justice Wfwams asked the prisoner whether there were any witnesses connected with the gaol whom he wished to have examined ? The prisoner said he should like to have the go vernor of the gaol called as a witness. Mr. Jossph Bone, the governor of the gaol, was COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 28. , accordingly sworn, and in answer to questions put to CADERIX v. LITTLE. him by th e p r i soner , h e s t a t e d th a t w h en h e was The plaintiffis the occ u pi er o f a h ouse i n the Hackney- I brought to the gaol he appeared in a very weak state, road, of which he holds the benficial lease. The houses in the road, of which his forms a part, have gardens in and in cons equence o f some commun i cat i on t h at was front of th em . B ut t h e defendant, who is a timber Eger- made to him r e l a ti ve t o t h e pr i soner h av i ng once chant, h av i ng ta k en the premises adjoining the plaintiff's converted the fro n t gar d en i nto a timber-yard,,and so piledi before att em pt e d to d estroy himself; he was placed i n a cell with two other prisoners. He added, that he up the timber, as to shut out altogether from the plaintiff's believed the prisoner told him that he had once before windows the lateral view, in one direction, which was attempted to d es t roy himself. before e n j oye d from them. This action was brought to Prisoner—Was it not in consequence of the dis recover damages for the deterioration of the property 1 covery ofa wound upon my persou which I had in- MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY, WEDNESDAY EVENING. TIMES.—The Madrid Gazette of the 9th instant, con tains the account of the receipts of the Bank of San Fernando for October. The total amount fixed by the Minister of Finance was 60,000,000 reels vellon, and the total received is 56,163,877, leaving a difference of 3,836,123 reals, or about 39,0001. However, with the receipts of the lotteries and mines, the total is 57,769,925 against an advance of 50,000,000, leaving the Govern ment creditor with the bank on the month of about 78,0001. sterling. Of the provinces 27 have paid in more than was required of them, amounting together to 1,800,428 reals. Amongst these Madrid appeared for the trifling sum of 24,317 reels ; but even this is re markable, as Madrid has hitherto been always in arrear. Nineteen provinces are in arrear for a total of 5,636,551 reels. Amongst these Barcelona figures for 1,383,558, which must be attributed to the results of the war. Se ville, Cordova, and Granada, are among the next largest in arrear. The total amount received by the Govern. ment for October is officially announced as 81,004,603 reals, or above 820,0001, while the total amount of the budget of receipts as presented by Calatrava in 1843 was only 69,097,918 reals for the year. The distribution of this sum is as follows : Returned to the Bank of San Fernando for Reals. the October loan 56,163,877 To the clergy To reproductive expenses, justice, &c 12,094,945 81,004,603 The following table shows the application of the loan of 50,000,000 reals received by the Bank, together with the balance due by the Bank on the previous month's re ceipts, amounting altogether to 52,044,785 reals : Real& Reals. One month's payment to the Queen One month's payment to the Infante Don Francisco 2,333,333 291,666 2,624,999 To the Senate To the Congress 29,593 52,041 Minister of State. Privileged obligations , Active class 81,634 500,000 130,000 Minister of War. Ordinary privileged obliga tions Extraordinary obligations Privileged obligations Passive class 630,000 28,358,485 140,686 44,270 1,052,016 29,595,457 Minister of Marine. Privileged obligations Active class 2,120,000 230,000 2,350,000 Minister of Finance. Coast guard Land protective force against smuggling Active class of employes—in the departments of Finance, Interior, Grace, and Justice Ordinary expenses of the above departments Passive class (or pensions) Madrid Sundry obligations 787,401 2,602,396 8,548,757 1,013,479 600,000 569,467 14,121,000 Minister of Interior. Prisons Police force, and sundry pri vileged payments Roads Charitable fund.... 4 1,170,271 911,124 500,000 60,000 2,641,395 Total 52,044,985 LAW INTELLIGENCE. PRIVY COUNCIL, Nov. 28. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council sat to day, according to previous arrangement, for the pur pose of hearing colonial and other appeals. The Lords present were—The Master of the Rolls, Lord Campbell, Mr. Baron Parke, the Judge of the Admiralty Court, the Chancellor of the Duchy of Cornwall, Sir H. East, Sir E. Ryan, and Sir E. Johnson. The first case that came before their Lordships was the petition of George Barnett, of Jamaica, praying to be allowed to appeal. Mr. Decent appeared for the petitioner, and Mr. Wells opposed the application on the part of the appellant. Their LORDSHIPS granted the prayer of the petition. JIIVEER-RHAEE AND OTHERS V. VURUJ BHAEE AND OTHERS. This case came before their Lordships upon appeal from the decree of the Court of Sudder Dewanny Adawlut, in Bombay. The parties to the appeal are the members of a joint, undivided Hindoo family, the subject in dispute being the right of the respon dents on a partition of the jointly -acquired pro perty of three brothers, the sons of the common ancestor of the appellants and respondents, to five shares of certain property valued at 12,006 rupees, and to two shares of one-sixth of other property estimated at 7,486 rupees. Certain proceedings took place in the Courts of Bombay, both parties adduced evidence oral and documentary, and on the 16th of November, 1827, Mr. E. G rant, t h e Judge of the Zilla Court of hairs, referred the suit to a native court of arbitration. Shortly after the reference Mr. Grant was transferred to the Zilla Court of Ahmedabad, and was succeeded by a Mr Bell The arbitrators made their award. Further proceedings then took place, and the final decree was pronounced, from which the present appeal was brought—on the ground principally that Mr. Grant, the Zillah Judge of Ahmedabad, had dealt with the cause in a manner so culpably partial, and so contrary to good faith, that no weight was due to his decree, or the proceedings on which it was founded, and also because the decree of the Sudder Adawlut was pronounced upon a record of proceedings which Mr. Grant, the Zillah Judge, had de signedly rendered imperfect and inaccurate, and was founded on the weight supposed to be due to the prior proceedings, which were not entitled to credit. Mr. Loftus Wigram and Mr. C. R. M. Jackson ap peared as Counsel for the appellants ; and Mr. Burge, Mr. Lloyd, and Mr. Moore were in support of the judg ment of the Court below. Mr. Loftus Wigram this morning opened the case on the part of the appellants, and the case appears likely to occupy their Lordships the whole of to-day, and the greater part of to-morrow. Their Lordships will sit to-morrow and Saturday, and On the 4th, sth, 6th, 9th, 11th, 13th, and 14th of Decem ber. The Master of the Rolls will preside on all these occasions. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Nov. 27. DAVIS V. CURLING. In this case the jury returned a verdict for the plaintiff, answering each of these questions in the affirmative, and assessing the damages at 351. _ NOVEMBER 28. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Lord DENMAN and a Middlesex Common Jury.) GARDNER V. MAJOR. The plaintiff in this case is a b u t c h er , carry i ng on 1 business in Portland-market, and the defendant is pro -1 prietor of the market. The plaintiff rented a shed as a 1 stable of defendant, at a weekly rent of 35., and on the 1 6th of January, this year, a portion of the shed was i pulled down, and the demolition of it was completed on Wednesday, the 9th, the defendant's term not ex piring until the Saturday following. To recover damages for this trespass the present action had been brought, to which defendant pleaded not guilty. The whore ques- 1 tion, therefore, for the jury to decide was, had the demo- 1 lition taken place in consequence of the defendant's 1 orders. There was a great deal of conflicting testimony, and the jury ultimately found for the plaintiff—damages, One Farthing. ran off at full speed until compelled by fatigue to stop in a lane near the India House, where he turned upon the pri soner (who had pursued him closely), and asked what was his object in following him ? The prisoner re plied that he must have money, and would not leave till he had received some ' • upon whi c h t h e prosecutor gave him is,, an d desired him to go about his business. l'he prisoner said, " A shilling is not enough for what you have done ; you must give me a great deal more ;" and oa being asked for an explanation, he added, " A man is coming who has seen it all, and unless you satisfy me, I will give you in charge." He then addressed some filthy epithets to the prosecutor, and beckoned to a per son who seemed to be waiting a few yards distant, but the prosecutor succeeded in getting away, and ran into the shop of Mr. Vardon, ironmonger, 3, Gracechurch street, where the prisoner arr i ved immediately after him. The prosecutor inquired for Mr. Vardon, whom he wished to see in private, but the prisoner declared that they should not speak together unless in his presence. Mr. ;Vardon, however, took the prosecutor through his counting-house, and directed a warehouseman in his employ to keep back the prisoner, who tried to effect an entrance also, but was prevented. The prisoner then said, " Luckily, he has given me a shilling ;" and in a few minutes afterwards, finding that he could not get into the room to which the prosecutor and Mr. Vardon had retired, he said he would fetch a policeman, and ac cordingly left the shop, but did not return. Information of the occurrence was then given to the police. Both Mr. Vardon and his warehouseman, William Hannah, as well as the prosecutor, having spoken posi tively to the prisoner's identity. Mr. JARDINE bound the parties over to prosecute and give evidence, and committed the prisoner for trial on both charges. It was too evident from what transpired in Court that the prisoner had confederates in these execrable trans. actions. Meted, upon my being examined when I was brought to the gaol ? The governor said it might have been so, but he did not recollect th e c i rcumstance. He added, that the fact of the existence of the wound, if it really were so, would appear by the books of the gaol. The books were sent for, when it appeared that the prisoner was described as having a wound upon his person. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS then summed up, and he remarked upon the singular nature of the case, at the same time observing that there did not appear to be the least evidence against the prisoner, except his own statement. It was for the jury to say, under all the circumstances, whether they believed that statement was founded in fact, or whether it was, as the pri soner alleged, merely the effect of an excited imagina tion and weak mind ? The jury, after a short deliberation, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Baron ALDERSON, &c.) Timothy Conner, a labourer, aged 29, was indicted for a rape on Ann Bolen. The offence was proved, and the prisoner sentenced to transportation for life. The prisoner struck the front of the dock, and ex claimed with great vehemence—" All I can say agin it is, that I'm as innocent as that board." Edward Faithful, a " man apparently about 30 years of age, respectably connected, married, and with a family, was indicted for a rape on the person of Sarah Alice Nott, aged 18. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Ballantine attended to prose cute ; Mr. Clarkson and Mr. Wilkins were engaged for the defence. The prosecutrix, a young lady of engaging appear ance, and of fashionable attire, who gave her evidence with the most perfect self-possession, was examined at great length by Mr. Ballantine • and cross-exa m i ne d at still greater len g th b y Mr. Clarkson. The circum stances, where they can be given, are briefly these : The prisoner rented a house from the young lady's father, in Alfred-place, Old Kent-road, the neighbour ing house being the residence of the landlord himself, where the young lady lived. Mr. Nott being engaged in the brewing-house of Reid and Co., was obliged to leave for his employment on Monday, the 21st of October. The same day was granted to the servant for a holiday, and Miss Nott was in consequence left alone. The prisoner called between eleven and twelve o'clock, on pretence of having some business with her father, and after some conversation on indifferent sub jects, he kissed her, and then it was alleged committed the offence charged in the indictment. A labouring man, named John Hogan, a messenger from the father, called between twelve and one o'clock, with some zinc, and change remaining from half a sove reign. The door was opened by Miss Nott, who took the change, and said, " It's all right," the pri soner at the time being still in the parlour. The wit ness saw nothing unusual in her appearance at the time. Mr. Nott returned home about two o'clock, and was informed of the outrage, and between five or six in the same evening the prisoner was taken into custody in his own house. After the surgeon's evidence had been given, Mr. CLAaxsort addressed the jury at great length, and in the most able manner analysed the evidence, and pointed out to the attention of the jury the sang froid which was so remarkably exhibited in the man ner of the prosecutrix, and some seeming discrepan cies in the statements of the principal witnesses. He then concluded an able address by beseeching their merciful consideration for the unhappy prisoner. The Learned JUDGE then summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty, but expressed their abhorrence of his profligacy. Baron ALDERSON—He is certainly a profligate man ; we are all agreed in that. The trial occupied the time of the court for above five hours. MA RLBOROUGH -STREET. Sarah Williams and limma Weiss, well-dressed young women, were charged as follows : Police -constable 36 of the A division stated that, be tween seven and eight o'clock last evening, as he was on duty in Hyde Park, he saw the prisoners accost, and forcibly detain, several gentlemen. Mr. HARDWICH—Do you know the prisoners ? Con stable--Yes, they are common women. Nearly a hun dred women of their description infest the parks nightly, ostensibly to beg, or for other purposes. They are generally accompanied by men, who wait at a distance off, and, when a robbery is effected, they either convey away the stolen property, or brutally mal treat the party. Several robberies hare been committed during the last week, and they have a regular organised plan of committing them—boys, mere children, being posted at certain distances off, to warn them of the approach of the police. Mr. Iliainwicx—l understand that persons are ac tually afraid to pass through the Park after night-fall. I am therefore determined to put a stop to its being the resort of the lowest grade of prostitutes and thieves. I especially order that the police use the utmost vigilance in apprehending such characters. I commit the pri soners for one month each to Westminster Bridewell, to hard labour. The convictions shall be returned to the Sessions, and ever after it shall be three months. MARYLEBOIVE. Wednesday a shabbily-dressed man, named Thomas 7'yndall, was placed at the bar before Mr. Rawlinson, charged with having, in the following very daring man ner, stolen a watch, the property of Mr. Morley, 47, Oxford -street. It appeared from the evidence that on the previous evening, about six o'clock, the prisoner entered the shop, and asked Mr. Morley the price of a goo d s il ver watch ; one of the valu e of 31. 18q. was shown to him, and, after looking at it for a few minutas, he expressed a wish to see one of a somewhat superior kind ; a watch of the price of seven guineas was laid down on the counter for his inspection, when he immediately took it up and ran out of the shop with it as fast as he could ; he was par sued, and on a cry of" Stop thief" being raised, he was ultimately taken into custody. In his progress along one of the streets he flung the watch into the road. The prisoner, whose only defence was that he was out of employ, and had not a decent shoe to his foot, was committed to Newgate for trial. OLD OFFENDERS. -- Margaret Haggerty and Mary Healy were charged with begging in Cavendish-square, and with attempting to pick a gentleman's pocket. A policeman in private clothes said he saw the defend ants begging of ladies and gentlemen in Portman-square. Knowing them to be old offenders, he felt it his duty to watch them. They left Portman-square and went into Oxford-street, where he lost sight of them. Afterwards, about ten o'clock, he met them in Mortimer -street, fol lowing a gentleman. After Haggerty had followed him some distance she drew back a few paces, and he dis tinctly saw her lift up his coat tail and put her hand into his pocket several times. He took them into custody. Haggerty had been convicted five times of begging. Healy had also been convicted. The defendants denied that they were begging, or tha they intended to rob the gentleman, and they were corn. witted for a month. NEW COURT. GROSS DEPRAVITY BY A SERVANT. --Ann 31 1 Cortnich aged 23, was indicted upon two separate indictments, the first charging her with stealing one sovereign, the pro pearty of Leah Aarons, and the second with unlawfully, by fraud, enticing away Julia Silva, aged about ten, and under eleven years, with intent to deprive the parents of the lawful care of such child. • • • The case disclosed as disgusting and gross a case of villany on the part of the prisoner as could well be ima gined, there being no doubt that the poor child was taken away for the most horrible purposes. It appeared by the evidence, which has already ap peared at great length in our police reports, that the pri soner was in the service of the child's father, Mr. Silva, and Leah Aarons was her fellow-servant, in whose box was placed a sovereign and some silver, the former of which the prisoner stole by breaking the lock. No doubt could be entertained but the object she had in view in taking the money was to promote, more successfully, her abominable designs upon the child Julia Silva, whom she induced the next. day •to go out for a walk, when, after buying her uonse • cakes and other trifling things, she placed her in a cab and and caused her to be driven to Charles -court, in the Strand, a locality well known as the resort of the most profligate and infamous characters. The poor child re mained there some time in ems of the common brothels in that court, when she found an opportunity of writing privately to inform her sister, who at once came, and for tunately took her away before- she was subjected to any ill-usage. Evidence was gone into at great length to establish the preceding facts, after which the Learned Common Sergeant summed up; and the jury, without a moment's hesitation, returned a verdict of Guilty. The COMMON-SERGEANT said it was most essential in this case, in which was displayed so much depravity, that a severe example should be made of the offender, for the protection of the public and the general cause of mo rality. In the eyes of the Court, independent of the robbery, nothing could be more deserving of the severest punishment than to entice a child of tender age from the protection of its parent ; and the sentence of the Court, the seas for seven years, fore, was, that the prisoner b e transported beyond WORSHIP-STREET. Wednesday Jane Brown, a smartly•dressed and pretty Aittle woman, was brought up on a warrant before Mr. Broughton, charged with having attempted to stab James Golding, a general dealer, living in Wellington-street, Shacklewell. Mr. Wolfe appeared for the defendant, and Mr. Hal lett for the prosecution. The prosecutor said the defendant had run up a bill with him to the amount of It 65., and after repeated ap plications for the money without effect, he was obliged to take out a summons to enforce its recovery. Wish ing, however, to avoid resorting to such harsh measures, if possible, he went on the 4th inst. to the defendant's house, in Amherst-terrace, in the hope of quietly arranging the matter. The door was opened by a woman, who said the defendant was not at home, and he turned round to go away ; but he had no sooner reached the garden gate than the defendant appeared at the street door, and called out, " Here I am, and if you advance an inch further I w ill run you through with this." She then ran towards him, brandishing a naked sword, with which she suddenly made a thrust at his left breast, and the sword struck him very sharply ; but he stepped rapidly backwards, and fortunately escaped any personal injury ; but as it was the point of the sword entered the breast of his coat, and made an incision in it to the extent of several inches. Apprehensive of fur ther violence,_ he ran o ff t o th e stat i on-house and communi cated what had occurred to an officer, who went to the house and took the defendant into custody : but in con sequence of his being unable to appear sufficiently early against her at this Court she was discharged, and had since then had the assurance to commence proceedings against him for false imprisonment. (The prosecutor exhibited his coat, which had a cut in the left breast of it about the extent described in his evidence.) He was cross-examined as to his having used violent and threaten inglanguage previous to the defendant's attack upon him, and denied having done so most positively. Constable Brannan, 69 N, at the desire of the last witness, went to the house of the defendant, the door of which was opened by her. She still had the sword in her hand, but on telling her his business she dropped it in the passage. The sword was an ordinary ship's cut lass, and very sharp pointed, but was jagged at the edge and had seen some service. Inspector Howie said, immediately after the warrant was issued against the prisoner she and her husband absconded from the neighbourhood, and he had been unable to obtain any clue to their residence until the preceding day, when he traced them to a house in Shepperton-street, Hoxton, and took the prisoner into custody. In defence, Mr. Wolfe said that on the prosecutor going to his client's house he made use of the most violent and disgusting language, and the defendant being ap prehensive he would commit some personal violence upon her, took up the sword to defend herself, but without the slightest intention of using it. He called two witnesses, named Anne Dallaway and Catherine Stebbing, who described the prosecutor's language in similar terms; but they differed very materially in some of the facts, and both denied seeing the sword used, though both were present at the time. Mr. BROUGHTON disbelieved these witnesses, and was satisfied, from th e ev id ence, the prosecutor had con ducted himself on the occasion in a proper and tempe rate manner. Had the defendant succeeded in executing her threat, it would have been an undoubted case of murder, and had the sword only drawn blood, and the jury were satisfied of her intention, she would have been liable to fifteen years' transportation. As it wa s , h e should only convict her of a very aggravated assault, and order her to pay a fine to the Queen of 505., or, in default, undergo six weeks' imprisonment in the House of Correction. A great number of tradesmen, comprising butchers, bakers, publicans, and others, pressed forward, and ap pealed to the magistrate as to what steps they should adopt to recover the value of goods they had incautiously supplied to the defendant and her husband on the faith of their respectability before they absconded from the house in Amherst -terrace. One of the tradesmen, who was a publican, had supplied them with beer, spirits, &c., to the extent of 25/., during their short residence in that neighbourhood. Mr. BROUGIIT6N regretted he could render the com plainants no assistance, but if they could establish a case of fraud against the defendant and her husband, they might give them into custody. UNIOIV-HALL. Emma Smith, a pretty looking woman, was brought up in custody, c h arge d with stealing a 5/. Bank of Eng land note and some sovereigns, the property of Henry Watts, of 18, Princes -street, Blackfriars-road. The complainant commenced by saying the prisoner had given in a wrong description, by styling herself as Mrs. Smith on the police-sheet, when in point of fact she was his wife. That by care and frugality he had saved the above sum, which he deposited for safety in a drawer in his bed-room. That the prisoner was aware of the fact, and that on Sunday she urged him to go to church, and that during his absence she went to the little hoard, took every shilling, and went off and married another man. Mr. Cormiciraar—lf that is the case, there is an end to the charge of stealing, for whatever'property is yours is also your wife's. The prisoner declared that although she had been living under the protection of the complainant for the, last eight years, still that she was not his wife, and, added she, looking daggers at the complainant, y " y ou are a wicked man f or b r i ng i ng me h ere. " Tile prisoner frequently interrupted the complainant by exclaiming, " Oh, you wicked man, my lawful hus band is outside the Court, and I defy you to prove that ever I was your wife. Give me into custody, if you dare, for bigamy, and I shall have you tried for perjury." She then called out for Smith, at the top of her voice, desiring him to ,come into Court and hear what the old monster, Watts, 1, ad alleged against her. Mr. COTTINGRAX said he could not entertain the charge on which the prisoner was brought there, as the complainant still persis,"ed in the assertion that she was his wife, The magi:4w then asked the complainant if POLICE INTELLIGENCE. G UILDII.: ( 4LL. Wednesday Mr. John Smith, a packing-case maker, carrying on business at the corner of Distaff-lane, was brought before Aldermen Hughes and Hooper, carged with indecently assaulting S ara h Crisp, a girl belonging to the Queenhithe-ward School for Girls, in Old Fish street. Mr. Deputy Goss stated that he was the treasurer of the ward school, and it having come to his knowledge that the defendant had enticed helf-a-dozen of the school children into his premises by giving them a few half. pence, and had taken the opportunity to behave inde cently to them, he thought it was his duty to bring the matter before the Magistrates. He had carried this practice on for some time ; but on account of the tender age of the children it was desir a bl e , per h aps, that they should be spared a public examination, and that the charge should be limited to an assault on one child. Sarah Crisp' aged 10 years, then stated that her father is dead, and she is maintained by her mother. She had been clothed and educated in the ward school for six years past. She first went into the defendant's shop with some other children about a year ago, when he gave them some halfpence. He did not take any liber ties with her then, nor at any time when any of her schoolfellows were with her. But he had behaved inde cently to her on several occasions. The last time was a fortnight ago, when she came out of school before dinner. The MAGISTRATE inquired particularly as to this transaction, but did not find ground to commit for a felony or a misdemeanour. The defendant said he was innocent. His shop had no windows. It was an open carpenter's shop close to the street, and it was impossible to act in the way de scribed without being seen by the persons passing. He had no means of answering the case except by denying it, and by showing its improbability. Mr. Alderman Hoopag said, he was in the habit of passing the shop, and knew there were planks standing up at the back of the shop which would afford a cover to such acts. The Magistrates having consulted, Mr. Alderman HUGHES said, if the defendant did not choose to submit to a summary conviction, he might be committed for trial at the sessions, and the whole of the children whom he had assaulted would be called. He would take the consequence of that examination. He believed all the girl had stated—for children and fools generally spoke the truth. They then adjudged him to pay a fine of 51. for the assault. The defendant paid the fine. Mr. Alderman HOOPER recommended him to remove immediately from a neighbourhood where his character had become infamous. If he did not the alderman would take care he should be watched. BOW-STREET. Wednesday John Ogilvie who was charged with ex torting a gold watch and chain, and 51. 10s., from Mr. F. Mieville, of Hanover-square, by threats of an infamous character, was brought up for final examination. Mr. Hobler, the solicitor for the prosecutor, stated that since the last remand another distinct charge of a similar nature had been instituted against the prisoner, which he was prepared to go into. The only additional evidence offered in the former case was that of a woman named Mary Ann Gill, who said she had lived, until about a month ago, in Pitt street, John-street, and knew both the prisoner and the cabman, Charles Rouse (who was examined last Fri day). She recollected Rouse bringing her an umbrella some weeks since, and saying it was left in his cab; it was afterwards fetched away by the prisoner, who wore a gold or gilt chain at the time. On being questioned by the prisoner, she admitted that she had great doubt as to his being the young man who took away the umbrella ; and as it appeared evi dent to the Court that her testimony would be of no service to the prosecution, it was not returned with the depositions. The prosecutor in the other case was Mr. Claud Neil son, a clerk in the office of his father, 3, Leadenhall street, who stated that in the afternoon of November 9, whilst looking in some print-shops in Finch-lane, the prisoner rushed against him twice in a suspicious man ner, and subsequently followed him to Mr. Barraud's shop in Cornhill, where he had to call on business. The prisoner waited till he came out again, and then con tinued to follow him, although he walked as quickly as he could through the passages leading into Lombard street, hoping to avoid him. In one of these passages he heard the prisoner calling to him " to come away from the street," and he then became so much alarmed that he he could prove that the man whom he alleged married the prisoner, was accessory to the robbery, for u less he could do that, the charge against that individual must also fall to the ground. The complainant admitted that he was not in a condi tion to do so, although he had strong grounds for be lieving that the prisoner was influenced by that person. The prisoner here bawled out again on her lawful hus band (as she called him) to enter the Court, and witness the falsehoods which were uttered against them both. She then proceeded to state that there was no foundation for either the charge of robbery or bigamy. That she left the prisoner, in consequence of ill usage, and on Sunday last was made an honourable woman, by getting married to Mr. Smith, and that her marriage so exaspe rated Watts, that he trumped up these serious charges against her to be revenged. The Magistrate said he should discharge the accused, and she left the bar with an air of triumph, asking the complainant what he got, after all, by his motion, and advised him to keep out of the way of " Mister" Smith, her husband, in case of an accident. LAMBETH -STREET ROBBERY AND SUBSTITUTION OF DU3IMIES.— James Saunders and John Robertson were placed at the bar, before Mr. Henry, on a charge, or rather suspicion of stealing two bottles of quicksilver, of the value of 501. From the evidence of Inspector Donnigan and the police-constable Robert Thorp, H 155, it appeared that, about six o'clock on the preceding evening, the latter ob served a town-cart stop in front of a blacksmith's shop in Pennington-street, and immediately after observed two men carry something heavy from the vehicle into the house. Suspecting something wrong, he watched the place for a few moments, and seeing a little girl in the shop, he asked her who the parties were, and what they had taken into the house? She replied that it was Mr. Saunders and another person, whom she did not know, and that the former said he wanted her master to drill a hole in two stoves he had brought for the purpose. Saunders was secured, but his companion had made his escape, and on examining the articles taken into the house, they were found to be two bottles of quicksilver. of over 90Ibs. each, and of the value of 501. The pro perty was taken in the cart to the station-house, and on examining the vehicle, the name of Richard Owen, of Fashion -street, Brick-lane, was found on it. Mr. Owen subsequently attended at the station house, and repre sented that the cart had been hired about three o'clock in the afternoon, by a man named Priestly, to do a job from the Borough to Tower-hill, and that his man, John Robinson, had accompanied it. While making this statement, the prisoner Robinson entered the station. house, and was detained by Inspector Donnigan on suspicion of being concerned in the robbery. When the officers had terminated their evidence, Mr. Golding, a town carman, entered the Court, and, addressing Mr. Henry, said he had attended to apply for a warrant against one of his men, named Sandfird, for absconding from his employment on that morning under very suspicious circumstances. Mr. Golding then stated, that on the day before he had sent Sandford with a van and two horses to remove fifty bottles of quicksilver, in bond at Fresh Wharf, to the Southampton Railway sta tion. On his return Sandford did not produce a receipt for the goods, as was usual in such transactions, but stated as his excuse that there was some mistake in the weight. On the day following, he (Sandford) came to the yard at an early hour, but it was evident, from a con versation which he had with one of the men, that there was something wrong, and he absconded from the pre mises shortly afterwards. Mr. Golding added, that he had no doubt whatever that the two bottles of quicksilver then in court formed a part of the fifty entrusted to Sansiford's care, and for which the Customs would hold him (Mr. Golding) responsible. Mr. HENRY observed that it was somewhat singular that Mr. Golding should enter the court at such a moment, and recommended him to lose no time in going to the railway station, and ascertain if any and what portion of the quicksilver had been delivered there ; for it might happen that the whole were stolen. Mr. Golding immediately acted upon his Worship's suggestion, and, taking Thorp, the officer, with him, pro ceeded to Nine Elms. On his return, at five o'clock, he informed Mr. Henry that fifty bottles had been delivered at the railway station, but only forty-nine had been sent on to Southampton, as the fiftieth was found to be 171bs. short of the proper weight. Thorp said he had no doubt whatever that the bottle which he found at the railway was a " dummy," or old bottle, which had been emptied of the quicksilver and filled up with melted lead, but the latter wets considerably lighter than the former. He was the more convinced it was a dummy by the fact that it bore the same number and marks as one of those taken on the preceding night, but both the figures and letters were somewhat different. Mr. HENRY remarked, that from the circumstance of Sandford delivering the proper number of bottles at the railroad, there could be but little doubt that the " darn miss," as they were called, had been substituted for the real quicksilver, and he should therefore recommend Mr. Golding to proceed to Southampton, and take the numbers and exact weight of all the bottles belonging to the parcel there. The prisoners were then remanded. Saunders, it appears, has been for some years under the surveillance of the police as a receiver of stolen pro perty. He has been tried at the Old Bailey for that of fence, and also fined 100/. for smuggling, for which he served twelve months in the House of Correction. MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MA GISTRATES. Yesterday being what is termed "county day," or the day appointed for the transaction of the financial and other business of the county of Middlesex, a most aumerous meeting of the magistrates was held, at twelve o'clock, in the Court-house, Clerkenwell-green, Devon, Esq., in the chair. The Deputy Clerk of the Peace having read the mi nutes of the last meeting, the Court proceeded with the consideration of the appointment of nine district sur veyors, according to the provisions of the new Metro politan Buildings Act, and by which it was provided that no person at all acting as a builder, lanl agent, or other person connected with the building department in any manner whatsoever should be appointed. Capt. Bague and Mr. Orme were unanimously elected as scrutineers in the election of district surveyors. HANWELL LUNATIC ASYLUM. On the motion of H. POWNALL, Esq. the Committee of this Asylum, app o i n t e d i n August last, , were empowered to purchase 24 acres 2 roods of land, immediately adjoin ing Hanwell Lunatic Asylum, for the purpose of en larging the building, and thus abolishing the necessity of farming out the pauper lunatics, as the various pa rishes were now obliged to do, and in consequence of which the unfortunate patients were often ill-treated. The sum which the Committee were empowered to pay for this land was 6,000/. The Court then proceeded t 6 review the reports of the Visiting Justices of the several metropolitan prisons, from which it appeared that all the prisoners were healthy, and that the utmost order and subordination prevailed. - - LLOYD'S SHIPPING. LONDON, Nov. 28.—Wind S. to S.W., moderate breeze, and fine. DEAL, NOV. 27.—Wind S.S.W. to W., light breeze.— Sid. Rosalind, Ichaboe ; Duke of Norfolk, Tobago ; Cairo, and Village Girl, Jamaica. PLYMOUTH, Nov. 27.—The Apollo, Bryant, ashore on Battery Point, has been got off and into the Pool ; cargo discharging. OFF DOVER, Nov. 27.—Prins Hendrick, Kuning, Ba tavia for Amsterdam. PonTsmoUTIT, Nov. 27.—Wind S.S.W.—Arrd. toria, Stark, New York, and sailed for London. Sld. Mountaineer, Sierra Leone. LIVERPOOL, Nov. 27.—Wind S.W., moderate.—Arrd. Windsor Castle, James, Bombay ; Maunin, China ; Fairfield, Peruvian, Black and Victoria, White, Ichaboe ; Thomas Leech, Buenos Ayres ; Victoria, Galveston ; Charles Hennerton, Hayti ; Grace, Ryne, Antigua ; Clifton, Ingarod, Kelby and Lehiga, New Crleans ; American, Hall, Savannah ; Independence, Allen, New York ; Coronet, St. Andrew's ; Sir C. Napier, ditto, master disabled by one of his crew • Adah, St. Stephen's ; B r iti s h A mer i can, St. lohn's, New Brunswick ; Emma and Primrose, Montreal ; Florence, John Horton, Ma) field, Scotland, and Souter Johnny, Quebec.—Sld. Ann Carr, Sydney ; Carolina, Manilla ; Alexander, Singapore • Sabina, B om b ay ; Hindley, Cape of G oo d H ope ; Mersey, Jamaica ; Ann Jeffry, and Belmont, New Orleans ; Samuel, Mobile ; Laurel, and Robert, Savannah ; Creole, Charleston ; Margaret Ann,Newfoundland.—Off, Pocohontas, Osprey, and Calcutta. A barque, with loss of topmasts, and apparently waterlogged and abandoned, was passed, 19th inst., in lat. 50, lon. 17, by the Magnet, at this port. The John and Mary, of Dublin, waterlogged and abandoned, was passed, 20th inst., in lat. 54, lon. 18, by the James Campbell, arrived here from Quebec. Coat, Nov. 25.—Arrd.Walmsley Lassie, Sierra Leone. FALMOUTH, Nov. 27.—Wind S.S.W., moderate.— Arrd. Amelia, Knudsen, Havannah ; Liffy, Norman, St. John's, New Brunswick ; Daedalus, Quebec. Off, Orator, Chatre, Colombia ; Elizabeth, Murray, Coast of Africa ; Europe, St. Ann's ; and Roslin Castle, Quebec. SCILLY, Nov. 18.—Arrd. Henriette, Withers, Suri nam for Amsterdam.-21. John Weavel, Thinset, Cape Coast Castle.-24. Deky, Fernando Po for Amsterdam. BRISTOL, Nov. 27.—SId. Marina, Rutland, Ichaboe ; Glinet, Cother, Demerara ; British Queen and Pamelia, Quebec ; Cosmo, New York. THE SCOTCH CURRENCY QUESTION.—A large meeting of the Chamber of Commerce, Edinburgh, was held on Friday, when resolutions were passed condem natory of any change in the currency of Scotland. It was announced by one speaker that the merchants of Manchester were willing to assist the Scotch in petition.. ine. Parliament against any change. Another speaker, Mr. Cadell, stated that all the Scotch members, with one exception, had waited upon Sir Robert Peel at the close of the last session, deprecating any change. The mem who did not attend was Mr. Loch, and he had since signified his acquiescence with the others; so that it might now be considered that all the Scotch members were against a change. SUDDEN DEATH OF AN ECCENTRIC CHARACTER.-- Wednesday, Mr. Payne held an inquest at the Crown, Westminster-road, on the body of Richard James, aged 52, a shoemaker, of No. 8, Duke-street, Westminster.. road. The deceased, it appeared, had for many years been afflicted with fits of epilepsy, having as many as three in the day, and was of very eccentric habits, never allowing his window to be shut, summer or winter, always sleeping with it open. The last time he was seen alive was on Saturday morning, and the last time he was heard moving about was about five o'clock on the same evening. On Sunday night he was found lying with his head on the floor and his legs on the bed, quite dead. Mr. Newsome, surgeon, said the deceased died from apoplexy. He had been seized with a fit, and had fallen in the position{ in which he was found. Not being able to move, the blood had flowed to his head and produced apoplexy. Verdict--" Natural death," • CAUSES OF DEATH. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 209 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat 93 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 122 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration 2BB Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels 33 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 3 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. l6 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles 7 Diseases of the Skin, &c Old Age, or Natural Decay 5O By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance Causes specified 914 Deaths from all Causes 914 Total. Consumption lO5 Scarlatina 6O Pneumonia . Dropsy ..... .. .. ............ Hooping Cough ... ........ .. Typhus Small Pox 4O Disease of the Heart Measles 24 Apoplexy Diseases of the Brain ...... .. 6 Diarrhoea.. .. Sudden Deaths DISTRICTS. West 131 13 8 North 159 171 13 8 Central East 212 20/ 24 2 S o u th 267 ..--• ........ 0 T0ta1.......•• ••••••••-•• 914 [ADVERTISEMENT.] AN EXTRA ORDINARY C URB OE AN AuS 1 TUB KNEE, BY HOLLOWAY'S OINTMENT AND lg" Henry Croft, residi ng a t 18 , Castle -street, S° ll ' t ,oho P , was an in-p a ti en t at S t. T homas ' s Hospital, f°r A/ scessed knee, and came out as incurable on tile r . joli June last y ear , a f ter b e i ng there three months. rust last he left Guy's Hospital, where he had bpi. weeks, and pronounced in cura bl e —i n d ee d, they ;ddd mended his leg to b e taken off—yet, h o wever w°" 00 it may app ear , h e h as j ust been cured by th e r flo e Holloway' s Pill s an d Oi ntment.—Sold at Professo r 001 loway's Establishment, 244, Strand (where sd gic t i l os be had gratis), and by almost all respectable Ye° medicine throughout the civilised world. #1 SIGHT AND HEARING TESTISION TA Th e eeL l 39, ALBEMARLE-STREET, PICCADILLY. o w, Browne Clay ton f ee l s d es i rous to express t he w l - co o t ! u and advant age h e h as d er i ved at his advanced Infesslif years, and after t wo y ears ' tr i a l , from the use °I The; S. and B. Solomons newly invented Spectacles. jei" valuable inventi ons f u ll y mer i t the patronage thehire.'; received. Addre ss , Adli ngton - h all, Laneit e , v th s " Major-Gen era l Si r H oward Elphinstone begs t °s 'iis'" , the Spectacl es h e h as now had some time in ~,,. fully redeemed the assurance of the M e ssrs. 4 1r Solomons as t o t h e i r excellence, and having I°o"telere. much comfort an d a d vantage from their use, fsr tree" able to every o th er ki n d of glasses. 13, Norfollv s rs , 5 , Park lane.—The Hon. George Cavendish, to ge e ,: c .. and B. Solonions, 39, Albemarle -street, PiccadT.',;eic: posite the York Hotel. Gentlemen, I approve L v er : fas e : of the Spectacles I purchased from you ; li .. 9 ' . . e t h use cf . glasses fur many years, and never met ""ieco'' ' to cnahle me to see equal to yours, and with less O disli venien.!e to my eyes. Yours obediently, G. C e nele r d Leixlip Castle, Ireland.—lmproved Aehronlat ic „,, e lo„ copes, Opera Glasses, Microscopes, &c., of the t w ,lt a ," of lenses, to surpass any ever yet invent sroiv" Messrs. S. and B. Solomons' Invincible Ope rBto2 :ce Conductor, Sound Magnifiers for deaf persons , g i f medi tte relief to old standing extreme cases f f eels"' nes, • --Cautio n . M essrs . S . and B. Solomons, LIP r soo Aurists, are not in any way connecte d with a P e ,d. f t. 1.3 same name in their immediate neigh u° 7, s taker ein any part o f t h e country. o p re vent 01 ' Alt" o cautious and observe—only to be had at 39 ' marle-street, Piccadilly oppt s:te the York BIIiTHS. t , Le til' 0 On the 24th inst., at Woolwich, the lady of CsP- --- ,. , bo, bridge, Royal Artillery, of a son, which lived only_s_rE it , o On the 20th inst., at Regent-square, Mrs. Nalg til° daughter. On the 25th inst at Wilton-street Grosvenor - P lac .,. el ial . '' 4l -1! ' -. -iorgl'''' lady of H. Lewis, Esq., of Green-meadow, W ain ` - of a daughter. On the 25th in s t., a t H o ll an d -place, K ena i , Benjamin Priest, of a son. MARRIED. CS • On the 26th inst.,-at St. Margaret's, Westmins t e r fo tain Draper, 64th R eg i ment, to Anne Constance, 0006 daughter of John Grubb, Esq., late of Horsend on Bucks. - Willi° On the 26th inst., at St. Pancras New stet,Church spit Law, Esq.. Woburn-pl ace , Russell-square, to Mare i ,„ o ottr daughter of Samuel Cl egg , E sq ., Ci v il E ng ineer, Sl"' • street, Regent-square. re 0 e h On the 26th i ns t.,- a t St . G eorge ' s, Hanover - qua , - Desire Alexis Joseph Lebeau, of Brussels, Otlic er ne igisP:d Household Troops of his Majesty the King of the to Maria Amelia, reli c t o f th e l ate R ev. T . H. daughter of J. Jenkins, Esq., of Chepstow, Monnto On Tuesday last, after 69th year of his age, Mr. David o iN f 'o o l n le lY n a f rwe z w otei in :_' i, jo l f 17_ 61 1 11: : 1S7 t -: 1 period of more than forty years in the confidential e , f1 410 1 ' the " Norfolk Chronicle" . proprietary—beloved by bl e o , orw endeared to his friends, and respected for his and Christian virtues by all who knew: I li: : : On the 25th inst., in Dover, John Marsh, Esq., ag -- ,._ .4 013- On the 26th of July last, at Vineyard, Parramar' Josephs, widow of Captain Phillip didley King. 11 -1 .. lible - On the 21st inst., Miss Elizabeth Price, of UPP eI street, Regent's-par. , ile jao On the 22d inst., at Paris, Mary, Mocatta, Esq., of London. r ; m ite, II . On the 23d in ,at Loftus, near Gi.,h)r , u;z ll, .--- X.L''' .. 1 General the Hon . . Sir Robert Laurence Minds°, Colonel of the 59th Regiment. les 11111°44 On the 23d inst., at Portsmouth, Mr. Char 0 06. Parker, Midshipman of her Majesty's ship Eagl e ' °a w n, g ill.' On the 24th inst., at Bridge-cottages, Kentish -to Thom garet Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late Be l ' Browne, of St. Vi ncen t' s , age d 25. i , 944 On On the 20th i ns t., at Hawkchnrch, Thomas Da" .,.„, Magistrate for th e counties of Dorset and Devon. n .,,jaMil l On the 23d inst., in Lee-terrace, Blackheath, 1 "'" J. Newton,aged 76. ore, On the 24th inst., in Hunter-street, Brun arrick4g o£6ce ill P. Penton, Esq., Second Secondary of the l a te PiP e WO' the Exchequer, aged 70. ENO On the 24th i ns t., a t B r i s li ng ton, near Bri stol, relict of the late John Hurle, Esq, aged 86. 50, vridolf On the 25th inst., at Little Chelsea, Maria Augusts WO of the late G. Ogg, Esq., of Putney. Ma e° On the 25th inst Northamptonshire,at Ketterin the Rev. i. , Vicar of Geddingt on: aged 71 , D 1 l er, re lict °I On the 26th inst., in Dorset-square, Mrs. --e -I,h eath• the late Dr. Meyer, aged 87. ,Bigic...--,_„1 0 , On the 26th inst., Frederick Heisch, Egi , o ir ! . „ NI FA"' On the 27th inst., in Park-lane, Piccadilly', 14 ' Esq., aged 88. Camber"ll-P2ad, On the 27th inst., at Grosvenor - plac e, cm itb, William the P 27th inst , sEliza, Eq., ag 70. t of the late Thorn° ed relic Esq., of Southwark. a , - ,: ~, if -- - “RDu •C ) ,,, . London : Printed and Published by 3 1, ' 0 0; c 0,,,°' iii' No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Sual, , he gar. Strand, in the Precinct of the Sava Middles's, Fride,y, }Tweak 99,1 MARKET NE WS.—(YESTERD y YAP m4O SMITUFIELD._C oarse Meadow riay, 3/ 15s d) Useful ditto, 4/12s to 5/3s ; fine Upland ditto, 1, 5/ lOs ; Cl over H ay, 4 / 10s to 6 1 ; O at St r aw, !` 1/ 12s ; Whe a t St raw , I/ 193 to 1 1 1 4 s p e r lost" ' ply moderate, and trade very steady. CUMBERLAND.—C O ar Se Meadow Hay, 31 1 89 t4 O Useful ditto 41 15s to .5135; fine Upland ditto, ' i t 51 12s ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 5/18s ; Oat Stralcu to 11 14s ; Wheat Straw, 11 14s to 11 16s per fair average supply and an active demand./ 040 WIIITECHAPEL.—Coarse Mead o w Hay, 3 . 155 /11 Useful ditto, 4/ 12 s t o 5 / 3s ; fi ne U p l an d dittol io o Si lOs ; Clover Hay, 41 lOs to 6/6s ; Oat Straw'," 1112 s ; Wheat Straw, 1/13s to 11 159 per load. ply good, and trade rather brisk. MEAT MA.32II,ETS. 0 0 SOUTHA.LL, Nov. 27.—The supply of stock h e jo day was less than that exhibited on Wedeestlei The attendance of buyers being numerous, the g e l demand ruled active at somewhat advanced r ates. s o from 2s 8d t o 4 s 2d ; M utton, 3s to 4s 2 d ; Veal' we 4s ; and P or k, 2s to 3s 10d per sibs. Beasts, 40; Sheep, 1,312 ; Calves, 47; rige!„6 3 '„ o " ROMFORD, Nov. 27.—Prime Beasts and bfie e r h ero off steadily at an advance of 2d per Sibs, et" g 2i the trade was very dull. Beef, from 2s 8d to 4p Mutton, 2s 10d to 4s 21 • Veal, 3s to 4s • an d ,„ 2s 10d to 3s 6d per Sibs. ' Suckling Calves, I s s quarter-old Store Pigs, 16s to 90s each. . ftf j; lismsnAm, Nov. 27.—W e h a d a f a ir dell i— o ol each kind of fat stock to-day, and prices we l l :0 supported. Beef, f rom 3 s to 4s 2d; Mutton, 312 u —BO, Veal, 33 to 3 s 8d ; an d P or k , 2s 10d to 3s 6d Per c ool ARUNDEL, Nov. 26.—Prime Beasts and SbeeP i e manded a ready sale at full prices, but with other,oi of stock the trade ruled dull. Beef, from 2s 10d8 's ; Mutton, 2s 8d t o 4 s 2d ; V ea l , 3s 4 d to 3e Pork, 2s 10d to 3s 6d per 81bs. fall °llr CHICRESTER, Nov. 27.—There was a f pricfr of business t ransaete d h ere to-day at very 111" yep Beef, from 3s to 4s 2d ; Mutton, 3s to 4s 2d ; 3s to 3s 8d ; an d P or k , 3s to 3s 6d per Blbs. StiecO Calves, 18s to 28s ; quarter-old Store Pigs, 165 j e s4 and Mulch C ows w ith t h e i r Small Calf, 16 ito 19 CORN AVERAGES. CO 10 o r GENERAL AVERAGE PRICES OF BRITI SH.,OIO.„ For the Week e n d e d Nov 1.3. 1844, made up from the nor In pcctoz in the different Cities and T.wn in Englan d 0 1 per Imperial Quarter. Wheat 45 I s 10d Oats . ..... ... 21s 8d !B e ans ..„.4 Barley 15s 2d Rye . 4 ki AVERAGES OF THE LAST ,IX WEE I ,, S. if„ ,v- ,, Weeks ending wSAT. SAELEY.I O ATS. i a t , ,i'- ~ ''" F - ___....1 . 15 / --.-----. ----......1---- .--- - Oct. 19 i46 3 SS G 20 8 :1 0 36 ' l9l 1 0 sy , 26 ... (46 034 920 li .9 3 31 , , Nov. 2 46 1 35 7 21 2 31 t 3 ,'; i i _ L P' 1 9 46 31 36 1 21 6 34 6 ..., ". , ) a' 1 16.. 23.....„ 45 10 ' 33 221 Biao 9 3 6 r 0 . T , ws ii IMPERIAL AGGREGATE AVERAGES OF THE "-- _SI" 10 Wheat ...... ... 46s Id i Oats latices 35. 31.1 Rye ......... 35s 81 I Pease.... DUTIES ON FOREIGN CORN. 5' 0 Wheat .... ..... 22.. Od. 1 I Oats ....„.... Sr. o d. l Bei/0.w." I Barley .......... 34. Od. Rye ......... 7s. 6d.i Pease ....•°' vOLV MORTALITY in the METRO. - The following are the results of "A Table of 31 1; 4 sS id in the Metrop o li s , s h ow i ng t h e N umber of De all Causes registered in filia Week ending SatIMOF 23d of Novembe r , 1844." The Table is i ssue d from fr. " - of the Registrar-General:— ifeA 0 0 0 0 Total. If I g 11! 9 42 9 4 i ,mid , DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES 12 , TCLu'' — yes of THE ABOVE HEADS. Wee ial % 01. of F l" 1 47 34 ‘ t hek () kft; It el ' th e t4h, alatt 77.-- i t °4 l / 414