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frbtrb J bition LONDON, FRIDAY, DEC. 20. Dividend Pee Annum. Names of Dom. palates. per cont. 11. 2L 161. 44 10e. per cent. 44 404 .16s. U. 56. 111 14s. •d. Grand Surrey lOO 0 0 Grand Western lOO 0 0 Glamorgansh. ay. cost 172 13 4 Gloucester & Berkeley 100 0 0 Grantham 150 0 0 Huddersfield ----ay j 57 6 6 Kennet Ind Avon ...av 39 18 10 Lancaster ...... —....av 1 47 6 8 Leeds and Liverpool llOO 0 0 Leicester ..»...._ .......... 140 0 0 Leicester & Northamp. 83 10 0 Loughlsorough ........av 142 17 0 Monmouthshire .15a. . i. 10s. $4l. 101. - iii. Monionierychire . lO4 • 0 Holton Mowbray lOO 0 0 Mersey And Irwell lOO 0 0 Macclesfield ....... ' 100 0 0 Neath lOO e 0 Oxford llOO 0 • 334 17s. 6d. Peak Forest..„... ..... av 78 0 • Regent's (or London).. 1 33 16 8 . 83 • 0 Shropahire 125 0 0 ... Somerset Coal .. l5O 0 ! 101. f percimt. 98 DG. Lock Fund Stock 12 10 • Stafford and Worcester 140 0 20/. IL IM. ISL Shrewsbury ~., 125 • • Stourbridge 145 0 • Stratford.on-Avon...av 70 0 8 Swansea lOO 0 • 3v:iog. Severn & Wye & Bail. 1 26 9 Trent & Mersey, 14 sh, 60 0 Thames & I'dedway av 19 5 Warwick and Sinning, 100 0 Warwick and Napton... 100 0 Worcester & 13irming. 78 0 Wilts and Berks .ay 67 10 Wisbsach ...... ..—........ 105 S Wey and Arun , 110 0 104 to.. i. 4a. cent. per cent. 4 per cent. 4 per cent. V. 10s. 5 per cent. It per cent. 6% pet cent. 4 per cent. 6 per cent. Docks. Commercial East and West India London Ditto Bonds Bristol av Do. Bnd6, var. amounts St. Katharine... ........ Ditto Bonds...—. ....... Ditto Bonds ....... Southampton Bridges Hammersmith Southwark, new Subs Ditto New of 7}4 pr e Waterloo Ditto Old Ann. of 81, Ditto New ditto et 7/ Ditto Bonds Vous. h aIL AV Assurances Albion Alfred Life Alliance Brit. and For Ditto Marine ....... Atlas ..... Birmingham File British Commercial Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County Eagle Economic Life ...... European Life Ditto New Freemasons Globe ...... ......... Guardian Hope Life.. ....... ......... 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.....— R yal Sun Fire Ditto University Li ft - Universal Life Union Fire and Life Joint Stk Hanks Australasi7.,_ ........ Ditto New Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial London & Westminstr Ditto New....... London Joint Stock Metropolitan. ....... Provincial of Irelansf Ditto New National of Ireland Nat. Provincial Englnd Ditto New ........ Gloucestershire Union of Australia Union of London Gaslight 6. Coke Bath 100 0 0 Stock Stock L 4,7 9 0 1% per tent. 11. Os. Bd. 18e. Id. per cent. 11. 7a. 214. 11$. 4 percent. II per cent. II per cent. }.6d. pr sh 41. 6s. er that* per cent. U. per oeat.l *We. bs. alt per cont. 5 per cent. per cent. per cut. 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Western London and Croydon Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares Manchstr and !firming Midland Cauaties North British Norwi h & Brandon Nonhern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, iss.s/. dis Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen Rouen and Havre Stockton & Darlington South East. and Dover Yarmouth and Norwich pork and N. Midland Ditto New Shares Mines. Albion Copper Alten Anglo Mex., iss.sl. p.m Ditto Boianos Ditto Scrip Brazil. Imp. ins. 5/. 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 Impenal Slate Compy Mexican Mining Co. of Ireland Real dal Monte, Un reg Ditto Loan Notes Rhymney 1r0n..... ..... Santiago de Cuba Unitcal Ma x., pin Ditto Scrip Ditto New Scrip Literary. Londn,with Sin. Ticket London University Russell King's College Miscellaneous Anglo Mexican Mint Australian Agricnltur Brit. American Land, Canada ...... Upper Canada Bonds Gen. Steam Navigation Iberian Mercantile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wood Pay., iss. 11. Mex. and S. American New Brunswick (Land) New Zealand Penins. & Origin. Strain Royal Mail Steam Reversionary Int. Soc South Australian Thames Tunnel Van Diemen's Laud 20 • • 40 0 0 20 • 0 T 7 10 • 50 0 0 20 0 0 20 • • 20 0 • 100 I 0 100 • • 75 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 • 50 0 0 25 • 0 30 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 • 0 5! 0 0 5• • 0 50 • 0 25 0 • 100 0 0 41 13 4 100 • e Se ' n 100 0 0 03 19 9 100 • • 100 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 54 0 2.5 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 P 90 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 50 0 0 100 0 I 100 0 0 50 0 • 50 0 1 10 • 0 16 13 4 12 15 4 100 0 • 32 0 • 41 6 10 13 15 9 100 0 0 50 0 0 70 0 0 WO 0 0 0 0 0 20 0 0 50 9 50 a 0 2030 20 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 0 50 0 0 20 0 0 50 0 0 25 0 0 .5 0 0 'l5 0 0 100 0 0 ISO 0 0 3500 25 0 0 20 0 0 100 0 28 0 0 11 Kg pet sh. IL 44. IL 15s. f per Gout. b per cent. andl kW. bs. §per ceitt, Tper cent. Ili pet cent Oper cent TO 0 0 55 0 0 2000 50 0 0 10 0 0 00 0 0 2500 5000 25 0 0 40 0 0 75 0 0 100 0 0 45 0 0 10 0 0 100 0 ) 50 0 0 100 0 0 50 100 25 5P 20 LIST op SCOTTISH COM DEC 7, 1 Bank of Scotland...— Royal Bank ...... British Linen Compny. Commercial Bank Glasgow Union Bank National Pant Western Bank Caledonian Insurance Hercules Insurance North Brit. Insurance insurance Co. of Scot! Edinburgh Lite Insu r . Scottish Union Inst Standard Life Insur Dalkeith Railway Edm. and Glas. a 1.777 Glasg. and Green. Rail. Donclee4adArbr Rail., 6 per cent. 6 per crut d per cent riFWSPC c ent. • • - P 2—": ,4% , , .Zt '7--- ----ir-17.crP4FCK- :-.! r T, ; 1 t_lf - 16 fi • -.:. ,:.. , - • eent,-,' J0: 1 , 4T . \-'. - -a Per eu per e ms s SUN OFFICE, Seven o' Clock. PRICES OF SHARES 111 (ANAL% RAILWAYS, BANKS, ASSURANCE AND OTHER COMPANIES' STOCK. Amount of sid. Prl Share. A 6. vL - Canals. d. 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SS. per eh. IL $B. per eh 10 per cent SX per cent. 71. oa. per eh SW. per eh. 12s. per oh. per eerit. NI per cent. 16 per cent. NI. per eh !W. per eh. IL 14e. Ikkper share .115441 per sh IL ll's. pr st Illis per s► IL IL ss. lbs. U. 11 .- ; led. a per oent. per cent. 10 per cent. 10 per cent. IL 11. V. Is. 6d. K 0 0 0 40 0 0 50 0 0 5 9 0 11 0 0 5 0 0 5 0 0 55 • 0 5 • 0 2 10 0 10 • 0 Help '250 I I All raid 2 0 0 3 0 • 36 10 0 2 10 0 2 10 ( 50 • • 10 0 0 5 13 • 10 0 • 2 0 0 12 10 0 12 10 0 2 10 0 2 0 0 5 0 0 1 0 0 10 0 0 10 0 0 5 0 0 6 5 0 1 0 0 40 • 0 40 0 20 0 25 • 20 e o 20 • 0 10 0 0 7 10 • 25 0 • 10 0 • 17 10 • 35 0 • 10 • • 10 • • 2500 10 0 0 16 • 0 18 0 0 19 0 • 50 0 0 SO 0 0 100 • • 75 • • 31 6 0 20 0 0 5• • 0 50 0 • 20 • • 3000 39 0 • SO 0 • 25 0 0 48.0 ii 0 • •.5 0 • LHE SUN, LONDON, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 20, 1344. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THR ZTENINIS PAPERS OP THIS DAT. GLOBE.—The meeting over which Lord John Russell presided yesterday at Exeter Hall—the pro ceeding of which are reported in another column — affords us an occasion of alluding to the Temperance Society ; to Father Mathew, its founder ; and to the pecuniary embarrassments in which he is involved, by his endeavours to induco his countrymen to bind themselves, by solemn pledge, to abstain from in toxicating drinks. To raise a fund for releiving Father Mathew from the debts for which he has be come liable, and to reimburse him at least a portion of the sums he has expended in carrying out his benevo lent designs, was the immediate object of the meet ing. The able advocacy of the Noble Lord who presided orer the meeting, and the testimony borne by his Lordship, and by other distinguished speakers, to the disinterestedness of purpose, and unwearied diligence, devotedness, and success with which Father Mathew has laboured, will go far to remove objections from the proposed subscription. In endeavouring to reclaim his countrymen from the self-inflicted curse which preyed upon the earnings— making the little less—inflamed the passions, and de moralised the habits of his countrymen, the Apostle of Temperance, it appears, has incurred a debt of 7,0001. The bona fide existence of the debt; the legitimate modes by which the various items of which it is constituted were incurred—and the frugality and care with which Father Mathew, and the agents he employed, invariably acted, both with respect to their personal and relative expenses, in connexion with the object they endeavoured to accomplish—these highly proper questions have been investigated with great minuteness by disinterested persons, whose compe tency and standing in society furnish a guarantee for the integrity of their report. That report is, upon the whole, honourable to Father Mathew; upon whose conduct and management of the funds which came into his hands there is not the slightest imputation. The only questions with which the public has any concern, is whether the object sought to be effected by the Temperance Society be one of sufficient inte rest to deserve general sympathy ; and whether Father Mathew ought to be relieved, by a public subscription, from the embarrassments he has incurred in carrying out the objects of the Temperance Society? In dis cussing these questions, it is not necessary to embark in the wide inquiry, whether the means adopted by the Temperance Society be the best of all imaginable means for effecting the discouragement of drunkenness ; nor do we undertake to settle the vexed question, which has been somewhat intemperately debated by the advocae es of the rival Societies, as to whether " tee-totalism" or " temperance" be the best form of pledging the individual to abstain from intoxicating drinks. The only material question, we apprehend, is, whether a considerable improvement in the physical and moral condition of the lower classes—especially in Ireland, where it was so much needed—had not been accom plished by Father Mathew's exertions ; and whether patriotism and philanthropy do not prescribe, that the labourer in this benevolent cause should be exone rated from the pecuniary liabilities he has incurred in promoting its influence in the country where the vice it assails was working all kinds of abominations? Lord John Russell, with considerable pathos and manifest effect, thus stated the case :—" Whatever, therefore, can remove the temptation and the evil consequences of that vice requires no ordinary efforts. To make a great impression upon a %%hole nation—to bring them at once from a habit in which they were too apt to indulge, to the practice of those virtues by which their domestic happiness may be increased, and their moral and religious conduct improved, must, I say, have called for no ordinary diligence; no common exertions would have sufficed for such an object. But we all know the extraordinary elo quence, the untiring energy, the disinterested for getfulness of all selfish objects, which did enable Mr. Mathew to accomplish this moral miracle, and by his exertions to effect a change in Ireland which was surprising to the whole civilised world." Mr. S. C. Hall bore testimony, from actual personal comparison, to the former and present state of the Irish peasantry. Allusions to the perpetuity of the Union, as it exists between the two countries, were received with cheers which show how little the people of England are likely to encourage the repeal project. Lord John Russell said :—" What, then, should be the conduct of that country to which he belongs, and of this country, which is closely, and, I trust, perpetually united with it ?" We think the claim of Father Mathew to pub lic sympathy and aid is established by the facts brought before the meeting. We cordially concur in the effort to raise the proposed fund ; and hope that the amount required will soon be realised. STANDARD.—Dr. Pusey has published a letter denouncing the statute proposed for consideration by the Oxford Convocation on the 13th of February, 184.5, and plainly intimating that as hitherto he has not subscribed the Articles honestly—that is, adopting the language used in " the Tracts for the Times," in their " natural sense," so he is prepared to retire from the Church and University if called upon so to subscribe them. Doctor Pusey, we have heard, is a rich man, who can well afford to surrender his canonry and professorship, and therefore the public is relieved from the single regret that could allay the general delight with which the realisation of the Reverend Gentleman's threat will he welcomed by the Christian public. It will be but a descent from Portman-square to Baker-street; and this, as Gold smith observes, has not enough of the terrible to give interest to a tragedy. The letter of Dr.' Pusey, however, leaves a comparatively favourable impres sion—it is a picture of the writer's mind, hazy, feeble, and timid. He sees nothing distinctly, con ceives nothing vigorously, and takes refuge in a mist of generality, because he cannot embrace any obvious or well-defined truth. 'We may pity such a man, hut we cannot admit those feelings of contempt and aversion for him that we must for one whose perverseness in other respects is disgraced by hypo crisy. Even when we find Dr. Pusey canonising the betrayer of Bishop Williams, the controversialist who silenced adversaries with fine and imprisonment, pil lory, ear-cutting, and ignominious scourgings, the man who fined Leighton 10,0001., sentenced him to stand twice in the pillory, losing an ear upon each occasion, and to be twice publicly scourged—even when we find Dr. Pusey canonising this man, we are sure that, if his saint, Laud would never be his model. We say this much in defence of Dr. Pusey from an inference that might hastily be drawn from his letter. The Rev. Gentleman's objection to the proposed statute ap pears to be this, that the statute requires subscrib ers to subscribe to the Articles in the known sense in which the Articles were drawn up (the rule of interpretation in every other case in which men make a declaration, from the coronation oath downward) ; whereas he and others have, since " Laud won for them the liberty," inter preted the ambiguous expressions of the formulary in some different manner, but in a manner so vague, that Dr. Pusey can approach to it no more closely than by such phrases as by " by the faith of the whole Church, before east and west were divided," a phrase dislocated from a passage of Bishop Ken ; or, " ac cording to the analogy of the faith." We need scarcely say that so broad a rule of interpretation by a standard so uncertain, is, in fact, no rule at all. "The faith of the whole Church before east and west were divided," is a thing that never existed, because from the Apostles' tine, and in the Apostles' time, nay, in the blessed college itself, there were controversies ; and " diver sities of faith" are recorded as from the beginning. But if time consent of faith did not exist, the analogy afforded by that consent cannot exist ; so that the in terpreter appealed to is but the resource of weakness or the subterfuge of fraud. The truth is, that the Church of which Dr. Pusey and his sect speak as the Church, had no distinct existence (through the universal Church existed and still exists) before the council of Trent, and then the Romish Church obtained its distinct existence (as any sect may), by excommunicating all others, us Protestants among the rest. There might be, however, little harm in this reference even to an impossible interpretation of ambiguous passages, be cause there is really not one ambiguous passage in the whole Thirty-nine Articles, with such admirable precision are they drawn up, if men would be only honest and discreet i n d e t erm i n i ng th e ques ti on o f ambiguity. The misfortune, however, is, that only allow dishonest or weak men a condition on which they shall be at liberty to indulge their humour, and they will soon make the condition for themselves. Words cannot be more plain, distinct, and une quivocal than those in which the second clause of the 28th Article rejects the doctrine of transub stantiation ; yet Dr. Pusey finds that article so ambiguous, that with the help of his analogy of the faith, he subscribed the Article, and then preached a sermon in support of the very doctrine rejected. Such a loose style of interpretation as this will enable one to extract any desired meaning from any combination of words. Were not the subject too grave, we might quote from Swift some examples in point. Doctor Pusey is not singular, however, in the labyrinth of difficulties in which he involves himself by a departure from the bona fide and common-sense rule of interpretation ; his Saint Laud wandered in the same maze before him. Bishop Hall addressed to the proto-Puseyite the following remonstrance at the commencement of his cruel and tyrannical career :—" I would to know where to find you, then I could tell how to take a direct aim, whereas now I must rove and conjecture. To-day you are in the tents of the Romanists, to-morrow in ours, the next day between both and against both. Our adver saries think you ours, we theirs, your conscience finds you with both, end neither. I flatter you not ; this of yours is the worst of tempers ; heat and cold have their uses, lukewarmness is good for nothing but to trouble the stomach. Those that are spiritually hot find acceptation, those that are stark cold have a less reckoning. The mean between both is so much worse as it comes near the good, and attains it not. How long will you halt in this indifferency ? Re solve one way, and know at last what you do hold, what you would cast off? Either your wings or your teeth ; and, loathing this bat-like nature, be either a bird or a beast. To die wavering and I uncertain, yourself will grant fearful. If you must settle, where begin you ? 'Tis dangerous deferring that whose want is deadly, and whose opportunity is doubtful. Is there any impediment which delay will abate ? Is there any which a just answer cannot remove ? If you had rather waver, who can settle you ? But if you love not inconstancy, tell us why you stagger ?" Laud, however, continued to stagger in his conscience until the hour of his fall, having no better stay to support him than his "analogy of the faith." In other respects he was unhappily too strong, with the " High Commission Court," the " Star Chamber," and the hangman to silence adversaries. But how much better would it have been both for his happiness and his fame, if Laud had been only honest. Conscientious scruples might have prevented his subscribing the Articles, and then he would have turned his considerable talents to account in some secular pursuit. True, he would not have been Archbishop of Canterbury ; but neither would he have lived in the miserable anddisgraceful state described IT Hall, nor would he have brought, as he did, his master s head and his own to the block. There is no danger of a repetition in our day of Laud's ex travagances and cruelties, or of their terrible retribution ; Ibut we believe that there is already much of the misery of uncertainty which he suffered, tormenting many conscientious but weak men, in the orders of the Church, all arising from the want of a clear understanding of the real import of the Articles of the Church, or rather of the meaning in which they themselves subscribed them. This course of suffering the Oxford statute will remove at cnce and for ever, for nothing can be clearer than the language of the Articles themselves ; and if men take them in " the natural sense," they are their own sufficient ex positors. Sordid persons, of course, will creep in who will swallow anything with any explanation, but they never suffer much in conscience; there are men ingenious enough to reconcile anything to their per sonal interests. We will be warrant for Mr. Newman, for example, that he will find an ambiguity in the pro posed declaration (to be interpreted according to the analogy of the faith), as plausible as any that Doctor Pusey can find in the Articles. BANK OF ENGLAND. (From Friday Night's Gazette.) An Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Bth of Vic toria, cap. 32, for the Week ending on Saturday, the 14th day of December,lB44. ISSUE DZPARTHENT. Notes issued 28,003,70.5 f GoTernntent debt 11,015,100 Other securities 2,984,900 Gold coin and bullion Silver bullion £28,003,705 M. HA Dated the 19th day of Del £28,003,705 RSJIALL, Chief Cashier. camber, 1844. :PARTMENT. GoTernmentsecu rities (includ ingDeadWeight Annuity) Other securities Notes Gold and silrer coin £33,419,902 iSITALL, Chief Cashier. :ember, 1844. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has also appointed George Stevenson, of Leicestes, in the county of Leicester, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, DEC. 12. The Lord Chancellor has appointed George Grey, of Torquay, in the county of Devon, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. WIIITEIIALL, I)Ec. 14. The Lord Chancellor has appointed George Palmer, of Rugeley, in the county of Stafford, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery - . The Lord Chancellor has also appointed John G vrynne, of Tenby, in the county of Pembroke, Gent., to be a Master Extraordinary in the high Court of Chancery. WHITEHALL, DEC. 16. The Lord Chancellor has appointed George Scurfield, of Sunderland, in the county palatine of Durham,_Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. The Lord Chancellor has also appointed George James Haines, of Farringdon, in the county of Berks, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. Samuel lligginbottom, shc2pkeeper,Dukinfield,Chester. BAN KliUl"l'S. Humphrey Charles Balne, grocer, Poole, to surrender Jan. 7, at eleven, and Feb. 4, at eleven, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sambrook-court, Basinghall-street; Shaw, Furnivecl's Inn. Samuel King, warehouseman, Nevvgate-street, City, Jan. 3, at eleven, and Feb. 14, at half-past twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Cole man-street; Linklaters, Leadenb all- street. James Moutrie, music seller, Bristol, Jan. 7, and Feb. 4, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Green, official assignee, Aldermanbury, London ; Theobald, Furnival's Inn. James Oldham, silk warehouseman, Wood-street, City, Dec. 28, at eleven, and Feb. 5, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Follett, official assignee, Sam brook-court, Basinghall-street ; Reed and Shaw, Friday street, Cheapside. John I'eart Berley, plumber, Brompton-row, Bromp ton, Jan. 10, at two, and Jan. 31, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Whitmore, official assignee ; Buchanan and Grainger, Basinghall-street. Hugh Daniel Watkins and James Innes, lead mer chants, Manchester, Jan. S. and Feb. 3, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Stanway, official assignee ; Sale and Worthington, Manchester ; Reed and Shaw, Friday-street, Cheapside, London. Thomas Hodgson, calico printer, Manchester, Jen. 2 and 23, at eleven, at the Manchester District Court. Hobson, official assignee, Manchester ; Abbott, Char lotte-street, Bedford-square, London ; Bennet, Man chester. George Sheraton, corn merchant, Hartlepool, Durham, Jan. 9, at half-past two, and Feb. 11, at half-past one, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court. Baker, official assignee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Holden ,Kingston-upon- Hull; Wilson and Turnbull, Ilartlepool. Henry Hugh Foothead, wholesale milliner, Fore-street, Cripplegate, London, Jan 3, and Feb. 14, at twelve, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Graham, official assignee, Coleman-street ; Wilkins, Furnival's Inu. selling at 2s 4d to 3s Gd. English Corn Spirits at lOs 2d per gallon, nett cash. Saco.—There has been a good buiness transacted in Pearl Sago by private contract, and the tendency of prices is still upwards. At auction 76 boxes went at 26s for fine small white Pearl. Sago Flour is wanted. Farina or Potato Flour is much in resquest. Of Tapioca at auction 25 barrels were taken in at 5} per lb for Rio. Bics.—There has been an increased demand for Madras, and by private contract several parcels have been disposed of, yellow fetching 8s 3d to 8s 6d per cwt. Java is little wanted at present, but holders are firm, and none has been offered at public sale, yellow is held for 9s to 9s 6d, and white lOs to 12s per cwt. Bengal is much wanted, low white fetching Ils to 11s 3d, mid 11 s 6d to 1 Is 9d, and good to fine 12s to 12s 6d per cwt. In cleaned Rice there has been a great deal doing at 23s to 27s for Carolina, and 14e to 18s per cwt for Patna. Cocimmo.l.—ls still much wanted, and the improved rates previously noticed are fully supported for mid and good, but for inferior qualities an advance of Id per lb has taken place for silvers ; 225 bags of Honduras at auction were sold, silvers low at 4s 4d to 4s sd, mid 4s 6d to 4s 7(1, good 4s Bd, 10 bags consisted of black and fetched 4s 10d to 53 for low, and 5s Id to 5s 2d per lb for mid quality. FRUIT.—The demand for Currants has been limited this week. Valentias are steady, with a small stock. Red Smyrnas and Chesrue Raisins are in request at 455 to 475. Of new Turkey Pulled Figs, the greater pro portion arrived (being mostly very much out of condi tion) are being forced off at very low prices ; the fine kinds, of which there is but a small supply, obtain very high prices. TALLow.—On the spot prices have ruled firm for Russian this week, and merchants are not so willing to realize, the trade are still inclined to do business, and for Soap and Candle making purposes a good demand has been experienced. P. Y. C. of first quality has been fetching 40s 3d to 40$ 9d per cwt. There is still a large supply of American and New South Wales. Town Tallow has met with ready purchasers at 41s net cash, but a larger quantity has been offered for sale. The deliveries of Foreign have been interfered with by the low rate that existed this year for home made Tallow. This afternoon, at public sale. 345 casks of New South Wales Tallow were disposed of at 35s to 41s 6d, and 220 casks of South American at 36s to 3Ss per cwt.. OILS.—The market has assumed a firmer appearance for Cod ; there has been a very good demand on the spot and for parcels to arrive at 311 to 311 103 per tun ; for other descriptions of common Fish Oil there are few purchasers at present, and prices are drooping for Seal, pale selling at 33/ 16s to 34/, yellow and straw 311 to 331, and brown 281 lOs to 30/, but the market being sparingly supplied with Southern, previous rates of 291 10s to 331 10s per tun are sustained. — Sperm Oil at 87/ to 89/ per tun for British of first quality, Linseed Oil 22s 3d to 22s Gd per cwt, the home trade are the chief operators, for forward delivery many contracts have been entered into at 22s 9d to 235, and for distant months at 23s 6d to 245. Rape Seed Oil, pale selling at 35s to 34s 6d, and brown 33s to 33s 6d. Cocoa Nut Oil is little wanted, and prices rule low. Palm has met little attention, and it is difficult to obtain more than 251 per cwt for fine quality. Oiive at 41/to 421 for Gallipoli, and at 381 to 401 for Barbary and Spanish. The value of African Ground Nut Oil is 33/ to 33/105, and American Lard Oil 40/ to 41 1 per tun. Prices of Oils compared with those of last season at that time show a decline of 31 for Pale Seal, 4/ to 51 for Southern, 51 to 5/ 106 for Linseed Oil, and 2/ to 6/ for Olive Oil, but for Sperm they exhibited an advance of 141 to 151 per tun. INDIGO.—The low rates that prevail for East India have at length attracted attention, and in Bengal a good business has been transacted at prices showing a decline on the rates of the last quarterly sale of 2d to 4d per lb ; the chief part consisted of low and mid, with a tew good. Of Madras, oudes and Kurpah some parcels of the lower qualities have been sold at rates about equal to the cheap part of last sale. The quantity already ad vertised for public competition on the 21st of January is 5,115 chests. There are very few buyers of Spanish at present, and prices rule low. COURSE OF EXCH) Anuterdam CF. 12 6 1 Ditto, at sight l2 4 Rotterdam 2U. 12 61 Antwerp ['amio& M.B. 13 131 Altona l3 13i Paris, 3 days' Sight 25 70 Ditto, 3 nonths 25 96 Marseilles Bourdeutz 25 95 Frankfort on Maine l2l retersburgh, 3Us 37 Berlin 7 _ _ Vienna, effee. 13 M 954 Trieste, ditto Madrid 364 Cadiz ➢ilbao 36 Barcelona 36 80 - rills — .NGE.--(THIs DAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn Genoa 25 95 Milan Venice 47 Naples ........ Palermo, per oz llB Lisbon 54 Oporto 54 Rio Janeiro 24 Bahia 24 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldys sight Philadelphia ' MIMS OF BULLION, PXR oz. Foreign Gold, bars C 3 17 9 Portugal Geld Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 9i Silver in ears 0 4 11 t I{Y NOTES. BANKING D: Proprietors' capi tal 14,553,000 Rest 3;105,886 Public deposits (including Ex - chequer,Say ings banks, Commis sioners of Na tionul Debt, and dividend ac counts) Other deposits Seven day and other bills 994,174 .03,419,9021 M. MA; Dated the 19th day of Del THE LONDON GAZETTE. (THIS EVENING.) 'WHITEHALL, DECEMBER 18, 1844. The Queen has been pleased, by and with the advice of her Privy Council, to appoint The Most Reverend Father in God John George Arch bishop of Armagh and Primate of all Ireland 'The Most Reverend Father in God Richard Archbishop of Dublin ; The Most Reverend Archbishop William Crolly ; The Most Reverend Archbishop Daniel Murray ; The Right Hon. John Hely Earl of Donoughmore, K.P.; The Right Reverend Bishop Cornelius Denvir ; The Honourable and Very Reverend Henry Pakenham, Dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin ; The Right Honourable Sir Patrick Bellew, Bart. ; The Right Honourable Anthony Richard Blake ; and The Reverend Doctor Pooley Shouldham Henry—to be Commissioners of Charitable Donations and Bequests for Ireland. WHITEHALL, DEc. 20. The Queen has been pleased to present the Rev. Ro bert Waugh to the church and parish of Monzie, in the presbytery of Auckterarder and county of Perth, vacant by the resignation of the Rer. George Blair, late minister thereof. The Queen has also been pleased to present the Rev. John Lamont to the church at Hallin, in Waternish, in the parish of Kilmuir, in the presbytery of Sky and shire of Inverness, vacant by the transportation of the Rev. Roderick Reid, late minister thereof, to the parish of Loche, in the presbytery of Lewis. The Queen has also been pleased to present the Rev. Alexander ll‘Coll to the church and parish of Durness, in the presbytery of Tongue and county of Sutherland, vacant by the resignation of the Rev. Donald M'Con nochie, late minister thereof. WAR-OFFICE, DEC. 20. 4th Light Dragoons—C. Montgomery, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, -rice Edgell, promoted in the 7th Foot, Dec. 20. 6th Dragoons—Cornet W. Doyle, from 15th Light Dragoons (Riding Master), to be Cornet, Tice Powell, promoted, Dec. 20. 15th Light Dragoons—E. R. Keene, Gent., to be Cornet, by purchase, vice Doyle, appointed to the 6th Dragoons, Dec. 20. 16th Light Dragoons—Lieutenant E. J. Pratt to be Captain, without purchase, vice Manse', deceased, Sept. 20 ; Cornet D. Maycock to be Lieutenant, vice Pratt ; Sergeant-Major R. Hodgson to be Cornet, without purchase, vice Maycock, Dec. 20. 4th Foot—Ensign 11. Fitz Gerald to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Morgan, deceased, September 12; Gent. Cadet C. IV. Aylmer, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice FitzGer rald, December 21. 7th Foot—Cornet G. R. Edgell, from the 4th Light Dragoons, to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Grogan, who retires, Dec. 20. 17th Foot—Captain J. Forbe;, from half-pay Unat tached, to be Captain, vice J. Goold, who exchanges, receiving the difference ; Captain R. Webster, from half-pay Unattached, to be Captain, rice J. Forbes, who exchanges, Dec. 20. lkth Foot—Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel P. M`Pherson to be Major, without purchase, vice Deshon, deceased; Lieut. F. A. Wetherell to be Captain, vice M'Pherson; Ensign W. H. H. Ellison to be Lieutenant, vice We therell, Aug. 1; Ensign It Dudgeon to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Ellison, whose promotion on 2d August, 1344, has been cancelled, Aug. 2; Gentleman Cadet E. J. Gardiner, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Dudgeon, Dec. 21. 26th Foot—Captain F. Stupart, from the half-pay of 2d Dragoons, to be Captain, vice Cain, promoted, Dec. 20 ; Lieutenant 11. Edgar, to be Captain, without purchase, vice Shorn, deceased, Dec. 10 ; Lieut. J. W. Johnstone to be Captain, by purchase, vice Stupart, who retires ; Ensign C. J. S. Wallace to be Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Johnstone ; the Hon. A. E. G. Sinclair to be Ensign, by purchase, vice Wal lace, Dec. 20; Gentleman Cadet C. E. Blacken, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, Dec. 21. 29th Foot—Ensign H. T. Metge to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Hope, deceased, Sept. 25, 1844 ; Gentleman Cadet J. S. Richards, from the Royal Mili tary College, to be Ensign, vice Metge, Dec. 21. 50th Foot—Ensign C. E. Young to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Bernard, deceased ; Ensign W. I'. Elgee, to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Joyce, deceased, Oct. 6 ; Gentleman Cadet C. H. Slessor, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without pur chase, vice Young, Dec. 21 ; C. A. P. James, Gent., to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Elgee, Dec. 22. :60th Foot—Major lion. G. A. Spencer to be Lieute nant• Colonel, by purchase, vice Cockburn, who retires; Captain E. C. Gitfard to be Major, by purchase, vice Spencer ; Lieutenant Hon. A. Hope to be Captain, by purchase, vice Giffard ; Second-Lieutenant W. F. L. Meason to be First-Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Hope; H. E. Galton, Gent., to be Second-Lieutenant, by pur. chase, vice Meason, Dec. 20. 63d Foot—Ensign R. Taylor to be Lieutenant, without purchase, vice Considine, deceased, Dec. 20; Gentleman Cadet T. W. J. Lloyd, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, without purchase, vice Taylor, Dec. 21st. 67th Foot—F. Pratt, Gent., to be ensign, by purchase, Dec. 20. 70th Foot—Gentleman Cadet J. M. Buchanan, from the Royal Military College, to be Ensign, vice Hum frey, deceased, Doc. 21. 87th Foot—Second Lieut. H. F. Williams to be First Lieutenant, by purchase, vice the Hon. R. W. D. Shir ley, who retires ; E. W. J. Fulcher, Gent., to be Second Lieutenant, by purchace, vice Williams, Dec. 20. BREVET.—Captain F. Stupart, of the 26th Foot, to be Major in the Army, Jan. 10. IIosPITAL STAFF.—Staff-Surgeon of the First Class, J. Kinnis, M.D., to be Deputy Inspector-General of Hos pitals, with local rank in China, vice Barclay, deceased, Dec. 20, 1844. MEMORANDUM.—The Christian names of the Hon. Lieutenant Chetwynd, of the 73d Foot, are William Jchn Granville, and not Glanville, as previously stated. Commissions by the Lord Lieutenant of Somersetshire —North Somerset Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry.-- Cornet J. E. Geils to be Lieutenant, vice Harding, pro moted ; Assistant Surgeon --Soden to be Surgeon , vice Watts, deceased ; W. E. Miller, Gent. to be As sistant-Surgeon, vice Soden, promoted, Dec. 12. WHITEHALL, DEC. 11. The Lord Chancellor has appointed W. Ilinde, of Liverpool, in the copty palatine of Lancaster, Gent., MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Dec. 20.) SUGAR.-To day middling to fine yellow descriptions of West India Sugar were in excellent request, and fetched rather higher rates, making the advance for the week is per cwt, and of such there is not sufficient at market to satisfy the wants of the grocers ; inferior sorts, of which nearly the whole on show consists, were purchased steadily, and the offers made to lower rates were rejected by the merchants. The total pur chases amounted to 660 hhds, including 100 hhds 6 tierces of Barbadoes at auction, which sold at very full rates ; indeed fine was rather higher, and fetched 6Ss, good 63s to 63s 6d, good midding 60s Gd to 625, middling 58s to 60s, low 575, very low soft 52s to 53s 6d per cwt. The total quantity sold for the week is 1960 hhds and tierces. The market closes firmly Sugar admissible for home consumption. REFINED.-There has been an increased derire mani fested on the part of the home trade to purchase Refined Sugar this week, a good demand has prevailed for all descriptions, and the rates paid are rather above those of this day week, the supply has again been small, and stocks in the hands of town and country grocers are light, added to which, Refined is much cheaper than good and fine descriptions of Raw Sugar. To-day the Grocers purchased Refined Goods with iu creased freedom, paying stiffer rates-brown lumps fetched 725, and Standard Lumps 73s to 73: 6d. Of Crushed Sugar refined in bond there is very little offer ing, end the Refiners are demanding 30s 3d to 30s 6d. MAURITIUS.-This afternoon 1,145 bags were brought forward, and sold at and after the public sale at very full rates, good yellow fetched 59s to 61s 6d, good mid dling 58s, middling 55s to 575, and low 53s 6d per cwt. The quantity disposed of privately for the week is 4,000 bags. EAST INDIA.-This afternoon there was no public sale of Bengal Sugar, but by private contract several parcels were disposed of at firm rates. The quantity sold during the week by private contract amounts to 14,000 bags, at prices varrying from 50s to 70s per cwt. FOREIGN.-In consequence of the principal continental ports being closed, there are very few orders for any description of Foreign Sugar for exportation, and our refiners working under bond are mostly supplied for the present. There has been no public sale of yellow Ha vannah, and by private contract little business has been transacted, still the offers made at lower rates are rejected, and 21s to 21s 6d per cwt is the value of average parcels. White is not to be had upon easier terms. With Brazil of all kinds the market is sparingly supplied ; the de • mend privately has been only for small parcels at 18s to 19s for good and fine brown, lis to 17s 6d for infe rior, and at 21s to 24s far common to fine white ; none has been offered at public sale. In other kinds of Foreign Sugar little has been done. • COFFEE.-There has been little inclination manifested on the part of the home trade to purchase West India Coffee this week, but importers having supplied the mar ket sparingly, any material decline in prices has been prevented. By private contract small par cels of Berbice, and of the lower descriptions of Jamaica, found purchasers, and the rates ac cepted were rather under those previously quoted. This afternoon Ceylon Coffee met with more attention, and 365 bags at public sale sold at an advance on former rates of is per cwt, common pale ragged fetching 50s to 51s, good ord pale 52a, good ord colory 53s to 53s 6d, fine ord dark colory 5316 d to 545, sea damaged 48s to 50s 6d, and triage 15s. By private contract the trade phsls 6d to 52s per cwt for more activity in the market than c then© w merchants have shown u T r zEotA a . s de i r d oT r d m h. ea o rs r e e h last freely, e s w e elble ; payingn firm ness, and none has been brought to public sale. Congou has been in excellent request ; the better kinds fully sustain the former currency, common has been fetching 100 to 11d, rather coarse to rather strong 1 1 fel to is hl. blackish leaf to blackish leaf rather strong Is 2d to is 4d, gs od Strom , blackish leaf is 4id to Is 6d, fine Is id to Is 9d, Pekoe flavour is 10d to 2s 6d, Tl.e supply has fallen off of Tea worth from is 2d to Is 7d per lb Twankay common at is 3d to Is 3d the better sorts are wanted, brightish leaf at is 4d to Is 9d, superior kind at 2s to 2s 4d. Pouchong at 6d to 10d. The supply is scanty of Scented Orange Pekoe, and there arc not sellers of fine under 3s 4d. Hyson common at 2s Gd to 2s 7d, fair to good 2s 8d to 2s lid, superior 3s to 4s 6d. Young Hyson is still much wanted, and prices rule as s 4d a per high as ever, 3s to 3s Gd paid for Ilyson kind, and 2s 2d to 2s Gd for Canton and 'rwankay sort. Gunpowder at 2s 4d to 2s 9d for Canton, and a t 3s 2d to 4s 8d for Ilyson kind. Imper i al 2a 2s lid lb.i 2s o d4ld too r t 3 o isi 2 y6 s ds 9 o 9d for for f s o Canton y a t :ho t en o r n e s andohrasort. Caper, Twankay t iskind, to l and t been some inquiry. MOLASSES.-There has been a considerable increase in the demand for West India of all descriptions this week, and the large quantity of 809 puns found buyers at very full rates ; that is to say-at 20s to 23s 6d fur dark St. Kitt's to middling Antigua and St. Vincent's. COCOA.-Foreign is much wanted, and in consequence of the scanty supply, buyers have been compelled to pay a further advance in prices ; at public sale 81 bags of Bahia were sold, good bold red at 355, and sea dam 32s per cwt. The demand has been good for West India by private contract, fine red Trinidad has fetched 49s to 51s, good 46s to 48s, low to mid 42s to 455, and Grenada 41s to 475, per cwt. SPICER-Sumatra of good quality has fetched lid to 2id; Malabar 3d to 31d, and 1,776 bags of Penang were mostly disposed of at and after the public sale at lid to aid for good light rather dusty and stalky, 2d to 21d for first class sea damaged, and at 2d to 24cl per lb for second class. Pimento the demand privately has been only for small quantities at 3, 1 01 to 4:ld per lb. Of Cassia Lignea by private contract the parcels disposed of were at 52s to 54s Gd for ordinary to good ordinary, 55s to 55s 6d for fine ordinary, 56s to 58s for low mid dling, 59s to 60s for middling, 61s to 64s for good mid dling to good, and 65s to 66s per cwt for fine, being an advance on the rates of the last auction of 2s to 3s per cwt. Cinnamon is plentiful, Government seconds 3s 7d to 3s 10d, and private thirds 2s 8d to 3s per lb. Holders of Ginger show firmness, and supply the market sparingly with all descriptions. The parcels of East and West India cold privately were at full rates ; at Auction 200 bags of Malabar fetched 19s per cwt for good fair bold rather wormy. The good and fine bold kinds of East India and Jamaica are wanted. In Mace little business has been transacted. Cloves are not offered upon lower terms. For Nutmegs a good demand has existed at 3s to 3s I Id for brown, and 4s to 4s 6d per lb for fine. Rum, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDS.-The business trans acted in Leeward Island Runs has been upon a small scale only this week, and prices are still going down; only 80 puns have been sold at 2s 3d per gallon, proof strength. Demerara is rather cheaper, 3s Id to 3s 3d having been accepted for 120 puns, 29 to 35 per cent overproof. Ja maica common is 3s Gd to 3s Bd, middling 3s 9d to 36 10d, good 33 lld to 4s 3d, and fine 4s 4d to 6s per gal lon. Calcutta Rum, a large parcel offered at 2s 2d per gallon proof strength ; the stock is chiefly in the hands of one house. For Jamaica prices are 9d to and for Leewards s€l to 6d per gallon higher than they were on the 20th of December last year. The 10-. v and middling descriptions of Brandy have met with more attention, and for the best sorts a very good de mand hls existed. Cognac, best brands of the vintage of 1838, hhds 53 2d, puns ss; ditto 1839, hhds 4s I Id, 4 p s d unss4; dittosco9mdni; 1843, d o i n tto 23 lB4o, hhds 4s I Id, puns 4 s 9 d; ditto I'4l, hhds 4s 10, p uns 4s 8d; ditto 1842,.hhc1a 4s 7d, pnns 6dimihi to to 24ssg805izisp mider gallon. puns 3s dcommonßor deaux2s 8d to 2s lid, and lf holders would accept prices ld under those quoted for the vintage of 1842, the market would be cleared. Geneva is wanted by exporters; sales made at is 10d to is lid, and for arriTal at 13 94 to 18 10d; fine, at for duty, has been PROMISSO (From This Night's Gazette.) An account of the Average Aggregate Amount of Promis sory Notes payable to bearer on demand, which have been in circulation by the Banks in Scotland, by the Bank of Ire land, and by all other Banks in Ireland, during the four weeks ending the 7th day of December, 1844, pursuant to the Act of 4th and sth Victoria, cap. 50 : SCOTLAND. Chartered, Private, and Joint-Stock Banks £3,486,818 IRELAND. • Bank of Ireland 3,900,275 Private and Joint-stock Banks Total H. L. WICKHAM. Stamps and Taxer, Dec. 19, 1814. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD. COURT. (Before Mr. Baron ROLFE.) THE LATE BANK FORGERY.—TRIAL OF BURGESS. (Continued from our Afternoon Edition of yesterday.) Thomas Agar—l am a teller in the issue department of the Bank. I got an order to get gold to the amount of 10,000/. I got it in ten bags of 1,0001. each. I was desired to pay 8,0004 of it. The person to whom it wns paid had a carpet-bag and two canvas-bags. Ile put the money into the canvas-bags, and put them into the carpet-bag. Mr. Gibbon examined—l am a bookseller. Had an appointment at the Bank for two o'clock on Tues day, the 3d of September. I was in the out-teller's office. I saw the prisoner Burgess there. I said, "how do you do, Sir ? " He did not answer me. W. Dent Ede, a clerk in the Bank, proved he re ceived the notes. Leonard Dean, a porter in the Bank, proved that he brought ten bags of 1,0001. to the issue depart ment. The person who was to get 8,0001. emptied eight of the bags into two canvas-bags. I assisted him in taking out the bags. There was a carriage outside, into.which the bags were put. John Ray,examined—l am a clerk in the power of-attorney office. I saw the prisoner, in the middle of the day, turning out of Cornhill into Birchin-lane. There was an elderly person with him, whom I did not know. He was a stout person, of a ruddy complexion. They were going towards the river. Mr. Cohen examined—l live in Vinegar-yard. My father keeps a general shop. The prisoner came there on the 2d of September. He asked the price of a portmanteau; he was told 31. He asked to have three bags, very strong, to fit in the bottom of the port manteau. He said they were to be sent to the Coach and Horses public-house, St. Martin's-lane. There was a deposit asked for. He desired to have the port manteau blacked over. The portmanteau produced I believe to be the same. Mr. Patsell examined—l sin a boot and shoe maker, in George-street, Portman-square. I knew a person named Joseph Elder. I knew the prisoner at the bar. I knew them for about two years. I saw them at the George Townsend public-house, Oxford street. I saw the prisoner there, in the com pany of Elder. I saw him afterwards at Moor gate, with Elder. About three or four months after Elder asked me if I knew any one who could accommodate the prisoner with board and lodging? I said,l did not . know. In July last I had a vacancy for a lodger in my house, and I wrote to inform him of it. The prisoner came to my house. Elder used to come there. He was there on the Ist of September, about a quarter before one. They were in the room inside the shop. When I went in they said they would go up stairs. They remained there till dinner. They then came down. Elder re mained to dine. After dinner I lay down on the sofa, and heard the prisoner mention " a power of attorney." Elder said, " How is it to be done ?" The prisoner said, " It is like placing two boxes on this table, and taking it out of one and putting it into the other." Elder said, "Is it to be Tuesday or Wednesday ?" The prisoner said, " I don't know ; I will tell you to-morrow." On Monday Elder was at my house three times. He called for a bird which Burgess had. He afterwards came and took away the bird, and subsequently his umbrella. 1 saw them together about ten o'clock at the George Townsend public-house. I did not see them together on the Tuesday. Burgess went out about half-past nine. I saw him about half-past three again. When be called in the afternoon he paid me 71. in gold. That was money he owed me. He left my house between half -past three and half-past four. I did not see him any more till he was brought up at the Mansion house. He told me, in August, he had 2,0001. in the Funds. On the Ist September he said he would have some money next ;week. He said his friend George was going to sell out. Elder was a man of about fifty years. He was stout and tall. Cross-examined—l heard of this forgery on the 9th. I told Forrester on that day all I have stated to-day. I was not examined at the Mansion-house. JaMes Wilkinson examined—l am a stable-keeper in Portman-mews. I let out carriages to hire. The prisoner hired a phaeton on the 3d. I saw Eller at the corner of the street when the prisoner took away the phaeton. Elder was about forty-five years of age. The prisoner said he wanted a strong carriage. John Warren examined—l keep the George Townsend public-house in Oxford-street. A person named Joseph Elder lodged there up to September. The prisoner used to visit there frequently in the beginning of September. On the 3d, about three o'clock, he took leave of me. William Drake examined—l was, on the 3d of September, at the corner of Portman-street, Qxforcl street. I saw a one-horse open carriage drive along. The prisoner was driving it. He asked me to go along with him—that he wanted some person to bring the horse and phaeton back to Mr. Wilkinson's. I went with him to several places. He used to leave me outside when he went into the places we called at. I saw a large parcel in the phaeton, and two others which he brought from Mr. Shackleton's. He then went to the Coach and Horses in St. Mar tin's-lane, and I took the phaeton to Mr. Wilkinson's. Arness examined—l am a coachman. I know the prisoner and Elder. They came together to my house on the 3d of September. Ben Caunt examined—l keep the Coach and Horses in St. Martin's-lane. About a week before the 3d of September the prisoner came to my house, dressed in a white coat and a pair of top-boots. He said he had a farm in the country which he would sell and go to America. He said he would have 8,0001. or 9,0001., and would have six soldiers to guard him. He asked me if I could give him a private room, and he would pay me well. I said I would if I could. He came two or three days afterwards with a portmanteau and three bags. The portmanteau was taken into my bed-room. The portmanteau produced is the one which was left at my house. The prisoner called at my house on the 3d of September, but I was not at home. Robert Caunt proved that the prisoner and a soldier came to the Coach and Horses on the 3d of Septem ber. They had a carpet-bag. The prisoner and the soldier took it in. It appeared to be very heavy. They took it into the room. I heard a jingle in the room, and I looked through the curtain. I saw that it was gold. Some of the gold got loose, and Burgess was taking it out of the carpet-bag. There were two canvas-bags in the carpet-bags. I asked the prisoner where he was going with so much gold. He said he was going to put it into the Edinburgh Bank. Elder came in afterwards. The prisoner asked me where the portmanteau was. I said it was locked up in my brother's room, and he was out. Elder said if money could get it they should have it. The lock of the do( was picked, and the portmanteau Wag brought down. The canvas-bags were put into this portmanteau. Elder went for a cab, and when it came he pressed the prisoner to go, saying that if he did not, he would go without him, as his time was up. Burgess paid about 3/. for wine and other things. The prisoner and the soldier took out the portmanteau, and Elder and the prisoner went into the cab. James Gingle, a soldier in the Foot Guards, was called, and corroborated the . statement of the last witness. John Hughes, who had been at the Coach and Horses on the 3d, deposed to the same facts. George Benbow, porter of the Mersey Hotel, Li verpool, proved that the prisoner and another person came to the hotel early on the morning of the 4th. They asked for a private room, where their luggage would be safe. They had a portmanteau, which was very heavy. In the course of the day the prisoner asked me to take the portmanteau to the Britannia steam-ship. I put the portmanteau into a small-boat. Jchn Hewitt examined—l am the Captain of the Britannia. I sailed from Liverpool about half-past twelve o'clock on the 4th. I was not aware for three or four days that the prisoner was one of the pas sengers. There was another person with him. He was an elderly person, of about 45. They went by the name of Ellis. The prisoner called the other person uncle. John Forrester examined—l received a warrant for the apprehension of Burgess and Elder. I went to America with Mr. Bord, of the Bank of England. I landed at Halifax. I then went to Boston. Elder passed there under the name of Ellis. I took him on the 31st of October. On his coming home about one o'clock I showed him the warrant, and said, " Your name is Joseph Elder." He said, Yes. I then took him, and found 400 sovereigns in the black trunk. I found some cards with the name of " Ellis." I found some letters addressed " Joseph Elder." 1 then pro ceeded in search of Burgess. I found he was about fifteen miles from Boston, at a small village. I was accompanied with an American officer, and I stopped there that night. On the following day I went back to Boston, and on the next day I went to Brew ster's Island, which is about 11 miles from Boston. I found the prisoner there in a wooden cottage. I knew him before. He said to me, " How are you, John ?" I said, " I am very well, and lam very sorry to see you in such a situation." He said, "So am I ; but it can't be helped now, old fellow." We then went away. When in the boat he said, " Where is Elder ?" I said, "He made away with himself." He said, " Well, I think he was a fool for that; he might as well have seen it out." I got the carpet-bag now produced after the prisoner was secured. At Nahant 120 sovereigns were handed to me by the American officer. I brought over 6,5001. to the Bank. I brought it from Mr. Blackford, the agent to the Bank of England. The prisoner said there was money at the Merchants' Bank of Boston, and he would be glad to sign it over to the Bank of England. Mr. Sharpe, of the Bank of England, proved that he posted the transfer of the 6,500/. into the ledger book, to the credit of Muspratt, Story, and Whiting. The case for the prosecution having closed, Mr. BODKIN addressed the jury on behalf of the prisoner, and begged their attention, in his opinion already too long occupied by the prosecution, to the few observations he felt bound to make on behalf of the accused ; but before coming to his defence, he felt bound to make some comments upon the mode in which this prosecution had been got up. In this country it was customary that the accused should be furnished with a copy of all the evidence against him; but in this instance there were several witnesses pro duced who were not examined at the Mansion-house, and whose evidence was altogether new. Me thought it unworthy of a great body like the Bank of England that they should adopt such a course. The Learned Gentleman then went on to say, that the prisoner was now on his trial for uttering a forged transfer, well knowing it to be forged. Now, to constitute this crime it was necessary that he should have control over it for some time, and that he should have given it to another person ; but he contended that there was nothing in the evidence to show that the prisoner had at any time control over it. The next point was, that the prisoner might have beliered the stock was really Elder's, who might have put it in under the name of Oxenford, which was sometimes done ; and if that were so, he might have witnessed the name of Elder without committing any offence under the Act of Parliament under which he was tried. And if he was a party in the hands of Elder, it might be easily supposed that, having done this, he would have cast himself into the hands of his betrayer, and his subsequent conduct would be thus explained. The Learned Gentleman dwelt at some length on the various circumstances of the case, and laboured to show that they would be quite consistent with the view in which he was presenting the transaction to them. William Goodered Baker, Alexander Masters, and others, gave the prisoner a good character. Mr. Baron Reify summed up the evidence, and the jury, after a quarter of an hour's consideration, re turned a verdict of Guilty. Mr. Baron ROLFE then addressed the prisoner, and said that the charge had been brought home to him with a degree of clearness seldom attained in a court of justice. A few years ago the crime of which he had been found guilty would have subjected him to the punishment of death, and it would have assu redly been carried into effect. Since that punish ment had been abolished, it had been the subject of much debate whether its effects were good or evil. Thinking it, as he did, a merciful and proper remission of so dreadful a penalty, he felt it necessary to prevent, as far as in his power lay, the necessity of re-enacting it, and, therefore, in grave cases like the present, he felt it necessary to pass the fullest sentence of the law, as it now stands, which was that he, William Burgess, should be transported beyond the seas for the term of his natural life. The prisoner was then removed from the bar. Towards the conclusion of the trial he seemed to have grown rather alarmed. He turned ♦ery pale, and remained so to the end. The hurt he received in his leg appeared to have lamed him severely. He is a tall, clownish-looking young man, with a rough head of bushy red hair. The turnkey assisted him from the bar. TII/3 ROYAL MILITARY ASYLUM, CIIMSBA.—It was arranged a short tine since that the telegraph on the roof of the Royal Military Asylum, in connexion with that at the Admiralty, and continuing over Wanetead heath in a direct line to Portsmouth, should be taken down, and removed, with the whole of the machinery necessary for working it, to the Royal Hospital, in con sequence of it having been found that the steeple of the handsome new church now in course of erection on the Marquis of Westminster's estate in Pimlico, at the west end of Chester-square, would be greatly in the line of view, and would effectually prevent its being worked for the important purposes for which it was erected ; the Lords Commissioners of the Admiralty sanctioning the removal on the condition that the Noble Marquis should be at the sole expense of the removal, and of refitting the same in its new position. We understand that it has since been determined not to erect the telegraph on the roof of the ho-pital, some fresh difficulty having presented itself, but to remove the whole apparatus to the southern end of the original building, from which spot it can be worked without any interruption, the change causing but very trifling inconvenience to the establishment, and the position answering the purpose equally well. We are requested to state, that a paragraph which appeared in our last paper, copied from the Perthshire Courier, having reference to the sale of the estates of the late Lord Lyndoch in Perthshire, is incorrect in several places. The sales of Lynedoch and Balgowan, to Messrs. Simpson and Thomson, are made by Mr. Graham of Balgowan, not by the trustees of Lord Lyne doch, and are conditional sales, dependent upon Mr. Graham's power to sell, which is disputed by the heirs of entail, and will form a question in the courts of law —Edinburgh Advertiser. MASTER MARINERS and MATE S(tHrli SHIELDS, DEC. 14.—A meeting has .1 11 .,” been bei,l here of the Marine Board, some tune established for the examination of masters and IDAt! l s and the report made by th: committee is Yell; teresting, and shows the exertions of the parties 03-, of the ntraost value to the shipping interest. ,„ The report states that the examiners have not Dv inattentive to the duties for which they were elect ed; and it is gratifying to show that the number of o t f; plicants who hare attended for examination is °I I increase : Mates passed the board, and obtained certificates, 47 last year . ...................................... Refused certificates:— From incompetency and ignorance of the coast so 3 ofeavigation ............................................. Not having been full two years mate, and therefore I not examined .................................... Want of teatimonirds of character . ................ .. Total ........................ f-or Of the 47 who ob tamed certificates, two ps sl e d ' navigation and nautical astronomy, in Chto 1 ; passed, for coasting and plain navigation, in C 11139 and '24 passed, as coasters only, in Class 3. The report refers to the six preceding fell"' the result is as follows : First year—Applicants examined and granted- co- 46 tifieates. ................................................... As Second year—Ditto, ditto ..................... ' ... .. 5 Third year—Ditto, ditto ........................ 54 Fourth year—Ditto, ditto ....................... 40 Fifth year—Ditto, ditto ........................ 47 Sixth year—Ditto, ditto ........................ Total ....................... Ith4°o The amount received for certificates during, t last twelve months was 6SI. as., from which, d.eu ll ' t : ing the charges of conducting the establislnel'he together with a donation of 101. 105. presented to to Master Mariners' Asylum, South Shields, a b sls° remained in te treasure's hans of 121 The attendance of the examiners was . constant s h e regular, and their services entirely gratuitous . .1. applicants are examined on trigonometry an d , ii „et gation, without the assistance of any schoolina s ,` ° ;,,,,le other person. Up to this time the Society had t be four donations to the Mariners' Asylum out cf , surplus balances of their fund, amounting to 5 41 : ' A ' ti , ; . The board had observed with feelings of g'rs, t `„" ce d tion that a variety of good effects had been pros the in the locality by this voluntary institution an d nautical schools were better attended, a gradu al : en marked improvement was appal-at in the sss;is who presented themselves for examination, 1 0 , t 'ilit in the theory and practice of navigation, but a' .. ,,, s° t di higher branches. The young mate as he Pru', in along the coast sets himself earnestly to w° r- d ' in order to become acquainted with its dangers s° ,, t iio difficult navigation, so that he may be able to___ Th e ' - to a certificate, and become a master. Thus 11- 17, i sf• promotion is open to the talented and entere r " - o f without being obliged to wait for it from cbs fic utel favour, or delay. The same incitement stin iu 'i - rie them to learn the use of charts and nautical tn. ments. These are the practical results; and th e i n or s influence which the board exercises cannot of ° be eo be ascertained, but it is certain the effect he s acknowledged by many.tl The report alludes to the case of the abilc, to Vane, which put back in July la s t, on I e o l .e uing Archangel, in consequence of the master attet n p n cb to scuttle the vessel, which, having crested Do interest in the public mind, is of importance; ; „ ne rts master being quite unacquainted With the row: d of plain navigation, his duty devolved entireli y coo mate, who, feeling by this means his own itnlV ir ",:oo l appears to have treated the captain Wit° ~n - f tlft tyranny and harshness, and brought on teivrbica insanity. Independent of the great danger to re , this vessel was exposed under charge of so inc . ,,,l e utt tent a commander, it is easy to perceive hove sr o yet on a voyage to the Whit e S ea , i gnoran t of I° l his essential duty, must quickly cease t o retain 0 1, e 'd s crew either respect or subordinati o n, and an'Atts convincing proof of the necessity that both 11 .',. A - e dia and mates on such voyages should b e duly Vs' navigation. ( I ° /}/ The report recommends that on all occasions 0 of or stranding of ships a continuation of the ss te oe inquiry into the causes and circumstances, then as is practised in the navy, will always streng th lo: good effects sought to be obtained by the eats' o ,,e l ment, and that whether such misfortunes be ° ,, t1 0) by neglect in the use of the lead, or other , 131 of duty on the part of the officers, to punish the ta - suspension or dismissal from command. At the time the board presented its report the ! ) it li vious year, the shipping interest was th reatens Civ ets Ivo a Bill, having for its object the compulsory Parliamentary Boards for the examination of se, s , to intended to be masters and mates, and lik en e s , the found and maintain schools at the e xpense . I .,ce shipowner. The Government however, h a ve 01 , stated that it is not intended to pass that ..s 5 but, on the contrary, have notified that all soar r d s desiring the establishm e nt o f voluntary marine boa will be encouraged an d ass i s t e d by a leg i s l ," l! enactment in preparation f or th at purpoSe'.2.tthe quite in accordance with a r eso l 9 ti on pis I ~,r 1 las• t iw annual meeting of the mana g i ng ' un d er „ r oper year, and will allay the appreh ens i on that WV persons would obtain the situation of e xamine ll ' o ieS The report concludes by the examiners exP l ke to their readiness during their continuance in ° "jet,: carry out the objects of the institution by A 3.- ,,uicla practical system, free from all useless and the r v e . t he interrogations, and influenced by a conviction 0 beneficial results of voluntary establishment s, su n c , l lo' the present, on the seamen and maritime r e ktbst tion. They also desire to place it on ree'r „ .the every seaman who has obtained a certificate froust board was competent to fulfil the duties of 11 , 111 . 1 ie fer mariner in the class to whi c h he wa s rated, 'ev"" - ,„eer his after conduct might be, and that no e ss ths who had not himself been actively engaged sit , difficult and dangerous navigati o n of the c° _, -- fl ues England, could undertake the examination of s`r - , in intended for command in that trade, and the 881/l eri' respect to many other branches of maritime e '' once and knowledge. to ths The shipping interest is deeply indebted - 1 , 0 (1' shipowners at South Shields for originating 5° .'11 V able an institutio n , a n d th ere i s no doubt it s'irofi invaluable to the masters and mariners, and in)? their welfare and general happiness. io - n STATE OV TH E T TNE .—The 'mums.--ut the ships, f rom th e l a t e con t rary w i n d s an d s t r ong 4 e 11 ; ,i0 bar, is n ow so grea t, th a t t h e h ar b our a t Shield s A , sa" very dangerous condition; and if any of our fri e i n n out; neighbo u r s i n N ewcas tl e or Shi e ld s a r e sceptic , " - c u t . , to doubt, or o bt use enoug h no t t o u ndersta ° De iPs pressing necessity which exists for proper moor ivg i tfoi n i laid down in the river, and for a night police to be, esl3l - thereon, we respectfully invite them, be f° „ r e - t is termed a sea tide comes, when the ships can 1',;4 Pn e to take boat at the high-end of South Shields. 6 '4 t t f leisurely down to the Low Lights, and the'', " no th e " every berth, safe or unsafe, fully occupied. 11 , ) , °- Fr i : fleet of light vessels should' come in - before _ A l' e uo sent loaden fleet be gone, they will be oblige, ess e ,"; up to Jarrowslake, and bring up. In 03°,0ril 1 eti,l twelve ships and upwards are in o n e tier, 0- s. 0t wooden posts on the shore. These posts sir e ,„ep„ f Tate property ; and when the tides are very I" - , the flood of the country water comes down be s orly i ,' frequently break, and occasion the tiers to g,„ 0 0 !?,'"° forcing the ships into collision, and driving th c e ,7, ',. e bank, so that considerable damage is done. °" l , -11 0;" frost become severe this winter, and the ice W re • e'r suddenly, most serious disasters would ensue , ,; ( iilt b ",: nestly trust that the conservators of the river h i f rO : this matter into their deep consideration.— T° . of BIRTHS. thel ' On the 17th inst., at Tawstock Court, DevOD , " of 00 Edward J. Weld, Esq., of a son. On the 16th inst., at Boulogne. sur-lifer, the y id Hon. Henry Graves, of a daughter. On the 23d ult., at Villa Corsi, near Florence , th Alfred Lambert, Esq., of a daughter, • 4 ' o o °_, t ,t MARRIED On the 27th ult., at St. (nave's Jewry, W. Elmslie, Esq., to Elizabeth Sarah, youngest as" s, Burton Mumford, Esq., of Bishop's Stortford, klert s iidoef it On the 14th inst., at St. Pancras New Church,e4ore,o, Joseph, Esq., of Upper Charlotte-street, Fitzroi „ o f 1 14/ Fanny Ellen, only daughter of Philip Goode, Esq . ' land -street, Fitzroy-square. voct , On the 17th inst., at Longparish, Hants, the A' .. br idic i r Edward Durnford, Fellow of King's College, C 1 7,,,1 1 ' ° ' Frances Isabella, youngest daughter of Captain J'"'"" _de so ff"( On th e 17th inst., at West Alvington Church, j oh°J e Lloyd, Esq., of Cranagh, eldest son of John I,l° Y, h tsro l Lleydsborough, Tipperary, to Mary, youngest day& onit, C late Edmund N. W. Fortescue, Esq., of liallspifil ) ,, c e -iiiis o , On the 18th inst., at Rickmansworth, Hertel, ' rent ig b, Belt, of the Middle Temple, barrister-at -law, t°,,,,,0011 Avice Anne, eldest daughter of Humphry Emit. of Croxley House, Hurts. Ck*lro DIliD. .....,.. At Barton. Mere, Suffolk, Thomas Quayle , Egt" - r, of Session. h Bu tt On On the 17th inst., Harriet, fourth daughter of u °- n J. Esq., of Kirby House, Berks. 11 . 1 )Ir. On the 18th inst., Charles Benfleld, fourth ~, t i Lowe, of Nelson-terrace, Stoke Newington. c Eg er° On the 27th ult. Ma • I , of the late Sir P-7. ~ Mar NTI( OA tbil Brydges, Bart., of Denton. court, near Canterburf. et, On the sth i ns t., a t M arc ell°, in Tuscany , 1)1IrgsIs abel l a' tile wife of H enr y D on ki n , Esq. I s abel l a ' On the 13th inst., at Newcastle-upon - Ty ne, . 4 0, wife of John Gibson, Esq. get:Oil:01 1 P On the 16th inst., at Afarlborough-terrace, , S 0 , l iji Sarah, relict of the late Samuel Bell, Esq., of Hovtol l „, A l l On ill ow' , On the 16th inst., at Streatley, Berks, Church, Esq., aged 25. L e, , , r s On the 16th inst., Thomas Ashton, Esq., of Great PO& o tt street, aged 49. On the 17th inst., at Pentonville, R. Tripp, E.„ 54 ;:, JO' On the 17th inst., in liarltwough-buildings, 0 "` t , Peel, Esq. stO e On the 17th i ns t., Mr. William Watsop. of Ilann s 2; of the the 17th inst., at Kensington, Eliz abeth, 01" late Thomas Neill, Esq., of Turnham-green. London: Printed and Publish;d by AIURDO Y°,„ z u , 1 11 i No. 112, Strand, Printer, at The Bum ° Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Middlesex, Friday, December 20r 1844. lick ' ' L ." 111;1 :.-- )( AT 11' Londe „D. Y• T or 0 ( j, the Ira), Ulu t N. ~n 'airy ~hdi , 1) 1) 1%; '!---. T ibt -, 04 ht kti, ! Oil tam .-_, ( il l , hili i i