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Ashby-do.laaouch—av Basingstoke Brecknock & Abergay. Birmlngham,l.l6thsh. Do.siind Liverp. Juuc. ChelMer & Blackwater Coventry ................... Crom ford Dudley •••••••••••••••••••••• Danube and Mayne.... Ellesmere and Chester Erewash Forth and C1yde......... Grand Juncti0n.......... Grand Union .....«....... Grand Surrey ............ Grand Western..„...... Qmorgansh. ay. cost Giducester & Berkeley Grantham Huddersfield ..........av Kennet end Avon av Lancaster Leeds and Liverpool... Leicester 000000000 Leicester & Horthamp. Loughborough Monmouthshire ......... Montgomeryshire Melton Mowbray Mersey and Irwell Macclesfield .•••••••••••••• Neath •••••••••••••••••••••• Oxford •• Peak Forest. .av Regent's (or London) Shropshire Somerset Coal. Do. Lock Fund Stock Stafford and Worcester Shrewsbury, Str atford-on-Avon...av Severn & Wye & Rail. Trent & Mersey, 1( sh. Thames & Medway..av Warwick and Birming. Warwick and Napton Worcester & Birming Wilts and Berks......av Wisbeach Wey and Arun..,.... Docks. Commercial .......... ..... East and West India... London ..... .... Ditto Bonds ......—..... Bristol.... ........ ........av Do.Bnds, var. amounts St. Katharine.............. Ditto 80nd5............. Ditto Bends ...... ....... Southampton ........ Bridges Hammersmith .... Southwark, new Subs. Ditto New of 7)4 pr c. Waterloo ...... —.. Ditto Old Ann. of Si Ditto New ditto of 71. r Ditto 80nd5.............. Vauxhall. ...... ..........av Assurances. Albion . ...... Alfred Life-- Alliance Brit. an d * For Ditto Marine....... ..... Atlas Birmingham Fire British Commercial Cler. Med. & Gen. Life County ........ Bagle••••••••••••• ..... ••••••• EcanOmic Life ..... European Ditto New.... ....... Freemasons Globe Guardian Hope Li ...... Ditto Fire Imperial Fire . Ditto Life.... .... Indemnity Law Life Legal and General Life London Ditto Ship National Loan Fund Neptune Marine ..... Palladium Life Protector Life. .... Pro7ident Rock Lir:e ,•••••••••••••••• R'.yal Exchange.„„ Sun Fire Ditto Life.........." University Life- .... Universal Life. Union Fire anci Joint Stk Banks Ditto New ...... ..... Brit. North American Commercial of London Colonial London & Westminstr Ditto New..... ... London Joint Stock Metropolitan.... Provincial of Ir eland Ditto New...-. National of Ireland Nat. Provincial Englnd Ditto New ........ Gloucestershire......., Union of Australia- Union of London Gaslight tic Coke Bath . ..... •••••• ..... ....••• 8ritian........«.......»••. Ditto Birmingham.. WI ••••• • " Binning. & Staffords " h. Bristol ••••••••• ...... .•••••• Brighton Ditto General City of London Ditto New Continental Censolid Ditto New..... Equitable ...... ••••••«••••• Isle of Thanet Independent Phoenix .....»..,.«•„ South Metropolitan United General Westmins. Chartered Ditto New....•..•..••..••• Water Works. Birmingham East Grand Junction .av Kent ••"••••••••••••••••••••• Nw Riv Len. Bildt An. Manchester and Salford Vauxhall, late S. Lend. West Middlesex .av Yrk Yuldg Co. Les.ProP Iron Itallwo.7l. Birmingham & Derby Binning. & Gloucester Bristol and Exeter Caledonian ... ... .." Chester and Hol y head Eastern Counties Edinburgh & Glasgow Grand Junction.... Great North of Englnd Great Western Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths .., Harwich (Braithwaite) Hull and Selby . . .... Lancaster and Carlisle Leeds and Selby ..... Liverpool & Manchestr Ditto Half-Shares...... Landon and Brighton.. Ditto Loan Notes...-. London and Blackwall London and Greenwich London and Birmlngh. Ditto Quarter -Shares Ditto Thirds London and S. Western London and Croydon... Manchester and Leeds Ditto New Shares I Manchstr and Birrring I Midland Counties North British Norwich k Brandon Northern and Eastern Ditto Scrip, !ss.s/. dis. Paris and Orleans Paris and Rouen .Rouen and Havre Stockton & Darlington South East. and Dover Yarmouth and Norwich lork and N. Midland... Ditto New Shares."... Albion Copper Alten Anglo Mex., its. 51. p.m Ditto Subscription Eolanos Ditto Scrip Brazil. Imp. iss. 51. p.m Do. Mecaub. & Coc. U. Do. St. John Del Rey British Iron Candonga..... ... , .... Ditto Registe red Cobre Copper Copiapo ............ Columbian, ass. 5/. p.m. General Mining ..« Hibernian ...." . " ...... Imperial Slate Cornpy. Mexican ....... Mining Co. of Ireland Real del Monte, Unreg Ditto Loan Notes Rh ymney Iron Santiago de Cuba United jagai Ditto Scrip pm. Ditto New ZIA erary. Londn,with Sin. Ticket London University Russell . iiiiiiiarele:::::: Wilseellaneous. Anglo Mexican Mint.. Australian Agricultur. B r it. American Land C an ada ................: Upper Canada Bonds.: Gen. Steam Navigation Iberian Mereall tile Co. Ditto Property Met. Wood Pay., iss. IL Mex. and S. 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ART-UNION.—(THIS DAY.) (Continued from our Afternoon Edition.) Mr. EWART, M.P., moved a vote of thanks to Lord Monteagle and Mr. Wyse, M.P. He would not de tain them with many observations, as they were then on the stage and about to perform the comedy of " The Wheel of Fortune."—(Laughter.) Mr. CHRIsriE, M.P., seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously. Lord MONTEIGLR, after passing a high eulogium upon their conduct, moved a vote of thanks to the Committee. The Noble Lord, in alluding to the Bill which he had introduced into the House of Lords on the subject of Art-Unions, stated, that he had received, with respect to that measure, the most strenuous exertions of his Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge.— (Hear, hear.) His Royal Highness had not only attended on every occasion that the Bill came before the House, but he had thrown in the weight of his exertions and of his high experience of the subject. He had also received great assistance from the Mar quis of Northampton, who was the president of the first scientific Society in this country. The Noble Lord then proceeded to eulogise the Society, and to express the pleasure he felt in its having been so largely supported by the public, and concluded by moving the vote of thanks. Alderman J. Jonrisox seconded the motion, which was carried unanimously, after a few observations from Mr. Wyse, bearing testimony to the great exer tions of the Committee. Mr. T. L. DONALDSON, as Chairman of the Com mittee for General Purposes, returned thanks, and concluded by proposing a vote of thanks to the Ho norary Secretaries. The motion was carried, and thanks having been returned by Mr. Gordon, The Duke of CAMBRIDGE said, he must now re quest the meeting to permit him to vacate the chair in favour of Lord Monteagle, as this happened to be the Queen Dowager's birth-day, and he had to go to Bushy Park. His Royal Highness retired amid much cheering, and the chair was taken by Lord Monteagle, when the drawing commenced. Among those who were most successful, we may mention : The Countess of Arundel and Surrey ... £3O The Countess of March ... .. Lady Lushington ....... The Earl of March ...... The Right Hon. Earl Grey A. Cooper, R.A. ... Miss C. Hennington, near Lonsdale, a prize of 400 Mr. P. W. George, 92, Cheapside Mr. Saunders, of Barton-on-Trent Mr. J. Flamanck, of Tavistock Silentio Edward Hazlitt, Hounslow l5O Mrs. Watlington, Upper Bedford-place lOO Mrs. W. H. M'Queen, Tottenham-court-road lOO Mr. Stephen Maberley, Dublin Post-office Mr. W. Collingwood, Liverpool lOO Charles Gildon, Port Philip, Australia Felix Joseph Chandler, Pipe-lane, Bolton H. L. Leod, Columbia ... 80 H. Luscombe, Andover A. Scott, Nova Scotia P. Morris, Lombard-street .. BO John Gliddon, Camden New Town ... 80 Thomas Raw lings, Stourbridge .. BO A. J. Symington, Paisley .. Henry Hill, Wolverhampton Wm. Davis, Wincanton • • 7O T. SambroOk, Arundel Wharf . .. 7O Samuel Walker, Leeds Mrs. P. Cruickshanks, Hyde-park-gardens. 7O Charles Coombwell . 70 . Rev. C. Parker, Epsom . . 70 Rev. Mr. Bacon, Norfolk O • ••••• 70 Dr. Callum, Dartford ...... Dr. Smyth, Glasgow ..... . Branstone, Old Change John Keat, Croydon . . .. Musgrove, Mount Pleasant, Leeds ... 6O H. Stridfield. .... . ____ R. Winter, Bedford-row . Thomas opwood . W. E. Walmslev, Adam-street, Adelphi. E. Pritchard, Montgomeryshire•••••• A. C. Turbot, Reading Buckley Ward, Leicester •• ***** •• • • 50 E. H. Brady, Suffolk . •• Edward t i Branch, Islington . _ D. Rawlings, Stourbildge.. Greig, Plymouth .... ......... . 50 E. S. Tyson, Bradford ...... Cockshot; Clitheroe E. W. Hazlewood, Bridsnorth Hawkins, Royal Society ...... Minor priZes - varying in amount from 401. to 51. were also declared. The total number of prizes, 283, in the drawing occupied two hours and a half. - At the conclusion of the proceedings a vote of thanks was carried unanimously to the two young ladies who had officiated at the wheels, and who were each presented with a copy of the exquisite engraving of "Raffaele and the Fonarina." Thanks were also voted to Alfred Bunn, Esq., for the use of the theatre, and the meeting broke up at four o'clock. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF THIS DAY. GLOBE.—The close of the session produced at least one measure of considerable promise. Though long delayed, it will—if perfected in conformity with the outline, as explained by Sir James Graham—be the means of obviating a host of grievances that are now inflicted on the poorer classes of society in the ad ministration of justice. We allude to the Bill which Sir James Graham laid on the table of the House of Commons on Thursday evening, for regulating the appointment and mode of payment of clerks of the peace, clerks of petty sessions, and other officers of the inferior criminal courts. The Bill was read a first time, and was ordered to be printed. It will, we presume, be introduced early in the next session. In the meantime it will be considered by Noble Lords and Hon. Gentlemen, who, as members of the Legis lature, will be called upon to discuss, and determine upon, the principle and provisions of the measure, as well as by the public generally. Every class of society is deeply interested in whatever re lates to the purity and impartiality of punitive justice. The substitution of salaries for the present mode of paying magistrates' clerks, and similar func tionaries, by fees, will be regarded with satisfaction. 'The disproportionate amount of fees on summary con victions, upon which fines are inflicted ; and the de mand of fees by clerks of the peace, clerks of the arraigns, and other functionaries, on the charge of defendants who had been tried and acquitted on in dictments for misdemeanors, have been often adduced; and shown to be as unjust in principle, as they are op pressive in practice. Lord Worsley has applied himself, with praiseworthy diligence and perseverance, to bring this subject under the notice of the Legislature and the Government; and has developed the fearful extent of oppression which the existing system has caused throughout the kingdom. The returns his Lord ship moved for and obtained, by a vote of the House of Commons, furnished evidence so con clusive as to the character and extent of the evils complained of, that the Government was induced to take the subject into its own hands. A promise was given by Sir James Graham that the Government would prepare a measure, which should place the whole of the functionaries alluded to on a basis at once better calculated to ensure competency for their duties ; and at the same time relieve the public from the fees they were in the habit of exacting. The measure we have alluded to is the tardy ful filment of that promise. If we are not greatly mistaken, Sir James Graham will have to encoun ter strong, if not formidable, opposition in car rying his measure through Parliament. The emolu ments derived by clerks to justices, both in boroughs and in counties, from the present system, are very considerable ; and their endeavours to prevent a change from fees to a fixed salary will be great. The greater number of these magistrates' clerks are active electioneering agents in the Tory interest. They wield extensive influence in their respective localities. The Parliamentary representatives, to whom they have ren dered material services in contests for the seats they hold, will be applied to. These Honourable Gentlemen will be urged to bring the weight of their influence to bear against the Bill ; which, if it become law, will curtail the emoluments of these functionaries. To this influence, partly from gratitude, and partly from hope of future benefits, the Members will yield, and will endeavour to prevail with the Government to abandon, or mutilate the measure. We, therefore, thus early, invite the attention of the Liberal Members to this proposed beneficial change in the existing law. The Bill will, we presume be printed without delay. Let its provisions be consi dered ; and every effort used to render it complete, as a remedy for the evils it is designed to cure. When it comes before the Legislature, it will, we trust, be watched and guarded with vigilance against the intrigues that will be in motion to defeat the ob jects it is designed to accomplish. STANDARD.—A statement, evidently ex parte, which appears in a rabid Popish Maltese newspaper, has been greedily seized upon by a contemporary, as a pr e t ex t f or a tru l y jesu iti ca l a tt ac k on the Bishop of Gibraltar and. the Governor of Malta, for an imputed disregard of the feelings and preju dices of the Roman Catholic portion of the inhabi tants of the latter dependency. The facts of the case appear to be these, and we derive them, be it under stood, from the very suspicious authority above referred to. Some ten or twelve months ago Don Michael Angelo Camilieri, about 35 years of -age, having become a convert to the Protestant religion, left Malta for Gibraltar, for the purpose of being married to a lady—said to be the widow of a Maltese Roman Catholic, who had also embraced the Pro testant religion—according to the rite., of the Anglican Church, of which they had become mem bers. So soon as the news of this marriage reached Malta, the mother of the lady's husband claimed the right to tear from her son's widow her two chil dren, in order that she might train them up in the Roman Catholic faith ; and after a trial in the Royal Civil Court—the whole of those officials are, if we mistake not, Roman Catholics—her appeal was de cided in her favour ; and the verdict confirmed by another Court, presided over by Judges of the same tolerant faith as that professed by the complainant. Of course, nothing then remained but the execution of the sentence; and a warrant was accordingly issued to deprive the mother of her children, the execution of which was confided to the usual officers. " Nothing" (says the Portofoglio Maltese) " could be more regular, more formal, or more solemn" than this attempt to drag the two infant orphans from the arms of their mother. The whole ceremony was, in fact, per formed secundem artem. " It was not to be expected," says the grave journalist to whose account we must be content to be indebted for the facts of the case, "that the Marshal would separate these unfortunate orphans from their mother, without some resistance on her part." Her "tears and lamenta tions" appear, however, to have drawn her husband to the spot; who, finding how matters stood, seized a " thick stick" and would have struck the officer, but that it was wrested from him. A gun was afterwards produced by him, which shared the same fate ; after which the mother and her husband were overpowered and the children torn from them, and delivered into the hands of the " paternal grandmother," who, with her priest was, no doubt, in attendance to receive them. A. complaint was then made in the police court of the resistance offered by Don Camilleri, and the " very moderate penalty of twenty days' impri sonment" inflicted upon him. The Popish jour nalist is quite scandalised at the extreme leniency of this sentence on a clergyman. But " his senses were overcome by an unexpected weight," when the frightful fact transpired that " the Execu tive" had commuted his imprisonment to a fine of twenty-seven shillings and ninepence ster ling I This decision is described as "an attempt to destroy the happiness of a faithful people," and " compromise the honour and integrity of the supreme Government ; and a series of cases evidenc ing the utter unfitness of the native Maltese to administer the laws of the island are quoted, which do not appear to have attracted the notice of the Government. It was only some twelve or eighteen months ago, that a young British officer, sta tioned at Malta, was sentenced to a long im prisonment, because, whilst enjoying his dessert at an open window after dark, he happened to dis encumber himself of a few nutshells at the moment when some idolatrous procession was passing through the street. It was not enough that several of the witnesses for the prosecution proved that the act was wholly unpremeditated; that the night was so dark, that it was impossible to say which of the three parties seated at the table was the offender; and that the aforesaid nutshells struck no person who formed part of the procession. The most savage sentence it was possible for these Popish judges to inflict they did not hesitate to award, and had it not been for the consideration of the Governor, the young gentleman's prospects in life would have been irre trievably ruined. It is surely time that the adminis tration of the law should be taken out of such hands, at least so far as Protestants are concerned. Mais revenons a nos moutons. A Morning Contemporary, on the assumption of the very respectable autho rity above quoted, that the release of Don Michael Camilleri was obtained at the instance of the Bishop of Gibraltar, attacks that estimable gentleman, and having reminded him that " the mar riage of a priest who has made a vow of celibacy is, in Catholic countries, a great crime whether canoni cally, or civilly, or both, he cannot say," suggests " that the conversion of Don Camilleri and his bride at the moment of bringing themselves together ought to have excited the Bishop's suspicion." So then, according to this great Puseyite authority, a Bishop ought not to have countenanced two persons in abjuring the errors of Popery, and becoming com municants of his own Church ; and still less ought he to have consented to marry them by the rites of that Church on which alone they could hare had any claim. A Roman Catholic priest, whether a titular bishop or not, would, we suspect, have little hesitation in qualifying two Protestants at the altar by their conversion on the spot, did such course appear feasible. The conduct of the Bishop of Gibraltar appears to have been perfectly unimpeachable. " Probably," says his monitor, "in such countries the law provides for the removal of children born of Roman Catholic parents from under the roof of a person who has embraced another faith." If it do, the sooner such a law is abolished in a British dependency the better. In the case in point, how ever, the mother of the children as well as her hus band, had abjured the Roman Catholic faith ; and if there be any law in Malta which empowers relatives to drag from their mother her children, because she happens to have embraced the Protestant religion, it is a mast iniquitous one, and one "more honoured in the breach than in the observance." We trust that the interference of the Government in this matter will extend to the compulsory restoration to the bereaved mother of her children ; for it is impossible that the civil courts of Malta can have a legal right to annul a marriage and remove children from the protection of their natural guardians, if those guardians are the subjects of a country in which the Protestant religion is the religion of the state. FROM THE MORNING PAPERS OP THIS DAT. TIMES.—The Chancellor of the Exchequer on Thursday last made an announcement, on which, as it somewhat regards ourselves, we may be excused for commenting. He then intimated, that it was the in tention of Government in future not to furnish a re turn of the stamps issued to each individual news paper, but to give the aggregate of those used by all of them. And the reason assigned for this recurrence to ancient custom was one the fairness of which we readilyadmit, inasmuch as it appears that the returns, as hitherto published, have been prejudicial to the circulation of some of our Contemporaries ; those of them which have been but lately established, and others which had not yet formed a connexion, having made earnest remonstrances against a system which, by a premature disclosure of their condition, too effec tually prevented them from improving it. As for us, we are by no means sorry to see Ministers revert to the practice of former days. This practice was first infringed by a Whig Chancellor of the Exchequer for the express purpose of injuring us. Mr. S. Rice, whose political connexions had naturally made him suspicious of trickery and cunning in every department and profession, had lent himself with too facile credulity to the notion that, for the purpose of deceiving the public, we were in the habit of purchasing an unnecessary number of stamps, and selling those we did not require to other papers. Hence the distinctive die—an invention which, like many other shabby devices, instead of effecting the harm it designed, was of great advan tage to us, and, we flatter ourselves, ultimately visited its own authors with condign retribution. In the amount of our circulation they have furnished the public with a gauge of their own unpopularity. They hare given to our humble efforts to expose them and their misdoings a weight—not altogether factitious—but which we never could have obtained for them ourselves, by enabling us to publish a quar terly evidence of our success. When we bade adieu to the Whigs, we remember well the auguries of failure by which we were beset. We had de serted, it was said, the canse of the nation, and the nation would desert us. We had dared to separate ourselves from the public opinion to which we owed our strength, and public opinion would avenge itself. The contrary has happened. It is not too bold to say that the English nation has sanctioned the sentiments which we then dared, at some hazard, to express. If ever the circulation of a public journal testified the accomplishment of a great revolution in public opi nion, such an evidence is to be found in the increas ing amount of support which we have ever since enjoyed, and, most of all, which we at this moment enjoy; and for the official, incontrovertible, and con tinually recurring proof of this support, the Whig Ministers of 1834 have only themselves to thank. However, gainers as we have been in every way by an innovation which owed its origin to the most con temptible spite, we are not unwilling to forego an ad vantage which can be obtained only at the expense of our Contemporaries. It is true that each succes sive quarterly return has exhibited our continued au . periority both in circulation and advertisements — it is . true that the presti ge th us o bt a i ne d it se lf reacts by . mcreasing the success to which it owes its birth — it is true that to Mr. Spri ng Ri ce ' s manoeuvre we areindebted for the most sa ti s f ac t ory , b ecause h os til e , testimony to that position which it is our pride to have achieved, as it must be our ambition to maintain; yet we willingly abandon these advantages, convinced as we are that we can well afford to dispense with those guarantees of success which are furnished by the indirect depreciation of our brethren of the press. TIIE LONDON GAZETTE' (THIS EVENING.) CROWN-OFFICE, Aua. 13, 1844. MEMBER RETTRNEE , TO SERVX IN TXIS PRISENT !ARMAMENT. Bonoucs OF DUDLEY.—John Benbow, of No. 26, Mecklenburgh-square, in the county of Middlesex, Esq., in the room of Thomas Hawkes, Esq., who has accepted the Chiltern Hundreds. W.HITEHALL, AUG, 8, The Lord Chancellor has appointed John Cornthwaite, of Liverpool, in the county of Lancaster, Gent. to be a Master Extraordinary in the High Court of Chancery. _ _ BANKRUPTCY SUPERSEDED. EDWARD RILEY, grocer, Stratford-upon-Avon. BANKRUPTS. CHARLES JAMES BANISTER, woollen draper, Derby, to surrender, Aug. 20, and Sept. 28, at eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. Bittleston, official assignee ; Bott, Birmingham. HENRY ABDIAL RODGERS, newsman, Sheffield, Aug. 23; and Oct. 4, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Young, official assignee, Leeds; Reece, Furni- Tars Inn, London; Scholefield, Leeds. JOSEPH ROTHERY, clothier, Huddersfield, Aug. 23, and Sept. 27, at eleven, at the Leeds District Court. Fume, official assignee ; Cumming, Cheapside, Lon don ; Brook and Freeman, Huddersfield ' • Sykes, Leeds. THOMAS SLATER, pawnbroker, Burnley, Lan cashire, Aug. 23, and Sept. 13, at twelve, at the Man chester District Court. Stanway, official assignee, Manchester ; Cragg and Jeyes, Harpur-street, Red Lion-square, London ; Alcock and Dixon, Burnley. JACOB MICHAEL, outfitter, North Shields, Aug. 28, at half-past twelve, and Oct. 2, at two, at the New castle-upon-Tyne District Court. Wakley, official as signee, Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Spyer, Broad-street-build ings, London; Cooper, Somerton; Tinley, North Shields. BERNARD O'BEIRNE, wine-merchant, Bath, Aug. 23, at twelve, and Sept. 27, at one, at the Bristol District Court. Hutton, official assignee, Bristol ; Short Bristol ; Harrison's, Walbrook, London. NOTICES OF INSOLVENCY. H. Chancellor, tailor, Wrentham, Suffolk. J. Hayes, bookbinder, Great Ches terfield- st., Marylebone. C. Sykes, surgeon, Halifax. E. M. Macklin, draper's assistant, Tottenham-court-road. J. Henderson, Major on half-pay, Neston, Cheshire. J. Nunn, Cambridge, S. Barber, carpenter, Cambridge. G. Yarwortb, farmer, Newland. Gloucestershire. G. V e rnon, joiner, Hulme Manchester. J. Dean, hairdresser, Halifax. W. Durham, tin-plate-worker, Northgate, Lancashire. W. Sharpies, farmer, Long-lane-head, Lancashire. G. Smith, plumber, Newent, Gloucestershire. G. Boorman, baker, Canterbury. T. May, Speldhurst, Kent. W. Helliwell, shoemaker, Halifax, Yorkshire. E. Pease, dealer in mahogany, Liverpool. W. Hopwood, batter, Broadwall-gardens, Lambeth. J. Lancashire, joiner, Manchester. T. Warner, grocer, Carlton-place, Stoke Newington. J. Field, publican, Bramley, Yorkshire. R. Lawson, brewer, Doncaster. T. F. Sawyer, tailor, Romford, Essex. R. Anderson, farmer, Angerton Broomhouse, North umberland. W. Bentley, tailor, Hitchin, Hertfordshire. G. Carstairs, cabinet maker, Foley-place, Marylebone. H. Green, omnibus driver, Park-street, Camden-town. G. Richardson, farmer, Leamington Priors. J. F. Hennessy, carpenter, Cheltenham. M. Graham, attorney-at-law, Middlesborough,Yorksbire. J. Sabine, brewer, Oyster-street, Portsmouth. T. Wharton, labourer, Skipton, Yorkshire. G. Reynolds, blacksmith, Blacktoft, Yorkshire. SECOND NOTICES. T. Raymond, builder, Bishop's-road, Paddington, Aug. 20, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edwards, official assignee. G. Watson, gold and silver wire -drawer, Weston street, Somers'-town, Aug. 15, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee. R. Al'cock, dealer in horses, Harrison-street, Gray's Inn-road, August 17, at one, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Pennell, official assignee. A. Bray, perfumer, Haberdashiers'-place East, Horton New-town, August 20, at half-past two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Edward's, official assignee. A. Jacobs, dealer in jewellery, Princes-street, Rat cliff-highway, Aug. 20, at two, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Groom, official assignee, Abchurch-lane, Lom bard-street. H. Cosin s, cabinet-maker, Portsmouth-street, Lin coln's Inn.fields, Aug. 20, at two, at the Court of Bank ruptcy. Edwards, official assignee, Frederick's-place, Old Jewry. S. W. Morris, law-writer, Carey-street, Aug. 20, at two, at the Court of Bankruptcy. Groom, official as signee, Abchurch-lase, Lombard-street. COURSE OF EXCIL Amsterdam CF. 12 4i Ditto, at sight l2 2 Rotterdam 2U. 12 5 Antwerp 25 90 Hamburgh M.B. 13 13k Altona l3 14 Paris, 3 days' sight 25 60 Ditto, 3 months 25 85 Marseilles 25 90 Bourdeaux 25 90 Frankfort on Maine l2l Petersburgh, 3 Us... 37 Berlin — 7 LNGE.—(THIS DAY.) Gibraltar Leghorn 3O 50 Genoa 25 85 Milan Venice 47 Naples 39k Palermo, per oz llBk Lisbon s4k Oporto s4k Rio Janeiro 23 Bahia 23 Buenos Ayres NewYork,2ldys sight Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER OZ. Foreign Gold, bars..X3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons..... 0 0 0 New Dollars 0 4 10 Silver in Bari 0 4 111 Vienna, effec. fl. 3 M 952 Trieste, ditto Madrid 37 Cadiz Bilbao 36 Barcelona 36 BeTil la — MARKET INTELLIGENCE. (From the London New Price Current of Aug. 13.) SUGAR.—The West India market presented a dull appearance on Wednesday and Thursday last, and rather lower rates were accepted for inferior descriptions, but good and fine yellow kinds flatly maintained the former value, the supply being small. On Friday, how ever, there was a much better demand for all descriptions for grocery and refining purposes, and im portors obtained an advance in prices of 6d per cwt. To-day the West India Sugar market presented a firm appearance ; the demand was good for the scale and pan, and very full rates were paid, especially for the better kinds of yellow. The purchases amount to 550 hhds, including a public sale of 145 hhds 5 tierces of Barbadoes Sugar, which however went off quietly at a decline on last Tuesday's rates of 6d per cwt—fine yellow fetched 645, good 62s to 635, good middling 60s to 61s, middling 58s to 59s 6d, and low greyish yellow 57s 6d per cwt. REFlNED.—Further reduced rates having been accepted for Refined goods, the home trade has been induced to purchase more freely ; the market is, however, well supplied with the better qualities. To-day several par cels of Refined Sugar were taken by the home trade, but lower rates were again accepted brown Lumps sell ing at 735, and standard Lumps 74s per cwt. In bastards more business was done at previous prices. Bonded crushed Sugar sells readily, and cannot be purchase under 27 per cwt ; for present delivery little is yet to be had. MAURITIUS.—There has been a much better demand for all descriptions, and although the market has been largely supplied, yet an advance in prices of is has taken place for good and fine yellow, and 6d per cwt for infe rior grey and brown sorts. This afternoon Mauritius Sugar was not much in re quest; and 1,393 bags at public sale went rather cheaper; nearly the whole, however, consisted of the lower sorts: low brown went at 44s 6d to 465, middling 47s 6d to 495, good and fine sls to 535, low yellow 545, middling 54s 6d to 565 6d, good middling and good 58s 6d to 60s per cwt. EAST INDlA.—Bengal has been more in request, and stiffer rates have been paid for Dobah descriptions ; other kinds brought former prices. This afternoon Bengal Sugar met with little attention, and the parcels offered at auction were only partly disposed of at a de cline on former rates of 6d per cwt : fine white went at 64s 6d to 675, good 61s to 63s 6d, mid 59s to 60s 6d, damp and washed 58s 6d to 635, mid soft yellow 56s to 58s, damp 54s to 58s ; good strong yellow Dobah 65s to 665, and damp 655. Forty bags of Madras fetched 52 6d for middlirg greyish, and damp 525. 202 bags Madras jaggery went at 46s to 47s per cwt for soft yellow. FOREIGN.—For :white Havannah there has been a considerable increase in the demand ; the private transactions have been on an extensive scale, at firm but not higher rates. To-day there was no public sale of foreign Sugar, and nose is declared. A floating cargo of 2,000 boxes of yellow Havannah was sold for Konigsberg, at 20s 6d per cwt. COCOA.—British Plantation has met with more atten tion, and several parcels have been disposed of pri vately, but at present no advance in prices has taken place ; Trinidiel good red at 44s 6d to 45s 6d, middling and good middling 41s to 43s 6d, good grey 40$ 6d to 41s, middling 37s to 38s, and low 34s to 36s 6d per cwt. The deliveries are on the increase. In Foreign the private operations are upon a more extended scale at the previous currency. TEA.—lmporters manifest firmness, and have refrained from offering any at public sale, an increased desire has been manifested on the part of the trade to purchase every description, and the tendency of prices is still upwards : few parcels are offering privately. The lower kinds of Congou are rather higher in price, and a good business has been transacted at improved rates of id, common fetching Ild to lad, and good common is to is ld per lb, cash. To-day there was not much business transacted in the Tea market, in consequence of the sudden announcement of 15,000 packages for public competition on Thursday, but holders were firm, and obtained fully former rates for all descriptions. COFFEE.—The market has been in a quiet state for West India Coffee since Tuesday last, but importers have shown firmness, and obtained previous rates for all clean descriptions ; unclean sorts, however, may be purchased upon miler terms. This afternoon Ceylon Coffee was in excellent request by private treaty, and prices were firm—good ordinary at 55s to 56s per cwt ; the only public sale was that of 60 bales of Mysore, which went at 45 s 6 d to 46 s 6 d per cwt, being the full ' worth. Foreign Coffee is wanted, and 300 bags ordinary Rio were sold by private contract at 31s 6d per cwt. ti 0 o ii, n a d s s t E h s e . — t r W i fl i e n s I g t pa n r d o i e a , s havedisdi s p o sed s m e d e t of w a i trhe rather little r a u t n t d e n e r previous rates. This afternoon there was a beter demand for West India, and the large quantity of 600 puns old St Kitts sold at 825 to 24s per cwt. 100 hhds of Madras Molasses at public sale duty paid were taken in at 17s, and 90 kegs West India Tamarins at 56s per cwt. SPICES.—The market has been much better supplied with East India Ginger, and prices have declined 15s to 20s per cwt for Malabar. This afternoon at public sale 167 cases Malabar Ginger were sold at 68s to 86s for middling to fine quality, being rather lower ; 24 eases of Cassia Lignea fetched the full value, and went at 65s for good mid, 60s for mid, and 58s for low mid ; 2 chests of Mace were taken in at 2s 4d per lb for ord ; and 3 chests 47 bags of Cloves all sold at the full value, and fetched 9d to laid for fair and good quality. PaovisioNs.—lmporters of Irish Butter, submitting to rather lower rates, have induced buyers to purchase more freely, and a fair business has been transacted. Rics.—lmperters in Bengul have shown firmness, and none has been brought to public sale. This afternoon large purchases were made privately in East India Rice, and prices were still looking up—mid and good white Bengal fetched lis 6d to 12s, fine 12s 3d to 12s 6d per cwt. There was no public sale. SAGO.—By private contract more business has been transacted in Sago at full rates. This afternoon at public sale 48 brls of Tapioca were taken in at 4-id per lb, and 4 casks of Bermuda Arrow Root at is Id per lb. Ruse, BRANDY, AND HOLLANDs.—The purchases made in Leeward Island Rum have been extensive, and the prices paid show an advance on those of Tuesday last of Id to Id per gallon. The latest rates paid were 2s 4d to 2s 4d per gallon proof strength ; the market has been nearly cleared ; Jamaica 30 to 32 per cent over proof at 3s 3d to 3s 4d, 33 to 35 over 3s 6d to 3s Bd, good middling and good 3s 10d to 4s 6d, fine high flavour 5s to 5s 6d, white 27 over proof 3s 10d per gallon ; of fine little is left unsold. Demerara at 3s 2d to 3s 4d for 32 to 37 per cent. over proof. In Calcutta several purchases made, and higher rates given ; the tendency of prices is still upwards for Rum, and shippers and the home trade inclined to get well into stock. The demand for Brandy is increasing ; Cognac, of the vintage of 1838, hhds at 5s 3d, puns at 5s id, ditto 1839 hhds 5s ld, puns 4s I Id, ditto 1840 hhds ss, puns 4s 10d, ditto, 1841 hhds 4s 11d, puns 4s 9d, ditto 1842, hhds 4s Bd, puns 4s:6d, middling and good middling 3s to 4s 6d, and low 2s 10d to 2s Ild per gallon. Geneva, at is 10d to is lld for shipping ; fine for home consumption is 2s 6d to 3s 6d per gallon. English Corn Spirits at lOs 4d per gallon cash. To-day Rum was in good request by shippers and the home trade; prices are still advancing, and left off as follows:—proof Leeward at 2s 4d to 2s sd; Demarara, good 3s 2d to 3s 4d; Jamaica, 30 to 32 per cent over 3s 5d to 3s Bd, 34 to 37 over 3s 9d to 4s, superior 4s 6d to ss, very choice 5s 2d to 5s 6d, and Calcutta proof 2s Id to 2s 2d per gallon. FRUlT.—There has been a much better demand for Currants, and prices are on the advance; merchants show firmness, and have withdrawn several parcels from the market. SALTPETRE.—There has been a falling off in the demand for Rough, and the market having been well supplied a decline in prices of 6d per cwt has taken place; the public sales of 3,852 bags of Calcutta went off quietly but the principal part found purchasers. OILS—The market has assumed a quiet appearance for Linseed Oil, and prices are not so firm, 25s 3d to 25s 6d per cwt having been accepted for small parcels on the spot : the supply is getting larger. Rape Oil a fair business has been transacted, at 36s 6d to 37s for pale, and 35s 6d to 36s per cwt for brown. Cocoa Nut has met with attention, and previous rates are sustained. Ceyion at 281 5s to 291 5s per tun. Palm Oil 27s to 28s. Olive Oil at 441 lOs to 451 for Gallipoli, 421 to 431 for Spanish, and 401 to 411 per turn for Bar bary. There has been little inclination shown to purchase any description of common Fish Oils, and prices have further declined for Southern, the supply being large : at auction, 100 tuns went at 231 lOs to 311 per tun for low to fine quality. Cod 341 to 341 10s. Seal pale at 351 to 351 lOs per tun. Sperm Oil is much wanted, and further advanced rates paid, fine British fetching 851 to 861 per tun ; the supply is still scanty. TALLOW.—The purchases made in Russian on the spot have been limited, but in prices there is no varia tion at present to notice ; 40s 9d to 41s 3d per cwt are the current rates for P Y Candle. Town Tallow at 39s 6d to 41s per cwt net cash ; other sorts of Tallow are again cheaper. 205 cask New South Wales at auc tion went at 36s 6d to 41s 9d, and 185 casks North Ame rican melted at 40s to 41s 6d per cwt. The market is largely supplied with all descriptions. cocHINEAL.—The dulness in the market has increased, and prices have declined ld to 2d per lb ; little business has been transacted privately. INDroo.—East India is still attracting the attention •f shippers and the home trade ; all descriptions have been in good demand at the rates established at the quarterly sale ; indeed for picked lots an advance of 2d to 4d per lb has been paid. In Spanish rather higher rates paid. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Aug. 12. (Before Mr. Commissioner GoULBURN.) IN THE MATTER OF JOHNSON, JOHNSON AND MANN, OF THE ROMFORD BANK. This being the day appointed by the Learned Com missioner for the further examination of the bankrupts, and for the proving of debts against the estate, the Court was from an early hour crowded by parties interested, a great majority of whom seemed country persons, small farmers, and agricultural labourers. At one o'clock the case was called, and the bankrupts were placed in the box to be examined. The Learned COMMISSIONER thought that as the ac commodation of the Court was so limited, that those who wished to prove debts had better do so before the Registrar in another room. That done, if any individual wished to hear the examination, they might return to as enableearlyas those possible. The Learned Counsel concurred in the propriety of hadthe Courteorae f such a course, and the official assignees and the Regis armi distance T his mode te return Regis trar having retired to: Mr. Commissioner Evans's room, the great body of the creditors followed. Mr. Commissioner GouLnuaN—Now, Mr. Chambers, for whom do you appear ? Mr. CHAMBERS—I appear for the bankrupts, Mr. Johnson, sen., and his son. Mr. EDWIN JAMES said that he represented the as signees. Mr. Johnson, sen., was then examined. Mr. JAmEs—Now, Mr. Johnson, I believe you were examined before his Honour on the Ist of July last ? I expect I was. Mr. JAMES—Since that time have no papers been found, and sent to Mr. Hill, of Crutched-friars ?—No. Mr. Jams—l ask you, did you not send several boxes of papers to Mr. Hill P—l sent some boxes of papers, but they have no connexion with the bank ruptcy. Mr. JAmms—When did you send these boxes to Mr. Hill ?—Subsequent to the stoppage of the bank, cer tainly. Mr. JAMES—Did you examine those papers before you sent them ; were there not many relative to the bank sent ?—I was not aware of it at the time. I thought I had sent all the papers so connected to Mr. Follett, the official assignee. Mr. JAMES—Were they sent without examination ? Without examination. Mr. JAMEs—Did you not suggest that they should be sent to Mr. Hill ?—No doubt of it, and for this reason. When Mr. Follett was in my office, I showed him the boxes, and said that I should like to keep them. He said, " Oh, send the papers ; put them in smaller boxes." I did put all the papers that were connected with the bank in other boxes, and sent them to Mr. Follett ; and I was not conscious that I sent papers of a similar kind to Mr. Hill. Mr. JAMES—Mr. Follett's expression referred to the boxes, and not to the papers, was it not so ?—No, no. Mr. JAMES—I presume you have been looking into your affairs since the bankruptcy ?—I have. Mr. JAMES—When did you know that you were in solvent—before the bank stopped?—rdid not consider at any time that the effects I possessed in the City of London were insufficient to meet all engagements. Mr. JAMES—Did you not know, or hear, before the bank stopped, that there was a great deficiency as re garded it ?—There w as an apparent deficiency in the balance-sheet taken at Christmas last. Mr. JAinas—Of how much?-19,0001. Mr. James—Were you not told in May—l'll show you the letter immediately —that there was a deficiency to the amount of 31,000/. ?—I told you Christmas. Your May is subsequent to that. Mr. JAMES—Do you know Mr. Burness?—Yes. Mr. JAMES—Were you negotiating as to the pro priety of taking him into partnership?—l declined for two years to accept Mr. Burness as a partner. Mr. JAMES—For two years you say ?—Yes; I had letters from Mr. Burness. I myself never attempted. to negotiate. Mr. JAMES—You know Mr. Burness's handwriting? —I had more letters from him than I ever read. Mr. JAMES—I want a straightforward answer. Whose handwriting is that letter?—l think it is like his. I do not blow that I should authenticate his letters. Mr. JAMES—Read that letter, Sir, and tell me whether you did not receive it?—l do not see why I am to read other person's statements. Mr. JAMES—But it is a letter with a statement directed to you, and it says that the bank is deficient 31,0001., and the writer declines to be a partner on that account. I should think that, to tell a banker that such a de ficiency existed, was rather a material communication, eh ? —I disagreed with his statement then, and do so still. Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN—Had you not better put that letter into Court, Mr. James. Pray who is Mr. Burness? Mr. JAMES—He was cashier at the Romford Bank, toe, with 300/. per annum. I will read the letter, Sir. It is dated the 29th of May, 1844. (The Learned Counsel then read the letter, which was in substance as already stated.) The bankrupt's examination continued—Now, when that balance sheet was made out in May, did you not see it ?—I rather think I did. Mr. JAMES—And it showed a deficiency of 31,617/. 12s. 10d. ?—I say I never agreed in that, nor at this time agree in any such deficiency. Mr. JAMES—Then did you ever by any process of figures attempt to show that Mr. Burness's statement was incorrect ?—No. Mr. JAMES—Did you never, on seeing this alarming deficiency, try to ascertain whether it was correct or not ?—I did a few days after, I think, direct an account to be made out by a clerk of the bank, which I brought up to London, and th e b a l ance then appeared 19,0001. Mr. JAMES—Were your books correctly kept ?—I expect they were. I depended on their being so kept. Mr. JAMES—Then had Mr. Burness any other means of making his statement, except from the books of the bank 2—l think not. Mr. JAMES—Had you a private account with the Romford Bank ?—I had. Mr. JAMES—HOW much is it overdrawn 2—l will ad mit myself a debtor from 12,000/. to 15,0001. Will this satisfy you ? But I don't call it overdrawn. Mr. JAMES—Oh, it will satisfy me. Will it satisfy anybody else ? I suppose, in fact, you have had your customer's money out of the bank, and paid your old debts with it. That is the plain English of it. Pray what did you do with this large sum of 12,000/. or 15,000/. ?—I paid off a bond which was given thirty years before with 15,000/. It had been always delayed till I could pay it. Mr. JAmEs—Then this specific money went to pay the bond ?—Yes, in instalments. Mr. JAMES—What, at the time you drew it out 2 Oh, no ; I wish for an adjournment in order to give better answer than now. I did not expect to be ex amined to-day. Mr. JAMES—Were you not in the habit of paying in bills and cheques drawn and accepted by yourself to your own private credit ?—I do not say a habit, but I have done so. Mr. JAMES—Have you never paid in cheques which never went through your bankers ?—lf they bad been presented they would have been paid. When not pre sented they were used as vouchers against me. Mr. JAMES—Were you not in the habit of giving such cheques, placing them in the hands of the clerk in the Romford Bank, and telling him to credit you with such cheques, and thus falsely receiving credit to a large amount 7—The bankrupt returned no answer. Mr. JAMES—I will refresh your memory. Look at that cheque for 1,0001. Did you not direct it to be car ried to the credit of your private account ?—I do not dispute it. Mr. JAMES—Did you not, after having received such credit, prevent that cheque being paid to your bankers ? —I do not think I did so. I never saw them from the time I paid them. Mr. JAMES—Did you not give the clerk directions not to present this cheque 7—lt is a possible case that such an order might have been given in a single instance. It is possible it might have been ordered to stand over for a month or two. There is a memorandum upon it to that effect. The cheques were placed at the end of the book to my debit. _ _ Mr. JAMES—Did you not, Sir, give a distinct order that they should not be presented, and do not you know that they were not ?—I certainly do, for they were placed at the end of the book. Mr. JAMES—Was this an universal occurrence ?—I held myself bound to make up the amounts when our books were made up. Mr. JAMES—They are drawn in the names ofJ Anson, Mann, and Co. Pray, did your partner know anything at all of them ?—I did not ask his sanction. I was made cash-keeper with his assent. Mr. Commissioner GoULBUAN—•What are the dates of those transactions, Mr. James ? Mr. JAMES—January and March, 1839, drawn to September, 1840. The bankrupt—They stand to my debit now. Mr. JAMES—Did you not draw your customers' money from the Romford Bank, and take credit fur cheques which never were, and never were intended, to be paid ? —They would have been paid if presented. lam sure if, at that time, they had gone in singly, they would have been met. Mr. JAMES—When you wanted money for the bank, did it never occur to you to take them out of the strong box and get cash for them?--I had intended to take as sistance for their full amount. Mr. JAMES—Oh, you meant to redeem them from the bank by borrowing the money?—Yes. Mr. Jiang—Did you have recourse to the same sys tem with bills of exchange?—W&---- Mr. JAMES—Don't say we. Have you never accepted bills and deposited them with the Romford Bank to in crease your own private credit?—Not my private credit. Mr. JAMES—Were they not drawn by you, accepted by you, and by you deposited in the bank of Romford to increase your private account ?—I acknowledge it. My partner had concurred in it. Mr. JAMES—What, do you say that your partner in London knew of it2—l do not suppose ha knew of every transaction, hut I am sure that he was aware that one house was made useful to the other. - Mr. JAMES—Did your partner know, in 1840, that you were in the habit of drawing bills in your joint names, and taking credit in Romford for them?—l did not account to my partner for every transaction, and therefore cannot speak positively of those bills. Mr. JAMES —By this mode did you manage to get credit for an amount of 10,355/. ?—I did not call it credit, for at the time the balance-sheet was made out it was placed to my debit. Mr. JAMES—Have you not drawn your customers' money out?—The 10,0001. drawn went to the interest of the bank. Mr. JAMES—You do not answer my question. Did you not draw out your customers' cash for yopr own purposes ?—I did not use it for my private purposes. Mr. JAMES—The bond was connected with the oil concern in London, and had nothing to do with the Romford Bank?—Yes, it had. Mr. JAMES—Did you never draw that money from the Romford Bank ?—Term it what you please, then. Mr. JAMES—Now I must ask you a question in justi fication of Mr. Mann. Did he know that you had used his name for one shilling of this 10,000 L ?—I am very sorry my recollection does not enable me to say that I communicated it to Mr. Mann, but I always possessed his power to manage his cash account. Mr. JAants—l wish to know now, at once, whether you represent this money drawn as having been used to pay the bond?—The principal and interest together amount to 25,0001. Mr. JAMES—Have you got no account showing how you paid the 12,0001. or 15,0000—There is an account showing it in Mr. Follett's office. Mr. JAMES—Were you in the habit of going down to the bank and taking away bills discounted by the bank ? —They were sometimes given me. Mr. JAMES—Is there a deficiency on those bills handed over to the amount of 15,0001. ?—lt is so said in the Romford books. Mr. JAMES—Have you not had bills which you never took back, nor their proceeds either ?—They went through Glyn's in some shape or other. Mr. JAMES—Have you not taken those bills for 15,0001., and re-discounted them for your own purposes? —I will not say with regard to any amount. Mr. JAMES—Then what was the amount used for your own purposes 7-1 cannot say. Mr. JAMES—Do you not know that after the account for all the bank bills is made up, there is a deficiency againstyou of 15,7561. lls. 3d. in the bill account alone ? What have you done with the money ?—lt has been used for the purposes of trade. Mr. JAMES—In oil trade ?—Not all. The Romford Bank has cost in eighteen years above 21,0001. in rent, clerks' wages, &c. Mr. JeliEs:—But what has become of the profits ? They were small. Taking expenses, losses, &c., they did not exceed 12,0001. Mr. JAMES-All of which you had ? Mr. CHAMBERS objected to the mode of questioning pursued by his Learned Friend Mr. James. The trans actions of the bankrupts extended over a period of 18 years, and his client must be thought to be super human if he was expected to remember the particular purposes to which particular sums were applied in all that time. It was really too hard. Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN thought the creditors had a right to the full impression of the bankrupt's me mory at present ; and, therefore, he would not restrict Mr. James in his right of questioning. Mr. JAMES said all he wanted to know was, in what particular channel the large sum of money he had specified had gone ? It had been said by the bank rupt that part of it had been applied to the oil trade, but he (Mr. James) could .prove that not one shilling had been so applied. Mr. Commissioner GOULBURN—You have a right to sift his memory to the utmost. The bankrupt's examination continued—On the Ist of July . last, did you not have your attention called to this deficiency of 15,0001. on bills, and 10,000/. in cash, stand ing against you ?—I suppose I had. I want further time to explain that. Mr. Jsmus—Do you mean to state now that those bills have gone in the oil trade P—No ; not one quarter of them. Mr. Jigs—Has not Mr. Wilkinson, the solicitor, taken from you 51 bills of exchange, s hich you, however, did not give up till they were discovered by search ? I believe I myself discovered, and gave them to Mr. Follett. Mr. JAMES—No, no ; were they not found in a drawer at Aldgate ?—They must be old and useless bills, then. Mr. JAMES—Oh, no ; some of them are not yet due ? —I do not recollect any not due. Mr. JAMES—Did you not open an account with the Romford Bank in the joint names of yourself and partner in the oil trade, and which you hare also overdrawn to the amount of 2,647/.lls. ? Now, will you swear that your partner knew anything of such an account ? Mr. Mann is in Court, so be _careful ?—I cannot speak decisively ; but I have an impression that he must ha►e known of it. Mr. JAMES—DiaI he ever draw cheques on the ac count ?—I do not know that he ever did. Mr. JAMES—WiII you swear that you ever told him that you were overdrawing an account to which he was liable 2—l do not know that I ever told him. Mr. JAMES—Then you mean to say that you began a bank account to which your partner is liable without telling him so ?—I may have done it. Mr. JAMES—What capital had you when you com menced the Romford Bank ?-20,0221. Mr. JAMES—And 15,000/. of that was represented by the bond, for which you were paying interest ? Many of the joint stock banks-- Mr. JAMES—Don't talk nonsense about joint stock banks. I will ask Mr. Mann a few questions. The bankrupt, Mann, in answer to Mr. JA mss, said that he was partner with Johnson. He never knew that those cheques and bills were negotiated by Johnson. He never heard of the joint account opened iv_ their names at Romford till after the bankruptcy. .7; 1 as never aware that any bills had been placed in the oil trade. Mr. Commissioner GOULBURIi slought the proper course at that stage would be to adjourn, as the official assignee said that a very considerable time would be ne cessary to examine the accounts. Mr. CHAMBERS made application for some allowance to his client from the estate, which was, however, refused by the assignees. Mr. Mann, whose conduct they were satisfied with, was continued in his allowance. Mr. Commissioner GOULDURN then appointed Monday, the 4th of November, for the next examination. THE DUNCOMBE TESTIMONIAL. A large and respectable meeting of the electors and inhabitants of the borough of Finsbury was held last evening, at White Conduit House, to consider the best way of forwarding the Duncombe Testimonial, so as especially to mark their gratitude to their inde pendent and indefatigable representative, Thomas Slingsby Duncombe, Esq., M.P. At seven o'clock, W. NICHOLSON, Esq., the eminent gin distiller, was called to the chair. He briefly ex plained the objects of the meeting, and after highly extolling the talents and patriotic ci,nduct of Mr. Duncombe, called upon the mee ti ng t o con t r ibute towards the testimonial. Mr. R. MOORE (the Secretary) read letters from gentlemen who, from various reasons, were unable to attend. N. HEWETT, Esq., rose to propose the first resolution, which he supported by an able and eloquent address. The resolution was to the effect that they, the electors and inhabitants of th e b oroug h of Finsbury, express their high admiration of the conduct of Mr. Duncombe, whose energetic and dis interested exertions in the House of Commons de mand their warmest thanks, and Bomething more. W. BALLS, Esq., seconded the resolution, which w as supported by J. P. BARNARD, Esq., and carried unanimously. W. ROG ERS, Esq., pr o p ose d t h e next reso lution, which was seconded by Mr. SAVAGE, sup ported by Mr. M‘LEop, and carried unanimously. It was to the following effect :—" That this meeting learns with pleasure that a large portion of our coun trymen have already originated a subscription for the purpose of enabling them to present to Mr. Duncombe a testimonial of public gratitude for his public se r. vices ; and, as the immediate constituents of that gen:, tleman, we feel it our duty to be among the forerac! in promoting and adding value to the projected tes t ! . monial, by immediately opening subscription-lists i : Finsbury, and to take steps to render th e testimon worthy of the borough, and the acceptance of its r e. presentative. Mr. CAMERON 'then addressed the meeting, l ul l warmly eulogised the conduct of Mr. D un combe, a° detailed the most prominent acts of hi s life. I" millions of men subscribed but one penny eacli,,o4 large a sum as 24,0001. might be raised towards t; testimonial. After earnestly calling upon the Mee, j ing to support the object of the meeting, he condor. by moving the next resolution, which had referent to the collection of the fund, and placing the toll the hands of those gentlemen who signed the rer' sition. *c he Mr. KNIGHT seconded the resolution. He sal l was a Chartist—(Cheers)—and was one of those VIL commenced the opposition in that borough ti"; noxious Masters and Servants' Bill, which was,, strenuously opposed by Mr. Duncombe in the ID' of Commons.—(Cheers.) The resolution was carried unanimously. Mr. BURBIDGE moved that the c h a i rm an be re. quested to act as treasurer to the fund. Mr. KNIGHT seconded the resolution. He ar c i, scribed himself as a working man, a n d as a sts ll , friend of the working classes. He a s w armly es' eli gised the conduct of Mr. Duncombe as the spesk who had preceded him. This resolution was also carried unanimously. The SECRETARY then read a list of the subscl i tions collected in the room during the eves towards the testimonial, at the head of which vvas by name of the Chairman for 261. 55., which, by close of the meeting, amounted to a considerable I A Yoh) of thanks was passed unanimously to A; Rouse for the gratuitous use of the large room which the meeting was held, and also for the use committee-rooms, &c. A vote of thanks was then passed to the Chafe for his able conduct in the chair, and the Mee' . separated. A s. I. :-.. ioo b o ... 41 13 4 1 - 'lOO 0 0 100 1 0 All paid s - S - b e 125 0 0 150 0 0 12 10 0 140 0 0 125 0 0 145 0 0 79 9 8 100 0 0 26 9 3 50 8 0 19 b 8 100 I 0 100 0 0 78 8 0 67 10 9 105 0 0 110 0 0 100 0 0 Stock Stock 147 9 0 Stock 59 71 0 50 0 0 63 2 8 SO 0 0 100 0 0 70 To 3 LAWS OF GAMING. MINUTES oF EVIDENCE ATTACHED TOP O I REPORT OF THE SELECT COMMITTED GAMING. Ordered by the House of Common s be printed, May 29, 1844. It is our present purpose to give extracts from 5 tl, evidence of one of the witnesses only who were f„, amined by this Committee. The evidence of Crockford, now deceased, is certainly one of the It, curious, guarded, qualified, and astute pieces of 1 1 1! timony, ever given by a reluctant party, anxious; screen himself from all implications and consequen, i , which might be contingent hereafter on his ansvfr er The reader will bear in mind that the Committes.y, amining at the time consisted, including the ohs man, of nine persons. Out of these nine gentle we are perhaps quite within the mark in saying;t four, at least, had been either members of, or 1 one time or other, played at the magnificent hell s the head-quarters of imperial gaming—in St. Jame' street. Thursday, 28th March, 1844. William Crook ( " Esquire,' examined : • 01 Chairman—Have you been made a d e f en dant'? s o of the qui tam actions which have lately been made „ fi l subject of Parliamentary interference tinclersv so, but no writ has been served upon me. 0 Chairman—lf any questions should be put to yo,/ the matters with reference to which th ose actions u been brought, and where your answers may be inju il ,o to you, the Committee desire you to und ers t a nd th.„'"O' your stating that to be the fact, those qu e stions Wu' be proposed. What is your occupation ?—I have no occupatio l3 l nerally speaking ; I am concerned in m i nes and things. Are you the proprietor of a club-house in St. Jol' o ge street?—l was; but that terminated about f ou r yeare, 4 l For how long had you been the propri e t or ?-- - • 61 " 15 or 16 or 17 years. clo P During the time you were proprietor o f that y house, what were the rules of admission to that club; It was a private club ; not a thing done in public aer it was amongst private gentlemen; I should wish t ° dine answering that question. They were elected by ballot 2—Yes. ja l You were not the person who l a id d own t h o se —No ; they were laid down by a committee. c/0 There was a good deal of play carried on at 0 0 , 0 0 1 was there not ?—There may have been so ; but feel myself at liberty to answer that question, to 01 1 ;;4, A the pursuits of private gentlemen. Situated as I do not feel myself at liberty to do so. l / Do you not know that play went on in that ha I do not feel myself at liberty t• answer that quest'''.", The careful hypothesis, rather than ad0 1 , 159 # that " there might h ave b een " a goo d d ea l of carried on in this high temple of cards and dic e, reverential delicacy with which Mr. Crockfortig h c i di from any divulging of the " pursuits" (H) ofn i # gentlemen ;—and his not feeling at liberty to sil l he knew of play going on in his own house--ar e o; terly hits. The quondam fishmo nger see ms t° 4," bute a sort of theocratic silence to the myst e " o od gambling, as if it were the m y s t er y o f freemasbeo wherewith he was dealing. B u t M r . C roc kfordoo4 he says, in answer to Q. N o . 2,624, " I don, t ;11, what I say about myself, but I must beg to or" . bringing any gentleman's name into discussion: - 0 0 Y plies us with a key to some of his answers, whinhl p e# appear strangely incompatible with that (4 0 ,..i c .,,b1 1 of apprehension and ge nera l s h rew d ness for lve' was really so remarkable. In the following r o jet. it will be seen that the ma s t er - sp i r it o f the To", Pandemonium undert oo k t o say th a t h e did n°,,l'e who was the proprietor o f hi s h ouse; — w h o m P• 44 given it up to ;—whether, on his retir e m e nt, sod g l o o/ up the mastershiplhe had signed any p a p e rs orlteci; who now paid him rent for thepalace he had el i r e —or who was its present superintendent. lay° only astonished to find th a t h e d oes plead grof# some experience in betting on the turf, an redo' knowledge of games of cha nce an d h o rse' to' These confessions do wonderf u l cre dit to IP genuousness of the old gentleman : I should wish to ask whether y ou st ill w i s h 0 d r i e°9 o7l answering any question with re gar d t o t h e pry oos' of your club four years ago ?—Y es, certain*? beg to decline it. la Mr. Escott—Are you proprietor of a hour. A James's-street ?—No. h od s in you three or fou r y ears ago propr i e t o r of s coo H in St. James's -street ?—Yes. Who is the p ro p r i e t or o f t h at h ouse now ?--1 tell ; I have g iven it u p t o th e comm i ttee, and ' tell anything further about it. Who are the members of th a t comm itt ee 7411 word I do not know ; th e y s hift a b out among the-00j Who was the person y ou d ea lt w i t h w h e n Y 0 24 0 1 10 up to the Committe e ?—lf y ou were to as k me ;of could not tell you ; I gave it up t o t h e gene ral tib t i club four years ago. l a th Did you give it up at your own suggestion, or 14 any other person ?--At my own. Or To whom did you communicate your intention it up ?--To the general club. To the general club ?—To the club in g enetal• po t fe e j, Was there any chairman of the club ?—I 9d ° , h (1 1 h. myself at liberty t o go on any further with - ecls tions ; I must d ec li ne i t. When I dealt with 00(111; should say 200 gentlemen were net together, ssoce pressed my wi s h t o d ec li ne i t, and the conseque 00 that it was over. 0 , 13 Chairman—Surely you must have had some °ot 1 / you considered resi)onsible to make the arraugenee • iviste No public 4rmngement at all ;it was aP r A d rangement, a or o d Mr. sla k e—Did you sign any paper ?-14 ° , r to I '.o not know ; I would not give an ans" - „" whether I did or not. I b e li eve I did not. 4 , ? ,...t t sA Mr. Escott—lt w a s a p r i va t e arra ngemen t c oluifs rally speaking. I said I grew t oo o ld, and ~',,d to 7 continue in the club any lo nger ; a nd I wis h OP O P up the club to th e gen tl emen , w h o ma de thei r 00 rangements. o de o f 1, Cannot you say who were the parties vv , - ° hgs t ~ of private arrangement ?—No ; Ido not care ": 0 00b , about myself, but I must beg to decline hr l ' 1 1 gentleman's name into discussion, ess llt te l/1 Mr. Blake—Do you recei v e r e n t for the 11 ° be , —Yes, now I receive rent f or it, certain ly' ti e, I pay. my g e o r e ; Who pays the rent?—lt is paid throng " t my 6 . ?tie club secretary. When I say I receive . 1 ~ 5 0 0 1 ) - t . it 1 11 ceives the money, and of course pays 1 , 0 0 money I pay myself. , do l oot Mr. Escott—Who pays the money? my son receives it and pays it. a ,i ''' Is your son in London?—Yes. __ o ier ~, Is your son now the proprietor or vi;e 00 1 " house?—No; he never was in his life. rr Jed - whenois theythgel:; Is your son conversant with the busines s ell _ e?....4 do 11°1 that house?—No, be never was in it. Who is the superintendent of the how 0 r e know. bf Y ° Mr. Blake—Does any person author ised main in the house?—No. to 3 air • f e 1 Col. Peel—You have handed the . club ?—Yes, and the consequence is , to P ay t or s up I receive it back again. They have "rePrie- ti e Mr. Escott—During the time you w e r el .4oe 1 " i t i h o e us h e o P u — se l w m er u e st y d ou ec c ii o n g e n an iza s n w t e e r f in w g h t s h t a t t 7Ati b or; ope Mr. M. Gibson—Have you had consiuet° l'e k rience in betting on the turf ? such transact' oos —Yes. _ go o ---_, $0 And a general knowledge of games of o h ' You also know something about well as horse-races ?—Yes. ~ of ___.._--.......m0m•.m...••■--..._._ On the 9th inst. at Camden -Il road - villa" en, the Ivife Charles B. Spaeth, ' Esq . CArget' ri8 0 .7 o t f n c e asmthdeinns_tt.,,,Rncl:bmecidea,diesreltagoefdth7e9.late Johliivivio Tho n ms t o h n e , l m ot o h re i h n s s in t. L at Park-terrace, Islingtorr, b!r• o ie ire d On the 10th inst. at Clapham-coraraon, Julia, ...-- W Robert Hudson, Es(l. t he 10 ° On the 11th inst., at Camberwell -terrace, Ann, .- 31r. Timothy Beyington, aged 57. 110, London : Printed and b --- Published }l3` UR .-ceborf 4 0,10 i No. 112, Strand, Printer , at The Sam 0 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the Ididdlesex, Tuesday, August Is, 1844. fol. 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