The Sun. — London, England, 1844-11-07 00:00:00

BANK RETURNS. Prom the London Gazette of Tuesday.) An Account, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Victoria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank Notes, of the several Banks of Issue in England and Wales, in Circulation during the Week ending Satur day, the 26th day of October, 1844 :- Average PRIVATE BANKS. Amount. Abingdon Bank, Abingdon-Knapp and Co £27,601 Andover Bank, Andover - Heath and Co 14,532 Ashford Bank, Ashford-Jemmitt and Pomfret 11,504 Aylshaia Bank, Aylsham-R. and E. Copeman 7,059 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury-Rickford and Hunt 43,423 Baldock Bank and Baldock and Big&leswade Bank, Baldock-Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell... 33,407 Barnstaple Isak, Barnstaple-Drake and Co 14,578 Basingstoke and Oldham Bank, Basingstoke- Cole, Seymour, and Co. Bedford Bank, Bedford-T. Barnard Bedford and Bedfordshire Bank, Bedford- Trapp, Halfhead, and Co. Bewdley Bank, Bewdley-Nichols, Baker, and 18,619 Crane Bicester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bank, Bicester-Tubb, Wootten, and Co. Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Attwoods, Spooner, and Co Birmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham-Lewis, Meilliett, and Co 16,886 Blandford Bank, Blandford-Bastard and Oak Boston Bank, Boston-Garfit and Co 71,759 Boston Bank, Boston-Gee and Co 14,453 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater-E. &J. Sealey 9,780 Bristol Bank, Bristol-Miles, Harford, and Co. 42,047 Bkoseley and Bridgnortb, and Bridgnorth and Broseley Bank, Broseley-Messrs. Pritchard 23,936 Buckingham Bank, Buckingham-Bartlett, Parrott, and Co. Bury and Suffolk Bank, Sudbury Bank, Market Bank, Bury-Oakes, Bevan, and Co ..... 81,216 Banbury Bank, Banbury-Gillett and Tawney. 42,173 Banbury Old Bank, Banbury-Messrs. Cobb... 53,470 Bath City Bank, Bath-Molter and Son Bedfordshire Leighton Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard-Bassett and Grant 36,962 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham-Taylor and Lloyds Bradford Old Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire-H and A. Harris Brecon Old Bank, Brecon-Wilkins and Co 63,260 Bridport Bank, Bridport-S. and W. E. Gundry 25,272 Brighton Union Bank, Brighton-Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington- Harding, Smith, and Co Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds- J. Worlledge and Co. Bromsgrove Bank and Stourbridge and Broms grove Bank, Bromsgrove-Rufford, Briggs, and Co. 14,940 Cambridge Bank, Cambridge-Mortlock and 22,952 Sous Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge-Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury-Hammond and 32,035 Co Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen-Morris and 22,201 Sons Chertsey Bank, Chcrtsey-Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester-Round, Green, and 22,220 Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester -Mills, Bawtree, and Co 46,711 Cornish Bank, Truro-Tweedy and Co. 47,209 Coventry Bank, Coventry-Little and Wood -10,150 cock City Bank, Exeter-Milford and Co 19,800 Craven Bank, Settle-Birkbecks and Co. Christchurch Bank, Christchurch-Tice, Welsh, and Co 2,878 Cardiff Bank, Cardiff-Towgood and Co 7,088 Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow-Brornage, Snead, and Co. Derby Bank, Derby-Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby-Smith and Co. Derby Old Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby-Crompton, Newton, and Co 23,804 Devizes and Wiltshire Bank, Devizes-Hughes, Locke, and Co 20,715 Diss Bank, Diss-Oakes, Fincham, and Co 10,175 Doncaster Bank, Doncaster-Leatham, Tew, and Co. Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster- Cook, and Co. Dover Union Bank, Dover-Latham, and Co 8,534 Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington-Backhouse, and Co Devonport Bank, Devonport-Hodge and Nor -9,042 man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester-Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard-Robins, Foster, and Co. 99,848 East Riding Bank, Beverley-Bower, Hutton, and Co. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford-Sparrow' Walford, and Co 49,893 Exeter Bank, Exeter-Sanders, and Co ... 36,530 Fakenharn Bank, Fakenham-Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. Farringdon Bank and Bank of Wantage, Far ringdon-Barnes and Medley 8,556 Farnham Bank, Farnham-Messrs. Knight 14,743 Faversham Bank, Faversham-Hilton and Co 6,517 Godalming Bank, Godalming-Mellersh and King Grantham Bank, Grantham-Kewney and King 18,551 Guildford Bank, Guildford-Messrs. Haydon... 13.567 Grantham Bank, Grantbam-Hardy and C 0.... 29,919 Haitingrs Old Bank, Hastings-Smith, Hilder, and Co. 36,592 Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford- Matthews and Co. Hertfordshire Bank and Ware Bank, Ware s. Adams and Co. Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don-Rust and Veasey Harwich Bank, Harwich-Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead- Smith, and Whittingstall Honiton Bank, Honiton-Flood and Co. Hertfordihire, Hi tchen Bank„Hitchen-Sharpies 7,865 2,822 79,28 23,453 19,79 52,000 5,384 37,516 and Co. Hereford, Ross, and Archenfietd Bank, and Ross and Arcitienfield BI:Lk, Hereford—Morgan and Hoskins z. Ipswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. Ipswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich— Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J. Davies and Co Knighton Bank, Knighton—J. Davies and Co Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Knaresborough—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, 31,026 20,113 and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—Gotch and Sons,— Lampeterßank,Lanapeter—Jones,Evans,andCo. Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C. Harvey and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W.Williams, Brown, and Co. Leek and Staffordshire Bank, and Leek and Congleton Bank,Leek—Fowler,Gaunt, and Co. Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and Co Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—• Smith and Co Llandovery Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very—David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle tons and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St Bache Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurney s and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Massey and Co. Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brocklehurst and Co '6 ; 495 25,513 24,038 8,830 20,578 41,933 9,057 8,823 4,406 53 232 36,428 3,345 29,750 42,386 20,540 99,410 22,682 7,245 4,793 39,818 3,916 1,855 6,804 Manningtree Bank,Manningtree—Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Ilungerford Bank, and Hungerfordßank,Marlborough—Tanner and Pinckney - Marlborough and North Wiltshire New Bank, Marlborough—Ward, Merriman, and Hillier Merionethshire Bank , Dolgelly —Jones and Wi11iam5......... • Miners' Bank, Truro—Willyams and Co., Monmouthshire Agricultural and Commercial Bank, Abergaveney—Baileys and Co 29,533 Monmouth Old Bank, Monmouth Bank, Brecon Bank, Chepstow Bank, Chepstow Old Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Monmouth —Bromage and Snead Monmouthshire Newport Old Bank, Newport —W. Williams and Sons.. Newark Bank, Newark—Godfreys and Hutton 26,453 -Newark and Sleaford Bank, and Sleaford and Newark Bank, Newark—Handley, Peacock, and 51,314 Co Newbury Bank, Newbury—Bunny and Slocock 36,46' Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Son Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Diss—Taylor and Dyson • Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harveys and 7,396 2,620 21,633 3,940 40,632 Hudsons Norwich and Norwich Bank, Norwich—Gur neys and Co Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not tingham—Hart, Fellows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and Co Naval Bank, Plymouth—Harris, Harris, and Co New Sarum Bank, Sarum—Hetley, Everett, and Co Nottingham Bank, Nottingham—Smith and Co. Oswestry Bank and Oswestry Old Bank, Os westry—Croxon and Co Oxford Bank, Oxford—J. and R. Morrell Oxford Old Bank, Oxford—Robinson, Parsons, d Thompson 71,208 an, Old Bank Tonbridge, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells Old Bank, Tonbridge and Tonbridge Wells and Sevenoaks Bank, Toubridge— Beachin guld bow 0,600 4,904 24,066 14,841 28,173 15,575 13,826 33,608 11,398 Average Amount Oxfordshire Witney Bank, Witney—Williams, Clinch, and Co 10,556 Peace's Old Bank, Hull, the Hull Old Bank and Beverley Bank, Hull—Pease and C o 46,599 Penzance Bank, Penzance—Batten and Co 10,990 Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank, Peter borough—Messrs. Yorke Peterborough Bank, Peterborough—Simpson, White, and Simpson 11,524 Pembrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest--J. and W. Walters Penzance Union Bank, Falmouth Bank, and Truro Bank, Penzance—Rickets, Enthoven, and 19,688 Co Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 33,161 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and 41,578 Co Richmond Bank, Richmond—Stapleton:andCo 5,525 Ringwood and Poole Bank, and Town and County of Poole Bank, Ringwood—Ledgard and Sons Rochdale Bank, Rochdale--Clement, Royds, 11,400 4,916 and Co Rochester, Chatham, and Stroud Bank, Roches ter—Day and Nicholson Romsey and Hampshire Bank, Romsey—Foot ner and Son 3,456 Royston Bank, Royston—Fordham and Sons 15,714 Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 13,762 Rye Bank, Rye—Curteis, Pomfret, and Co 29,666 Reigate and Darking Bank, and Reigate, Croy don, and Darking Bank, Reigate—Nash and 14,110 Co Ross Old Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard 4,123 and Al'away Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron, Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and 17,739 Co Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall and Co Shrewsbury and Market Drayton Bank, Shrews bury—Adams, Adams, and Co Shrewsbury Old Bank, and Shrewsbury and Ludlow Bank, Shrewsbury—Rocke, Eytons, and Co Sittingbourne and Milton Bank, Sittingbourne —Valiance and Son Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Son 17,825 Southwell Bank, Southwell—Wilde and Co. ... 13,923 St. Alban's Bank, St. Alban's—J. S. Story 3,534 Salisbury Bank, Salisbury—Messrs. Brodie 22,650 Shaftesbury Bank, Shaftesbury— Brodie and 10,503 King Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore 7,530 Stourbridge Bank, Stourbridge —Rufford, Wragg, and Co Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co 12,537 Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Caylej, and Co. Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins 17,150 Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward , and Co . 20,910 St. Alban's and Herts Bank, St. Alban's--Gib son and Sturt Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock 29,401 Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and 12,899 Co Thornburg Bank, Thornburg—Ralph, Yates, and 7,480 42,546 6,099 9,875 Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns ford and Barns 13,362 Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Elan d 10,515 Tring Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S. Percival Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co 14,188 Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge —Hull, Smith, and Co. 24,503 Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Wells and Co. 14,781 Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Kelynge, Greenway, and Co. 27,45' Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox, Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and C 0.... 43,493 Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co 12,971 Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Baak, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearc e Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wivelis'combe Bank, Wiveliscombe—P. and W 9,666 6,315 57,19 7,689 Hancock Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton - Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester--Farley, Lavender, and Co. 14,312 Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester-Berwick, Lechmere, and Co 87,428 Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster -Farley and Turner Whitby Bank, Whitby-Frankland and Wil kinson Walsall Old Bank, Walsall-Charles Foster and 20,946 Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster- Everett and Co. Wrexham Bank, Wrexham -.T. and S. Kenrick 2,915 Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton- Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, sad Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth-Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth-Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co 11,542 Yeovil, Old Bank, Yeovil-E. and J. Batten York Bank, York-Swann, Clough, and Co 45,351 JOINT- STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal .. Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford 48,169 Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Bulking Company, Carlisle 32,842 Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company, Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry.. 14,593 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel -127,254 tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company, Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley 32,282 Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 19,264 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington . 27,736 East of England Bank, Norwich 22,377 Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester. 146,871 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Ilalifax. 17,858 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield.. 33,733 Hull Banking Company, Hull 27,315 llalifax Commercial Banking Company, Halifax 12,723 Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax 42,441 Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,447 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 24,735 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 26,521 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 4,143 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster 50,385 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 47,230 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Leeds and West Riding Banking Company, 46,455 9,449 24,610 19,912 8,359 2,256 9,328 Leeds Leeds Commercial Banking Company, Leeds Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 31,358 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 75,799 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London 398,163 North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham 59,938 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton 80,167 N ort h amp t ons hire Banking Company, North- ampton North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth ld Bankf Company, Sheffield 25,180 62,561 56,299 6,751 33,483 SheffielL _Anking Am. ~ Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Long port Sh ro pshire Banking Company, Shiffnall S tour b r idge and Kidderminst er Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield oint-Stock Banking Sheffield and Rotherham J Company, Sheffield Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond i k' A Durham County Banking Com- 57,620 337,015 47,053 58,167 21,642 51,204 50,330 Stockton any pany, Stockton, Storey and Thomas's Banking Company, Shaftesbury _ ,370 9,310 6,547 4,311 Sheffield and - Retford Bank, Sheffield . . Suffolk Banking Company, Ipswich Wolverhampton and Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Leamington West of England and South Wales District Bank, Brbstol. Wilts and Dorset BeAlclufg Company, Salisbury 31,120 14,547 30,527 33,126 78,805 72,616 Average Amount. West Riding Union Banking Company, Hud• dersfield 31,678 Whitehurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester , 6,357 York Union Banking Company, York 69,921 York City and County Banking Company, York 88,735 Yorkshire Banking Company, Leeds P. DEANS, Registrar of Bank Returns. Stamps and Taxes, Nov. 2, 1844. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. FROM THE EVENING PAPERS OF YESTERDAY. GLOBE.—The coloured man, Fraser—whose affecting case of complicated distress and suffering, as described by himself on an application for relief to the magistrate at Queen-square Police-office, and published in the newspapers, had called forth strong sympathy, and produced a considerable subscription for his relief—has proved to be a heartless impostor, and his tale of woe a tissue of falsehoods. It appears that some doubts of Frazer's sincerity had been produced in the mind of Mr. Bond, the magistrate, in consequence of a letter, signed " Justitia, ' in which the writer suggested that the party was the same who, by a 1 similar tale—but varied so as to show, if Fraser and the individual he alluded to were identical, that the representations he made were false and fraudulent — had imposed on him some months ago. These suspi cions were communicated by Mr. Bond to Frazer, who was questioned by Mr. B. as to the circumstances mentioned in the letter. The fellow stoutly de nied any knowledge of the circumstances, and ad hered to his original story. Mr. Bond observed that he would not act upon anonymous infor mation, especially where the statements were positively denied by the person accused. The pub lication of the proceedings has, however, brought forth further proofs of the imposture • and Dr. Ayton, of Soho, yesterday put the matter beyond all doubt by calling at the Police-office and requesting to see Frazer, whom he strongly suspected of being the same fellow who three years ago endeavoured to im pose on him. The applicant's evasion of close ques tions, and refusal to give any reference to persons who could substantiate his tale, created suspicions of his truth, and he declined to relieve him. On Frazer's being introduced to Dr. Ayton, the worthy Doctor immediately recognised him as the individual who had endeavoured to work on his sympathies. The account, as given in the report of the proceedings, is quite a scene : "Frazer entered the hearing-room, and was imme diately recognised by Dr. Ayton as the person of whom he had spoken. " Frazer appeared very confused on Dr. Ayton put ting the question—' Don't you remember having paid me a visit at No. 1, Frith-street ?' and after much hesitation replied that he did. " Dr. Ayton, after repeating the story above given, asked him if he did not say that he wanted to return to his family at Guiana ? " Frazer, whose confusion increased, replied that he did not say ho had got a colonial appointment there, and added that he (Dr. Ayton) gave him nothing." " Dr. Ayton replied he knew he had not, because he would give no references as to the truth of his account. He now pronounced him, in the presence of the magis trate, to be an impostor. " Mr. Bond, addressing Frazer, said, he had particu larly pressed him as to whether he ever had any inten tion of going to Guiana, or had ever said so, and in an swer to his repeated inquiries he declared he never had. " Frazer hung down his head. " Mr. Bond ordered him to withdraw." The timely detection of this impudent impostor— who, it appears from numerous letters addressed to the magistrate, has been levying contributions on the charitable for some years—has prevented his obtaining more than a small portion of the moneys sent to the office for his use and benefit. But we must confess our surprise that, on the full detection of his imposture, Frazer was merely ordered by the magistrate to withdraw. He ought certainly to have bean ordered into custody, and com mitted as a rogue and vagabond, if not prosecuted as a cheat, who had obtained money under false pretences. While distress abounds, as it does, in this vast metropolis, it is gratifying to find that where a case of well-authenticated suffering is brought be fore the public, subcriptions are usually forwarded from different parts of town and country for its relief. It, however, becomes the duty of those who consent to receive and apply such subscriptions to investigate the cases, in order to test their truth. Such fellows as Frazer arrest tha current of benevolence, by excit ing doubts respecting the reality of accounts of genuine distress. Of all impostors, those who impose on the benevolent feelings of the charitably disposed, by tales of pretended suffering, are, when detected, the most deserving of punishment. We still hope that the heartless vagabond whose case we have alluded to will not escape. STANDARD.—As we anticipated, the promotion of Mr. Erie to the bench is made the subject of com plaint with that part—we rejoice to say a contempti bly small part—of the Conservative party who, by their own confession, have taken their side in politics principally with a view to make profit of their politi cal profession. " The Government," says the worthy organ of this respectable band of mercenaries, " began in Ireland with a certain Mr. Howley, who was pro moted for no reason that any one could find out, ex• cept that he was a Whig. The same thing may be said of the appointment of Mr. Erle to the bench, for, although he is very unlike Mr. Howley in re spect to the public recognition of his fitness for pro motion in a professional sense, yet, with all deference ' to him, there are several mien of Conservative politics at the bar, equally competent with him to discharge the office °fin judge." The Government " began in Ireland" with Mr. Sergeant Howley, and the Go vernment could not make a wiser, or more auspi cious beginning. Mr. Howley may be a Whig fur anyting we know to the contrary, or he may be a Conservative ; he is, we know, certainly a Roman Catholic. If, however, he is a Whig, the Whig Goverament neglected for eleven years the claims of a gentleman whose pro motion would be an honour to any party, and that was a kind of honour of which the Whig Govern ment stood very much in need ; we are, therefore, inclined to suspect that Mr. Howley is not a Whig. Be that, however, as it may, Mr. Howley's claims upon the gratitude of the Queen's Government, whe ther Whig or Conservative, were the very highest that could be offered by any man. He was for many years the most hard-worked provincial judge in Ireland, presiding at the sessions of the most turbulent county in the island, Tipperary. To the faithfal discharge of his duty he sa crified a respectable and rapidly improving practice at the bar, and not only did he work hard, he did his work well, according to the unanimous testimony of those of all parties who were the wit nesses to his judicial conduct. Repeatedly have we ourselves been called upon by Conservative gentle men of his county to give publicity to his sessional charges, distinguished alike by their ability and their tendency to promote peace and the love of order in a lawless and half-savage population ; and this has oc curred at a time when, under a Whig Government, such notices were more likely to obstruct than to advance his promotion. Now we say, observing the distinction that we have taken above, between the gratitude due by the Queen's Government gene rally, and partisan Government of any kind, that it were a criminal neglect in any Government to over look such merits. Something surely is to be allowed for services to the Queen and the country, though these services are not rendered through any party ? But Mr. Howley is a Roman Catholic. Was not this a most fortunate circumstance in the case ? Was it not a happy contingency, that at the very time when Whigs and Repealers sought to recruit their ranks by solemn assurances that Roman Catholics, of all classes and denominations and degrees of merit, were to be proscribed and persecuted, a Roman Catholic gentleman was found with such claims from talent, character, and services, that by promoting him the Conservative Ministers were in a condition to give the lie to their incendiary calumniators ? How se verely the blow was felt by both Whigs and Re pealers, is proved by the alacrity with which they united with the mercenaries in raising a clamour against Mr. Howley's appointment to the coif. We pass by with contempt the insinuated sneer against Mr. Howley's competency. That gentle man's learning and talent are universally acknow ledged by those best qualified to judge of both, and 'to judge of his pretensions. We come to Mr. Erle, whose competency is admitted base it would be as useless to dispute it in this country, where he is known, as to dispute Mr. Howley's compe tency in the country that has witnessed the Learned Sergeant's career. But, says the organ of the mer cenaries, though Mr. Erle is competent, there are others as competent. Doubtless—but would these others, Mr. Erle's equals in competency and in standing at the bar, take the office conferred upon him ? Would Mr. Erle himself take it, supposing him a Whig, were his friends in office, or likely to come into office ? We think not. This calls for a little explanation. According to the rule adopted of late years, and adopted, as we are persuaded, upon good grounds, there is no promotion of puisne judges to the chief seats. These are usually filled by the Attorney or Solicitor-General, as vacancies occur. A lawyer is therefore " shelfed," according to the phrase, when promoted to a puisne judgeship. Nobody ever dreamed of naming Sir William Follett, Sir Frederick Thesiger, or their probable successors, for the late vacancy, because every one knows that a chiefshin is the object of ambition with a first-rate lawyer, or one who thinks himself such ; and this object is attainable only in ordinary cases by passing through the office of Attorney or Solicitor- General. It is upon this ground, we presume, that Mr. Erle did not solicit a puisne judgeship from the Whigs, who, absit invidia, promoted some gentlemen of very in ferior pretensions to his ; and it is upon this ground we say that Mr. Erle (supposing him a Whig) would not now accept a puisne judgeship were his friends in office, or likely to be in office. But if none of his equals in professional competency and standing would accept of the seat conferred upon Mr. Erle, how was the Government to act ? Was it to descend to men of inferior profession com petency and standing, rather than promote a poli tical opponent, though a very moderate politician ?. Would this be to do justice either to the country or to the profession ? We believe that the public will not say that it would. But the lawyers, we are told, abstained from voting at the late London election, from a consideration of the too great liberality of the Government in dispensing its patronage. This is a self-contradicted falsehood. At the late Lon don election the Conservative lawyers had nothing to complain of on this head—for nearly all the legal appointments, if not absolutely all, from Sir Robert Peel's accession to office, has been of Conservatives, upon this good reason, that the majority of the bar are Conservative ; and the late Government had provided for all their best men who would take the offices that happened to fall vacant. The imputation cast upon the bar by our Contemporary is not only false, it is libellous. The members of the bar are not political mercenaries, as the organ of the mer cenaries would represent them. They are indepen dent gentlemen, and the reason why some of them did not vote at the late London election was, that the election occurred in the vacation, when they were out of town ; many of them out of tlike kingdom. We hope that we have said enough upon Mr. Erie's ap pointment. The interests of the country are not served by keeping alive controversy upon such subjects. LLOYD'S SHIPPING. BAST INDIA SHIPPING. Her Majesty's ship Cornwallis, from Trinoomalee, at Portsmouth, sailed July 10, Cape Aug. 31, St. Helena Sept. 12, Ascension 18th ; Royal Tar, Bell, from Bata via, off Dartmouth, sailed July 18, St. Helena Sept. 7 ; Sixty-six, from Singapore, off Plymouth, sailed June 17. Arrivals in Table Bay—Alexander, Augustus, from London; Amelia, Mulholland, from Ascension, and sailed Aug. 12 to Mauritius; Ann, 2d, from Mauritius, and sailed 25th to Algoa Bay; Perie, 3d, from Liverpool, and sailed 25th to Ichaboe; Ocean, 4th, from Grangemouth, and sailed 25th to Ichaboe ; Agile, 6th, from Mauritius ; Ville de Paris, 9th, from Callcutta, and sailed 13th to New York ; Bessy, Robertson, 9th, from Leith; Jane Cumming, 13th, from Knysna ; Brewster, 17th, from Boston; Harmony,2oth, from Rio; Gloriana, 24th. from Portsmouth, and sailed 29th to Calcutta; Chanticleer, from Algoa Bay; Rosebud, from Port Natal; John Wil liams, from London; British Settler, 26th, from Howie; Apprentice, 27th, from Rio. Departures from Table Bay—Socrates, Aug. 1 ; Ada, Ist, to Ichaboe ; Hope, 2d, to Mauritius Conch, sth, to Port Beaufort ; Cingalose, and John, 9th, to Mauritius; Colony, 15th, to Ichaboe; City of Sydney, 16th, to Mau ritius ; Brewster, 19th, to Algoa Bay ; Zoe, 20th, to lehabOe. Arrivals in Simon's Bay—Aberfoyle, July 27, from Troon ; her Majesty's ship Thunderbolt, Aug. 14, from Ichaboe ; Stag, 15th, from London, and sailed 25th to Bombay ; her Majesty's ship Cleopatra, 24th, from St. Augustin Bay ; Arcturus, 26th, from Lla 7 nelly. om Arrivals at Colombo—Africa, Aug. 1, fr London, and sailed Sept. 9 to Port Pedro and Calcutta ; Forfar shire, 19th, from Tutucoreen, and sailed 22d to China ; Achilles, 25th, from Mauritius, and sailed Sept. 7 to Tutucoreen ; British Sovereign, 29th, from London, and sailed Sept. 6 to Port Pedro and Calcutta ; Arabia, Sept. 6, from London • Rockliffe, 6th, Grange , B t h, Al vertoa, 10th, from thine ; Eliza Ann, from Muscat. Departure from Colombo—Narcissus, Sept. 14, to London. Arrival at Trincomalee—Her Majesty's ship Syren, Aug. 23, from Moulmein. Arrivals at Mauritius—Eliza, Leishman, July 25, from Glasgow ; Ann Falcon, 26th, from Bordeaux ; Duchess of Clarence, 29th, from Calcutta ; Borneo, Aug. 4, from Calcutta ; Nantaise, 6th, from Nantes ; Eclipse, Bth, from the Cape ; Dublin , 9th, from Corin g a and Eliza, from Muscal ; Lord Elphin stone, from Coringa ; Manchester, from Madagascar ; Orient, Aug. 10, from Calcutta, and sailed to London ; Carrara, 11th, from Marseilles ; John Painter, from Algoa Bay, and sailed 13th to Bombay ; Ariel, 14th, from Madagascar ; Briton, 17th ; Pauline Houghton, 18th, from London ; Bengal Merchant, 17th, from Cal cutta ; Essex, 17th, from Manilla ; Susan, 17th from Cape Portly, 18th from Bordeaux ; Victor Jaquemont, from Nantes ; Eliza, from Sumatra ; St. Helena, from the Cape. Departures from Mauritius-Constance, Aug. I, to Cochin; Argo, 4th, to Boston; Claudius Civilis, 14th, to Amsterdam ; Borneo, 9th, to London ; Nantaise, 11th, to Madagascar; Bittern, 15th, to Pondicherry ; Teazer, to Madra,s; Leander, 16th, to Hobart Town; Stratford, 25th, to London. Arrivals at Anior-Levant, July 4, from Mauritius to 11fanilla; Ann M'Kinn, 7th, from New York to China; Venus, 13th, from Singapore to Swan River; Superior, 17th, from Singapore to Liverpool ; William Prowse, 18th, and Maia, 18th, from Liverpool to China; Mar mion, 20th, from China to Cork; Bahamian, 23d, from Liverpool ; Dryad, 23d, from Singapore; Patna, llth, from Liverpool to China. Arrival in Algoa Bay-Mary Ann, Aug. 1, from London. Arrivals at Galle-Julius Cmiar, Aug. 16, from Trincomalee ; Sumatra, 22, from Colombo to London ; Charles Forbes and Castle Huntley, 29th, from Tutu coreen, and both sailed to China. Arrivals at St. Helena-Sportsman and Jane, Sept. 9th. Ann 10th, Reynard and Rambler, I 1 th, from coast of Africa ; Syria, 10th, from Singapore ; Nautilus, from England. Arrivals at Manilla-Marquis of Lansdowne, June 11, from whaling ; Royal Mail and Chance, from China ; Marchioness of Douro,l9th, from Singapore; Vindicator. from Liverpool ; Moslem, 23d, from Monte Video ; Mischief, 26th, from Hong Kong ; Harriet, 27th, from San Blas ; Trinidad, July 4, for Chusan; Chicora, from Macao ; Bermond Sey, July 10, from the South Seas. Departures from Manilla-Fyen, June 7, to Cowes ; Thomas Lowry, 25th, to Sydney ; Charlotte, 26th, to the United States. Arrivals at Hong-Kong-South Stockton, June 26, from Manilla ; Alligator, July 4, from Chusan ; Lan rick, 9th, from Calcutta ; Penang, 14th, from Liverpool; Erin, I I tb, from London ; Charles Grant, 18th, from Bombay ; Lady Amherst, 22d, from Amoy ; her Ma jesty's ship Iris, 28th, from England and Cape ; Earl of Liverpool, from Singapore ; Surge and Lady, from London ; Orixa, 29th, from Liverpool ; Sam, Singapore. Departures from Hong-Kong--Her Majesty's ship Dido, June 19, to Singapore ; Premier, 23d, to Bombay; Christina, 28th, to Shanghae ; Corcyra, 29th, to Shang hae ; Liverpool, July 9, to Manilla ; Hebrides, to Eng land ; her Majesty's ship Castor, 11th, to Chusan ; Posthumous, to Manilla ; Possidone,. 17th, to Amoy ; Alligator, 22d, to Chusan ; Lady Amherst, 26th, to Liverpool ; Cumberland, 27th, to London. Arrivals at Singapore-England's Queen, July 31, from Bombay, and sailed to China ; Ilindosta,n, Aug. 1, from Bombay, and sailed 2d to China ; Medusa, from Madras, and sailed 2d to China ; Duchess of Buccleuch, 2d, from Bombay, and sailed 3d to China ; Anne Eliza, 3d, from Bombay, and sailed 3d to China; Wilhelmine Marie, 3d, from Hamburgh ; Lady East, 3d, from Bombay, and sailed 4th to China ; Heroine, 3d, from Liverpool ; Darey, 3d, from Batavia ; Castle Eden, 6th, from Madras ; Tuscan, from New Zealand. Departures from Singapore-Herald, Aug. 1 ; Sons of Commerce, sth, to London ; G. H. Harrison, Ist, to the Cape ; Semarang, sth, to Borneo. had witnessed the prisoners' conduct, followed them to the station, and pelted the prisoners with mud. Mr. Jobson's eye was greatly inflamed, and his mouth and nose bleeding when witness came up. his face was also much swollen. Mr. Jobson was perfectly sober. The prisoners, in defence, denied having used the obscene language sworn to by Mr. Jobson, but ad mitted having used the words stated by the lady. Mr. Jobson called them bad names, blackguards, &c. The mob pelted them with mud. Mr. COMBE said the conduct of the prisoners was most disgraceful and most cowardly. The person who would be base enough to grossly insult an unof finding lady, would be coward enough to treat the complainant in the manner described. Ile had in tended to send the case to the sessions, but would deal with it summarily, and fine the prisoners 51. each, or two months imprisonment. WORSHIP -STREET. Yesterday Mrs.. Martha Brassington, the school. mistress of the Bethnal-green Union Workhouse, was summoned before Mr. Broughton upon a charge of having ill-treated one of the children under her care, named Jane Kingston, ten years of age. It appeared from the girl's statement that she had been for a considerable period in the workhouse, of which her parents, with four of their children besides herself, were also inmates. She had been only three weeks under the care of the defendant, who had beaten her during that time on several occasions. On the evening of the 15th of October last, after par taking of supper, consisting of bread and cheese, with the rest of the children, she went into the scullery to procure a draught of water, not having been supplied with any at the table, when a girl named Gornder, who was employed in washing up the tins, told her that she had no business in that apartment, and threatened that she would report her conduct to the mistress. The defendant soon afterwards came up stairs, and on being made acquainted with her con duct, she struck her several severe blows with her hand on the back and shoulders. The defendant then ordered her to go down on her knees and beg her pardon, and although she immediately did so, the beating was afterwards renewed, and she was finally sent to bed. On the following morning she went to her mother, who was separated from her in another part of the building, and acquainted her of the ill usage she had received. The girl's mother stated that she was first made ac quainted with the facts by another child who wit nessed the infliction of the punishment, but whose name she declined to mention, as the defendant had threatened to beat her informant in a similar manner if she could discover her. On examining the child's person, she found that her back and shoulders were completely black and blue, and covered with bruises. She immediately complained to Mr. Fairfield, the master, of the ill-treatment the child had sustained, when that person told her if it had been he instead of the governess, he would have beaten her ten times worse. Witness then told him that she would go be fore a magistrate and seek redress , and demanded her ' discharge for that purpose, but the master at first re fused to grant it, and told her that if she did go before a magistrate she should go in the workhouse garb, but he ultimately allowed her to leave the house. She requested the master, immediately after the child had been ill-used, that he would allow it to remain with her, but he positively refused to do so until all the marks on her person had disappeared, when her re quest was complied with, and the child had been since excluded altogether from the school. The witness added, that in consequence of her interference on behalf of the child, she had been since compelled to work at the wash-tub, although she had a child at the breast, and that the only food allowed her was dry bread and water, or occasionally some gruel. Rowland, the summoning officer, deposed that he examined the child's person the day after the occur rence, and found its back and shoulders impressed with finger marks, and very much discoloured. In reply to the charge, the defendant said that the complainant was a very forward and disobedient child, who was constantly infringing the regulations of the house ; and that having done so on the present occa sion, she had certainly given her a few trifling slaps on the back, but felt confident that no marks could have resulted from them. The defendant called four girls, inmates of the establishment, who proved that the complainant had infringed the rules of the house on the occasion alluded to, and who described the conduct of the defendant as being uniformly kind and indulgent towards the chil dren under her control. Mr. BROUGHTON said that there was great diffi culty in deciding on cases of this description, but he was clearly of opinion that the defendant had, in the present instance, gone beyond the bounds of modera tion in the punishment she had inflicted on the child, and he should require her to enter into her own re cognizance in 301., and find two sureties in 201. each, 1 :o answer the charge at the sessions. BROMLEY. Jas. Leech, a man in the employ of Mr.P. 11. Dyke, one of the magistrates for Kent, attended before Sir C. Farnaby, the Rev. T. Scott, and Mr. Goodhart, to answer an information laid under the Assessed-tax Act, charging him with being upon certain lands belonging to Mr. Fox and Sir John Lubbock, with a dog and gun, in pursuit of game, without having a certificate, for which offence he had forfeited a penalty of 201. Mr. Fox, a brewer, and the owner of some land at Farnborough, deposed that on the day named in the information he was in one of his fields and he heard a shot fired, and a few minutes afterwards he observed a dog apparently hunting for game. Shortly after wards he saw the defendant, who had a double-barrel gun, go from the field into a plantation which ad joined it, belonging to Sir John Lubbcck, and the defendant asked him if he had seen the rabbit he shot at. Witness told him he had no business to shoot on his land, and defendant denied that he had done so, adding that he had leave to shoot upon Sir John Lubbock's property. Witness had since, how ever, written, to Sir John, and ascertained that the defendant's statement was not true. Sir C. FARNABY observed that the mere consent was not sufficient. It had been stated over and over again that there must be an express command or authority. The defendant denied that he had shot upon Mr. Fox's land, and said that with regard to Sir John Lubbock's, he had the permission of that gentleman to shoot all the rabbits he could, on account of the depredations and mischief they committed upon the crops. Mr. Dyke here said he should wish to put the Bench in possession of what he knew upon that matter, and he was accordingly sworn. He then stated that the defendant was jointly employed by him self and Dr. Taste to look over their property, and as they had been planting very largely, he had in structions to destroy all the rabbits he could, on ac count of the injury they did the crops He had asked Sir John Lubbock, whose property adjoined theirs, whether he desired to preserve the game ; and, as he was a large planter also, he very readily agreed that he had no desire to do so, and expressed his wil lingness to concur with them in destroying the rab bits with which they were *so much infested, and which, as the Bench were well aware, did so much damage to the crops. Ile had, therefore, given the defendant orders to destroy all the rabbits he could, and he was sure that Sir John Lubbock was no party to the present proceeding, as his servants and the de fendant had frequently acted together to effect the very object which was now sought to be complained of. The Rev. Mr. bCOTT observed that where land was planted, rabbits, no doubt, did a great deal of mischief. Mr. Dyke said they were overrun with them, and they occasioned very great injury. Sir C. FARNABY asked the complainant whether he saw Leach actually shoot upon his land ?—The com plainant replied that he did not, but he saw his dogs hunting about in pursuit of game, and he contended that was sufficient. Sir C. FARNABY expressed his opinion that, under the circumstances, they could not convict, and he at the same time observed that if the complainant had any plantations he would no doubt be very glad to have the rabbits killed. The other magistrates concurred in the view taken of the matter by Sir C. Farnaby, and the informa tion was accordingly dismissed. 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THE CRESCENT AND THE CROSS; oR, ROMANCE AND REALITIES OF EASTERN TB AVEL.—Under the above title, a work is immediately forthcoming from the pen of Eliot Warburton, Esq., which is likely to supply a want long felt by the English public as regards the East. The writer announces that " The work is in tended to convey in a popular form all the information most required by the general reader, and the Oriental traveller, on the subjects of which it treats. The author has visited Egypt, Nubia, Palestine, Damascus, and the Lebanon, the Coast and Islands of Asia Minor, Con stantinople, Greece, and the lonian Islands. He has interwoven with his personal adventures the most recent information appertaining to the state of those countries, especially as regards the condition of Egypt, the tribes of the Lebanon, and the Church of England mission at Jerusalem. The Overland Passage to India is in par ticular treated of, and the appendix will contain the most accurate information for the guidance of travellers." There was not a single arrival yesterday—a very unusual circumstance—at the port of Liverpool, and but one from a foreign port on Saturday.—Liverpool Albion. 9,266 9,567 4,213 0,950 9,036 rinz SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING. NOVEMBER . 1844. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF COMMON PLEAS, Nov. 6. THOMAS V. DUNN. This was an action upon an agreement, in which the jury found upon the principal count for the defendant, the point left to them by the Judge (the Lord Chief Justice) having been whether the signature of the de fendant hftd been forged. The plaintiff now moved the Court for a new trial, on affidavits that he was prepared to disprove the allegation of forgery. Their LORDSHIPS, having part-heard the application, adjourned the further bearing till to-morrow, and the Court rose. NEWTON V. ROE. INDISPOSITION OF SIR L. SHADWELL.—The fol lowing notice was posted in the Vice-Chancellor's Court yesterday :—" His Honour the Vice-Chancel lor of England will not sit to-day, in consequence of in disposition.—Nov. 6, 1844." STATE OF TRADE.—The accounts received by the kite arrivals from India and China, do not appear to have made any change in our market. Yarn continues very scarce, and exceedingly firm in price ; in goods there is a moderate and steady demafid at unaltered rates. ROCHDALE FLANNEL MARKET, Nov. 4.—There has been more business doing in the market to-day, but the prises have been considerably lower. It is a general rent-day in Rochdale this week, of which the merchants take advantage, as it obliges the small manufacturers to sell. Pieces have been sold to-day at a reduction of from 2s. to 4s. a couple. The wool market still remains heavy. —Manchester Guardian. CIRIOUS DISCOVERY.--A highly curious and inte resting discovery, not only to geologists, but to others likewise, has just been made at the Pentwyn ironworks, near Pontypool. While the workmen engaged on those works and occupied in one of the mine levels, were pro ceeding with their operations, they met with a fossil tree of very considerable size. It was found in an erect posi tion and perpendicular to the plan e of stratification. The circumference at the base, immediately above the point , of junction with the root is six feet, and from thence it diminishes to four feet, in a height of about five feet. THE MARBLE FOR THE SCOTT MONUMENT.—This ponderous block of marble, the largest, we believe, that has ever been brought to this country, on Friday brought up from Mr. Maxton's yard, Leith, to Mr. Steell's studio, Randolph-place. The svorkmen of Mr. Maxton requested to be permitted , at nine o'clock, when the time was their own, to give a hearty pull, in order to be the first, as they said, to set in motion the block that was to form the statue of the illustrious author of "Waverley," and accordingly, on Friday morning, up wards of one hundred of the workmen drew the large mass from the gate, a considerable distance along the road, amid the loudest cheers. Twenty first-rate , horses were then yoked to the track, and, after malty painful efforts, they succeeded in putting the wheels in motion. They proceeded along Junction -street and up Leith-walk, followed by a crowd of per sons, which increased at every step. Just before coming to Leith-street, the horses were put to their speed, and took the steep in a gallant style, amidst the cheers of the spectators. The hill was gained in a short time, and the cavalcade went slowly again. When it arrived oppo site the monument great cheering again took place, and the horses were put to their speed. The car arrived at the 2 upwardsmo u a br cubic os of ff feett thewoef twenty-five Mr. Steell's studio, in Randolph-place, a little after iTonfh This re splendid o p u u various e p s l eleven o'clock, having been about an hour in its progress from Leith. The streets through which it passed were, purest " block'quality,indentedconw sei weighing t o o h g f y h a - e r e fi b l v l s o e . tons, and measuring nearly ten feet in height, and from six to seven across. The expense of conveying it from Leith will rot be less than 50L—Caledonian Mercury. Viscount and Viscountess Palmerston arrived from Germany late on Monday night, and yesterday went to Brockett-hall, on a visit to Viscount Melbourne. Lord and Lady Beauvale and Viscountess Jocelyn are staying at Drockett-hall. In this action for libel, of which the particulars have been frequently before the public, the plaintiff, a bar rister, applied for a rule nisi to enter a verdict in his favour, upon the counts which the jury had found for the defendant.—Rule nisi granted. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSION-HOUSE. Two well-dressed women of the town, named Bridget Williams and Mary Euston, were brought before Alderman Wilson, under the following cir cumstances : About eight or nine weeks ago a gentleman was met, at a late hour of the night, in Thames-street, by a female, who contrived to rob him of a small bag, containing 451. He subsequently appeared at the Mansion• house, and charged Mary Euston with the robbery. As, however, he could not positively swear to her identity, and it appeared on being searched at the station-house the woman was found to have no property about her, the case was, after a strict inves tigation before the Lord Mayor, which was adjourned from day to day, discharged, in consequence of a fatal deficiency in the evidence. Mary Euston, as might be expected, solemnly protested her innocence, but she, at the same time, intimated to his Lordship that she knew the woman who had committed the rob bery, although she could not tell her name or ad dress. It is proper to state that it is a general prac tice with women who combine the two characters of prostitute and thief, to contrive, with the assistance of some ruffian of the male sex, to lighten the pockets of gentlemen who stay out rather late at dinners, not withstanding the activity of the City police. On Tuesday night, as a policeman was in King William-street, he heard a violent shrieking, and upon going to the spot from whence it came, he saw the Mary Euston, who bad been previously charged, quarrelling with Bridget Williams, the other pri soner. The former, in her rage, said she would let out all she knew, and then accused her adversary of having stolen the money about which she had suffered so much. They were both taken to the station-house, where Mary Euston said that Bridget Williams had promised to give her money to fee counsel to get her out of trouble if she would not split; but that in stead of assisting her, the latter went out of the way until all the cash was spent, and therefore the whole business must come to light for the punishment of such ingratitude. The policeman said that Mary Euston distinctly accused Bridget Williams in the station-house, not only of having committed the robbery, but of having basely broken the promise to send her a sovereign for not " splitting.' That Bridget Williams did not deny the fact charged, but, on the contrary, stated the number of 101. and Si. notes contained in the bag, and admitted that she had spent the whole of the money. Alderman WILSON (to Bridget Williams)—So you robbed the gentleman between you, and when you went off with the money you determined to keep it all yourself ? Bridget Williams—Oh, upon my word, my Lord, I never had a shilling of anybody's money. She came to sue quite sudden and tore my clothes. Mary Euston—l never saw her since she refused to help me out of trouble till last night, and as she be haved so treacherously, I resolved to split. I know she robbed the gentleman. Alderman WILSON--How did you know anything about the robbery, except you were both together when it was effected ? Mary Euston—l heard it. Alderman WiLsosi--And why did you not give information of it before ? Mary Euston—l did not know it so exactly as I do now. She told me, if it went to trial, she would pay the expenses. Alderman WILSON—WeII, I hope you have both money enough to fee counsel now, for I think you will want counsel's assistance. One of the officers stated that there were three or four of the " swell-mob," who were known to be the associates of the prisoners, prowling about the Man sion-house. When, however, the Alderman directed some of the police to take any persons of the descrip tion into custody, and place them at the bar, he was informed that they had vanished. The Alderman then remanded the prisoners. An old Frenchman, named Jonas Legrand, was brought up, charged with having picked a lady's pocket of eighteen-pence. There.is an odd circum stance connected with the history of the prisoner. A City policeman stated that between three and four o'clock on Friday, as be was doing duty at the west entrance of the Royal Exchange, he saw the prisoner, who was covered with a cloak, busy at work in trying the pockets of females in the crowd. The prisoner afterwards left the crowd, but having taken off his cloak and hung it over his arm, soon returned and got into the midst of the multitude. Witness, who suspected the prisoner's intention from the com mencement, continued to watch him, and soon saw bins lift up a lady's gown, and evidently pull away his hand. Witness seized him by the wrist, and he im mediately dropped a shilling and a sixpence on the ground. The lady, upon being told that she had been robbed, put her hand in her pocket and said she had lost eighteen-pence. The lady confirmed the greatest part of the police man's evidence, and Aleernsan WILSON having been informed that the prison Centraler was an Criminaln oldoffencdoeur,rt.committed him for trial at the Gooch, the principal turnkey at the Compter, sub sequently mentioned that, on a former occasion, when the old Frenchman was in prison for picking pockets, he used to amuse himself in giving lessons to the boys in that art, and advanced them so considerably in the mystery, that one of them so adroitly whipped the handkerchief out of the pocket of their instructor as wholly to escape his observation. Legrand, who despised the principle " arte perire sue," or falling a victim to his own cleverness, made an awful disturb ance in the prison upon missing his property, and his pupil, who proved to be really worthy of such a master, could not be prevailed upon to restore the handkerchief, which he considered he had fairly ob tained by such an exhibition of his superiority, until the turnkey interposed his power. M. Legrand justi fied the vigorous means he had adopted for restitu tion upon the maxim of " honour amongst thieves." CLERKEIV WELL. Mr. David Patterson Barry, a surgeon at the Lon don University Hospital, was charged with using obscene and disgusting language to a lady in the public street ; and Messrs. John Thomas, and Edward Abraham Hallier, with violently assaulting Mr. David Henry Jobson, a gentleman connected with the edito rial department of one of the London journals, and residing at 9, University-street. The body of the court was crowded with medical students, who conducted themselves in so indecorous a manner as to interrupt the business of the court. Mr. COMBE said if they would persevere in their indecorum, he would have them expelled from the court. There were no two classes of persons of any de g ree which gave the magistrates so much trouble as medical students and attorneys' clerks. If the per sons in the body of the court strove to laugh it off, and treat the complaint as a joke, they would find themselves greatly mistaken. Mr. Jobson deposed that on the previous night, between eight and nine o'Clock, he was standing on the footway in University-street, talking to a lady, when the three prisoners, one of whom affected in toxication, passed. Witness did not know them, and had not given them the slightest provocation, when Barry, turning about to the lady, said--(the words were disgustingly obscene and unfit for publi cation). '['hey then walked on. Witness followed them and demanded Barry's card. He refused it, and Hallier, suddenly turning round, struck him a violent blow on the left eye. Witness attempted to defend himself, but the whole three fell upon him and beat him so that he bled considerably from the mouth and nose. He received another very severe blow on the temple. A mob of two hundred persons ga thered, and witness eventually gave them into the cus tody of a constable. Were it not for the timely ar rival of assistance, he would have been dangerously injured. Each of the prisoners sharply interrogated him. He admitted having struck at them in self-defence, and having told them their conduct was the conduct of blackguards. The reason he did not remain longer , at the station was, because he went to a surgeon to have his wounds dressed. The lady might not have heard some of the words used by Barry. Thomas—You are telling a tissue of lies. Mr. COMBE—The gentleman is giving his evidence in a highly creditable manner, and you had better not repeat that language. George Barker, a baker's boy, who chanced to be passing at the time, confirmed, to a great extent, the complainant's testimony, as did Mr. Coldrick, a tradesman, residing at 34, University-street, who positively swore he saw all three prisoners strike at Mr. Jobson. Mrs. Elizabeth Harrison ' residing at 10, Grafton street, had been talking to Mr. Jobson as deposed to, when the prisoner Barry, turning round to her, said " You are a lovely creature." She was greatly agi tated by being thus addressed, and did not hear any more. Barry's manner was most insulting. (The lady was greatly confused and agitated.) Police-sergeant 5 E deposed to having arrested the prisoners, who were perfectly sober. The whole neighbourhood was in a state cf great excitement, and a mob of three hundred persons, some of whom 5,768 6,830 FATAL STEAM-BOAT ACCIDENT. Yesterday the inquest was for the third time resumed before Mr. Carter, on the body of Edward Everest, a waterman, who lost his life on the 25th ult., by his boat coming in collision with the Waterman steamer No. 6. The evidence previously given was very conflicting. The body of William Morgan, a seaman, who perished with the deceased, has not been recovered. Ralph Sutton, waterman (who had been at the time standing on the new Tunnel-pier), saw the steamer and• the skiff about fifteen yards apart ; the steamer, going at the rate of seven or eight miles an hour, stopped im mediately she struck the skiff. The captain was on the paddle-box, and witness did not think he could prevent the accident. A schooner was aground by the lower Tunnel-pier, which caused the accident Robert Wilson, a waterman, said, he did not see the occurrence, but he came to speak as to the situation of the schooner, and the effect of the eddy caused by it. lilt. C. Hay, a juror, and a member of the Court of Assistants of the incorporated Watermen and Lighter men's Company, said, " Oh, if this man saw nothing of the accident there is no occasion to hear him." The CORONER—This witness is here to speak of facts, and those facts are for the future consideration of the jury The witness then went on to conrirm the last witness's evidence. The CORONBR said, perhaps the jury were satisfied an eddy was caused by the schooner, and it would be for them to say what effect that had in causing the collision. Mr. Hay observed, that there were legal gentlemen present, and they would do as they thought fit. Every body knew an eddy was caused by the schooner. Mr. Clarkson said it was not his intention to load the jury. All he wished was, to suggest what might be a saving of time, and not to ask advice from the gentle man who had made the remark. Mr. Hay said there had been remarks made which had been insulting to the whole jury ; and he had ender • stood the foreman had undertaken to speak to the Co roner on the subject, and he was surprised he had not done so. Mr. Clarkson appealed to the Coroner whether any re mark of his could be construed into an insult? The CORONER— Certainly not, Sir. It will be impos sible, gentlemen, to carry on the inquiry if this state of things is to continue. Mr. Clarkson then handed to the Coroner the names of the persons on board the steamer, and left it to him whether he would call them or not, as ho had deter mined, after what had taken place on the last day, to offer no evidence himself. The captain, who was pre sent, would not probably be called, but the mate and the man at the wheel, who were under his control, were competent to be beard. The CORONER was of opinion that those under the captain's control might be heard, but the captain could not be sworn, though he might make any voluntary state- ment. Mr. Hay—Suppose the mate chose to do anything without the captain's authority, would the captain then be responsible ? The CORONER said, if the mate took charge of the ves sel during the unavoidable absence of the captain, and anything involving loss of life took place, the mate would be responsible. . Samuel Brisco, the mate of the steamer Waterman No 6, said she was going at the rate of ten miles an hour, but, if she was going at the half aspeed, the accident could not have been avoided. George Thornton, the engineer, received instructions from the captain to ease the steamer, to stop her, and turn her astern. He immediately stopped her without easing her, and then turned her astern. Although be could get the engine to back in about eight seconds, the boat would go three times her length on a flood tide be fore she would come back. The orders were given as quickly as possible, and as quickly obeyed. The Foreman of the Jury inquired how far the boats would go with the flood tide, if the engines were stopped and not put astern ?—(A laugh,) The witness, with great simplicity, answered—Why , she would go a long way, Sir ; she, would go to Batter sea.— (Laughter.) The jury, after four hours' discussion, returned a very , diet of—" Manslaughter against Samuel Sims, the master of the Waterman steamer No. 6, for killing and slaying Edward Everest." The verdict was received with _very great surprise by ,he people in the room, which was crowded to excess. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS The following are the results of " A Table of Mortality in the Metropolis, showing the Number of Deaths from all Causes registered in the Week ending Saturday, the 2d of November, 1844." The Table is issued from the Office of the Registrar-General: — Weekly • CAUSES OF DEATH. Total. Average 01 Five Years Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases 215 178 Diseases of variable or uncertain seat lOl 111 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses 147 157 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of 11 , ,-spiration . Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessel's 3O 21 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion Diseases of the Kidneys, &c 8 5 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c.• l9 10 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles lO 6 Diseases of the Skin, &e. 71 Old Age, or Natural Decay 66 26 By Violence, Privation, or Intemperance 942 Causes specified 961 Deaths from all Causes 966 946 DEATHS FROM THE PRINCIPAL DISEASES INCLUDED UNDER ..11.11. ...V.I V . 1.1 11.1,1. TOW. weekly Average of Five Years. Consumption l2B 147 Scarlatina 72 34 Pneumonia . . 97 79 Dropsy ..... .. .. ............ Hopping Cough l5 33 Typhus Small Pox Disease of the Heart Measles Apoplexy Diseases of the Brain ...... .... 12 9 Diarrlicea.. Sudden Deaths DISTRICTS. • West _ __ ' North l6O 171 Central East . 207 207 South 265 242 Total ...... ..... 966 HER MAJESTY'S STAG HOUNDS.—The meet yes' terday morning', which took place about two miles Prod' the residence of Mr. Cox, at Hillingdon, near Uxbridg e ,' was attended by nearly 100, including a sprinkling (°' the officers of the regiments at Windsor and Hounslow , and many of the sporting gentlemen of the neighbour; hood. It was fully expected that Prince Albert wool have honoured the meet with his presence. His ROY Highness, however, who will not hunt with the Queen buckhounds this week, shot over the royal preserves i° Windsor Great Park. An untried hind, upon being t o m carted at Pole-hill, went away at a tremendous slui ce straight ahead to Bone Farm, and thence toward liar row at racing speed, where it made for Pinner, doubling to the right on the Harrow station, and crossing th Birmingham Railway near Stanmore. After a s plendl run, and perhaps one of the fastest on record, of _o,oe Iv hour and three minutes, the hind was taken near % Tilbury's farm, at Pinner, and there housed. Up ws 'T, of fifty, notwithstanding the severe pace throughout tu_ run, were up-at the take. The meet to-morrow w illb7 at,New Lodge. Tax PRINCE'S HARIERS.—His Royal High OS : Prince Albert's pack of hariers met on Tuesday °I Staines-moor. A hare was found on Mr. Steven's W ill ; near Horton, which afforded a beautiful ten miun lc e s a burst, going away to Staines-mead, where it dou bl back to Wraysbury, and round again to Mr. Steven' land, where it was run into and killed. The hare presented to the proprietor of the farm. A hare h i ° been previously found near Staines -moor and chop BTHS. On the Bth of June last, IR at Perth, Western Australia; the lady of Lionel Samson, Esq., of a son. Ai A"' On the Ist inst., the wife of the Rev. J. R. Crawford , Head Master of the 'Western Grammar School, of twins, boy and a girl. On the 2d inst., at Camberwell, Mrs. H. F. Goss, of a s°ie• On the 3d inst., at Hampton-wick, the wife of M. T. man, Esq., surgeon, of a son. the On the 4th inst., at Welbeck-street, Cavendish-squar e / lady of Paul Wilmot, Esq., barrister-at-law, of a son. On the 4th inst., at Oxfrd- terrace, Hyde-park, the lad of Charles Whitlaw, Esq., of a son. MARRIED. of On the 31st ult., at St. John's, Hackney, William Vellliet Islington, to Emily Selina Stephens, the youngest (100' of the late Mr Joseph Stephens, ship-owner, of Hael DIED the On the Ist inst., at Manchester, Mr. Robert Burn, in the 33d year of his age, third son of the late Mr. John Burn , b e compiler of the " Commercial Glance." He succeeded to the labours of his father in the compilation of the Glance b"t a short period. _ et' On the 25th ult., at Thauet- place, Spa-road, Hermon &siltif both on the same day, Janet, aged: nine years, and /I„ i st aged five years, daughter and son of Captain Joh n rg..- Corbin, of the John Bull steam-ship. Tartlet' On the sth inst , at Clapton, Leonard Pickering I-- the infant son of J. A. D. C. Hartley, Esq. DIP On the sth inst., at Greenwich, Eleanor, the wife of Geoe Cooper h , surgeon. 0 0 ' On the 28t ult , Alethea Henrietta, the wife of t he ' John Yonge, of Pdslinch, Devonshire. „ fi r CO' On the 31st ult., at St.'Andre de Fontenay, n Normandy, the Rev. Robert Evans, aged 81. • St On the 2d inst., at Polmont, near Falkirk , James (Ir..voi Esq., otte of the Proprietors, and for many years m anage" the North British Advertiser. On the 21st ult., at Naples, G. R. N. Wright, Esq . .0" On the 29th ult., at Ormesby Vicarage. near St ockton Tees, Philip, youngest son of Robert Wylie, Esq. „ fl oe On the 30th ult., Mrs. Anderson, of High-street, Ca'' town, aged 31st 70. d ° le On the ult., at Inniskeel House; Donegal , I reland Rev. John Barrett. On the 2d inst., Emma Caroline, the wife of Henri Rawnsley, Esq. gs r l On the 2d inst., at Walgrave, Northamptonshire/ Ann, wife of the Rev. John Cox. _ me 0 0 On the 3d inst., at Pontriffeth, Frances, only dans.-- t heiress of the late Thomas Mostyn Edwards, Ess• te the On the 4th inst., at Castle House, Guildford , u harlo/ wife of Francis Hartwell, Esq. On the sth inst., in Fitzroy-square, Thomas Abbott Es., ad th 86. Grp On the 5 inst., at Lavender-hill, Surrey, Sam uel wood, Esq., aged 80. encg On the sth inst„ at Eaton Mascott, Shropshire, Fred Williams, Esq. tag * J On the sth inst., John Watson, Esq., of Joruan Cot Nine Elms, Battersea 131 London: Printed and Published by MURDO YO--- 1 15 Ne. 112, Strand, Printer, ut The Sun 10 00 9 0 :0 . 1 0 Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in Os Middlesex, Tlituaday Neyember 7,1044.