The Sun. — London, England, 1845-10-29 00:00:00

P T. of he Coo t Lieuteo; aitt 6ol g the 'tor nie on the the refit onunsue lP ;rently be" ade neat' e Sikehii4 airy, 184% bowerer, e • and repots at ion : nu . Y), and ths °dicer' 'n e when the r Ringd°'' NI reported i t the u ° ' had take , M i n g tloe lOC all an he revenu e :hat rose!, Coroollo nanY Y e° , entitled ed in COO a 1111114 bl C. 13 ,0 pow lD 113ri c " of the C 001; he A d ' ). l, the rr;, id *t r°l`" of Beat , J. , pr ol or or' 1 0 L o "` lc: e, 31,0 Shie r •• I'h e R ye '" 0 lefC pp., Le riol e ' Lugu' t. i ion M" , u IIOA o nce t : re w as t hroui , h i in the actuall l an acroo dy like A raidaloibl )ITICJI. Jau lol , cly apaciotii from the •ablY t °° , removc. laugh !e Lord ige, and g e, c %via ° Soca° -t of t° bf Jett ~ 1 ~~~, THE SUN, LONDON, WEDNESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER; 29, 1845. COURT CIRCULAR. this" VINDS' TUESDAY. —The Q ueen wa lk e d f or some t i me morning in the pleasure -grounds around the Castle. Princ2 Albert, the Duke of Bedford, the Earl of Hardwicke, Captain the Hon. Nelson Hood, and Colonel Bouverie, left the Casee at ten o'clock on a shooting excursion. The royal Party returned about two o'clock. Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Gloucester took an airing in a pony landau and four, accompanied by the Duchess of Bedford. this f Th ore oyal Famile Royal Family were all taken for their usual exer c i se noon. Her Majesty rode out in a pony phaeton, his Royal Highness driving, in the afternoon, followed in a pony landau and four, in which were the Duchess of Bedford, the Countess Delawarr, and Lady Peel. A seco n d p on y lan dau contained Lady Caroline Murray and the Honourable kisses Stanley and Dawson. The Earl of Hardwicke, the Honourable Colonel Grey, and Colonel Bouverie, attended the 10 311 party on horseback. Her Roy a l Hi g h ness t h e D uc h ess of Kent visited the u achess of Gloucester this afternoon at the Castle. Sir Henry Wheatley left the Castle to-day. The Earl. and Countess of Cl a rend o n are ex p ec t e d thi s aveuing on a visit to her Majesty. to The roy a l di nner c i rc l e th i s evening will include her Yal Highness the Duchess of Kent, Lady Anna Maria Dawson, Baroness de Speth, Colonel Sir George (-‘4,eper, the Ve r y R ev . th e D e a n o f Ch es t er , th e R ev. Fr ederick and the Hon. Mrs. Anson. teThe band of the 2d Regiment of Life Guards was in at dance during dinner. • • talsier tie. lt ajesty a private band afterwards attended in the Rr. p - relr• Yrederick D Danvers had an intervie with the ~,u a ilellor of the ixchequer yesterday, at his y ogicial rest -3,t.e in Downing -street. patchesfro" l ' 3 from the Governor-General of Canada, and also Nv e l ' l p e vof the other North American provinces, 'e received yesterday at the Colonial-office. HAYMARKET THEATRE. t o ' a rea on a song (and a very excellent farce it is, Itstittided on a very beautiful song) was produced here leen e e i l ' e ning, entitled, Who's the Composer ? The th e 3 laid in one of the petty dukedoms of Italy, and k o Plncipal characters are the prosy, fussy, old th e 3 , 1115 di P om p o l o (M r . Tilb ur y), Minister of the a Gr and Duke ; 'the Marquis's daughter Doro ?ie Fortescue), • who is affianced to Count tv a s f: (Mr. H . 11011). Cafarini (Buckstone), )o, o ' Pedantic Buckstony sort of musical composer, C an a in lov e w i t h the li ve l y , c h a tt e ring, soubrette i tspi i .a ( Miss Julia Bennett), by whom, of course, he is th o a d at, but who is devotedly attached to his pupil, lisd B „ liv e l Y, vivacious, mercurial Filippo (Mr. tlad e ;; n ), who sings the song, " Love's sere " which the whole plot turns most 6, t. quit ) , This said serenade, originally written 1 1 ' 4 F37 Q t - is ' and intended for Dorothea, has been sto j°:a to r 4arquis, who has the audacity to make car r i Grand Duchess, being by hire entrusted I ,' re sseci a ;"` to compose and afterwards actually ad -1,4-'111ir! ;`° the Grand 'Duchess herself. The Grand g ene en ,:s outrageous. Who is the composer ? Letted 3,, t nertees the imbroglio. Count Fiesco ar "6„teeo--;;IiPP0 is denounced—Cafarini's handwriting -s 'd in the score—and Cafarini produces the 'ortu n ,,, s i erenad e in the handwriting of the Marqup. b e leep t " ti .' e lY the Grand Duke knows nothing of all this, Lther ty :" arrest of Fiesco, whom he orders to be set at at i :„ lind as the tag of the farce runs, if all have " 05 5 v, ' so d , it matt ers not who is the composer. As, F eel I Lthe s erena d e i s a very b eau tif u l co mposition, b ound in • t . eto sate, even at the risk of ex hittt to theus 'er v e-t° Poser • displeasure lc' Of the Grand Duke, that acted, MHr. d T o . Ger a m s an Reed. The farce was fit perfectly effervescent as lie was in u e s xc n ell w ent voice, and sung delight aild..ibis manner of conducting the concert in the h ." 4 e s gardens, in the last act, .was , worthy of ' 4 (l intself. Buckstone was very quaint as Cafarini, `'.° other characters were admirably . supported. k (i ' l lzse en scene was perfect, and, if we mistake not, Ili t4 l : i , i ,") Who's the Composer ? will be asked every ' Haymarket for many weeks to come. kflitTING INTELLIGENCE. I,,Itt::E\VMARKET HOUGHTON MEETING. EVENDna.—The settling for th e Cambridgeshire 40. v ently pretty easy, but far otherwis e in reality, cite 11(1 ktvy losing 'account having stood over altogether, er, 144/I)°_or three others having been only partie.l(.l;aterstineg,d. t: r 3'fe, e 4 2twithstanding, was a harmless horse I „ . ?Orh. s uaving won to any amount exc pt Mr. G t r t e e v d il 2 le ooo and l j l l. gentlemen, who are stated to have nett , eo tr o ,", : ? Shall not be able to speak decidedly of the settle totit.,ea_t:auci:e see what is done at Tattersall's on Monday this afternoon, preceded by a sale of blood which k en re nothing of any importance was disposed of, kth e ed at one o'clock with a capital list and brilliant e 'tor„ r , and was attended 31, by his Royal Highness Prince I" ° t ° f. Cambridge, and a larg e and fashionable company. 'fte ,An the usual returns: — 4 t p'eund s , f or two year olds , ca rr y in g a feath er; three, olb ; f our, Bst 91b ; five, 9st 31 b ; six and aged, 9st 71b. a winner, with his engag ements, to be sold for 300 ,qllres, if d em anded. Last th ree mil es of B.C. 0 . Bentinck's Clumsy (W. Abdale) 1 litd 'llaermarle's The Little Vulgar Boy, 2 yr s qt, j p i erbert's b c by Venison , out of Pet , 2 yrs TC' Sh a fto's Metal, 3 yrs 1~t," foll owing also started, but were not placed : —Mr. 1 : 12 Misdeal, 6 yrs ; Mr. A. Well's Tiptoe, 4 yrs ; Mr. W. Pretender, 2 yrs ; Mr. J. Osborne's c by the Hydra, p `i, and Lord Chesterfield's Flash of Lightning, 2 yrs. t o tting-5 to 2 agst Metal, 3 to 1 agst The Hydra colt, agst Clumsy, 6 to 1 agst Misdeal, and 6 to 1 agst Of Lightning. tie Hydra colt bolted before starting, ran nearly btOiles, and threw his jockey, was caught, brought back kFt..nust, neart off with a tremendous lead, which he t, .... 6 4 .u ' ,,,,, ed iinti. t .,:, 1 , 1 ,tri the new ground, when he bolted out of est, gh m t i , cl w w .a e s n a t g ii a l in brought into it at the jill h ar of ß Ligh an tt. d advance to the Red House ; n with the rnn L. t _ ll -.-n went in front, and with The Little dent Stand With' Where e s f i et colt at her heels, made play to the where e Was beaten, and her two followers er n e e"liv by a 1 C lumsy Clumsy lying up. They ran thus t un!) , ed his horses, and won 41;e l p i. stakes of 10 dies, the Pet colt third, and Metal a bad 8 "s. each ; for two yrs old colts, Bst 71b ; 4143 , Bst 4113,t The winner to be sold for 200 soya if de l:a, ended, & C. 1.. I 'o W ' PO 1 kr: .100ast,ry,na,sisIth-abritpsh.bYoo7. 1 sh oi,o _vi n • . !tt 8 c .. ontreal, da ... m .. ...... 1 2 3 lAtti t , Pe 8 Pawnbroker ' l )4 t" -- to 4 kf ttp . T h _ agst the Montreal colt, rand 7 to bolted 4 e a lt g e s d t 1,4 a fi n ntreal colt made running all the way, and beavaiene half -way up the cords, won by a head, Tit sql/Bialses g" ; Sharpshooter a good third. Tit f, 41b. 10 Boys. each; for three yrs old, 7s 101 b ; four, file e and upwards Bst 81b. The winner to be sold kr l'tel'°vs* Last half of ' Ab. M. hi t Aa s eh g Caen, 5 yrs (N at ) 1 1. G, P' `-zs b f Brown, . 3 vrs 4 , 1 ,i!1 s b g !chard Cricket, 3 yrs bba x ,:iwich's Prairie, 3 yrs Otti e „, Ws Kiss-me-Qui c k, 3 y rs 1 1 1 41 s Z n. 6 to 4 on Cae n .—C aen ma d e a ll t h e runn i n g, and I;ar e b , ter by two lengths, an d was c l a i me d. u°, h ft, 7st 51b each. Yearling Course—Duke of Cat Sir W. W. W ynn's I Nt 44 1 111 131ack i o h. (Maon).-5 h to 4 iteho o us n Anna Bullen. Won by a h ft. First half of Ab. M.—Lord G. Ben -2 yrs, Bst 61b (Nat), beat Lord 9,lasgow's f t e 7 . l e, out of Mi s s Whip, 2 y rs , 7st slb Cilann).-4 f :ler. Won by three lengths. h ft. T. Y.C.—Lord Glasgow's Physalis, Bst ;V,111). tap ..... 1 ` 8 ) , beat Sir W. W. Wynn's Stoker, 7st 111 b l°ti:It() 1 on Physalis. Won by a neck. If, ats ad eate of 1001., for three yrs old and upwards. D I. "i hi, ?reke's Boarding-School Miss, 4 yrs, 7st 21b 1 k ,kl: L e k: B Fair Rosamond, 4 yrs, 6st 91b 2 Intrepid, also started, but were not placed :—Mr. 1 1 ,trepid 4 yrs, 88t—Lord G. Bentinck's Naworth, ) ,1 0 t1 e -"4--Colo elPeel's I-am-not-aware, aged, 7st 91b '44'll)o'l(l:wick's n Planta Plantagenet, 4 yrs, "st 91b—Mr. J. 14,4'4 Lord Saltoun, 6 4 Yrs, 7st 61b—Mr. Forth's Os a Tom 1, e "a, 5 yrs, 7st 21b—Mr. W. H. Johnson's Mil t kih't 121 fit 2 113 Sir R. W. Bulkeley's Queen Pomare, 3 it i4 t e „ - k's Wigram's Kesheng, 3 yrs, s st 121 b — M r. 1 .4 4 " to A s:l l e ns-the-Main 4 yrs, sst 91b—Mr. Newton's ref 1 4, 55tC 1 , 5 1',,e , 3 yrs, sst 61b—Mr. Osbaldeston's Petit ,uti .4 g ft `tu---and Mr. Carr's Deodara, 3 yrs, 4 st 131 b. agtst Boarding-Ssh . oot Miss (taken), 5 to 1 ti 7 eq b eetl aware, 5 to 1 agst Fair Rosamond, and 8 to_l ri Y u 'nare.-15ourra Tomha took the lead, fol b°4 e , e `9dara, Kesheng, Queen Pomare, and bidden, t Otls, e i l olts and the favburite lying off. These p05i ,1,4 l i be, a .„ l ntained at a good pace to the turn of the 1,„./I.Are a n d took up the running, Bourra Tomacha ;; 11 g. 4 7„, (31 %. ( fZ Kaworth, Fair Rosamond, and I-am-not tlirite 'ay, wards the front, Boarding-School Miss still ti. ishaoie ed at the distance Fair Rosamond and the fa. „PY 1 5 ; the ~t h e front rank, headed them at the cords, and N t tias; te n the favourite having the lead, and winning t I °3' Naworth a good third, beating Queen t teri„'' s eek. th t akes of 30 sovs. each ; for two yrs old colts, 1„,; B econd to save his stake. From the turn of L r e `e's bp• (45 Subs.) 11 ' 411 e kiln? by Slane (71bs extra) ...(H. Bell) 1 4,q' s ti t . t in 0 Y (21bs extra) o '! p e e 8 fir g also started, but were not placed :—Lord G. i )1 1 ;1h e f Ennui (21b extra)—Mr. Bouverie's br f tb 4 4o, 4 orce s )ra)—Mr. Isaac Day's The Crown Prince— S 13, r c Footstool—Mr. Hook's Buttress—Mr. Kitt,tbei,Do3 Daleimer, out of Milliner—Mr. Osbaldeston's , s b rtte 4ta, lotu(t2oibf e t x he tra M ). ountain Sylph's dam—Mr. W. 1 , 4 etti n h e 4 tly an g 6 to 4 on Sting; 7 to 2 agst Joy. `4O R d the Stockport filly, went off together, and b eing, e„lltning to the Duke's Stand, Footstool and ,3 , 4 t , 1r ) - 1,, ' icu,D:lll the 9, about fourth and fifth, with all . the Nl4 , 4 we but wide except Buttress and the Dulcimer I,' foli o . r e beaten early. Joy now took a decided lead, I ,,tai t tkl with the race in hand; at the cords he ;le n ot hin t , and won in a canter, by two lengths. %.418ti'l beaten more than half a length for second; ovi er , ), so, lo(lerate.. fourth. The pace was excellent. ` ll 4,l:'e s ft, Bst 41b each. Last half of Ab. M.—Mr. t iat C st. .utilla, receives forfeit from Duke of Bedford's ' 4 4 4 , , 44, .11, Bst 41b each. T.Y.C.—Sir W. W. Wynn's ~ treA ta receives forfeit from Mr. Shelley's Blanchie. 14 ()I t 41are,,:buke and Duchess of Beaufort, Duke , of Rut et ribp'' a rl a n d er Mar quis of `Waterford, Earl of Strad le, f r 'larl e, E.. x d,ountess of Chesterfield, Earl and Countess si do ,c,'ri of Miiltoun, Earl of Orford, Lord Godol %Ntt", L ora 43' Osborne, Lord Edward Russel, Lord Chas. Orai. Lord eorgn Manners Lord Maidstone, Lord W. Or."' Lord Alexander Lennox, Lord . H. Lennox, Lord Benti k ile N ord g r ,, nc , Lord Charles Fitzroy, Lord James li on "willow Cecil, Count Bathyany, Sir Joseph ._ otton Sir Minto Farquharson, 6ir St. ,-, Watkin Wynn, General Grosvenor, Col. tie tain and Mrs. Roes, Hon. Colonel and Mrs. k k4 t(ta 11,0 n. rimer Fe7ester, Hon. fencer Pitt, Hon. Capt Vlvt oo ' - I.et tat, Shelly, -Vil liers, Hon. Sp Littleton, Messrs. 1 0.1 Pahnell3', Jacques, Greville, Waller, J. Bayly, tet, vv ° , l lll,;t oo „ e. r, Rush, M. Cambell, Balfour, Clifton, 'Lee, Stanley, le3rilliet' P a3 ,;.: e :Vk v l . am, G. IL Moore, Magennis, Peyton, Meyrick, Fitzroy, Cockerill;Bat- It rd 4 l y owin g BARON. not or n i ng was posted in the Subscription-room yes % 10 tt leatitc i24 o, 4 l, : tig ll h ritotiiiiev g of the Jockey Club, held on Monday in ot,,, t, r:ti o , tile - Le:P.llg, 1845, for the purpose of taking into be i fFumstances attending the sale of The etak ; _ta i n t g_against that horse for the Cam es 'lore th e mee Z g re t s e oLved u , ce that no evidence had d t hem to proceed fur ther in the matter, or to attribute improper conduct to any parties." (Signed) G. BENTINCK. EXETER. The subject, we understand, was brought before the Club by one of the Stewards, at the request of a gentleman whose conduct had been impugned, and, as his betting-book proved, without the slightest possible foundation. (RECEIVED THIS' DAY.) NEWMARKET—TU ESDAY NIGHT. ENTRIES FOR WEDNESDAY. Handicap Plate of 501. for three-yr-olds and upwards, A.F. —Queen of the Gipsies, 5 yrs, Bst 121 b ; Little Hampton, 4 yrs, Bst ; Welbeck, 4 yrs, 7st 101 b ; I-am- not-aware, aged, 7st 101 b ; Alamode, 4 yrs, 7st 71b; Duc-an-Durras, 3 yrs, 7st 71b; Sister to John o' Gaunt, 4 yrs, 7st 31b; Alice (h b), 4 yrs, 7st 31b; Pergularia, 4 yTs, 7st; Longitude, 3 yrs, Est 91b ; Kesheng, 3 yrs, Est 91b ; Leopard, 3 yrs, Est 91b ; Little John, 4 yrs, Est 71b ; Master Stepney, 3 yrs, Est 71b ; Colleen Bawn, 3 yrs, fist 71b ; Scarlet Runner, 3 yrs, sst 71b ; Jet, 3 yrs, sst 71b. Subscription Plate of 50/., for two and three-yr. olds. T.Y.C. : —Energy, 3 yrs ; Master Stepney, 3 yrs • Nell Cook, 2 yrs ; Miss Love, 2 yrs ; Miranda, 2 yrs ; Blackbird, 2 yrs ; Ter rier, 2 yrs. Sweepstakes of 10 soya. each ; the winner to be sold for 150 sous :—My Old hack, aged ; Khorassan, 5 yrs ; Doctor Hill, 4 yrs ; Devil to Pay, 4 vrs ; Skeleton, 4 yrs'; Alamode, 4 yrs ; The Attorney, 3 yrs ; Jessie Hammond, 3 yrs ; Colleen Bawn, 3 yrs. Acceptances for the Nursery Stakes.—Polka, Bst 61b; Free Lance, 9st 31b; Fugitive, Bst ll'o : Green Pea, Bst; Chamois, Bst ; Tugnet, Bst ; liexterous, 7st 121 b ; Curiosity, 714 101 b ; Benevolence, ist 91b ; Tell, 7st 91b ; Regalia, 7st 91b ; Col lingwood, 7st 91b; Morocco, 7st 81b; Mecca colt, 7st 61b; Cerberus, 7st 21b ; Guzman, 7st 21b ; Sister to Fickle Wild Rose, 7st. No Derby betting. NEW MATCHES. Thursday—Duke of Bedford's Oakley, 9sl 71b, agst Mr. G. H. Moore's Wolfdog, 7st 71b. A.F. 200, h ft. Friday—Duke of Bedford's Prologue, Bst 71b, agst Mr. Meiklam's Grimston, Gst 71b. A.F. 100, h ft. Duke of Bedford's Black Cat, Bst 71b, agst Lord Glasgow's Miss Whip filly, 7st 71b. T.Y.C. 50. Lord Glasgow's Physalis, Bst, agst Lord Exeter's Wee Pet, 7st 101 b. T.Y.C. 100, h ft. Saturday—Lord Glasgow's Physalis, Bst 51b, agst Mr. Payne's Sir Francis, Bst. T.Y.C. 100, h ft. Lord Exeter's c by Colwick, out of Mecca, Bst 71b, agst Lord Glasgow's Emilia filly, Bst 21b. T.Y.C. 100, h Either horse running in the Nursery Stake allowed Bibs. THE SAVOY CHURCHYARD. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Silt,—At a time like the present, when the public health seems to be an object even with the Government, you will not perhaps consider me a serious intruder upon your time in directing your attention to one great source, not only of originating, but of exten sively propagating, disease. The churchyards in and about Lon don are perhaps some of the most prolific sources from which ori ginate malaria, and all its direful consequences, and I think I shall not have much difficulty in enlisting your powerful ce-operation in endeavouring to expose and suppress these nuisances, when I call your attention to one in your own immediate neighbourhood. I allude to the Savoy churchyard. At all times there is a most noxious effluvium from this churchyard, and when (in a heavy dense state of atmosphere, as at the present time, and as has been for the last five weeks) a grave is opened,* the stench and emana tions are really intolerable, and truly deserving of public reprehen sion and denunciation, as most fertile causes of producing and spreading petilential disease. A corner for this communication will much oblige, yours truly, D. CRONIN, M.D., rhysician to the Strand Dispensary for Consumption, &c. 14, Leicester -place, Leicester-square, Oct. 27, 1845. * Several graves have been lately ope ne d w i t hi n t h e l ast mon th. I n one day there were in this small churchyard no less than three open at the same time, the noxious exhalations from which were so overpowering as to produce on myself faintness, succeeded by violent retching. I have had to keep the windows battened down for seve ral days, during which time I was obliged to burn myrrh, aloes, and ot her chlorine pastiles, and failed i n overpower i ng the p utrid odour. Several medical gentlemen who called on me at the Dispensary have complained of this noxious exhalation. JOSEPH ADY AGAIN. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SUN. Ste,—The inclosed letter is one of a numerous lot received in this neighbourhood from the notorious Joseph Ady. If you think it worth noticing in your Sun daily paper, it may prevent many of your readers from being victimised.—l am, &c. Colne, Oct. 26, 1846. T. THORNB F R. "The undersignea is able to inform you of something he believes considerably to your advantage on receipt of twenty shillings for his trouble, by post-office order, on Whitechapel or otherwise. " Respectfully, " JOSEPH ADY, Acecountant. " No. 5, York-street, Charlotte -street, a quarter of a mile east of Whitechapel Church. " A housekeeper forty years, and personally known to each of the Aldermen of London. " October 18th, 1845. " Voluntary Referee—The Right Honourable Sir Peter Laurie, Deputy Lord Mayor, at the Mansion House every day before eleven o'clock, who will seo justice done you, free of expence, except postage,, which you must pay both ways.": IMPORTANT DECISION UNDER THE NEW GAMING ACT. RIGHT OF STAKEHOLDERS TO RETAIN STAKES. BIRMINGHAM, TUESDAY NIGHT.--A decision of itself unim portant as to the amount in dispute, but of the greatest consequence to the sporting world as regards the question involved, was given this day by Matthew Davenport Hill, Esq., Q.C., Recorder for the borough, at the Mayor's Court. The facts of the case are briefly these :—The plaintiff and defendant are both publicans, residing in this town. At the close of the past year a wager was made be tween the plaintiff and a man named Barber, to play a game at "put,' the plaintiff staking 11 , bs., and his opponent 11. In con sequence of a dispute having arisen in the course of the game, and Barber affirming that he bad won, owing to some mistaken play on the part of Smith, that party at once threw down his cards and re fused to play any further ; at the same time denying that ho had lost the game, and asking for his money from Mr. Chattaway, the defendant, who refused to give it him, but handed it over to Barber. The consequence was that Smith sued Barber for the 11. 55., and the case came on for trial this day, when Mr. W. Morgan appeared for the plaintiff and Mr. T. Harding for the defendant. A witness having been called by the plaintiff's attorney, who proved that the money was paid into the defendant's bands in his capacity of stakeholder while the game at cards was being played, Mr. T. Harding said he thought that that fact having been admitted by the plaintiff's witness must put an end to the case—to show which he would refer the Learned Recorder to the 18th section of the Act of Parliament recently passed to" Amend the law conoerning Games and Wagers," in which it was enacted, " That all contracts or agreements, whether by parole or in writing, by way of gaming and wagering, shall be null and void ; and that no suit shall be brought or maintained in any court of law or equity, for recovering any sum of money or valuable thing, alleged to be won upon any wager; or which shall have been deposited in the hands of any person to abide the event on which any wager shall have been made. Provided always that this enactment shall not be deemed to apply to any subscription, or contribution, or agreement to subscribe and contribute for, or to ward, any plate, prize, or sum of money to be awarded to the winner orlwinners of any lawful game, sport, pastime,!or excercise." _ _ The Recorder having looked over the clause and the Act in general, expressed some surprise at the construction of it, and said, that if the Parliament were obliged to put a reasonable con struction upon► all the Acts that they passed, he was afraid that they would not often find time for a recess. Although the Le gislature might think that by preventing actions being brought against stakeholders, they should be putting an end to parties en trusting stakeholders with money, he did not anticipate any such result, nor did he think that they would retain the money for their own use, but give it to the parties they might deem the winners, and of course such a decision would be final, u no remedy could be obtained Irons the stakeholder. After hearing Mr. Morgan, who sought to explain away the meaning of the clause, but without effect, the Learned Recorder, presuming that playing the game in question was unlawful, decided that the plaintiff must be nonsuited.l IRELAND. REPEAL ASSOCIATION. IJUBLIN. OCT. 27.—The weekly meeting of the Association was held this day. J. P. Somers, Esq., M.P. for Sligo, in the chair. Mr. O'Cossam. observed that he had received an elaborate letter from Mr. John Augustus O'Neill, on the subject of the horrible potato disease that was afflicting the country. He would abstain just then from having that letter read. At the termination of the proceedings, for which we are unable to find room, the rent for the week was announced to be 2481. 153. I Id. The meeting then adjourned. FATAL ACCIDENT AT BIRMINGHAM LAST NIGHT. —We regret to state that an accident occurred at Birmingham yesterday evening (Tuesday), which terminated in the death of Mr. Simmonds, the highly efficient and much-esteemed secretary of the Birmingham Insurance Company. It appears that yesterday of ternoon Mr. Simmonds, in company with Mr. Mills, a cabinet maker, residing in New-street, went out for the purpose, as is sup posed, of enjoying a ride,and that about seven o'clock in the even ing the carriage in which they were seated, and which was drawn by a spirited pony, was observed passing along Suffolk.street at a rapid pace. When near the bottom of a hill in that street the car riage overturned, and the two gentlemen were precipitated into the middle of the road, where they lay until they were raised by parties who came up to their assistance. It was then found that Mr. Simmonds was quite insensible, and that Mr. Mills, although not so severely injured, was only able to state where be resided. A conveyance was procured, and the two gentlemen were at once conveyed to the residence of Mr. Mills. Surgical attendance was promptly rendered, but without the desired effect as far as re gards Mr. Simmonds, who expired (it is presumed) shortly after the accident occurred. Up to this hour (10 P.M.) Mr. Mills re. mains in a state of insensibility, but it is expected will ultimately recover. Owing to the hour at which the accident occurred, and the distance from the residence of the parties to the spot, we are unable to furnish our readers with an account of the origin of the accident. _ _ Died, at her house, Edinburgh, on the 11th current, Mrs. Frances Ingram Spence, widow of the late Rev. John Thomson, minister of Duddingston. AM LTEUR THEATRICALS.—The town was curiously amused a few weeks ago with the rumour of a private performance of Ben Jonson's Every Han in his Humour, which took place at the little theatre belonging to Miss Kelly, in Dean-street, Soho ; and highly eulogistic whispers were circulated concerning the apt ability of " Boz," the accomplished John Forster, and the numerous wits connected with Punch, who sustained the leading characters. The audience consisted of the most distinguished literary men and crities of the day ; and their testimony to the merits of " the players " evidenced in their consummate tact and perfect knowledge of stage business—seems to be warm and universal. Stimulated by the suc cess of the experiment, a second performance is talked of; and we have not only some reason for knowing that it will take place on Saturday the 15th of November, but that his Royal Highness Prince Albert will honour it with his presence. The " company " in the former instance included the names of Charles Dickens, Douglas Jerrold, John Forster, Mark Lemon, Dudley Costello, Leech, Frank Stone, and others of kindred repute ; and we presume there will be no alteration in the arrangements when the ghost of " rare Ben " summons them together again. PROCEEDINGS OF - THE SOCIETY FOR THE SUP.. f te whichr at consterna tion parts has of been tlt n c e a t u r s o e gpb d uoyls u i tt i s eoginongific concl ae t e risi v : e fe n f re d ,nt o he r , s biesu o tos f fao o l e b sio s e ct immense eoynf, nasstorr OF VlCE. — Within the last few days the greatest " ha d ve p b ri e n e t n s e o ff f e a ct d ed is et ornl- y a o t f e s b and letter-press:amounting to several tons, which must put a check te, if not e ntirely abolish the trade in such articles, ai all the goods found have een prints p p d been removed from the different premises and destroyed. In two shops in Holywell-street, Strand, there were seized no less than six thousand prints, several hundreds of books, copper-plates, and other articles, upon which very high prices were placed, together with the autograph letters of persons who had correspondence with the establishment for such articles. In Wych-street, strand, and Fleet street, similar seizures have been made ; and in Russell-court, Drury lane, the enormous number of sixteen theusand prints, coloured and plain, have been taken and destroyed, with other property of the same description. A Custom House officer was also in attendance, by whom French prints and books were seized, as not having passed the Custom House, and for which duty could not have been paid. CLEARING THE RIVER THAMES. —During the last fortnight Ciptain Fisher, R.N., the principal harbour master, has been engaged in removing by explosion, three vessels, sunk be tween Northfleet and Sea Reach. The weather has been extremely favourable for the operation, which has been most successful; the cylinders containing the gunpowder used on this occasion were of a s improved construction , an d so well p laced that a schooner laden with stone was nearly all destroyed by a single charge. This mode of clearing the River Thames of wrecks is proved beyond all doubt to be the most expeditious as well as the least expensive, and re. Sects great credit on the Corporation of London and Capt. Fisher, for the effectual means taken to preserve a free navigation. SPIRIT of the PUBLIC JOURNALS. TIMES.—The new sliding scale bids fair to enjoy a short though by no means a glorious existence. For three brief years it has suf fered the singular infelicity of not answering either of the purposes for which it was devised : it has neither procured a good price for the farmer, nor a sufficient supply in the hour of need. Ttie fourth year has come, and, with it, the emergency which was to test the viftuss of the scale. Now is the promised day which was to unite those much desired contraries, dearness and abundance—to bring up wheat to 705. a quarter, and to pour millions of quarters through the Cus tom-house. But behold, instead of the regular operation of the sliding scale, a coup d'etat ; instead of a long foreseen emergency, a sudden surprise —instead.of a splendid proof of Ministerial sagacity, a sudden disclosure of the most inexcusable folly. The wheat crop is by this time ascertained to be indifibrent in the quality, and short in the yield. So it is generally throughout Europe, in some countries even worse than in England. The accumulations of the corn-growing districts have beets reckoned up with t lerable cer tainty, and found wanting. The Continental prices are at this moment rivalling the English prices. The potato panic, which has so mysteriously risen and fallen, is much too universal not to be well founded. If there has not been a serious failure. never was there so wide-spread and so audacious a conspiracy to terrify the world. The result is a commercial phenomenon almost unparalleled. At this moment it is impossible to say in what direc tion the currents of human food will run for the ensuing twelvemonth —whether from Ireland to England, or England to Ireland ; whether from Odessa to England or to Belgium ; whether from England to Belgium or vice versa. Where there are so many calls, the pos sessors are beginning to discover the value of their store. From one end of the continent to another the fortunate holders are beginning to hoard cons either for wealth or for subsistence. There is a rising cry to open the ports or even to prohibit exportation. In Ireland the calamity seems imminent. Sensible people are counting the months. Next January say some, next April say others, dire scarcity will begin her reign. The cry has at last reached Down ing -street, and to-morrow, it is said, there is to be a Cabinet Council to discuss the famine question. It is then to he settled whether the ports are to be opened by an order in Council, or whether, as some think necessary, by a special session held for the purpose. Such is the early catastrophe of the sliding-scale. It is impossible not to wish an end to this ill-fated contrivance by any means whatever. We are convinced that its existence so far will be found to have seri ously aggravated the difficulties of the next few years. England, and indeed all the civilised world, has just embarked Ina vast aggre gate of enterprise beyond all former precedent, and beyond all mo derate computation of our powers and resources. Works have been undertaken, and wealthy companies have been pledged to their ac complishment, which will require the labour of millions, all to be supported out of the existing store. At any price, labour, iron, stone, wood, food, and other raw material must be procured, for the works once begun, it is ruinous to stop for the smallest breathing time. The pressure on existing capital bids fair to be greater than at any former era of our eventful history. So great a human effort, one so far beyond the probable powers of man, demands every possible alleviation and assistance. For our own part, we do not hesitate to express our conviction that the undertakings to which England is now irrecoverably pledged, not to speak of those which are further meditated, almost require another whole harvest, another whole year's supply of the necessaries of civilised life. Putting the future out of the question, we laid ourselves under the necessity of procur ing by any holiest means an immediate supply. Whatever course is adopted at to-morrow's Council, it is, we believe, certain that the ports will be opened by seine authority, and for some time. The authority is a constitutional question ; the time is one for common sense and common feeling to decide. To open the ports and then to shut them, to lay on duties and then withdraw them by a special Act of the Legislature—by an effort of the whole nation represented in Parliament—seems so impossible a folly, that it is scarcely worth while to discuss its propriety. The sliding scale was to discharge this delicate office. That elaborate piece of legislation, that wheel within wheel, has failed. Will a succession of special Acts bee less cumbrous affair? Willa living sliding scale— not so much Parliament as an actual convention of the nation assembled for this purpose—be a more na tural and practicable plan ? It is impossible to suppose—that Parlia ment would meet and prorogue with the intention of holding another extraordinary session in order to watch the progress of the scale— that the Legislature will stand, like Justice in the Westminster Hall cartoons, everlastingly poising the scale—everlastingly re-adjusting the fulcrum, weighting the beam. Such is the happy and honourable conclusion of the Premier's master policy. The nation is forced at last, on its very knees, to do what even four years back it might have done as an act of justice and humanity. Famine now extorts from our grasp what might have been even regarded as a willing boon to universal man. So far Sir Robert Peel has degraded us to the reign of slavish fear and brute necessity. Once we might have declared a free trade in corn, now we must. The only consolation is that per haps the work will be more effectual, though less prudent. Four years since it might have been a fixed duty, now it is total repeal. That is all the landowners now gain by their devout subjection to Sir Robert Peel. . _ POST.—The mercantile newspapers seem to be exceedingly pleased at what they now consider the certain doom of the corn-laws. They rejoice in what they are pleased to term the clear and intelligible in dications of the public mind that these laws must be abandoned. The evidence to which they appeal consists of speeches which have been made, or letters twhich have been written, by Captain Rous, Mr. Escott, and Lord Ashley. We own that we should not ourselves have chosen these persons as the most adequate expounders of the public mind. Nor do we think the mercantile newspapers would have done this honour, had they not made up their opinion before hand that anything which gave hope of the repeal of the corn-laws, must be in accordance with the public mind, and must be clear, and must be intelligible. The case of that high authority the Hon. Captain Rouse is rather peculiar. He is a much misunderstood gentleman. Some after-dinner reporter, animated with the zeal of a corn-law repealer, and probably with something else, told the world through some newspaper that the Hon. Captain had made a flaming anti-corn-law speech. This was copied into all the other newspapers, and the weight of the Captain's political reputation was added to the repeal cause. At the end of a tortnight, or so, It was discovered by this M.P. for the metropolitan city of the empire that the newspapers had made a corn-law repealer of him. He wrote to say that he was no such thing—that he bad said nothing like what had been attributed to him, but, on the contrary, had maintained that restrictions upon the import of foreign corn were wise and neces sary, and that the relaxation of the restrictive system so far as re garded import of colonial corn from Canada was unwise. To no pur pose, however, has the Hon. Captain written. Even the Times will still have the Captain out in the same rank with Lord Ashley and Mr. Escott. to vouch against the corn-laws, and to make him (on the strength of an erroneous and repudiated report) an expounder of the clear and intelligible opinion of the public against Legislativeprotection of British agriculture. This is the way in which that poor monster. the public, is pulled about by the ears. Writers of newspapers and Members of Parliament take equal liberties with that monster. Each drags him his own way, until at last the monster, partly frightened and partly enraged, kicks up his heels and rushes madly forward, roaring and bellowing and tossing about whatever he fancies for the moment to be an obstruction. Such is the folly, such the madness, which every now and then sways the gravest affairs of national concernment in countries which are governed by what is called public opinion. We and told that a repeal of the cern-laws would soothe the general irritation, and would enfetter commerce from unnatural restrictions. The commercialists think, of course, there'are no human beings to be cared for but themselves. Little does it matter to them that between four and five mrnions of people in Great Britain—two-thins of them able-bodied men—would find the business by which they live injured everywhere, and in many localities utterly destroyed, by this altera tion of the law. This does not concern them. Their sympathies are only with busy towns—where there are steam-engines heaving and straining in the midst of smoke and noise—where there are busy, bustling, speculative men—where there are smart talkers, and news-rooms, and reading-rooms, and mechanics' institutes, and a hundred contrivances to give wealth and effrontery the advantages which modest merit seeks in vain. Such communities as these, in which the philosophy that the weakest must go to the wall, and ought to go to the wall, is openly and impudently professed, are those alone which are cared for by the commercialists and their organs. The scattered ham ets of the country are nothing to them; and, because nothing to them, are nothing in the estimation of a Minister whom no spark of generous feeling ever visits—whose mind is the condensation of a compting house, and his best eloquence a balance-sheet of opposing items of argument, set forth with the coldness of an arithmetician. The main question is this—does the business of agriculture In this country re quire Legislative protection in order that it may be carried on ? Would that business be extensively given up if protection was aban doned? Would it take another form than it wears at present, and become a business which would give less employment to the people than it gives at present? If these questions call be answered in the negative, the corn-laws are not wanted. If, on the other hand, they must be answered in the affirmative (which we believe they must be if answered truly), then the Legislature which abandons protection deserves to be abandoned by the people, and to suffer destruction at their hands. CHRONICLE.—We hear that it is the intention of the Cabinet to consider the railway question generally, and the proper mode of dealing with it in Parliament, at one of their earliest meetings. Most people will say that they are not only right in their determi nation, but that they ought to have done it long ago. It was matter of notoriety last session that everybody was doing too much except her Majesty's Ministers; that the Speaker was over-worked —that the Committees on standing orders was Over-worked— that the Committees on Bills were over-worked—but, that the only paid persons in the State were standing at ease, and doing no thing. Mr. Estcourt looked at Sir George Clerk as a day-labourer surveys his overlooker. The one was continually active, the other continually idle. The one was unpaid for over-labour, the other was paid for doing nothing. But this is the least part of the evil. The truth is, a new pressure has come upon the Legislature, and they have not the means of meeting it. Sir Robert Peel praises indus trious committee-men, and has already rewarded Mr. Darby for his septuagint in group XX. But the machine will not work. Another seed time has come, and when the crop is ready for the sickle there will not be labourers to reap it. In agricultural affairs we have the advantage of Irish assistance, but in railways our ju dicatures must be Saxon. But whether there are labourers or not, the thing does not work. Too many Bills must pass in any given year, whether your system be equal or unequal to the pressure, so long as the system continues as at present. There is a want of ge neral control—a want of some superior committee, or some superior tribunal, which shall determine how many millions may safely be expended. The individual Committees decide only upon the Bills, and deal with them, either for approval or rejection, on the merits. They do not take into account financial or monetary questions. They consider whether the London and York, or the Caledonian, is a good line, not whether the country can afford it within the next three years. They we assembled to do Justice between the parties. They have nothing to do with the state of the exchanges—nothing to do with the proceed ings of other Committees —nothing to 'do with the important con sideration of the pressure of their decision on the country. We have laboured in vain, whilst everything was at premium, to bring this beibre the public, but to no pnrpose. We have laboured in vain to bring it before her Majesty's Ministers, but ineffectually. Sir R. Peel stood aloof, saw forty or fifty millions voted without an cbservation, and would still, we verily believe, stand aloof another year, were not the symptoms become alarming, and the necessity of some Ministerial intervention beccme apparent. He must now, malgre lui, make himself a real First Lord of the Treasury. Te him the country looks for safe pilotage in the monetary convulsion that may ensue. His reputation is financial, or nothing at all. When millions and tens of millions are concerned, it becomes a Government to show itself. But what, it will be asked, ought to have been done, and what can be done at present? Our own notion is, that her Majesty's Government last year, in conjunction with the Bank of England and the Treasury, should have predetermined in their own minds how many millions might properly be voted for railways. Having done so, they should have adopted some mode of selection, by which those which pressed most, on the ground of public convenience, should have had precedence. It would have been difficult, no doubt ; but all useful things are so ; and Governments are established for the prevention or solution of such difficulties. It would not, however, have been impossible. A selec tion might have been made by the Beard of Trade, and would have met with public support, had the reasons been obviously of a public character, unconnected with private interests. If the Board of Trade had taken such a course, instead of attempting what was imprac ticable, and therefore done imperfectly, we should have avoided half the mischief, perhaps half the gambling, certainly a great deal of the confusion that has occurred. But it could net have been done with effect without far more energy, and far more determination on the part of Sir Robert Peel to support his colleagues, than was witnessed last year. They do not commit such follies in other countries. The consummate pedantry of such proceedings is the peculiar glory or reproach of the British Parliament. But be this as it may, a committee, or a commission, or the Board of Trade, or any authorised tribunal should have selected the lines which required precedency. There might no doubt be mistakes—there are mistakes, and have been always; but there would, at all events. have been all due means to avoid them, and we believe that they would scarcely have occurred. Nothing, how ever, of the kind was done. Everythiug was in confusion. Let us now see what must be done next year. For our own parts, we have nothing to recommend but what may be gathered from the observa tions already made. If Government consider that it is safe to spend any more money in 1846. they should first say how much. They should then set themselves to some mode of ascertaining what the lines should be. Now, it is manifest that the lines which have al ready made some progress should be the first to receive a decision. In fact, whatever be the state of the money market, it cannot be bad enough to justify any further postponement of those parties; but with regard to others, we would leave the selection to a commis sion. If this is neglected, Parliament must, of course, deal with individual Bills as before, and three or four times a greater number will inevitably pass than is compatible with public safety. DEATH OF M. FORTIQUE, THE VENEZUELAN MINISTER.—We regret to have to announce the sudden death of M. Fortique, the Venezuelan Minister, at his residence in Wimp°le street, yesterday morning. M. Fortique had lately returned from a diplomatic mission to Sweden, and had complained for some time past of cough and difficulty of breathing, but not to such an extent as to excite the alarm of his friends. It is, however, the opinion of Mr. Erichden, the deceased's medical attendant, that the immediate cause of the fatal result was a neglected cold and inflammation of the lungs. M. Fortique was about 45 years of age, unmarried, and much and most deservedly respected by the corps diplomatic in this country. DETERMINED SUICIDE.—Late on Monday night Mr. W. Payne held an inquest at the Bakers' Hall, Harp-lane, Tower-street, on the body of Thomas Cooper, aged 28, tide-waiter in the Customs. It appeared from the evidence that, about a week ago, the deceased had been reprimanded by his superior officer for absent• lug himself from ditty without leave. This appeared to have a great effect upon his mind. On Saturday last he reported himself " sick," and on the same day took a lodging at the King's Head Tavern, Harp-lane. On the following morning the servant went to call him at ten o'clock, when he replied that he would be down in a few minutes, but not making his appearance at eleven o'clock, he was again called, and his door was found to be fastened. The police were called in and the room-door burst open, when the deceased was found suspended by a piece of rope from the rail of the bedstead. Verdict— " Temporary Insanity." PATENT GALVANIZED IRON COMPANY.—Yesterday a special general meeting of shareholders was held at their offices. Mr. Malin was chosen chairman. He stated that the meeting was to take into consideration a plan for increasing the capital to 500,0001., in order to meet the largely increasing operations of the company, not only in the special article of their patent galvanized iron, but else in their general operations in rails, boiler-plates, and all ether descrip tions of iron, which the company manufacture in Staffordshire and Wales, and for those purposes it was proposed to call up immediately 100,0001. of the increased capital. The motion havinz, been seconded, was unanimously adopted by the meeting, RELATIVE CLOSING PRICES OF RA►_ILWAY SHARES IN TIFIC PRINCIPAL CITIES AND TOWNS IN ENGLAND, SCOTLAND, AND IRELAND. NAMES OF RAILWAYS, Aberdeen .. • • • • • • • • • Airdrie and Coatbridge • • Arbroath and Forfar • • • • Ditto Half Shares • • • • Armagh, Colr., & Portrush Bandon and Bantry .• • • • Belfast and Ballymena .. Belfast and County Down Birkillid.Lan.&Ches.Jnc. Birmingham and Glo'ster Do. New ( iss . at 7 4 dis.) Ditto Half Shares & Oxfi - d.June. Illekburn, and Preston.. lilckburn, Darwn,& Boltu Bolton, W igan, & Liverpl. Boston, Stainfrd and 13inn Brighton, Lewes, & 'last. Bristol and Exeter • • • • • • Ditto New .... • • • • • . • • Bristol and Gloucester Bristol and S. Wales June. British and Irish Union.. ( Weston. and Ayrsh. June Caletlon. & Dumbar. June. Caledonian . • .. Ditto Extension . Cambridge and Lincoln.. Chester and Birkenhead.. Ditto New Shares . • Ditto Half Shares - • .. Chester and Holyhead • • Cheltenham and Oxford.. Chichester and Brighton.. Churnet Valley .•• • • • • Clitheroe Junction .• • . Clydesdale Junction. Cork, Illackrck & Passage Cork and Bandon ....... Cork and Killarney .• • .. Cork and Waterford .... Cork and Youghal Canterbury and Dover... Coventry and Leicester.. Cornwall... • • • • ........ Derby and Crewe ....... Direct Lon. and Manchstr Dias, Ile,ccles, & Yannoth DirectMan.(Remington's) Direct Northern .. • • • . •. Direct Norwich .• • . • • • • . Dublin and Belfast Junc Dublin, Belfast, & Coirne Dublin and Drogheda • • • • Dublin and Galway Dundalk and Enniskillen Dundee and Arbroath Dundee and Perth Durham and Sunderland East Lancashire (No. 1) Ditto, (No. 2) Eastern Counties . Do. New I to. Perp.s pr Ct., No. 1 Do. do. No. 2 East Dereharn & Norwich East Union Ditto Extension Edinbgh, Glas., and Dam. Edinburgh and Glasgow Do. Quarter Shares 1)o. New Quarter Shares Edinb. Leith, and Granton Do. Pref. 5 per Cent Edinburgh and Northern Edinburgh and Peebles Edinburgh and Perth Ely and Huntingdon Enniskillen and Sligo Exeter, Yeovil, & Drchstr Fit wood, Prstn, & W. Rid. Gantkirk and Glasgovr Glasgow and Ayr. Do. Quarter Shares Glasgow and Greenock Ditto New . Ditto Preference Olasgw, Dmfries, and Car I Hsgw, Kilmarnck, & Ard Glasgow and Belfast Un Goole and Doncaster Grand Junction..... Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarter Shares . Ditto New Quarters Ditto Eighths ...... • • Grand Union . Great Eastern & Western Gt Grimsby & Dk Extens Gt Grimsby and Sheffield lit Sthrn & Wstrn (hind) Ditto Extension Great Munster.. • • Grt Northern of Scotland Grt Northern of England Do. New 401. Shares Do. New 301. Shares Great Western • • Ditto Half Shares Ditto Fifths Farehm, & Ports. Harwich . • 1 lutirsfid & Man. IL &Canl Huddersfield and Sheffield hull and Gainsborough.• Dull and Selby Ditto Quarter Shares Ditto Half Shares Inverness and Elgin Isle of Jersey • Kendal and Windermere Kingstown and Bray Killarney Junctions Lancaster and Carlisle Lancaster and Preston Leeds and Bradford Ditto Extension Leeds and Dewsbury Leeds and Thirsk Leeds & W. Riding June. Leicester & Birmingham Leicester and Bedford ... Limerick and Waterford [Antra, Ennis, & Kil. Jne. Lincoln, York, and Leeds Liv. Man. & Gt N. of Eng. Liverpool and Manchester Ditto Half Shares Ditto Quarter Shares.. Liverpl, Ormskrk, & Prstn London and Birmingham Ditto Third 5.......... Ditto Quarters • • . London and Blaekwall Oxffi. & Chlinham. L ondon and Brignton. • • . Ditto Consolid. Eighths London and Croydon .. • • Ditto New . .•••• • • • • Do. (I uarant. 5 per Cut. London and Greenwich.. Do. I'ref. or Privilege.. London and South Westrn Do. New Cons. Eighths Do. New, 501. Shares.. Do. New, 401. Shares,. London and York .. • • • . • Ditto (Bawtry) .• • .. • . London and Windsor. • .. Lomb', Salsbury, & Teovl Londonderry & Coleraine Londonderry & Enniskilln Lynn and Ely . • .. • • . • .. Lynn and Deroham .•... Manchester and Leeds .. Ditto Hall Shares Ditto Quarter Shares.. Ditto Sixteenths ...... blancher and Birkenhead Manchester &Birminghrn Ditto Quarter Shares.. Ditto New Quarters ... I►o. Com& Welsh June. Illanc.hestr, Boltn, & Bury Sinchstr•, Buxtn, & Matlk Sian. Shef. and Mid. June. Hancliestr & Southamptn Midland Ditto Fifths Ditto New Do. Con.Birm.& Derby MitUtsl Gt Westm (Irish) Do. Extension to Sligo Newest i & Daringtn June. 1)o. New (Brandling) • • Newcastle and Berwick Newcastle and Carlisle Nwestle, Durham, & Lan Newport & Abergavenny Newry and Enniskillen • . Newark and Sheffield . •• North British Ditto New Shares • • Northern and Eastern 1)o. Scrip (iss. at 5 dis.) Do. Quarter Shares • • North Devon .• • North Kent • • • • ...... North Staffordshire • . North Eastern • • • • • • • • • . North Union (A) Ditto (B)• • • • North Wales Mineral Ditto New Shares Not th Western •• .• North Wales Norwich and Brandon .. Ditto New.... • ....... Not., Belvoir, & Grantlun Nottingham and Boston.. Nutt., Erwsh. Val. & Man. Nottingham & Mansfield Oxferd and Binning. June Oxford and Worcester •. Oxford and Cambridge . Perth and Inverness • • • • Portsmouth Direct • . presto' and Wyre . • • • • • Ditto llalf Shares • Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. Guar Do. Pref. 5 per Ct. & dlv. Preston & Wyre Extens. Richmond E. W. End June Rugby and Huntingdon... Scottish Central • • .. • • • • Scottish Midland • • Sheffield and Manchester Ditto Quarter Shares • • Ditto ditto (No. 2)•• Ditto ditto (No. 3)• • Sheffield and Lincoln.• • • Sheffield and Rotherham Shrewsbry& Grand June. Shrewsb., Wor., & Crewe Shrws ~Wolv., Dudl, & Bir iihrwsbry & Trnt Val. Un. Ilerefd,&N.Wales Slamannan • • • • • • • • South Devon. • • • • • • • • • • South Midland.. • • • • • • • • South Eastern and Dover De. New (Ns. 321.) No. 1 Do. (155.33/.66.11d.) „ 2 Do. (iss. 301.) „ 3 Staines and Richmond . Staffordshire & Shropshire Stirling and Dunfermline South Wales.. Tean and Dove Valley •• Trent Valley .. •• •. Do. and Holyhead June. Vale of Neath.. ....... West London, Old Shares West End & Sothrn Conn. Wexford and Carlow .... Warwick and Cheltenham Waterford and Kilkenny Watrfil,Wxfd,Wick & Dub Wakefield and Bradford.. Wakfld, Pentiirct, & Gool Wakefield and Harrogate Warwick and Loudon . West Lancashire ... Worcester and Tring.... Whitehaven and Furness 1)o. New Half Shares.. Welsh M West Cornwall.. West Yorkshire ........ Wllsontwn, M. & Coltness Wilt;, Somrst, & Weymth Wilts, somrst,& Southam Yarmouth and Norwich.. Ditto New . .......... York and Carlisle ....... York and North Midland Ditto Halt Shams Ditto Searbro' Branch Ditto :ielby .......... Ditto Extension ...... Yorksb t e &Glsgow Um. Oct. 28. 5% 21%1 8 p - P 1 150 87 35 2U - 5p 434 156% 3 44p 7 5 _ P 1 259% 6% 2153 i 11359 1 EXETER, Ocr. 28. 834 125 2 - 14p1 Oct. 28. 1201 p 4s6dp 4- % P 1 24a p 51 4386 p leloied; STocKIE =Hamm—The sales are—Exeter and Crediton, s%—Exeter, Yeovil, end Dorchester, p.--North Devon, 2 1 /—Exeter, Topsham, and Exmouth (Head's line), % p. Central Cornwall and Devon, % p.—South Wales, 5 1 i i— Cornwall, 34—Bristol, New, 91/2. SHEFFIELD, Ocr. 28. STOCK EXCITANGE.—Th2 sales are—Derby and Gains borough, 2% —Grimsby and Sheffield, le t —Manchester, Midland, and Great Grnnshy,,4—Sheffield and Lincolnshire, 4%—Wakefield and Harrogate, 331. HULL, Ocr. 28. The demand for shares at low prices is very great to-day, and far less disposition evinced by sellers to quit •, indeed the market is decidedly better. The sales were—Hull and Selby (10 per cent. guar.), 100—Ditto, Half Shares, 21—York and North Midland Extension, 25 1 4—Great Grimsby and Shef field, Quarter Shares, 4 3 4—North British (Dalkeith), 6 1 4 — Armagh, Coleraine, and Portrush, 1 3 4—Axholme, s—Cam bridge and Lincoln, 4—Derby and Gainsborough, 2%—Dud ley, Madeley, and Iron Bridge, 3 1 4—East Lincolnshire, 3% —Fleetwood, Preston, and West Riding, 3 1 4—Great North and South Wales and Worcester, par.—Hull and Barns ley Junction, 2/. 6s, p.—Leicester and Bedford, 21. 3s.—Lin coin and Wainfleet, Bs. 6d. p.—Liverpool and Leeds, 3% — London and York, s—London and Norwich Direct, 9s.— Nottingham and Gainsborough, 7s. p.—Nottingham and Boston, 3/. 13s. 9d.—Rugby and Huntingdon, 2%—South Midland, 6/. 3s. 3d—Wakefield and Bradford, 34—Welsh Midland, 3. YORK, Ocr. 28. STOCK EiCITANGL—The sales are—Newcastle and Dar lington. New (Brandling), 47 1 / 4 —North British, New, 4 , 4 1 — Ditto, Carlisle.s 3%—York and North Midland Extension, 23t,C—Axholme, s—Coventry, Nuneaton, Birmingham, and Leicester, 2—Grand Union, 2 1 / 4 —Leicester and Bedford, 2% —Liverpool, Manchester, and Newcastle Junction, 474—Lon don and York, s—Newcastle and Berwick, 14 1 / 4 —North Kent and Direct Dover, 3 1 / 4 —Welsh Midlands, 31/4. THE EASTERN COUNTIES EX TENSION, AND THE CAMBRIDGE AND WORCESTER DIRECT RAILWAY COMPANY. Yesterday a general meeting of the Provisional Committee of the Eastern Counties Extension, and Cambridge and Worcester Direct Railway Company, was held at the London Tavern, for the purpose of forming a Committee of management. Mr. RISING (a director of the Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Railway) having been called to the chair, observed, in reference to the importance of a direct line of railway between Cambridge and Worcester, that an unbroken line between the two great centres of traffic, namely, that of the Eastern Counties at Cambridge, and that of the mineral districts connected with Worcester, through which the proposed line would pass, was an undertaking likely to be combined with the greatest future advantage, as well as with the best chance of pecuniary success. Such a line would also serve as a junction between several important railways, as the London and Birmingham, the Northampton and Peter borough, and the proposed line from Warwick arid Leamington, to Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, and the West of England, the effect of which he thought would tend greatly to enhancelhe value of their plan. He then stated the object for which they were called together, and remarked that he had no doubt they would be able to select from their provisional committee a most powerful and im portant acting committee. Mr. D. C. Hines then proceeded to give a statement of the proposed line, which he stated, after commencing at Cambridge, which bad become the traffic centre of the Eastern Coun ties Railway, Icy the line of railway intended to be formed by that company, would pass in to Bedford, go to Olney, and cross at or near the Blisworth station of the London and Birming ham Railway, where it will communicate with the Northampton and Peterborough line; it will then advance westward, and cross the Oxford and Rugby line at or near Fenny Compton to Stratford on-Avon, joining there the proposed line from Warwick and Lea. mington to Cheltenham, Gloucester, Bristol, and the West of Eng. land. Continuing its course through Chester, the line will go direct to Worcester, and thus terminate the great centre traffic for the mineral and manufacturing districts of South Staffordshire, Shrop shire, and North and South Wales. The proposed line does not inter fere with any existing railway, and presents an unbroken line be. tween two great centres of traffic. Negotiations have been entered into with with the Eastern Counties Railway Company, whose sup. port and co-operation will be ensured for obtaining the line, and an arrangement has also been made with the proposed Rugby, Warwick, and Worcester Company, which this line will join at Alcester, by means of which the Eastern Counties traffic will pro. ceed to Worcester. The directors will have power reserved to them to amalgamate with any other existing or projecting com panies. The project promised the most important results as con nected with the Eastern Counties. A Committee was appointed. London and l3lrniingham Loudon and Brighton ..... • .. Great Wester►► ..... Bristol and Exeter ...... London and South-Western • • South-Eastern and Dover •• Highest.' Lowest. 1 highest.' Lowest. 21834 217 217 214 70 6834 6334 GO 162 160 149 145 101 99 90 85 77 77 75 72 41% 4134 38 37 CHRONICLE.—The "standing order," regulating the pay.. ment of railway deposits, to which we alluded yesterday, provides that it shall not apply to any railway Bills which have been before Parliament during the present session (that is, session 1845), and which may again be introduced in the next (1846), or which are already provisionally registered, or the subscription contract for which may be already executed, or partly executed, on the 29th day of July, 1845 (nor 1844, as stated yesterday by a misprint), but with respect to such Bills a sum equal to one-twentieth part of the amount subscribed shall be deposited as before provided—that is to say, previous to the presentation of a petition for the Bill. The Act, which is ::printed in the appendix to the standing orders, namely, the let and 2d Vic., c. 117, enacts that every sum paid into the Bank of England in the name and with the privity of the Accountant-General, shall be paid in and placed to his account there pursuant to the method prescribed by the Act 1 George IV., c. 35, which Act simply provides that, when any persons are ordered to pay any sums of money, or any Exchequer-bills, bills of exchange, or other negotiable securities into the Bank of England to the account of the Accountant-General, the party so ordered shall pay the same into account in the name of that officer, and shall take receipt for the same from one of the cashiers, " which receipt shall be delivered to the Accountant-General." It is not the money or securities that must be delivered to the Ac countant-General, but simply the " receipt," and there can be no legal obstacle, therefore, in the way of an arrangement between the banks who hold the railway deposits and the Bank of England to have the required amount at their credits in the books of the Bank, so that when the Speaker's order is issued for paying the deposits to the Accountant-General, the amounts may be trans ferred from the credit of the banks to an account in the name of that officer. Such railway companies as may have invested their deposits in securities may make the arrangements with the Bank of England themselves, and have the amount transferred to the credit of the Accountant-General. It does not appear to be necei • sary that they should realise their securities, but they may be placed to their credit at the market price of the day, the depositors, of course, making good the difference should the market price de cline, and receiving the benefit of a rise. Last year the Accoun tant :General insisted on being paid in " money." strictly so to speak ; that is, in coin and notes, and would no doubt enforce the same rule again, unless the deposit banks and provisional com mittees of railway companies take steps to arrange the business in a more easy and convenient manner. To use inferior hay, cut all the hay and straw to gether; then form a gruel of offal grain and linseed cake; steep the grain and cake for lofty-eight hours; mix it hot, 'press it down and leave it forty-eight hours' The cattle eat it eagerly and thrive 011 it. TUESDAY NIGHT'S GAZETTE. ST. JAMES'S.PALACE, Ocr. 27. The Queen has been pleased to appoint Elizabeth Lucy Countess of Desart to be one of the Ladies of the Bed chamber in Ordinary to her Najestv, in the room of Cathe rine Countess of Dunmore, resigned. DIVIDENDS DECLARED. W. Hill and W. K. Wackerbarth, ship agents, Leadenhall street—fourth div. of 7d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street. T. Seddon, upholsterer, Calthorpe-place, Gray's Inn-road— first div. of 20s. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street. J. M. Leader, coachmaker, Oxford-street—first div. of 4s. 10d. in the pound, on any Wednesday, at the office of Mr. Graham, Coleman-street. R. Currie, bookseFler:Tewcastle-upon-Tyne--third and final div. of 31-3 d, in the pound (in addition to 4s. Bd. pre viously declared), on any Saturday, at the office of Mr. Baker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. T. Brewer, parlor, Liverpool—first div. of 2s. 3d. in the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. G. Byford, grocer, Liverpool—first div. of ss. in the pound, on any Thursday, at the office of Mr. Cazenove, Liverpool. DIVIDENDS. At the Court of Bankruptcy, Basinghall-street. I. Hughes, shoemaker, Clio!msford, Nov. 19, at twelve—. J. Welch, licensed victualle,, I.ng-cross, Holloway, Nov. 19, at twelve—C. Schofield, timber merchant, Kingston-upon- Thames, Nov. 19, at eleven—J. C. Crespin, shipping agent, Eastcheap, Nov. 19, at half-past twelve—A. Morton, A. Rodick, and C. Morton, bankers, Wellingborough. Nov. 18, at half-past one—G. 11. and G. C. Green, wholesale stationers, Barge-yard, Bucklersbury, Nov. .18, at eleven. In the Country. W. M. Onions, ironfounder, Westbromwich, Nov. 27, at twelve, at the Birmingham Di s t r i c t Court—W. Scott, gro cer, anchester, Nov. 28, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis trict Court—W. Summers and N. Rae, rope makers, Strange ways, Lancashire, Nov. 19, at twelve, at the Manchester District Court —E. T. Thomas and H. 31. Crosskill, book sellers, Rochdale, Nov. 19, at twelve, at the Manchester Dis trict Court—G. and S. Seccombe, tailors, Tavistock, Nov. 20, at eleven, at the Exeter District Court—W. J. J. Coal], grocer, Exeter, Nov. 20. at eleven, at the Exeter Dist r i c t Court—W. Reay, shipbuilder, Walker, Northumberland, Nov. 19, at twelve, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court— G. Walker, shipbroker, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Nov. 19, at eleven, at the Newcastle-upon-Tyne District Court— J. Palmer, sen., and T. T. Barker, cotton doublers, Stapleford, Nottinghamshire, Nov. 21, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—T. T. Barker, cotton doubler, Sandiacre, Derbyshire, Nov. 21, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—J. Clarke, banker, Leicester, Dec. 5, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court—J. Philips, banker, Leices ter, Dec. 5, at twelve, at the Birmingham District Court— T. Smith, banker, Leicester, Dec. 5, at twelve, at the Bir mingham District Court—J. Heaton, stationer, Ludlow, Nov. 21, at half-past eleven, at the Birmingham District Court. CERTIFICATES to be granted, unless cause be shown to the contrary, on the day herein mentioned. J. Guy, publisher, Bury-street. St. James's, Nov. 19—I, De J. Ventura, merchant, White Hart• court, Bishopsgate gate-street, Nov. 19—W. SoiFe, printseller, Strand, Nov. 19—H. D. Coggan, warehouseman, Friday-street, Nov. 18— R. Garrett, linendraper, Henfield, Sussex, Nov. 18—E. Malian, dentist, Brook-street, Bond-street, Nov. 19—G. T. Peers, plumber, Ironmonger-lane, Cheapside, Nov. 19—J. H. Suckling, ironmonger, Birmingham, Nov. 21—J. Riky, merchant, Liverpool, Nov. 18—J. Braithwaite, innkeeper, Morpeth, Nov. 18. PARTNERSHIPS DISSOLVED. J. Robinson, M. Midgley, and W. Midgley, milliners, Liverpool—G. Stebbing, sen., and H. N. Stabbing, opticians, Portsmouth—A. Fenton, R. Marsden, and G. Marsden, merchants, Liverpool—H. J. Marcus and J. Naylor, stock brokers, Leeds—T. Bartle and J. Jarvis, tailors, Strand— G. Mountain and J. Mountain, warehousemen, Manchester —F. Piggott and T. F. Giles, coal merchants, Richmond, Surrey—C. Lowe, E. Lowe, and F. Oakley, milliners, Hyde, Isle of Wight—B. Squire, N. Clough, and Henry Lepping well, painters, Leeds—C. Bartlett and C. C. Pilfold, mer chants, Gloucester—J. M'Whan and W. Haughton, tal low-chandlers, Liverpool—C. Binning and W. Hurman, linendrapers, Bridgwater—J. Cox, J. F. Cox, and W. Cox, brewers, Brampton, Cumberland (so far as regards W. Cox) —G. Beaumont and A. M. Beaumont, merchants, Aldmond bury, Yorkshire—J. S. Harford, A. G. H. Battersby, T. K. Bayly, J. W. Miles, and W. Miles, bankers, Bristol—F. Arnold and E. Cooper, perfumers, Budge row, City. COURSE OF EXCHA/ Amsterdam CF. 12 Ditto, at sight l2 7 Rotterdam 2U. 12 11 Antwerp 26 15 Elamburgh M.B. 13 13i Alton Paris, 3 days' sight 25 75 Ditto, 3 months 26 5 Marseilles 26 10 Bourdeaux 26 10 Frankfort on Maine 1221 Petersburgh, 3Us — Berlin Vienna, effee. f 10..- 10 6 Trieste, ditto Madrid 36i Cadiz Bilbao Barcelona — IGE.-(YESTERDAY.) Leghorn ....... 30 75 Genoa 26 5 Milan ...... - Venice Naples ...... 391 Palermo, per os 1194 Lisbon .. 53* Oporto s3* Rio Janeiro Bahia Buenos Ay; es NewYork,2ldyssight -- Philadelphia PRICES OF BULLION, PER ON. Foreign Gold,bars..X3 17 9 Portugal Gold Coin 3 17 5 New Doubloons.... 0 0 0 Now Dollars 0 0 0 Silver in Ba-5..... 0 4 11i Seville — b t r ttto THE FUNDS-(CLOSING PRICES.) ONE CLCSM 0 PRICES OF BRITISH FUNDS. O'CLOCK. riticEs 3 per Cent. Reduced ......... 95% 96 96 3 per Cent. Consols Annuities 96% 97 97 1 3 per Cent. Annuities, 1726 New 3 1 4 per Cents Long Annuities toexnireJan.lB6o 10 11-16 13-1 G 10 13-16 Ditto 30 years, Oct. 10,1859 Ditto 30 years, Jan. 5, 1860 India Bonds, 1,0004. Ditto under 1,0001. .. ...... South Sea Stock Consols for Account Exchequer Bills, 1,0004 I%d 39 41 38 40 pm. 40 Ditto 5001. Ditto Small ONE PRICES OF FOREIGN FUNDS. O'CLOCK Brazilian Bonds Ditto, New, 1E43 . ......... Chilian Bonds 6 per Cent 99 99 bl es i c an, 5 per Cent. 1837 ...... Ditto, Account — 31 , 4 Ditto Deferred l6li 16% Portuguese 5 per Cents Ditto, 4 per Cent 56 574 58 Russian Bonds ...... 110 1 4 112 1 / 2 Spanish 5 per Cent. 1840. Ditto, Account 2 6 1 /4 26', Ditto, Passive . 6 1 / 4 —... CLOSING PRICES Ditto Deferred 15% 15% Ditto 3 per Cent. Venezuela Bonds, 2 per Cent 3B 40 Belgian 4% per Cent. .... 98 Dutch, 21% per Cent . Ditto, 4 per Cent. Certificates 92% 92% PRICES OF BUSINESS DONE CLOSING RAILWAY SILIRES PAID ' AT ONE O'CLOCK. PRICES. Aberdeen Birmin. and Gloucester. 100 Boston, Stamfd, & Birm. 22s l l4 p ll4 p Bristol and Exeter Ditto New 2 Caledonian Ditto Extension Cambridge and Lincoln 1% 5Y1,% % —••-- 594 Do. New Coventry, Nuneaton, Bir. and Leicester l l4 2%% 2% Chester and Holyhead._ 15 Cork and Waterford ... I% — Dublin and BelfastJunc. 5 - •, 8 Dublin and Galway..... 4 — Direct Manchester ( Remington's) Ditto (Rackstrick's)... 5 1 4 ...... 5% y s % 5% Direct Northern Eastern Counties 141. 165....... 22 21zr i 22%... 223 Ditto New 41. 16s. Ditto Perpetual, 5 per Cent, No. 1....61. 13s. 4d l 4 East Lincolnshire 4 E nn iskillen and Sligo ... 2 1 ,4 i_ Essex and Suffolk .. ... 1% — Great Western BO ... 152 • . Ditto Fifths Great South. and West. ' (Ireland) Hull and Selby ~, 1)o. Half Shares Leicester and Bedford... 225. Leicester and Tamworth 495. Liverpool & Leeds Direct 2% •• ••• 35 4 3 7/ /8 Lpool., Mnchstr, & New castle Junction ...... 2% •••,• 5 %% 5% London and Birmingnmloo 217 Do. 1 % Shares ... -...... 2 Ditto Extension ....•• I VI 2% 2 l‘, London and Blackwell. 16/. 13s. 4d. 10 Do. New London and Brighton... 50 ...... 63 64 . Ditto, Sixths London and Croydon, 131. 15s. 9d. 22 1 / 2 21% 7 Do. Guaranteed 5 per Cent. .. London and Greenwich 12115 s 4d — Do. Preference ...18117s 2d 22% London and York 2% 5% 5% London, Warwick, and Kidderminster Manchester and Leeds... 76 Do. Quarters 2 Manchester and Birmin. 40 Do. Quarters Do. New Quarters Do. Continuation and Welsh Junction ... 1% — Nlanchester,Buxton,and Matlock 225....... 41 ,4 p ... 494 p Manchest. & Southampt. 2 ...... 5 Midland 100 153 154 1 4 157 22 1 / 2 5111 Do. New Newcastle and Darling- 12 1 / 12 1 2 2% ... ton Junction 25 ..—.. 57 Newcastle and Berwick 5 Newport& Abergavenny 214 — Newark, Sheffield, and t reir Boston North British 22 ...... ... 22 Ditto New 1 North Devon N. Kent & Direct Dover 2 1 ,4.... 3% 3 North Staffordshire 42s. ...... 4%% p. 1 Northampton, Banbury, and Cheltenham Nottingham and Boston 1% 3%% 3% Oxford, Gosport, Ports. moutli,& Southamptn 425. Oxford and Worcester... 2% 9 1,6 10 1 4 Perth and Inverness ... 2% Scottish Central Scottish Midland I % 4 Shrews., Wolverhamp., Dudley, and Birm 2%..... 5 / 1 6 5%..... 57 1 / 3 , Shrewsbury and Trent Valley Union South Midland 22s. ...... 5 6 5 1 4 p...... 514 p South Eastern & Dover 33! 2s 4d... 38 ............ 37 D o., N 0.2. Staines and Richmond... 1 I South Wales ..... ...... ~.. 21,4 5 14 Tean and Dove Valley 1% 1%... ..... .. .• Trent Valley 2 ..... . 16 ...... ...... .. Vale of Neat h 2 — Waterfd,Wxfrd,Wicklw, and Dublin ........ ..,... NV aterford, Wexford, and Valentia . Welch Midland ..... 3 Wilts, Somerset, & Wey mouth ... 2% 5% .. .. .. Worcester, Shrewsbury, and Crewe Union ..... 1%..... 2% York and Carlisle 2 3/ 3l /2 York and Lancaster 2% 2'A 3 . . York and North Midland 50 lO6 Do. Extension l l4 2 6 1% 24 1 4 25% FOREIGN RAILWAY'S. Boulogne and Amiens... 8 _. 1 0 34 Dutch Rhenish East Indian ... ..... .... ss• Great Western Bengal... ss. — Jamaica S.Mid. Junction 1 Louvain and Jemeppe... 4 ... ruxembour g ... Madrid and Valentia.... 2 ... .. I% Namur and Liege Orleans and Bordeaux... 6 Paris eeLyoni.( Lailitte's) z. Paris and Lyons (CI an ntron's)... .. Paris and Rouen . Paris and Strasbourg (Ganneron's) .. 2 • ••• Ditto (Aymards) 9l , -/i 2%.. . . Ronal North of Spain ... 2 Aambre and Meuse ...... 6 ['ours and Nantes (Mac kenzie'*) .. 2 Do. do (Lefebrre't N 2 West Flanders .. 4 MINES. British Iron Scrip Real del Monte Unregd. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. (YESTERDAY.) MANSIOAr-BOUSE. 2 1 ;, J 9 0N 33 2 1 nq 234 39% 23 1 / 2 4% A female of respectable appearance named Ann Fox, aged between 34 and 35 years, was brought before the Lord Mayor in the custody of Inspector Waller, charged with having fired a pistol, at and wounded a young man, of the name of Thomas Morris, with grape shot. The prisoner. upon being placed at the bar, appeared to be agitated in the extreme. She was defended by Mr. Pelham, and did not utter a word during the examination. The prosecutor said he accused the prisoner of having shot him in the thigh. On the preceding evening he was coming out of a chemist's warehouse, in Laurence Poultney lane, in which he was assistant, and the moment the prisoner, who was opposite to the warehouse, got sight of him, she fired a pistol at him. About twenty shots penetrated the skin, and most of them dropped out of themselves. When she fired she was at the distance of two yards or two yards and a half from him. He immediately closed the door, and went into the warehouse to examine the wound which he felt she, had inflicted. The pistol produced was a small one, and had been pur chased by the prisoner a short time before she used it in the way described, at the shop of a pawnbroker in Oxford-street. Mr. Pelham—Did you see her level the pistol at you? Prosecutor—l saw the flash in front of me, and felt that I had received the contents of the pistol. Mr. Pelham—You have known her before, I presume? The prosecutor—Yes, I have known her before. The LORD MAYOR (to the prosecutor)—This is the female you had brought before me some time ago for following and annoying you, and whom I held to bail to keep the peace? The Prosecutor—She is the woman. Mr. Pelham—You knew her formerly at Islington, where you were foreman to a chemist, and she was your fellow-ser vant? The prosecutor—She was servant in the house in which I was assistant. Mr. Pelham—You were paying your addresses to her ? The prosecutor—Not at all. Mr. Pelham—You have had intercourse with her ? ThO prosecutor—Yes, certainly. Mr. Pelham—Have you not seduced her ? The prime cutor—l do not think 1 have. Mr. Pelham—Have you not promised her marriage over and over again ? The prosecutor—No. Mr. Pelham—How long is it since the intercourse com menced between you ? The prosecutor—About two years and half ego. _ _ Mr. Pelham—Have not several letters in a complete love strain passed between you ? The prosecutor—Not upon my part. (Here the prosecutor gave the Lord Mayor to under stand that there was nothing at all in the sentimental way between them, and that what did take place took place at her request.) Mr. Pelham—Are you not two or three and thirty? The prosecutor—No. I am but twenty-three; she is thirty-five. She has been ever since annoying me. Mr. Pelham—To perform your promise of marriage? The prosecutor—l never promised anything of the kind. Mr. Pelham—Have you not sworn to stick to her and pro . - tect her as long as you had life ? The prosecutor—No. The only promise I ever made to her was to call and see her now and then, and she is for ever annoying me an d f o ll ow i ng me. Mr. Pelham—Was she not in the family -way? The pro secutor—l do not know. Mr. Pelham—Did she not tell you that your treatment of her, on refusing to marry her, had so severely affected her feelings that sue was seized with premature labour? The prosecutor—She said something of that kind. (Here the pro secutor repeated that his only object was mere animal grati fication.) Mr. Pelham—Do you recollect that she was bequeathed some money by a relative? The prosecutor—l do. Mr. Pelham—You then recommenced the intercourse which had for sonic time ceased between you? The prose cutor—Yes; but not on that account at all. Mr. Pelham—Pray, are you married ? The prosecutor (to the Lord Mayor)—Am I bound to answer that question ? The LORD MAYon—You need not. The prosecutor—Then I shall not answer it. Mr. Pelham—Did you tell her you were married? The prosecutor, after some hesitation, said " Yes." Mr. Pelham—Has she not told you she would destroy her self? The prosecutor—Yes, and that she would destroy me , too. She has frequently threatened me. Mr. Pelham—The wounds you say are superficial? The prosecutor—Yes; they only passed the cuticle, and a great many of the shots dropped out when I laid the place bare. Mr. Pelham—Might not the pistol have gone off oy acci dent? The prosecutor—No, not at all. Mr. Pelham—Have you and the prisoner not had guar re!s? The prosecutor—No, not to say any particular quar rels. Mr. Pelham—And when did the intercourse between you entirely cease? The prosecutor—Some months ago. Mr. Pelham—Did she not appear to be in a distracted and frenzied condition upon the occasion of your separation ? The prosecutor—No, not more so than usual. Mr. Pelham—She has several letters of yours? The prose cutor—l dare say she has. Mr. Pelham—And you have several of hers? The pre secutor—.No, I have none of hers; they are all destroyed. Mr. Pelham—Were they not filled with expressions of love and affection? The prosecutor—No, not upon my side. Mr. Pelham—Then it was upon your side nothing but. a brutal acquaintance? The prosecutor—Call it as you please. It was just the same on her side. I saw her three nights after the Lord Mayor held her to bail, and would have given her into the custody of an officer, but she got away. The LORD MAYOR—Was it before of after that she threatened to destroy you? The prosecutor—A month or two before that she said if I did not continue my visits to her she would certainly shoot me. Mr. George Mallison, who is always employed on the pre mises in Laurence Pountney-lane, stated that he came out. of the warehouse before Mr. Morris, and saw the flash of the. pistol. He then seized the prisoner, who, he believed, had firol it, and the pistol was found at her feet. Policeman No. 491 stated he went, upon being sent for, into a public-house in Laurence Pountney-lane, where he saw the prisoner in a fainting state, with several people about her administering water. She appeared to be greatly agitated, but said nothing. She was then taken to the sta tion-house. Inspector Waller said that he asked' her at the station whether she had anything to say, and she replied with a simple negative. The female searcher found some powder and shot in her pockets. Mr. Pelham said he should reserve the defence, and the Lord Mayor immediately committed the prisoner for trial. MIDLAND RAILWAY ACCIDENT INQUEST ON THE BODY OF MR. BOTELER, Q.C. After the examination of several of the officers of the Company and other witnesses, whose testimony went to show that there was great blame due to Wheatley, the driver of the assistant engine, for neglecting the orders given him, Mr. Palfreyman stated that Wheatley was ready to answer any question that might be put to him, or to make a statement, if desired. Wheatley then described that he saw a white light and then a red one. That on finding be was approaching them, he told his stoker to put on the break. He immediately also reversed the en. gine, but it was too late, and just as he was preparing to jump off the collision took place. He was thrown on the ground. The CORONER then read over the whole of the evidence, and made some observations as he proceeded. The jury were then locked up for half an hour, after which they returned a verdict of " Manslaughter" against Thomas Wheatley. Wheatley had been present during the inquiry, but when the verdict was delivered it was found that he had decamped. MONEY MARKET and CITY NEWS. CITY, TIIIIRDAY EVENINQ. • TIMES.—The share market was decidedly better. Now that the first excitement has passed, and much of the rubbish that before encumbered business has been removed, prices exhibit a healthier appearance, and are progressing towards a fair value. The settlement in several of the new scrips to.day was effected with ease. The account of the last fortnight, which will be arranged on Friday, promises less difficulty than was at first apprehended. The premium on gold at Paris is I I per mille, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10Id. per ounce fur standard gold, gives an exchange of 25 44 ; and the exchange at Paris on London at short being 25 54, it follows that gold is 0.53 per cent. dearer in London than in Paris. By advices from Hamburgh the price of gold is 430 per mark, which, at the English Mint price of 31. 17s. 10 1 hd. per ounce for standard gold, gives an exchange of 138. net. ; and the exchange at Hamburgh on London at short being 13 71, it follows that gold is 0.12 per cent. dearer in Hamburgh than in London. The course of exchange at New York on London is 1091 per cent., and the parof exchange between England and America being . 109 23.40 per cent., it follows that the exchange is 0.18 per cent. in favour of England ; but the quoted exchange at New York being for bills at 60 days' sight, the interest must be added to the above difference. On the amalgamation of the various French projects with the Great Northern of France, it has been customary to return so much of the deposits originally paid as exceeded the amount of the deposit required on the shares of the "constituted" line appro. priated to the original shareholders. The directors of the Pepin Lehalleur project have, however, formed an exception in this respect.. Instead of returning the whole difference, they have de tained Bs. 6d. on every " constituted" share (one of which is appro priated to the holder of every 12 orleinal shares), on the somewhat indefinite plea that it is to cover "expenses." The other com panies not having required anything for "expenses," and it having been generally believed that the interest on deposit and the state of exchange between the two countries were quite sufficient to cover all preliminaries, the holders seem to think that a particular ex planation of thisdeviation from an usual course is required. What was anticipated with respect to the bankers giving infor mation about railway deposits proves to be quite correct. A cor respondent, who has applied to one of the leading houses in Lom bard-street, was referred to the " CoMmittee" of the Company in question, with whose permission, but not otherwise, the state of the balance would be made known. On the other band, few of the companies seem disposed as yet to volunteer the information. It will evidently therefore take some time to get at the truth, though ultimately it will come out. Parties in the City interested in railway stock are watching with some solicitude the effect which the exposure and fall in price of the mere visionary schemes and bubbles may have upon the old-esta blished undertakings which having got into steady work are paying good dividends. In all such cases it is not to be expected that they can wholly escape from the influence of the general alarm, principally because persons who are in want of money to fulfil obligations for scrip will part with solid stock rather than allow their credit to be injured. In the ordinary state of business buyers and sellers balance each other, and there occurs no excess either way; but the best securities cannot stand under any sudden pressure, and this seems just the case at present with the tried descriptions of railway property. Unless, then, there exists some reason to the contrary, they will soon regain their former estimation, as the prudent capitalist who has kept aloof from the prevalent infection will always have funds in hand to purchase what the other, through his distress and folly, is obliged to throw away, or to part with at a great sacrifice. Great fluctuations in railway shares have necessarily, however, this injurious conse quence—that they prevent timid persons from resorting to them for an investment, and even one instance of the kind may produce both a deep and a general impression. None of the companies stand in a much better position than the Great Western, yet the fact that a purchaser of 10 shares in its stock, less than a year ago, would be now at least 1,0001. the poorer by the transaction, must render a return to the confidence formerly enjoyed a long and difficult work. This great depression has not been wholly pro duced, as it need hardly be stated, by the present crisis ; though the property has materially declined since the publication of the Bank notice. Annexed are the variations which have occurred within the last fortnight, and it is gratifying to observe that some ant, and that steadier markets may of them are wholly insignia therefore soon be expected : October 14. October 27. BOW-STREET. A young man of fashionable appearance, named Richard Mar tin, was brought before Mr. Twyford for re-examination, charged with forging and uttering a cheque for 121. 125., with intent to defraud Mr. James Taylor, a hosier, carrying on business at 13, Cornhill, and also with swindling several tradesmen of their goods. Mr. Edward Lewis attended for the prisoner. It appeared that on the Sth of September the prisoner entered the prosecutor's shop for the ostensible purpose of purchasing goods, and having selected a quantity of scarfs and other articles, he directed them to be sent to his lodgings, at 36, Craven.street, Strand, which was accordingly done the same evening, with the understanding that they should be paid for on delivery, and on the return of the shopman he brought back the cheque, which subse quently turned cut to be a forgery. Joseph Pamplin, an assistant in the service of the pro. secutor, said that he was deputed to take borne the goods, and upon seeing the prisoner he desired him to step in and untie the goods, which he did. The prisoner having looked over them, expressed surprise that the entire of the articles bad not been sent, and on being told the amount, he wrote a cheque, saying that he would require other goods of the same description. Witness repeatedly told him that he had directions not to leave the goods unless he got the money for them; but he was prevailed upon by the prisoner, who said that he wanted them for immediate use, and accepted the cheque, which he brought home to his master. Mr. Charles Hollyer, cashier in the bank of Sir Wm. P. Call, of Old Bond.street, proved that he did not know the prisoner, and no such person kept an account at his employer's house. Henry Tate, 136, G division, said that after meeting with much resistance from the prisoner, he apprehended him on the 23d in. stsnt, in Charles-street, Lowndes.square, and on telling him that he was charged with forgery, and also with obtaining, from several tradesmen, goods under false pretences, he said that the charge of forgery against him was wrong, but " what I have done I am ready to acknowledge ; with respect to Taylor's cheque, it will be settled." He was then conveyed to the station, and several pawnbrokers' duplicates were found upon him. Mr. Lewis submitted that no case of forgery or fraud had been made out against his client, for he had not forged any person's name, and, admitting that he had no account at the bank, it was clear, from the statement of the prosecutor, that the prisoner had selected goods at his shop for which he agreed to accept a cheque s which put an end to the transaction, as the shopman represented his master in accepting of such an instrument. Mr. TWYFORD said that such observations might have effect be fore a jury. He should commit the prisoner for trial. A bootmaker,:earrying on business in Oxford-street, said that In the month of June last the prisoner called upon him, and having tried on a pair of dress boots, he desired that a person should be sent after him to his chambers in the Albany, and bring some French polish with him, which was accordingly done; but on making his appearance he told the messenger he should wait, as his servant was then out of the way. The messenger waited outside, such a length of time that the porter inquired what his business might be, and on relating the nature of his business, he told him that he was " done," and that the prisoner had a faci lity of getting away by a private passage, which he showed him, and which subsequently turned out to be the case. w a T l: dihr, The Ice: would observed, ae svaei said t that heat prisoner h as er o e th wr e ee r mr c ea h n a ad r b g ezd e u s tf m otrw i might ae h nw t t y b e e e k. broughttr ade s men f o in attendance, who were prepared to prove that they had been swin dled by the prisoner in a similar manner. A hootmaker and a hairdresser, from the Burlington Arcade, said that they had sent home goods to the prisoner's chambers, In Chelsea, for which they never received the amount, and upon making inquiry for Mr. Pembroke, their customer, they discovered that he had tied. It was stated that the prisoner had been In the bervlce of Lord Saye and Sele, when he occupied chambers In the Albany. He wee ordered to be remanded. it t r 1" the Est ,:id 0, ci'" c t°l'' I' ;ing •1 0 tli ° gli" 00 1~ -