The Sun. — London, England, 1845-11-17 00:00:00

LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Nov. 15. The Lord Chancellor did not sit to-day, in consequence of continued indisposition. It is generally understood that his Lordship will be able to sit on Monday, two cases having been appointed for judgment on that day. ROLLS' COURT, Nov. 15. His Lordship sat at a few minutes after eleven o'clock. STOICKLN V. DAWSON. This was a case in which exceptions had been taken to the Master's report, some of which had been allowed, while others had been over-ruled. The matter was then referred back to the Master, who reported in conformity with the finding of the Court, and exceptions were now taken to this amended report. The case occupied the greater portion of the day, but was destitute of all public interest. VICE-CHANCELLORS' COURT, Nov. 15. (Before the VICE-CHANCELT.OROf ENGLAND.) BAZALGETTE V. BAZALGETTE. The further hearing of the arguments in his Honour's pri vate room, in this petition, were proceeded with, and occu pied the Court the whole morning. The arguments having been concluded, his Honour took his seat in open Court shortly after one o'clock. LITTLEWOOD V. THE. LONDON AND CROYDON AND EPSOM ATMOSPHERIC RAILWAY COMPANY. The arguments in this part-heard motion, to dissolve an injniiction restrairirg the Croydon and Epsom Atmospheric Railway Company from proceeding with their works over the plaintiff's land near Croydon, were concluded. His lloNourt, without calling upon Mr. Stuart and Mr. Wright. who were instructed to oppose the motion, gave judg ment, dismissing the motion with costs, and directing also the costs previously incurred to be paid by the defendants. DIXON V. THE TAFF VALE RAILWAY. MS HONOUR, in this case, stated his opinion to be, that the plaintiff was entitled to the decree he asked by his bill. (Before Vice-Chancellor WIGRAM.) DYKES V. FARR. Mr. Temple, Q.C., appeared by a cross bill for plaintiffs, and arguments were heard yesterday and to-day on the part of the many defendants. It appears that, at the marriage of Dykes with defendant's daughter in 1779, a deed was drawn out, effecting that 2,0001., the dowry of Mrs. Dykes, in case of failure of issue, should revert after her death to her father or his heir; but in 1778, there being no issue, a new deed was made by Dykes and his wife, differing in the course of reversion. In this new deed, however, to bar the charge of 2,000/ in the deed of 1779, a levy of 2,0001. by fine was intro duced instead of suffering a recovery. His Honour ordered on a former hearing, that the 2,0001. of the first deed should be raised and paid to the father, Farr, or his heir. The next of kin to the wife, Mrs. Dykes, came into Court claim ing the levy of 2,000/. in the said deed, against which it was contended by the plaintiffs, that the intention of the second deed was evident, though not legally carried out in the form of the deed, that there is no new creation, but a mere barring of the sum in the deed of 1779. Arguments were concluded on both sides, but his Honour postponed judgment till he had further considered the nature of the case. PRICE V. TIM CORPORATION OF PENZANCE. This was now reduced to a petition for costs. Sir Charles Price entered into contract with the mayor and corporation of Penzance, that ground for a market would be given by him to them, they agreeing to erect the buildings. The cor poration delayed to fulfil the contract, which Sir C. Pries came into Court to compel. The market, since first the case came into Court, has been built. -- At the request of defendants' counsel, Mr. Temple, Q.C., the case was referred to Tuesday. COURT OF EXCHEQUER. Nov. 15. PIRACY AND MURDER. This being the day appointed by the judges for hearing the arguments in the case of murder and piracy, tried before Mr. Baron Platt at the late Exeter assizes, the Court was besieged at an early hour this morning by crowds of well dressed persons of both sexes, and long before their Lord ships took their seats upon the bench every available nook and corner was occupied. There was an exceedingly full attendance of the gentlemen of the long robe, and one or two foreigners of distinction, including a French judge, were observed to be present. Shortly after ten o'clock their Lordships, consisting of the chief judges of the Courts of Queen's Bench, Exchequer, and Common Fleas, entered the Court, and the case was imme diately proceeded with. Mr. SERGEANT MANNING, who was engaged for the prisoner. said he appeared on behalf of certain per sons who were convicted of the crime of murder on the high seas, at the general gaol delivery, held in Exeter in the month of July last. Their Lordships had before them a short statement of the proceedings which took place on the oreasiln, and before he called their Lordships' attention to the particular terms of that statement, he must be allowed to express his deep regret that the Learned Judge, before whom this trial took place, had not reported to their Lordships the evidence which was taken on the occasion. The CHIEF Baeox—Brother, you ought not to make any complaint of that sort, unless you intend to found an appli cation upon it. The Learned SERGEANT was not aware that it was com pse ent far him to do so, but he must be allowed to state that there were parts of that evidence which it was important their Lordships should be in possession of. Lord DENMAN—We are met here for the purpose of hearing the case discussed, as it now stands, and to that purpose we must confine ourselves, and not go into matter which is more properly the subject of an application to the Learned Judge who tried the case. Do you appear for all the prisoners? The Learned SERGEANT replied that he did not. He ap peared for Martinoe Joaquim and De Santos. There were eleven prisoners tried, but only eight of them were convicted, the others were found Not Guilty. Now, the statement of the Learned Judge alleged that the prisoners were convicted on a particular count, which he confessed he could not find in the declaration. Mr. Baron ALDERSON (with some warmth)—Let us conduct this case as we have hitherto conducted others, and let the bar treat the Learned Judges with the respect they have hitherto done. Proceed with your argument, Brother, in the case that now comes before us. The Learned SERGEANT then proceeded to read the state ment which Mr. Baron Platt had supplied to the other Learned Judges. It merely recapitulated the facts elicited on the trial, which have already appeared in The Sun, and concluded by stating that the prisoners had been found guilty of the offence with which they were charged, and sentences of execution had been passed upon them, but subsequently respited till the 24th instant. The Learned Sergeant contended that the conviction was wrong upon two grounds. In the first place he said that no crime of felony had been committed ; and secondly, he said that supposing a crime in the nature of a felony had been committed, the Court at Exeter had no cognizance of the case. Now the grounds upon which he said no crime had been committed was, that the ,two vessels, the Felicidade and the Echo were wrongfully taken ; but it would be suffi cient to support this branch of his argument to show that either one or the other had been wrongfully taken. Now, with regard to the first capture, that of the Felicidade, how did the case stand? This vessel had left the Brazils, but whether she was a Brazilian vessel did not appear, for the purpose of going to the coast of Africa, in order to take in a cargo of slaves. It did not appear by the statement of the Learned Judge, nor was it contended for on the trial, that the Felicidade had, during that voyage, taken any slaves on board, but having certain decks which would indicate that she trailed in slaves, she was captured. Now upon what grounds was the lieutenant of the Wasp justified in taking pos ses,ion of the Felicidade? It was justified at the trial upon two grounds, and in the first place it was said that by the treaty between the Crown of England and the Crown of Brazil, of November, 1826, the offence of dealing in slaves was declared to be piracy, and, therefore, in the language of the Learned Judge, it was lawful for all persons of whatsoever nation they might be to hunt down and seize upon the Felicidade and her crew, because they were enemies to the human race. Now he took it to be quite clear, that before a mere declaration between two nations that a certain act which was lawful before the treaty should become a crime, was not binding until male obligatory by same municipal law of the country. Now, at the time this treaty was agreed upon there did exist a municipal law, the sth of Geo. IV., by which it was declared that slave trading was piracy. The statute was passed two years before the treaty, and by the section 2, chap. 113, it was declared that the aetnally having taken slaves on board should be the especial act of piracy, and the 9th section provided the penal ties. Their Lordships, however, would see that although the first section of the statute prohibited a variety of acts, yet when the penalties in respect of those acts came to be applied, only the actual removing and carrying away of slaves was made piracy ; but the statute did not stop there. It did not omit to provide punish ment for the minor offences which were denounced in the second section. It went on in the 10th sec tion to make certain acts felony, and punishable by transportation for fourteen years. Now amongst the acts denounced was the piratical one of filling up and navigating a vessel for the purposes of carrying slaves; and this was the state of the law in England in 1826, when the treaty was made between England and the Brazils. The actual offence of piracy was punishable with death, but the minor offences were punishable only with transportation, fie. a term not exceeding fourteen years, not less than seven, or by imprisonment fur a term not exceeding five years, nor less than three. It was said, however, that the treaty made it unlawful and piracy, to be or to have been concerned in the carrying on of the slave-trade ' but the treaty could not affect that which was not effected by the law of England, namely, making that piracy which by the law of England was not. Mr. Baron Awer.sax--,Brother Manning, will you be so good as to tell us what point you intend to bring before us, for it is impossible for us to understand you without a map of the country. Mr. Serjeant MANNING replied that he had already stated that his argument would divide itself into two branches— namely, that no crime of the nature of felony had been com mitted ; and, secondly, supposing such a crime had been com mitted, the English Courts had no cognizance over it. The ground upon which, he said, that crime had been committed rested upon two main points—first, because the parties ch urged were unlawfully imprisoned at the time it was com mitted ; and, secondly, that the Felicidade was unlawfully taken by the Lieutenant of the Wasp, and then the Echo, to which they had been removed for confinement, was un law fully taken by the Felicidade. In the first place, then. lie said the Felicidade was unlawfully and im properly captured, and in order to maintain that posi tion, he was combatting the grounds upon which it wt asserted at the trial that she was lawfully captured at the time he was interrupted by the Learned Judge. Ile corn ba 'ea the argument upon two grounds—that independently of the treaty, these parties had not been guilty of piracy by the law of England, but it was contended by his Learned Friend, and ruled by the Learned Judge, that the offence of slave-trading was complete, by their going upon a voyage for the purpose of taking on board slaves. Now he contended that such was not the meaning of the, treaty, nor of the law of England, and he supported this ground by showing what the English Le gislature had declared shnild be the nature of piracy. But he took higher ground than this. He said that supposing the treaty did expressly state, in the terms of the 10th sec. of the sth Geo. IV., that all attempts to deal in slaves should be suppressed, it would not be binding upon the subjects of Brazil. If a Brazilian subject, after that treaty, engaged himself in the slave trade, it would be a grievance against England, fur which the English Ambassador at Rio de Janeiro might have rernon trated, but the mere fact of a declaration existing between the two counties declaring a particular act to be a crime, did not make the Brazilian amenable to the laws of England. Whoever heard of a prisoner being com mitted in England for an offence against such and such a treaty? It would be perfectly un reasonable if such a doctrine were held to pervail. There were remarkable instances on record where one c mntry could not take cognisance of the piracy of another. In the year 1570 the Emperor Philip the Second of Spain, by an edict, declared his subjects guilty of piracy who should at tempt a fraud upon an insurance company, in effect ing an insurance upon a ship. In 1580 the same Prince made another declaration, that all parties who should destroy the herring nets on the coast of Flanders should be guilty of piracy. Then, again, there was the case of the Russian Ambassador, in the reign of Queen Anne. _ Although it was found that the Ambas sador had committesi a gross violation against the law of nations, it was not punishable here. It was only matter for the re monstrance of the English Ambassador in Russia. He now came to another part of his argument. A clause in the treaty prohibited the detention, on any pre tence, of a vessel not having slaves on board, and he need not contend that this had been done in the present case. This clause was intended for the very purpose of prevent ing the captain of vessels which were fitted out for the slave-trade previous to the making of the treaty, but it nevertheless applied to vessels fitted up afterwards. It appeared to him, therefore, that the Felicidade had been wrongfully captured; and, being wrongfully captured, he submitted to their Lordships that the Felicidade remained a Brazilian and a foreign vessel, to all intents and purposes, after her capture ; but on the trial it was contended she became an English vessel, and that all on board of her were subject to the English laws. Now he might just as well argue that a British vessel coming from Sicily with a cargo of oil to the port of Hull, and detained by a Spa nish ship on suspicion of being a smuggler from Gi braltar, became liable to the laws of Spain. It was absurd. What would Admiral Blake or Cromwell have said? He would now proceed to show how the Echo was wrongfully captured. The Echo, their Lordships would recollect, was taken by the Felicidade, after it was captured by the Wasp. Now, the treaty provided that there should be no detention or seizure of a vessel, unless it was made by a vessel belonging to the royal navy of the sovereign whose subjects make the search ; nor should the search be conducted by a person of less rank than a lieutenant. On the trial it was attempted to show that this was a capture made by a British vessel, that the Felicidade by its capture became a British vessel, and therefore the capture effected by the Felicidade was a capture by a British vessel, and the Learned Judge used the expres sion that she must be considered " as a boat of the Wasp." It was rather fortunate, however, that there was a decision of Lord Stowell upon this point in a casesomewhat analogous to this. It would be found reported in sth Robinson, page 41, in the ease of Melomaniac v. Coles, which arose out of a claim for a prize, captured by a boat belonging to an ad miral's ship, manned by the men of that ship, but not under commission, and it was ruled by Lord Stowell that the cap ture was made by a vessel belonging to the British navy. It was expressly provided in the treaty that a ship captured could not be considered a part of the navy of Great Britain till such time as a condemnation had taken place in the courts of Sierra Leone. The Felicidade had never been con demned at all, having been lost in her passage to Sierra Leone ; but even if she had been, such condemnation would not have had a retrospective effect This defect in the cap ture of the Felicidade, however, did not apply to the Echo, for she had slaves on board when she was seized. But in the capture of the Echo, there was a defect of another kind, which did not apply to the Felicidade. It was provided in the treaty that no person under the rank of a lieutenant should search a merchant ship suspected of being engaged in the slave-trade. Now Lieutenant Stupart did not search the vessel in question, but it was undertaken by Thomas Palmer, a midshipman. True, Lieutenant Stupart was in the Felici dade at the time, but he did not go on board the Echo till next morning, after Palmer had searched it. It was not sufficient for the purposes of the treaty that Lieutenant Stupart should be on the deck of his own vessel hard by, but it was required of him that he should make the search and capture in person. He (the Learned Sergeant) therefore contended that the capture was illegal, because it was not undertaken by Lieutenant Stupart. If the latter was to be considered the seizing party, then he might as well have been half a mile distant instead of a few yards. For the protection of those engaged in commerce it was necessary that search should not be undertaken except in rigorous compliance with the terms of the treaty. Another point invalidating the capture of the Echo, was that, supposing the Felicidade had, whether rightly or wrongly, been seized and condemned, and thereby become a part of the British navy, she had no written instructions on board, she was not within sight of the Wasp when the seizure was made, and there was no evidence that the Felicidade was sent in search of the Echo. On this ground, therefore, the treaty was violated, which requires that the seizing vessel shall have written instructions. If he (the Learned Sergeant) had established any or all of those points, he maintained the seizure was as illegal as an English cruiser seizing a French merchant-ship in the Channel in a time of peace. Such a seizure being evidently unlawful, the parties so captured, without appealing to the laws of their nations, bad a clear right to rescue themselves and the ship by force. He thought he had shown their Lord ships quite clearly, from the review of the facts he had placed before them, that Macherval had a right to regain his ship, and the other parties to o'stain their liberty. If the seizure of the Felicidade was in the first instance illegal, then had the owner of that vessel, on the earliest op portunity, without appealing to the Court of Sierra Leone, or any other tribunal, a right to recapture his vessel, and to use whatever force was necessary to obtain that pos session. He also contended that the men taken pri soners had a similar right to exert themselves by force to obtain their liberty ; and any other means of ob taining their liberty than by simultaneously rushing on Mr. Palmer and the other seamen in charge, did not appear practicable In the conflict that took place Palmer was stabbed and thrown overboard; but under the circumstances there was no proof that the act in question was murder. These men in what they did had done nothing more than what had been repeatedly performed by our ships in time of war. Many instances h ad been in which pnvateers captured merchant ships, and afterwards the crew of the latter, taking advan tage of favourable opportunities, rose up against their con querors, and obtained their liberty by throwing them over board. If this was justifiable in the case of privateer seizures, which were lawful, it was much more so in the present case, wheie the capture had been illegaL He now came to another of the objections he had to the conviction of these men. As foreigners, he maintained they were not amenable to British laws. The vessel in which these men were at the time of this unfortunate occurrence had never ceased to be a foreign vessel, and, therefore, in law a foreign sail ; therefore no court of law in this country had jurisdic tion over it or them. Had condemnation taken place before the slaying of Palmer, this view of the case might have been altered, supposing the capture in accordance with the treaty, but, as he had already shown, the vessel had never been con demned, having been lost in ber passage to Sierrs Leone. There was a ease in point that supported the view he had just advanced. It was the case of the King r. Depardo, given in "Taunton's Reports," vol. 1. The case was tried at the Old Bailey on the 30th of October, 1807. Depardo was a Spaniard, engaged in the Alnwick Castle ship, who killed a person named Burn, on shore at Canton. The wound was inflicted on shore, but Burn died in consequence of it. on board ship immediately after wards. In that case it was ruled that the offence being committed by a foreigner, and beyond the jurisdiction of this realm, the courts of this country had. no jurisdiction. The Learned Counsel then referred to another case of a similar character in its main treatment, that of a Maltese who killed a man at Smyrna. It was given in 2d Mudie's Crown Cases. The trial took place in 1843, at the Central Criminal Court, before Mr. Baron Gurney. It was then ruled, in an appeal to the Judges against the con viction, that the Court had jurisdiction, because the prisoner in the case, though a Maltese, was aßritish subject, and there fore subject to the British laws. These decisions placed the question of jurisdiction in a clear light, and with these he closed his argument, leaving the case in the hands of their Lordships. Mr. COLLIER rose to address the Court on behalf of the three other prisoners, Jas. Majavul, Francisco Serva, and Marie Jose Alves. He submitted that the courts of this country had no jurisdiction over those for whom he appeared, as they were foreigners, and had never, by any act of theirs, given in their adherence or allegiance to the Government of this country. Before any person can be subject to the laws of this country he must do that which will bring him under allegiance to the Sovereign of the country. The mere coming into the country was not sufficient to constitute allegiance, but the party must likewise become so by some act, such as the law recognised as a social compact between him and the Government. This was the view of the question taken by all eminent jurists, by Vattel, Montesquieu, Story, and others who had written on the laws of nations. Now, there had been no evidence that his clients had ever done anything that could be cor.strued into an act of alle giance to the laws of this country. There was no doubt that Depardo, had he been an Englishman, would have been triable for murder, but not being so, he was considered not amenable to the laws of Great Britain. Even admitting that the slay ing of Palmer was an act of murder, the prisoners charged with it being foreigners had no right to be tried by the tri bunals of this country. But the case was much stronger against this jurisdiction, when it appeared, as he maintained it did, that the Felicidade was a foreign vessel at the time of her seizure. Piracy, he admitted, was a crime for which, according to the laws of nations, the perpetrators of it could be attacked by any vessel, and under any c'tr c um - stances. Pirates were robbers of the seas, and subject to be destroyed by any ships that might come upon them. But the slave-trade had never been criminally considered piracy. It could alone be made such by treaty, and then an act of piracy was to be declared only when a ship was found having slaves actually on board. The Learned Counsel here went through the clauses of the treaty, showing that only ships of the navy belonging to the con tracting nations were competent to search vessels; that offi cers of a certain standing must have the charge of such searches and seizures, and that all such ships should carry written instructions. The terms of the treaty were clear and explicit. No seizure could take place without special instructions, and then the seizure must be made where slaves were found on board. If officers of the navy were to be allowed to capture ships merely because they were fitted up for slave traffic, or to man what ships they pleased as cruizers in pursuit of suspected ships, nothing but confusion and bloodshed would repeatedly ensue. It had been so in the present case. The stipulations had been violated by Lieutenant Stupart in the seizure of the Felicidade, and the owner of that ship, with his assistants, had been tempted to make resistance afterwards to the crew that captured them, because of its inefficient force. This fact was itself sufficient to show that the seizure must have been undertaken without sufficient force, and in a manner that could not have been intended by the treaty. The Felicidade being, therefore, an illegal capture, it followed that the using of that ship under the circumstances to take the Echo was also illegal. The Learned Gentleman then went over the points dwelt on by the previous Learned Counsel respecting the searching of the Echo by Palmer and the proceedings of Lieutenant Stupart, all of which, he contended, were in contravention of the terms of the treaty. Assuming even that these men were under English jurisdictiou at the time, he still considered that they had been unlawfully taken prisoners, and therefore justified in endeavouring, by forcible means, to obtain their li berty. Having recapitulated the principal beads of his argument, of which the above is but an outline, the Learned Gentleman concluded by expressing, that from all the facts of the case interpreted by the laws of nations, and the writ ings of the highest legal authorities, the courts of this coun try possessed no such jurisdiction as had been exercised in the case under the consideration of the Court. This closed the argument on behalf of the prisoners. Mr. GODSON on the part of the Crown, said he was sur prised that not one of the positions urged upon the treaty had been touched this morning. It had been contended on the trial that the treaty of which so much had been male this morning was not in existence at the time. Now, it is necessary that, the fact of the death being proved, all the necessities of the case must be proved by the pri soners. Bat they say that they were confined in an im proper place—in a place to which the English have no right, and therefore used violence for escape. That is no excuse for killing. I shall prove that the Felicidade was legally taken as well as the Echo. Captain Usher having instructions from her Majesty, and sailing in those seas, sends two boats on board this slaver. The boats followed till they overtook her. While Lieutenant Stupart is on board Surkeray sub mitted. She had no slavers on board ; it is a question whe ther he therefore ought to have detained her. He argued, from the treaty with Brazil, that after 1830 i was piracy for any Brazilian subject to be taken with slaves on board his ship. It was insisted on the other side, that from 5 Geo. IV., they must have slaves on board, or have had slaves on board that voyage • but it is clear that to be in any way con cerned in the slave-trade makes him liable to treatment as a pirate. And if so, who is so to treat him, who not? This brings me to the jurisdiction of the Court of Admiralty. Now this is over all the seas wherever the tide flows. But without dwelling on this, here is a vessel, which, under the treaty, subjects herself to the charge and punishment of piracy. The sth Geo. IV. is, after Mareh, 1830, applicable, as appears from the plain words of the Act, and from the construction put by Parliament on measures between Eng land and Brazil, in 8 and 9 Victoria. The concern in the trade is illegal ; but, as his Lordship on the trial found they were going for a cargo of slaves to Africa, thus subjecting th emselves to the punishment of piracy. The Portuguese treaty ended in March, in the year 1820, and if any informality . existed in the taking, yet the vessel was possession of the Queen's officers by the submission of Suritera. That Surkera did submit appears from his refusing on this account to join the plot when requested by Serve. Lieutenant Stupart, when he left the Felicidade to go on board of the Echo, went with his jolly boat, and the British ensign on her, Lieutenant Stupart being in uniform. The Echo was taken by a British vessel, under a British lieutenant, and under instructions which existed on board the Wasp, from which the boat came. The objec tions taken on the other side go for nothing. It has been said, and I agree with it, that when a treaty has been made between two nations, it is necessary that some Act of Parliament should be passed, giving power to carry the Act out. All I contend for here is, that she was legally taken—that all the circumstances and requisites of the treaty were performed. What should be done with them ? There is no doubt of that at all. But it is not for those taken to say, while in custody, the place of custody does not belong to the person taking into custody, and, under that, make violent efforts to escape. As to the instructions, they certainly accord with the treaty, and with the Act of Parliament after 1830. Let us look at it as a case of piracy independently. Here an officer of her Majesty is in possession of a ship by her master's submission. The men on board conspire to com mit piracy, and in committing that act kill an English man. It is laid down by Lord Coke that piracy against Ergland, or an English vessel, or that of an alien, is punish able. The case may go further. Piracy is a crime with all nations now on the waves over which the jurisdiction of the Admiralty Court extends. This vessel and the jolly-boat were floating, and on board of that vessel the crew conspire to commit piracy, to which Surkera objects, and commits murder—are they to be justified ? The counsel quoted the case of the King v. Sawyer, to show that stopping short of land on the high seas on board of a vessel in posses sion of one of her Majesty's officers, parties are answerable for their crimes. To take up the narrowest point, it is con tended that being in custody in an illegal place, then that in cool blood murder mar be concocted and perpetrated against the custodiers. It is but necessary to state the objection to see the monstrosity of it ; and no authorities had been quoted in support of it. Take the case any way we may, I think I have made out that murder has been committed. Mr. Sergeant Mame:llG rose to reply. He was amazed that his Learned Friend should contend that the Queen can legally come into possession by a wrongful act. It is said the Sovereign can do no wrong, but these acts, though done by officers in her Majesty's service, being their acts, and not the acts of the Crown, and being wrong, can vest nothing in the Crown whatever. The Echo was not taken by a British vessel, for by treaty the Felicidade was not the property of England and Brazil till sold, when she might be purchased by either. The Echo was, in fact, taken by the Felicidade, notwithstanding that the captors left by the English jolly-boat to go on board. The lieutenant left the Felicidade to go on board the Echo, but she in being hailed, sheered off, and was not taken till the following night. She was not taken by Lieutenant Stupart, but by another person sent by him, whereas the treaty compels the taking by a lieutenant in uniform. The Learned Sergeant held there were no instruc tions on board the Wasp, and if there had been, they would not have availed. There were no instructions if those on board were bad. Now the treaty requires that instructions be put on board inhibiting the detention of Brazilian vessels by British officers, unless with slaves on board. But instructions were put on board to the effect that they should detain on suspicion of being concerned in the slave trade. The Learned CHIEF BARON—The objection taken was that there were no instructions on board of the Felicidade. The Learned Chief Baron understood from Mr. Godson that these Portuguese treaties of 1826 ended in 1830. By the treaty with Portugal the slave-trade was only partially put an end to. By the treaty with Brazil it was declared piracy. The Learned SERGEANT here read from Bth and 9th Victoria to show that the mixed Commissions at Rio Janeiro, and Sierra Leone, ending on the 12th March, 1845, were extended by mutual agreement of both Governments for six months longer. As to the Felicidade, there is no pretext for confound ing the provisions of the sth Geo. IV. with those of the treaty of 1836. The words of the treaty are —the carrying on of the slave trade, under which terms he submitted the present offence could not be brought. He bad no intention to differ from the dicta quoted on Homicide. One of their Lordships remarked that was nothing as to the place where the case was to be tried. The Learned SERGEANT argued that the Felicidade was not the property of the English Government. It has been suggested that there was a locus penitentim, but that there was no evidence of any desistance from the purpose ; but the Learned Sergeant suggested that the locus penitentire did not end till the slaves were on board. Mr. COLLIER said, under no circumstance is a person subject to. the laws of a country who has not, by some act, complied with them. This proposition has not been :haken. He would not say more of the distinc tion as to prisoners of war. It has never been decided in any case that any person on Ward an English vessel is therefore subject to English laws. It is claimed on the other side to extend the jurisdiction of England over the high seas to the exclusion of other nations. This can never be done. Surkera's submission was to superior force, and gives no jurisdiction ; he threw his arms overboard when he surren dered. It is not shown that the jolly-boat from which the Echo was taken was the jolly-boat of the Felicidade. The capture, under the circumstances, was illegal. The boat was on board the Felicidade. Any English captain might evade the treaty by sendingn boat's crew to any number he plea, ed on board English merchantmen; thus giving them a legality to capture; that is, if the capture be in this case thought lawful. As to the instructions, those pointed out in the treaty of 1826 are by the treaty with Brazil that if these instructions are not changed, they should remain in force fifteen years after the slave trade was abolished, and these ending only on 13th March, 1845 ; and this case occurring in February, the instructions of 1826 were at the time in force. Again, it must be proved that if a captain unlawfully detain a seaman, and he kill, the case is murder. He quoted to the effect that it would not be murder. Mr. COLLIER having now concluded, the Court rose at a gamier to four o'clock. The Court will sit again on the same cause at two o'clock on Saturday next. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Nov. 15. (Before Mr. Commissioner GouLnouns.) DT RE CAMPBELL. This insolvent is a clerk in the merchants'-office, Custom house, and came up for his interim order, which was opposed. The insolvent not being present at the hour appointed, an application was made to dismiss the petition. The Learned COMMISSIONER said he would adjourn the hearing sine die. The Learned COMMISSIONER in a previous case held, that when a defendant was let out of custody, and obtained his interim order, non-attendance was not a ground of commit inent. In the present case the insolvent not having been in custody, could not be committed. The insolvent arrived shortly after, and it was agreed to go on with the case. The principal ground of opposition was that the insolvent had not paid the expenses of the funeral of his uncle, from whom, previously to bis death, he had received a large sum of money. The insolvent said his debts were 2131. He had a wife and two children and an aged mother to support, and his salary was only 901. a-year. The COMMISSIONER said that he could not make any order to apply any part of so small a salary. The opposing creditor said that the salary was a rising one. The insolvent said that he had been an extra clerk at 255. per week, and that his present salary would not be increased for three years—perhaps not then—and his salary would then be raised 101. a-year. He admitted having received 2351. from his uncle nine months before his death, and had paid it away to different creditors. _ _ The creditor said it was very hard that the money should have been given to the insolvent who had spent it, leaving funeral expenses unpaid. The insolvent said that the remainder of the money left was so small that he did not think it prudent to administer. The Learned COMMISSIONER said the insolvent appeared to have given a clear account of the disposal of the money, and considering that he was pressed by circumstances, he, (the Learned Commissioner) would grant the interim order. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. On Saturday Mr. John George Behrendo, of Wood-street buildings, Consul for the free city of Frankfort, accom panied by his solicitor, Mr. Finch, of the firm of Finch and Shepheard, Old Jewry, appeared before the Lord Mayor, for the purpose of bringing under his Lordship's notice a com munication which he had just received from his Government relative to certain fraudulent transactions of very great ex tent and enormity. The communication was to the following effect :—Two Englishmen, of the names of Henry King and George Neale, at least rerresenting themselves to be so named, dwelt for some time at \Veisbaden, near Frankfort, and established for themselves, by the exercise of skilful address and high apparent respectability, considerable credit in the latter town. At length, by ingenious management, they succeeded in obtaining in Frankfort, from various jewellers and other shopkeepers, a large quantity of dif ferent sorts of goods, chiefly consisting of jewellery, diamonds, pearls, &c. This property, together with sortie foreign bank notes, which they contrived to get into their hands, proved to be worth about 20,0001. A few days after they obtained possession of the valuable mass, they suddenly disappeared, taking with them bag and baggage. The precipitate departure of the two partners , n inquity, under such circumstances, con stituted what was considered, according to the laws of Frank fort, to be a "fraudulent bankruptcy," althouNh unfortunately for the ends of justice and those concerned in the vindication of the law by the punishment of desperate criminals, the vali dity of that law was not recognised in English courts of justice, and the authorities of Frankfort issued a request to all the continental Governments to arrest the parties, and seize all or any of the property described which might be found in their keeping. Notice was also given to theßritish represen tative at Frankfort, who promised to inform the English Go vernment, in order that they might assist in procuring for the plundered the restoration of their property, if the offence which had been perpetrated did not come within the limits of British authority, so far as to sanction the interference of the police in apprehending the delinquents should they be found in England. The LORD MAYOR was of opinion that immediate infor mation should be given to the police force, and he was con vinced that the press would most willingly lend its co-ope ration in such a case. The police of this country, when sent to any part of the Continent, uniformly received the most ready and important assistance from the foreign authorities, from the highest to the lowest, and no doubt reciprocal aid would be rendered, particularly in a case involving so serious an amount of property. Mr. Finch said the details of the whole of the property which had been thus fraudulently procured had been handed to the police, and the plundered parties had promised, through the department of police at Frankfort, a reward of 25,000 francs 1,0000 for the restiution of the whole amount, and a proportionate snm for any part of it. King, who is believed to be a Jew, is between fifty and sixty years of age, of short stature, sallow complexion, and pointed nose, has a short neck, and takes short steps in walking. Neale is between twenty-six and thirty years old, and rather tall, has very black thick hair, a large tongue, and fresh complexion, and generally appears to be heated. The LORD MAYOR—I am convinced that the most public and satisfactory statement of the fraudulent transactions will be made, and I hope the sufferers will receive some benefit from the exposure, to which I most heartily give my consent. The consul and his solicitor then withdrew, after having thanked his Lordship, onthe part of the High Senate ofFrank fort, for his very prompt and anxious attention to their request. Ramway ROMANCINQ.—A gentleman of the name of Baylis, who resides in St. Paul's churchyard, appeared at the table, and said the Lord Mayor would very much oblige him by informing him whether the authority of a magistrate extended to cases in which the conduct of cer tain individual who were connected with railroads was such Ty SUN, LONtDON, MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 17, 1845. as to leave an imputation of a serious kind upon the motives by which they were influenced? The Lone MAYOR said his interference would entirely de pend upon the particular circumstances of the complaint. Mr. Baylis stated that having seen an advertisement in the newspapers announcing a railroad called " The Brighton and Cheltenham Direct Railway," he made a written application for shares, which was answered by an allotment. In the allotment letter he was informed that he was to pay into a banking-house the sum of 2/. 2s. per share ; that he was then to receive a receipt, and that, upon . signing OA deed he should be put in possess ion of the scrip. He :fad complied with all the forms, according to the written directions, but when he had signed the deed, and thus m ade himself respon sible as a shareholder in the concern, instead of the scrip a sort of acknowledgment that he had performed the necessary ratification was put into his hands, rnd he was informed that on a future day the scrip would Lie ready for delivery. As he was anxious that the Company should perform their part of the duty prescribed to all, lie called again and again for the promised scrip, but all his attempts proved unavailing. At last he was given to understand that on the preceding day the managers had determined to proceed no further in the business, and the speculation was to be abandoned. He thus remained in state quo, without the money he had paid upon the shares, amounting to 631., without the scrip, and merely holding the bit of paper acknowledging that he had signed the deed. The LORD MAYOR—YOII would not, I suppose, have signed the deed, if you did not at once expect to receive the scrip? Mr. Baylis—Certainly not. I would not have performed any of the acts required by the letter of allotment if I had sup posed there would have been any delay. The LORD MAYOR-It would have been an awkward thing if you had sold the shares at a premium, and been obliged to deliver them.—Mr. Baylis said he did not speculate upon a premium in applying for the shares, and that he merely wished to have them, or the money he bad paid as the deposit. The LORD MAYoR, after consulting with Mr. Goodman, the chief clerk, said he could not see how he could render any assistance in such a case. Mr. Baylis observed that he thought the interference of a magistrate might be sanctioned by the circumstances, as the proceedings appeared to him to have all the essentials of the offence of obtaining money under false pretences. The LORD MAYOR said, that the false pretences, in order to constitute an offence in law, must apply to an existing fact ; but if in this case there were any false pretences, it referred to a future fact, if he might use the language. He thought that a court of law, or the Court of Chancery, would be the place in which reparation could be obtained. The alternative was a disagreeable one, and there would be, by and by, in all probability, abundant cases for the occupation of the time of the lawyers, as well as the inferior functionaries of the profession. Perhaps the complaint just made would tend to an adjustment, especially as there were very respect- able names in this list of managers. Mr. Baylis expressed his apprehension that there existed no chance of restitution, but expressed his thankfulness to the Lord Mayor, who added to the information already given to Mr. Baylis, the comfortable intelligence, that having signed the deed, he was liable, as a partner, to be called upor for the payment necessarily incurred in forming and conduct• ing the Company. GUILDHALL. On Saturday a fashionably-attired, though singular-look ing female, apparently about 25 years of age, named Frances Paine, who some years since figured rather conspicuously at this court in connexion with some exchange bills, was brought up in custody of an officer from the Greenwich Police-court, charged with having swindled Messrs. Harmer and Pearson, the distillers, in the following very impudent style :—• The prisoner had been examined at Greenwich on two charges of felony, upon which she stood committed, but the magistrate sent her to this court, so as to allow the case of swindling on Messrs. Harmer and Pearson to be proceeded with against the prisoner. Mr. F. Adams, the managing clerk in the service of the firm, stated that on the 10th day of September the prisoner came into the warehouse of the distillery, and giving the name of Miss Ann Frances Fines, said she was about to open the Half Moon Inn, at Northfleet, on an " improved plan," and wished to give an order for some spirits. She directed 29 gallons of gin, and several cordials, to the amount of 351. Bs., to be forwarded to the inn, but said she must have two gallons of gin to take down with her to go on with. She produced an invoice of Messrs. Truman ' Hanbury, and Co., the brewers, of whom she had ordered beer and ale; and added, Mr. Kincaid, the principal collector of the firm, had recommended her te Messrs. Harmer and Pearson for spirits. Thinking her statement was perfectly correct, and ' from the production of the invoice, they were induced to supply her with the two gallons of gin, and on the next morning they sent the remainder of the spirits and cordials by barges to Northfleet. In the course of that morning the prisoner visited the warehouse, and stated that she had been robbed of all her money and papers in an omnibus, and knew not how she could get home. Mr. Harmer then asked her if she wanted a few shillings, and replying in the affirmative, he advanced her two sovereigns. Suspicion, however, being entertained of the truth of her representation, be was induced to go down to Northfleet, when he found thatthe whole of her story was trumped up. She had not the least interest iifthe Half-Moon, and was not even known to the occupier. Quantities of ale, beer, wine, spirits, & c., had been forwarded at her direction, and which, when he arrived, were about being removed back to the metropolis. In fact, she had played a complete hoax upon every person she had had dealings with in the trade, even to ordering Mr. Deacon, the pewterer, to go down to Northfleet to make some alterations in the bar. This party did so, but upon making inquiries at the inn about the re quired work, found the imposition that had been practised upon him. Mr. Alderman Wiisos inquired if there were any other cases to be brought against her ?—Mr. Adam replied that there were. Mr. Alderman WlLsort asked her if she had any defence to make to the charge.—She answered, in a simpering tone, that she did not order the goods on her own account, and Mr. Harmer knew such to be the fact. Mr. Alderman Wit.sox then said he should remand her until Monday, so as to afford time to collect the necessary evidence to complete the other charges against her. She was accordingly removed to Giltspur-street Compter. Mr. Beckwith, jun., a share agent, appeared before Mr. Alderman Musgrove to answer a complaint preferred by . Mr. Fennell, a warehouseman in Aldermanbury, for detaining ten shares in the Essex and Suffolk Railway. The matter was heard some days ago before M. Alderman Wilson, who allowed it to stand over for arrangement; but no shares having been tendered to Mr. Fennell, he now prayed the order of the magistrate that the ten shares, or the value of them, should be delivered to him by Mr. Beckwith. Mr. Fennell repeated his statement that he employed the defendant, as his broker, to buy two letters of allotment, at a premium of about ten shillings, end having paid the deposit on the fifty shares, he handed the bankers' receipts to the de fendant, to obtain the scrip at the company's offices. The scrip, as to one letter of allotment for twenty-five shares, was obtained forthwith ; but upon the other it could not be ob tained, as the deed was out of town, and the party to whom the letter was allotted could not sign. After a lapse of :seve ral days, the defendant ceased to be found at his usual resort, but Mr. Fennell met him, and insisted on having the remain ing 25 shares. The defendant gave him 15 shares, and said he should have the rest in au hour, but they had never been delivered,'and Mr. Fennell resorted to the magistrate to re cover them. Mr. Beckwith's answer was, that on the clay the complain ant met him and pressed for the shares, saying he had en gaged to deliver them, and must have them, Mr. Fennell's bankers' receipt had not been, nor was capable of being, con verted into scrip, as the secretary of the Company could prove. With the previous knowledge and sanction of the complainant he borrowed the 15 shares, which were then at 11. premium. They had since fallen to par, and the loan of the 15 shares bearing premium could not be repaid with 15 shares at par. The difference, the 15/., must of course be paid—the money value of the loan, not the actual thing lent. He claimed to hold the ten shares to cover this loss. Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE endeavoured to get a distinct answer from the complainant, whether, at the time he re ceived the 15 shares, he understood they were borrowed for him, or were part of his own shares, the bankers' receipt being at that time convertible. Mr. Fennell avoided giving a plain answer. Mr. Beckwith said he could bring the secretary to prove the shares were not convertible ; and Mr. Bloxam, a share broker, in Sutherland-square, could also prove all the facts as he stated them. Mr. Alderman MUSGROVZ did not see why the magistrates should be troubled with settling disputes about these stagging transactions. If Mr. Beckwith had ten shares, the property of' Mr. Fennell, the latter had a remedy in an ac tion of trover. Mr. Beckwith begged his pardon for interrupting him, but these were not stagging transactions. The Alderman requested some definition of a stag. Mr. Beckwith explained that he was not merely an out side man, but one who wrote to various companies for letters of allotment, giving different and false addresses all over the country. Mr. Alderman MUSGROVE declined giving any opinion on the case, and dismissed the summons. MA RYLEBONE. William King, cab driver, badge No. 4,739, was brought up in the custody cf Sergeant Shaw, an active officer of the detective police, and placed at the bar before the sitting ma• gistrate, Mr. Long, charged with having stolen 3001. worth of property belonging to Mr. Thomas Jordan, a stock and share broker, residing in Oriental-buildings, astle-street, Liver pool. The prosecutor deposed that he had recently been staying at the Golden Cross, Charing-cross, and on Thursday evening last he gave orders for a cab to be sent for to carry him and his luggage to the Euston-square terminus of the London and Birmingham Railway, as he intended to leave town by the half-past eight o'clock train. At ten minutes before eight he was informed by the porter that the cab with the luggage in it was waiting for him at the door. He then entered the vehicle, being at the time perfectly collected, and desired the driver, who he had no doubt was the prisoner, to go by way of Portman-square, as he wished to call upon Mr. Reeves, jeweller, No. 75, George street. On arriving at the corner of that street, be called to the prisoner to stop, which he did, and he (prosecutor) then alighted and went to Mr. Reeves's house. He remained there about a quarter of an hour, and on coming out, found, to his great surprise, that the cab and prisoner had disappeared. Without loss of time he communicated the particulars at the station-house of the 0 division of police, situated in Mary lebone-lane, the result of which was the apprehension of the prisoner. Mr. Lorra—State as nearly as you can recollect, Sir, of' what the property lost, and placed in the cab, consisted. Prosecutor—There was a drab cloth travelling cloak with plaid lining, and a short monkey jacket ; also a carpet bag, containing, in addition to linen, a morocco leather-case with a steel lock, and in that case was a pocket-book, which had a quantity of railway scrip, together with bankers' receipts for deposits. I consider my loss to be about 300/., none of which has yet been recovered. Mr. Lorra—Did _you notice the number of the cab when you got into it ? Prosecutor—l did not. Mr. LONG—Are yon certain that the prisoner is the man who drove you ? Prosecutor—l am, Sir. Mr. LONG (to the prisoner)—Do you wish to put any ques tions to this gentleman ? Prisoner—l am innocent, and, therefore, have no questions to ask. John Brown, the porter at the Golden Cross, said that when he put the luggage in the cab he was in a hurry, and, being rather foggy at the time, he would not swear positively that the prisoner was the driver, although, to the best of his belief, he was. George Johnson, a cabman, stated that he saw the luggage placed in the vehicle by the last witness, and could swear that the prisoner was the driver. Catherine Marsh, servant to Mr. Reeves, deposed that while the prosecutor was in her master's house the prisoner came to the door, and asked if the gentleman (prosecutor) was almost ready, at the same time saying, " I wish he would be quick, but if he is going to keep me much longer, I homhell send something down for me." Witness added, that she saw no more of the prisoner afterwards. Shaw, the constable, said that as he only took the pri soner that morning, he had not as yet had time to bring for ward more evidence. The prisoner, who again asserted his innocence of the charge alleged against him, was remanded for further ex amination on Friday next; and. on the arrival of the prison van he was conveyed to Tothill-field's prison. At about three o'clock Mr. Thomas, of Hatchett's Hotel, Piccadilly, came to the court, accompanied by other persons connected with his establishment, and had an interview with the magistrate, to whom he stated he had frequently em ployed the prisoner, of whom he had a very good opinion. On the evening of Thursday last the prisoner was at his (Mr. Thomas's) door, at a quarter to eight o'clock, and after waiting a short time drove him (witness) and two of his daughters to Barnes. This statement being corroborated, Mr. Long, under all the circumstances of the case, consented to allow the pri soner's liberation on bail—himself in 2001., and two sureties in the same amount each, making in the whole 6001. CLERKEN WELL. On Saturday John Houghton, the driver of a cabriolet, No. 408, was charged with very outrageous conduct to Mr. Crossthwaite, a gentleman residing at IVo. 9, Ladbrooke-ter race, Notting-hill, and to Mr. Hasluck, of Hatton-garden. The complainants severally stated that, on Friday night, at the hour of eleven, they engaged the defendant at Covent-garden Theatre, to convey them to the resi dence of the last-mentioned gentleman's father, in Hat. ton-garden, where, on alighting, the prisoner, who had an other cabman on the box with him, demanded 2s. ad. as his fare. Knowing the fare to be no more than one shilling, he gave him double that amount; but, instead of being satis fied, he seized Mr. Crossthwaite in the most ruffianly manner, and endeavoured to throw him. They struggled together for some time, and the accused was eventually overpowered, and brought to the ground. The witness called a police-con stable, 240 G, who was on the opposite side of the street, and who saw all that occurred, to protect them ; but, strange to say, he sided with the defendant, or, from fear, did not for a long time, after seeing the complainent spit upon him more than ten times, take him in charge at their suit and supplica tion. In the confusion occasioned by the outrage, which at tracted to the spot upwards of 100 persons, the defendant's companion made his escape, after having deposited his coat and badge with the accused. Two gentlemen corroborated the evidence. They described the conduct of the constable as most unaccountable. After the complainants had repeatedly asked him if they were to put up with such conduct as an extortion, and being spat on, the defendant became more offensive in language and in con duct generally, and it was with the greatest difficulty that be could be prevailed on to remove the prisoner. Inspector Penny, G, said that the defendant was very drunk and abusive when brought to the station. His language was most beastly. Mr. GREENWOOD desired Mr. Penny to make a representa tion of the constable's conduct to the commissioners of Po:ice, for it required the strictest investigation, which he trusted would take place before some magistrate other than himself, for he had a very strong feeling on the subject. One of the witnesses, Mr. Winter, of Hatton-garden, inter posed on the behalf of the officer, whose extraordinary con duct was, in his belief, occasioned by the confusion that pre vailed. The mob was of the most disorderly kind, principally from about the cab-stands in Holborn, and the policeman seemed very confused and overpowered by numbers. Mr. GREENWOOD remarked that such evidence would ope rate in his favour : still, however, it was due to the public that the conduct of an officer, who had so strangely acted, should be publicly investigated ; for of all the cases he bad ever heard or read of, in which a cabman was concerned with a passenger, the present was the very worst ; and to mark his sense or it, and to prove to others of the defendant's calling that the law was strongenough to check so abominable an insult, he would commit the prisoner to the treadmill, without fine, for'two months, and further cancel his license as a cab- driver, and order that he never again be entrusted with one. QUEEN-SQUARE. On Saturday Ed;:vin Power, a youth 19 years of age, was charged before Mr. Burrell with being disorderly and threat ening the life of his mother, Mrs. Rose Rosina Power, the proprietor of the New Grenadier, Crescent-mews, Belgrave square. Mrs. Power said that defendant, who was a youth of most ungovernable disposition, resided with her, and if at all thwarted in his wishes. resorted to extreme vio lence. On Friday afternoon he was particularly so, because she objected to give him five shillings to bay two rabbits, and took up a carving knife and said he would do for her and his sisters. With a view to have some peace in the house she informed defendant that she would give him some money if he would go away and get himself some situation, and upon his agreeing to do so she gave him two sovereigns, and he left the place. After passing a very restless night in consequence of her son's misbehaviour, she was informed at ten o'clock on that morning that he was in the house, and had showed a pistol to the pot-boy, and that the police had been sent for. In consequence of what she was told she gave the defendant into custody. Escot, a policeman of the B division, produced a pistol, powder, and flask, which he had found in prisoner's pos session. Defendant made no reply to the charge. Mr. BURRELL considered this an extreme instance of bru tality on the part of defendant, and called upon him to find good bail.—He was locked up. THAMES. Benjamin Barnett, aged 34, described as of no trade, and lately residing in Spitalfields, was charged with being con cerned in an outrage upon Joseph Bray, No. 43 H, and Edward Burgess, No. 198 H. Both constables appeared in a woeful plight with their heads bound up. Burgess had received a cut on the nose, which completely divided it, and there was an incised wound of considerable depth on his temple. Mr. Pelham appeared for the prisoner. Bray, who was in an exceedingly weak state, said he was called by Burgess on Thursday night, between eight and nine o'clock, to secure a horse and cart, supposed to contain stolen property, and convey it to the station •house. He was suddenly attacked by a mob of bad characters, who said the horse and cart should not be removed. Exclama tions of down with them, knock their heads off, were heard, and a furious attack was made upon him and Burgess. He saw a knife brandished. He received a most tremendous blow from a deadly instrument called a life-preserver, the end of which was loaded with iron or lead. He was dragged away from the horse's head, and received other blows from the life-preserver, and was carried off insensible. He swore to the prisoner having struck him with the life-preserver, and be had a brown coat on. Burgess, who was also in a weakly condition from loss of blood, said he was in plain clothes, and saw a horse and cart drive up to the King's Arms, Whitechapel-road. There was a quantity of straw and a sack covered over something in the cart. He suspected it contained stolen property. After seeing two men alight and go into the public-honee, he stopped till Bray came up, and desired him to take charge of it. He went into the King's Arms for the pur pose of securing the parties, but could not see them. He came out again and was about to drive the horse and cart to the station-house, when he and Bray were surrounded. The pri soner, who was known to him, struck him. The prisoner was the most active among them. After a desperate strug gle a knife was used upon him. He received a dreadful wound across the temple, and another cut across the nose, which hung by the skin until his wounds were dressed at the hospital. In cross-examination by Mr. Pelham, Burgess said he stopped the horse and cart because he was certain something wrong was going on. He knew the prisoner well. A certificate was then put in, stating that Bray was in danger from the injuries he received, and he was imme diately removed in a coach to the hospital. Inspector Donegan said the prisoner was apprehended at ten o'clock the same night, and officers were in search of other persons concerned in the affray. Mr. BALLANTLNE said the case was a most serious one, and must be further investigated. He remanded the prisoner till Friday next. The following property was found on Barnett :—A half plate, engine-turned, double-bottomed silver watch, jewelled in six holes, maker's name "William Haslett, London, No. 377," with a heavy gold curb chain attached; two gold mourning rings, one marked outside "In memory of" and inside " John Richardson, Esq., Obit. 13th of Aug. 1840, in his 70th year ;" the other with an inscription inside only, "Benjamin and Anna Bond, also Charles Bond ;" and in gold. The property has been deposited for inspection at the Denmark-street station-house. Friday night both policemen were in the London Hospital, and reported to be in a dangerous condition. CROYDON. On Saturday Wm. Ful!er, one of the letter- carriers attached to the Croydon district, attended before Messrs. Reid, Adams, and Sutherland, the presiding Magistrates, at the Town hall, in discharge of his recognisances, to answer a charge of having unlawfully embezzled and secreted a letter containing a sovereign, the property of her_Majesty's Postmaster-Ge neral. _ _ _ The charge was made against the defendant under the fol lowing circumstances :—lt appears that for a considerable time there have been complaints of the loss of letters, con taining money and other valuables, sent to Croydon, and with a view to detect the depredator, the Post-office authori ties made arrangements to send four letters, each containing money, upon a certain day, to addresses within the four different deliveries comprising the Croydon district. One of these letters, containing a sovereign, was addressed to a gentlemen at Addiscombe-house, and this letter formed the subject of the present charge. The four letters arrived in due course at the Croydon post-office, and the defendant and the three other letter carriers employed in the establishment sorted them as usual. The letter in question not being found among the parcel of letters that were to be sent to the Addiscombe delivery, the defendant was sent for imme diately, and in the middle of his bundle of letters there appeared the letter referred to, which he had no business to have, as Addiscombe was not within hie delivery, and he accounted for the possession of the letter by stating that it must have got among his bundle of letters by mistake while the letters were being sorted. Upon this he was taken into custody and under went an examination before Mr. Sutherland, who admitted him to bail until this day. The letter, it appeared, had not been opened, nor its contents in any way disturbed. Mr. Ramsey, one of the superintendent of letter-carriers at the General Post-office, now attended, and stated that the Post-office authorities had looked over the depositions, and they were of opinion that it was not advisable to proceed with the prosecution, as they did not think it likely that a conviction would take place under the circumstances. The defendant was consequently discharged. BRIGHTON POLICE COURT. (From the Brighton Herald.) [Before Major ALLEN, Sir G. WESTPHAL, J. BORRER, and T. J. BELLAMY, Esq.] THE ITALIAN AND Ins TORTOISE.-011 Thursday an Italian boy, whose soft delicate features formed a strong contrast with the hardy and dogged expression of the English vagrant, was placed at the bar. In answer to the demand for his name, he replied by a very arch smile, and Mr. Chase said he did not speak English, but that Lorenzo Loriena, an Italian lodging•house keeper, was in attendance, who would act as interpreter. Loriena accordingly addressed him in Italiar, but the boy merely smiled in reply, and looked down at some thing in his breast. " What has he got there?" asked one of the Magis trates. "It's a tortoise," replied an officer, and, going up to the boy, he took the poor animal away from hira and placed it upon the table. The people laughed as the tortoise put out its queer-looking head and dragged itself slowly and awkwardly along the table, and the boy looked at them and smiled too, and then again looked at his tortoise. A policeman deposed to seeing the boy down two areas on the King's-road. "Did you hear what he said?" inquired Major ALLEN. Policeman—l didn't understand what he said, but he had a tortoise, and he went down the areas. Major ALLEN (to Loriena)—Does he lodge a ith you. —Si, si. And who pays for him?—Himself. The boy is by himself. He came in last week. Major ALLEN—You don't know who brought him into this country?—The man is in London. He's his uncle, and he was to have come down yesterday with a piano for the boy. Major ALLEN—Does the tortoise belong to you?— No, no, it's his tortoise. Does he deny having been down the areas? The man spoke in Italian to the boy, who smiled nodded his head, and looked at his tortoise. The magistrates consulted together. "Can you take care of the tortoise?" asked Major ALLEN of Loriena. " Yes, I can take care of it." " Because we can't commit that—they won't take that in at Lewes. Tell the boy he is committed for three weeks to hard labour. The punishment—(was it not unnecessarily severe?) —was coxnmunicated to the poor boy. He only smiled again, and looked at his tortoise, which was crawling ab-ut the table. A policeman now took the animal and handed it over to Loric•na; and the boy was motioned to below. His eyes followed his tortoise, but the smile still lingered on his soft features, as, with his head towards the tortoise, he stepped down the steps and was lost to sight. HORRIBLE MURDER. FRIGHTFUL MUTILATION OF THE BODY. STAFFORD, SATURDAY MORNING.—A most horrible mur • der was perpetrated on Wednesday last, at a place called Alsager's Bank, in the parish of Audley, in this county, which, from the shocking circumstances connected with it, has produced the greatest excitement throughout the county. The name of the murdered man was Adolphus Fielding, 49 years of age, respectably connected, and lived in Stock••road, Newcastle. He was a potter by trade, but his sight declining, became a hawker in small wares. The murderer is a stonemason, of the name of James Dean ; he is a married man, separated from his wife, and lived w;th another female. It appears that about noon on Wednesday. Fielding went into the cottage where Dean lived, who had been ill during the week, and had not been at work. It does not appear that there was any one else in the house at the time, excepting Dean's son, a little boy live years of age. Shortly afterwards the woman who cohabited with him was met in the road by the child, who told her that his father was beating the old man. On her hastening to the cottage, to her great horror she saw through the opened door the headless body of the unfortunate man on the floor, deluged with blood, and Dean striking at the head of the murdered man with an axe. The alarm brought numbers to the spot, but, from the ferocious ap pearance of Dean, they were afraid to enter the cottage. Seeing the crowd, Dean took up a portion of the brains of his unhappy victim, and threw them at the bystanders. A collier, named Scott, inure resolute than the rest, then attempted to secure him, and received several wounds about the neck and face, Dean having armed him s4lf with a pair of scissors and a knife. The infuriated man then bolted the door, and having placed the head of his vic tim on the fire, commenced blowing it with the bellows. It appearing to be the intention of the murderer to consume the body, several people got on to the roof of the cottage, and by pouring water down, the chimney extinguished the tire. They then stopped the chimney up, and the force of the steam and smoke drove him to one of the upper rooms. The street-door was then forcedby the villagers, and the extent of the frightful tragedy was immediately apparent. The body still remained on the floor, and the head, when taken off the fire, was so burnt that it scarcely presented a human aspect. During this time Dean stood at the top of the stairs, armed with another axe of a larger size than that he had just used, and repelled his assailants by brandishing it about, and throwing bottles and other things that he could lay hands on at them. Eventually, some policemen broke through the roof, and rushed upon him as he was crouched in one corner of the room. What with his blackened features with dust and smoke, and his clothes thoroughly saturated in the blond of his unhappy victim, he presented a spectacle perfectly appalling. After very great resistance he was handcuffed, and their conveyed to the " lock up" at Audley. At the in. quest held on the body of poor Fielding, on Thursday last before Mr. Harding, the county coroner, the following evi dente was adduced : Frances Maycock said she cohabited with Dean. Between the hours of eleven and twelve o'clock on Wednesday last, she left Dean and his little boy in the cottage. Had not been gone more than five minutes when she met her son, who cried out that his father was beating the old man. She ran to the house, and on opening the door, saw Dean on the floor with the body of the old man, whose head was off. He did not appear to notice her, and she ran into the main road and gave the alarm. The razor produced belonged to a widow who owned the cottage in which they lodged. Inthe early part of the week she had noticed that his conduct was very strange ; he appeared not to know what he was about. William Scott, the collier, stated that he was passing the cottage when his attention was drawn to a loud screaming. The door being open he went in, and saw Dean cutting away at the head of the deceased. He held the hair in his left hand and was cutting at it with an axe-hammer with his right hand. The next moment the head was severed from the body. When Dean saw him he dropped the axe, and took up a knife from a bench which was near him, and pointed it to witness with a hissing noise. Having got a rail to defend himself, he returned, when he found Dean had armed himself with a pair of scissors and a knife. Dean then came up and stabbed him in the face and neck. In the struggle they fell, and having recovered, he ran out of the house. He then assisted the police in breaking through the roof and taking Dean into custody. A police inspector having proved the finding of a shovel and a pair of tongs with blood upon them, which showed that those weapons bad been used in the deadly affray, Mr. C. Tait, surgeon, of Audley, said the head of the de ceased was taken off near the shoulder; the primary cause of death was no doubt a fracture on the temple, which was apparent. All the witnesses being examined, the jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of " Wilful Murder" against the prisoner James Dean. The prisoner, who was in the Court during the whole pro ceedings, and appeared quite unconcerned, was asked by the Coroner if he wished to say anything; he replied, with a vacant stare, " I was not taking any notice." On the Coroner telling him the verdict the jury had re turned, he said, " I have a good deal to say, but I have for got it ; I did not want to kill him ; I did not kill any man, did I?" He was then removed in custody of the police to Stafford gaol, to await his trial at the ensuing assizes. SEDUCTION AND ATTEMPTED SUICIDE OF A YOUNG FEMALE. On Saturday a degree of considerable excitement pre vailed in the vicinity of Russell-street, Bermondsey, in con sequence of a young and handsome female named Mary Ann Simmonds, aged seventeen years, the only daughter of respectable parents residing in Edward-street, Star-corner, Bermondsey, being removed from the parish workhouse of St. Mary, Bermondsey, to the lunatic ward of Bethlehem Hos pital, St George's-fields, under the following distressing and painful circumstances:— It appears from the following particulars which have been furnished to the reporter, that the unfortunate female was recently in the service of Mr. Davis, umbrella and parasol manufacturer, residing in the Westminster-bridge road, Lambeth, where she bore an excellent character for her cleanliness and propriety of conduct, until a few days since, when she became strange in her behaviour, which was also attended by a lowness of spirits, and an evident at tack of insanity, which attracted the attention of the family. After considerable difficulty, Mrs. Davis, who had always been extremely kind to her, prevailed upon her to reveal the cause of her unhappiness, which she at length consented to do. She said that she had been keeping company with a voting man named " Charles," an engineer in the employ of Messrs. Maudslay and Co., the engineers of Westminster bridge •road. He was occasionally in the habit of meeting her and taking her to a concert-room, in Charlotte -street, Black friars-road; that he had ruined her and promised her mar - Hags, and now had entirely forsaken her. Her mistress, seeing the danger of her staying in service, communicated with the parochial authorities connected with the parish of St. Mary, Bermondsey, to which her parents belonged, the result of which was, her immediate conveyance to the lunatic ward of the above parish, whither she was taken on Thurs day night, and placed under the usual restraint. The same night, about ten o'clock, whilst the back of her at tendant was turned, she succeeded in raising the window e.f her apartment, and jumped into one of the neighbour's gar dens, from which she made her escape. Several persons pro ceeded instantly in pursuit of her, as she was without bonnet or shawl, but no tidings were heard of her for nearly two hours, when she was discovered by a City police constable, who first saw her on the centre of London-bridge, in the act of leaping from one of the eastern recesses, but through the ac tivity of the officer she was providently prevented, and was subsequently conveyed back to the above workhouse, where it was ultimately found necessary by Mr. Tovey, the sur geon to the parish, to obtain a certificate for her removal to Bethlehem Hospital, which was accordingly put in the hands of Mr. Slow, one of the relieving officers of the parish, who placed her in a cart, and conveyed her, at four o'clock on Sunday afternoon, to that asylum. Her parents, who are honest, hard-working people, are thus thrown into a state of great trouble. MARKET NEWS.-(SATURDAY COVENT-GARDEN. For the time of year, we were rather heavily supplied with most articles, owing to which the demand was in s sluggish state, at barely last week's quotations :—Potatoes, from is 6d to 5s 6d per cwt; Turnips, is to 2s; Carrots, 5s to 6s ; Onions, is 3d to 2s ; Greens, is 6d to 2s 3d per dozen bunches; Plums, 2s to 5s ; Apples, Is 6d to 4s; Pears, 28 to 6s; and Spinach, Is to is 4d per half-sieve; Hot-house Grapes, 2s 6d to 5s ; Out-door ditto, 4d to 10(1; Pine-apples, 5s to 8s ; and Filberts, 4d to 8d per lb ; Red Cabbages, 2s 6d to 6s; and Nectarines and Peaches, 2s 6d to 8s per dozen ; Celery, 8d to Is 9d; Brocoli, Is to 23 3d; and Horse-radish, 2s to 5s per bundle ; Lemons, 8s to 13s ; and Walnuts, 8d to is 4d per 100 ; Mush rooms, 8d to is per punnet. HUNGERFORD. We had only a moderate supply of most articles, while the general demand was steady, and prices were fully supported. NEVTGATII AND LEADENHALL. There was more business transacted, and the quotations had an upward tendency. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 8d • Mutton, 3s Gd to 45 8d; Veal, 4s to 4e 10d; and Pork, 33 10d to 5s 4d per Blbs, by the carcase. Turkeys, 51 to 9s Gd ; Geese, 5s to 7s ; Ducks, is 3d to 2s 3d ; Tame Rabbits, is 6d to Is 8d; Wild ditto, 8d to Is ; Pigeons, 6d tc 8 , 1; and roasting Pigs, 8s to lOs 6d each ; Fowls, 4s to 8s per couple ; Pheasants, 3s to 4s ; Partridges, is 3d to 2s 6d ; Hares. 3s to 3s fd; and Grouse, is 3d to 2s each. NEWPORT. There was a steady business transacted; and prices were well supported. Beef, from 2s 6d to 3s 8d ; Mutton, 3s ad to 4s 8d; Veal, 4s to ss; and Pork, 4s 4d to 5s 4d per 81bs. BILLINGSGATE. Turbots, 8s to 16s; Cod-fish, 2s 'id to 8s; Whitings, 4d to Ed ; Crab?, 6d to 2s 3d ; and Lobsters, 8d to 3s each ; Salmon, 10d to is 3d per lb ; and Eels, 8d to is per lb ; Fresh Her rings, 4s 6d to 6s per 100. WHITECHAPEL. We bad a steady trade, and prices were well maintained. Beef, from 2s 8d to 3s Sd ; Mutton, 3s 10d to 4s 8d ; Veal 4s to 4s 10d ; and Pork, 3s l'Od to 5s 4d per Blbs. DREAD. The prices of Wheaten Bread in the metropolis are from 91d to 10d; of Household ditto, 61d to 9d per 4lbs loaf. HIDE MARKET. Market Hides, 561 b to 641 b, 2id to 3d per lb Ido. 641 b to 721 b, 3J to 3id ; do. 721 b to 801 b, 3id to 31d; do. 801 b to 881 b, 31d to 4d. ; do. 881 b to 961 b, 4d to 41d. ; do. 961 b to 1041 b 41d to 5a ; Calf Skins, each, 3s 6d to 7s ; Horn Hides, 13s ; Pulled Sheep, 3s to 3s 6d ; Half-breds, 2s 6d to 3s 3d ; Downs 23 4d to 21 9d ; Lambs 2s Gd to 2s Bd. ECAY 11141.7ZILET8. SMITIMELD.—Meadow Hay, from 3/ 108 to 5/ ; Clover ditto, 4/ IN to 61; Oat Straw, Il 168 to 11 18s ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 21 per load. A fair average supply, and a sluggish demand. CUMBVIZIAND.—Meadow Hay, 3/ 108 to 5/ 3s ; Clover, ditto, 4/ lOs to 61; Oat Straw, 11 16s to 11185; Wheat Straw, I/ 18s to 2l is per load. Supply moderate, and trade firm. WHITECHAPEL.—Meadow Hay, 31 12s to 51; Clover,ditto, 4/ 10s to 6l 6s; Oat Straw, 1/ 16s to 11 lis ; Wheat Straw, 1/ 18s to 2/ per load. Trade steady, at late rates. CHARGE TO A Ju R Y.—An able and Learned Judge was once obliged to deliver the following charge to a jury :—'!Gentlemen of the Jury, in this case the counsel on both sides are unintelligible—the witnesses are incredible — and both the plaintiff and defendant are such bad cha racters, to me it is indifferent which way you give your verdict. ' LATEST PRICES OF SLIARM S BANKS, ASSURANCELAND OTIIER CO* PANIES' STOCK. From tie Official List, 'UBLISIIED EVERY TI7E:MAY AND FRIDAY EVEl4l5°' LONDON, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14. JOINT-STOC: BANNS. JOINT-STOCIL BANNS. Dividend Amount rsic e Name of Company. per of Paid. Annum. Share. £ s. d. £ O. d. Australasia • • •• • • • 61. per cent. 40 0 0 40 0 0 1; Britsh North American 4/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 0 0 0 Commercia Jof London 5/. per cent. 1 0 0 0 0 20 f iL Colonial ... .... 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 ;• 5 1,; Londn and Westminstr Gl. per cent. 100 0 0 20 0 1 34 London Joint-Stock ... 61. per cent. 50 0010 0 0 Metropolitan Provincial of Ireland.. 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 25 0 0 * 4 Ditto, New Si. 51. per per cent.cent. 50 10 0 0 0 0 10 0 0 0 0 0 National of Ireland .. Nat. Provnclal of Eng. 51. per cent. 100 0 0 35 0 0 Ditto, New......... 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 10 0 24% Union of Australia.. • . 25 0 0 25 0 0 13 _ Union of London... 0 0 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 10 WATE7I.-W0121. - Dividend Amount Paid. price' Name of Company. per of Annum. Share. ____.--- _--- - --- X s, d. 23 0 East London.. •.•• • • - , 81. 100 0 0 - 99 Grand Junction .. •. . . ' 3/. 46 13 4 - - Kent ................ 2/. 10s. 100 0 0 -.-- Vauxhall ............ 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 - 130 West 'Middlesex ...... 41.165. pr ct. 63 12 9 _- -- INSUP.A.NCE COMPANIES. ; Dividend Amount pries • num, of Company. per of Paid. Annum. Share. --... ------- ...------- £ s. d. £ 5. 1 74 Albion ........ • 3/. 10s 500 0 0 50 0 0 _ 0 Alliance Brit . and For 6 per cent. 100 0 0 11 0 u " 6 § Ditto Marine... 6/. per cent, 100 0 0 5 0 0 164 Atlas ' 138.6 d. pr sh. 50 0 0 50 0 , 7 1 4 British Commercial 7s. per share 50 0 0 5 0 '' 64 Clericl,Med.&Gen.Life 51. per cent. 100 0 0 2 10 i, County .... • .... • 3/. 100 0010 0 0 .- 9s. and 0 0 Crown ..... • i .....3 1 40 0 0 5 la a .bs. fi 54 Eagle ...... ...... •• • • 6s. 50 0 0 5 0 rr Economic Life per ct.,/ 1000 0 0 250 0 0 I 30s.bs. fi 3 Eng. & Scot. Law Life 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 0 20 European Life 53% per cent. 20 0 0 All paid. Freemasons' .. •••• • • • • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 3 0 0 142)0 Globe - 0 51 Guardian Imperial Fire •••• • • • • 12/. per cent. 5 00 0 0 50 0 ~ 164 Imperial Life... -•• • • 12s. 100 0 0 10 0 ‘' 29 Indemnity Marine.. • • I/. sh. & bs. 100 0 0 513 !, 51 . , Law Life ........ •• • • I/. ss. 100 0 0 10 0 u 6 ' Legal and General Life - 50 0 0 2 0 0 , 15 1 ;0 London Fire •.••• • • • . 10s. 25 0012 10 0 v 154, London Ship .... •. • • 10s. 25 0 0 12 10 iVi 0 0 . Marine •.••••• • • • • • • 5/. per cent. 100 0 0 1 5 Med. Invlid& Gen. Life - 50 0 0 2 0 2$ National Loan Fund. • 5/. per cent. 20 0 0 210 094 National Life. o 8/. per cent. 100 0 0 5 0 0 21. 25. Palladium Life 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 2 0 910 Pheenix 3/. & bs. - - 0 I. Protector Life.... •• • • 5 1 . per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 A 11 24 , z Provident Life •••• • . • • 11. 55. 100 0 0 10 0 ''; 111 Rock Life ..... Royal Exchange 5/. per cent. Stock. - Sun Fire - . • . • • • . - - 15 Ditto Life . • • • • ... • - - 15 Universal Life ......• 105( /. pr cut. 100 0 6 15 ...?../. ----- _.OO LIST OF SCOTTISII COMPANIES' r_lii- --. ' Dividend Amount paid. ' Price Name of Company. per of Annum. Share. •-•••-'. ---.-... X s. d. X s. It 174 Bank of Scotland ••.• • 6/. per cent. 10 0 0 1" 16 6 Royal Bank of Scotland 61. per cent. - 100 0 2 93 0 British Linen Company 81 per cent. - 100 0," 163, Commercial Bank •• • • 6/. per cent. - 100 0 0 1611 National Bank ...... .. 61. per cent. - 10 0 0 902 Union Bank of Scotland 7% o °l. pr cent. - 50 0 0 6 6 4 Western Bank .. .. - 50 1 ., North of Scotland Bank Si. per cent. - 5o 0 15? Clydesdale Bank .•• • • • 6/. per cent. - 10 0 0 11? Eastern Bank.. •.• • • • 5/. per cent. - 10 0 0 631 Caledonian Bank • • ..• 7341. pr cent. - 210 ° 1 Edinb.& Glasgow Bank 6/. per cent. - 500 l5 City of Glasgow Bank . Si. per cent. - 815 IP Scottish Union Ins• Co. 51. per cent. 20 0 0 1 0 ll Hercules Insurance Co. 7/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 0 10;i Insur. Co. of Scotlnd -5/. per cent. 10 0 0 All Paid: 3 5 North Britsh Insur. - 5341. pr cent. 200 0 0 10 0 7. 31., Caledonian Fire Insur. 10/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 l' 13P Edinburgh Life Insur. 6/. per cent. 100 0 0 10 0 " A 1 5 Edin. &( 1 lasg. Railway 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 50 0 .: 1 9 u. Ditto, % Shares 5l. per cent. 12 10 0 All pow,; WI Edin., Leith, & Grantn - 20 0 C 20 0 ..; 1 5 ,L Glasgw & Ayrshir Rail. 5/. per cent. 50 0 0 All P. a"; Om Rastpiv & Greenck Rail. 2/. per cent. 25 0 0 All prit*, 45 Glsgw &Garnkirk Rail. 51. per cent. 25 0 0 All PP` l , u ; yr Dundee& Arbroth Rail. 61. per cent. 25 0 0 All Pwr,' ' Standard LifeAssarrice.l 51 per cent. 150 0 0 I 2 1 0 -r i! ... „..-r --/ CANALS. ,-- ; I .; .72 Dividw id ffic . ' Names of 4 Dividend Names of . Price. P er t Companies. ", 4 P er Companies. A Anintal* ~.....," t cn Annum. irst ...--- X X Ashtn& Oldh 97 51.55. p c 72 Monmouthsh 100 31 - 16. 5, : 3 Ashby-d-la-Z 113 41. 70 Mntgomrysh 100 N.. j", 1 Barnsley.... 160 12/. 180 Macclesfield . 1001 - - 3 0 ' Basingstoke.. 100 - - Neath •. • ... 100 20/'• 96 0 Brknk&Abrg 150 5/. 85 Nottingham . 150 or- 4 0 _ Cromford.... 100 ' 181. 15Q Peak Forest. 78 31 . 5 ,, 1. Dud1e5r...... 100 41. - Regent's .... 33 11 - 0. , Derby .. .. • . 100 8/. 103 Rochdale ..• • 85 41- --- Ellsmre&Chs 133 4/. 80 Shropshire - 125 8 1 1 . _ l q 1 Erewash ... 100 321 . 300 Somrset Coal 150 71. lv , 1: ‘ Forth & Clyd 100 41. - Do.Lkl'd St 12 61. p.; C' 44_1. GrandJunctn 100 71. 100 Stffrd &Wore 140 273‘• 13" Grand Union 100 11. 103. - Shrewsbury.. 125 ... , s 1 St' ' Glamorgnsh . 172 13%/. 210 Stourbridge.. 145 vit. '''' Glstr& Brkly 'OO - - Strtfrdon Av 79 1/. I t "' ...• Grantham • • 150 12/. 100 Severn and/ 26 11. 05. Huddersseld. 57 - 20 Wye Rail. ...• - Kennt & Avn 39 7s. 6d. 22 Trnt & Mr-'j 50 Or 10 r 1 Lancaster ... 47 1/. 10. 40 sey, li sli. if Leeds& Livrp 100 34/. 525 Thams&Med 19 --' 49 . Leicester .... 140 10/. 105 Worcstr &1 78 41- II i Leicstr&Nth 83 41. 62 Birming. Loughborogh 142 701. 850 Wilts & Mks 67 1/. 40: 000 ,0/ ... % ___.-..... STATE OF TRADE. , Tv' FOREIGN WOOL TRADE, LEEDS, Nov. has been only a limited amount of business done 10 reign Wools this week, and no apparent var iatl9 prices. 1 , O e ENGLISH WOOL MARKET, LEEDS, Nov. • --Pee d sales of combing and clothing wool this week have„,i to limited, and rather lower prices have been snbi nit ' than could be obtained a month age. io 00 ,1 WAKEFIELD WOOL MARKET, Nov. na relief to the dull state of the trade both for shod 018 long wools noted in our last week's report, but otirder other hand an increased degree of flatness, and in to effect sales lower terms must be submitted to. a° se LEEDS.—There has been rather more business d op e the cloth halls this week than for the last two o r or der weeks. More goods have also been delivered "O . to the shipping-houses, than for some time past. eeks' withstanding the dull markets of the last few,l ad there has been no material accumulation of sto e nnor 9 prices are firm. The shipping houses are a lit tl° nt 1 busy than of late, and on the whole a fair 0 3 4, 11/ business, considering the late period of the s eas doing in the warehouses. n t „ fi cid BRADFORD MARKET, THURSDAY.—We can t ° ot t- h e anything different to the monotonous descriptiu! etSr e wool market for many weeks past ; the most lie-resod is manifested by the spinners to buy only for 11.0 the wants. Notwithstanding the great diminution ,0 consumption, there is no giving way in the el pare , yet to enable the staplers to meet the prices offere a ct' Since last Thursday, a great number of highlf A resr ol o i able spinners and manufacturers have comnien c 'titl ° ning short time ; besides, a large additional quall..oatle machinery is wholly stopped. The amount of P li ath 9 tion must now, from the prevalence of short time, 9 0, 1:0 total stoppage of machinery in various direoti° l3 o j td . fully 30 per cent. less than in ordinary times ;Un the though this state of things presses heavily 9 ,Pi e lyff, working classes, yet there is no other means liked 9..," bring business to such a point that it can be ca e re / 1 " - profitably either to masters or men. In pieces thevonlio been quite as much business done as for s evera l fr ic past, and by the precautionary measures adoP te : clueing the quantity brought to market, increased eatv cannot now take place, and the chances of to am MANCendmentHESTER, are ren THURSDAYdered more EVENI bI NG.—W e it probae. hoverUe t, report a very heavy and still declining clot h 1.1:13 e The demand is really small in comparison We re re th, healthy demand some two months ago ; nor is tlyeooi least appearance of the slightest improvement . 0 , reduction on the lowest point quoted to-day isr% prO s ' ' tempt any large purchaser to buy. The w illt %0 111 ;1 pects for the power-loom weavers are gloomy - ) 0 4 without any addition in the shape of dear fo od • in tP$ manufacturers are only working their machinery 010 day. Spinners, too, find it difficult to effect sall o wer' week's currency ; indeed, the prices are the ta ro P - it 's [AnvERTISEMENT.]—COUGHS, COLDS, —B , lr oiC h f is AND WHEEZINGS ON THE CHEST, CURED BY 1 " 1 : - reli" Pur.i.s.—When no other medicine will afford the les" ec liste e , bad coughs and colds, Holloway's Pills will almost io t° , 0_ 4 9 effect a cure in any case, however desperate ; and extraordinary, asthmas and wheesings, even if of seveile d1"-: standing, may be completely got rid of by following t e dich; tions which accompany each box of this celebrated Ti e to Is Many who were nearly at death's door, not being oto, down in their beds, fearing to be choked with phleg t o ot t had asthmatic complaints so effectually eradicated ti tg 2a at least symptoms remained. Sold by all druggists , ''" fessor Holloway's Establishment, 244, Strand, Lon 00 00 1 [ADVERTISEMENT. coughs °P i disns ofttimes terminate in consumptions. Of this dre adfu To ipp 59,291 died in England in 1842, while many whettLipe,,Po r , t latter stages have, by taking Mann's Approved Me"' - wity"to restored to health. No family ought therefore to 1 0 1 44 g this invaluable medicine, as a few doses given 8 1 besl i bt the accompanying directions, will have the e ffec t or preventing its destructive disease. This gu°,o, coughs, colds, hooping-cough, convulsions, cs'Ll debilitated constitutions have been proved in numen_caiert. In order to make it a cheap family medicine, the P .. .. r /s• t7 i t has much ENLARGED the Bottles at former prices, vine„O ro the tor and 4s. 6d. each, duty included. None are gen Thomas Mann, Horsham, Sussex, engraved on Sold by the Principal Vendors in the United ICingt effect 0 sect a ---- --- -- BIRTHS. , Jan #'- o te., On the 20th of September, at New Forest, Man che the wife of T. Haffeden, jun., Esq., of a son. of L ieUt9Xl On the 10th inst n ., at Purbrooke, Hants, the la d Y Colonel E. Napier, of a son. t h e I. ...I¢d9oo On tht 11th inst., at the A•enuo, Peckham-rye , t 0 000 0 Sers, Esq., of twins—a son and daughter. ofl ir On the llth inst., at Highlands, Northill, Beds, th e wi fe to ok Holmes, Esq., of a daughter. o ° s On the 12th inst., at Richmond, Surrey, the wife 0 :: Th_______ __/ '' Esq., of Chancery-lane, of a son. C• MA RRIED. ttr• _At r Old Cho re WV On the 4th of September, at Calcutta, at the „ be rt - H. Petrie, 11. C. M., to Sarah, eldest daughter of Mr. Ru wine-merchant, London. DIED. On the Gth inst., at Reading, G. Adams, Esq., aged 90 ' On the Bth inst., in Chapel-street, Grosvenor -square' Hon. Lady Mary Coote. ed On the 9th inst., at Wokingham, Mr. T. Creake r, ag- On the 12th inst., W. Johnson, Esq., of Crutehedfriars, - London : Printed ana Published by MITRDO YOUIs,,, Strand, Printer, at The Sun Office, No. 112, Strand , in of the Savoy, In the County of Middlesex, Monditio 17, 1845. 164 0 I 1 ) , ), ti( l s 0. e bs tb et l6l: . 11f _ e 1 ci,r o p r e ba t %y, 14°1 ' -Orr Tb, wit] Den u 4s _kil ft t - ;_°r trls