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"...1.' - V - -- - 1 _ -:-..._12._.:r -, 4444ey... -__ • ...V.- p 1 C . 1 . 4 , aN :i'... /.'' '' ' ''.-. :1 :41.''- '1.,6‘ .- ''' - '' "___ • ___ ' ~. 2. CONTRACT for LOCKS. Department of the Storekeeper-General of the Navy, Somerset-place, February 8, 185 ). Phe "th oramissioners for executing the office of Lord High Admi!al h ot ,„ e U nited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland do hereby give .A) that on TUESDAY, the 12th March next, at One o'clock, they Will be ready to treat with such persons as may be willing to whtract for supplying her Majesty's s evera l D oc ky ar ds with LOCKS AND LOCK FURNITURE. Patter.. may be seen, and a Form of Tender, :sutions of the Contract at toe sinid (nee. Schedule, and 2EO Tender will be receiv e d obtained after One o'clock or. the day of treaty, ;140r151 4,1 7 ed not in ic writing. ed, unless the party attends, or an agent : . (,r him duly ,p `, i e ry Tender must b e addressed to the Secretary of the Admi t:Z. 4lnd bear in the left-hand corner the words "Tender for l us mt also be delivered nat Someet-place, accompanied bolttcptteran signed by two responsible per s o n s, e ngaging to become With the person tendering in the sum of LOOM for the due cf the Contract. ~.~ NAVALTELLIGENCE. PORTSMOUTH, FRlDAY.—Captain Horatio Austen, C. 8., of the steam squadron at this port, proceeded to the Admiralty this morning to an invitation from their Lordship, we understand with the view of his taking the command of the new expedition, via Davis's Straits, in search of Sir John Franklin and :party. Tne Hermes steam-sloop, Commander Fishbourne, and the Dart brigantine, Second-Master M'Clure, sailed this afcernoon for Plymouth, en route to the T da h y e , Sidon a and d has s te a a Cape of G oo d H ope, with mails and dispatches. steam, -frig ate adjusting d heroff to the compasses stream n to_ readiness, which w ill complete h g er for • service when needed. Wind—W. by S.; strong breezes, and cloudy. A PPM TALENTS. WOOLWICH, FEB. B.—Lieutenant Edmund L Strangways (1842) to the Arethusa, 50, at Devon port. Lieutenant John R. Harward (1846), additional to the Hastings flag-shir, on the East India and China Station. Mate Allen Bathurst (1848) to the Victory, 101, flagship at Portsmouth. Milhipmen—Robert Elliot, to the Hastings; Henry L. Templer, to the Philomel, 8, sloop, at Devon port., Clerk F. J. N. Kenyon (1849), additional to the Hastings. Naval Cadets A. 11. b. Cuninghame and Richard Fitzgerald, to the Arethusa. The board of nsval officers still continue to sit daily at the Admiralty, and to-day have examined several persons —gunners, boatswains, boatstvains' mates, and seamen, on the use of serving spirits in the navy. Some objections having been made to employing the Minx steam-vessel on the Arctic expedition, owing to her being built of iron, it is possible another may be substituted. The Minx is, however, ordered to be made ready for active service, and an opportunity will be afforded of testing the disc engines when constantly employed. The objection to the Minx, in consequence of her being built of iron, might easily be obviated by planking her strongly on the outside, which would not require a longer time to ac complish than the additional work which would. be requisite for any other vessel employed on an Artie expedition. The disc engines are so compact as evi dently to -be best adapted for an Artic expedition, although it is que,stionable how far it would beiu.si to their Inventor' to test them in the 'northern revona before trying them on the coasts of this country in the usual dockyard service. Severalpf the gallant officers who volunteered their services to proceed. in search of the missing expedition were delighted with the prospect of having the Minx with the disc en gines under their command, as she only draws about live feet of water, and would be an admirable tender to a larger vessel, which would be able to carry every requisite for the undertaking, and serve as head-quarters when the smaller vessel could riot be actively employed. Intelligence was received today at Woolwich that the Onyx, Dover mail steam-packet, Lieutenant- Commander George Raymond, was on shore at Os tend, and orders were issued to the,Lightning steam vessel, Master-Commander Petley, to get her steam up and proceed to Ostend to assist in extricating the Onyx from her dangerous position, if she still held together. The Jasper steam-vessel was also ordered to proceed to Ostend, in charge of Master-Commander William Bryant, to assist the Lightning ; but while , the steam was getting up, the Sprightly, tender to the Victory at Portsmouth, arrived, having brought round one sergeant, one drummer, and four privates, of the Woolwich division of Royal Marines, brought home in the Raleigh, and was immediately placed under orders to proceed to Ostend in place of the Jasper. The Harbinger hired freight-ship has arrived in the harbour with a cargo of teak timber for the use of the dockyard, from Moulmein, East Indies. Mr. Shepherd sent up a fourth balloon yesterday at a quarter past three o'clock, P.M., from St. James's park, and it was brought to the Admiralty at eleven o'clock to-day, having been found at Eltham, in Kent, by a person named James Bye. Several of the z _ / 1," _ I • NZW HUNGARIAN NOVEL. • On Thur , day next will be putoi:illed, in 3 vols. post 8 - vo., THE VILLAGE NOTARY ; •a Romance of Hungarian Life. Translated from the Hungarian of Baron EOTVOS, by OTTO WENCKSTEBN. With Introductory Remarks, written expressly for the 'insect Translation, by FRANCIS PULSZKY. London : Longman, Drown, Green, and Longmans. LAW IN TELLIGENCE. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Feb. 8. (Sttings in I\i.si Prius, before Mr. Justice WIGUTMN and a Common Jury.) DUNMORB V. BARROWS. ance, that he !paid the whole demand, costs and all. No such result would follow here. The defendant need not appear. The defence would be fully made out, and the verdict must be for the defendant. The letters of the 12th olDecember, 1849, and the 17th of January, 1850, were put in and read. Mrs. Ghetto, a monthly nurse—Was present at the birth of the defendant. He was born on the 26th of July, 1832. She remembered the date, for she left her daughter at home when she went to nurse Lady Emily Wortley, and in her absence her daughter went away and was married. Mr. Platt prosecuted. The jury found them Guilty. Mr. BULLOCK sentenced them to ten years' trans portation upon each indictment, the second sentence to commence at the expiration of the first. Thomas Lovell, 2.5, labourer ; John White, 18, labourer; Eliza Redding, 20, and Clara Fisher, 19, spinsters, were indicted fur stealing a cash-box, con taining 721., the property of Mr. Skeffington, the bookseller, of Piccadilly. • Mr. Ballantine and Mr. Cockle prosecuted, and Mr. O'Brien defended Lovell. sequently of a cup of tea, immediately after which he became very sick ; but that she thought nothing of it, as he was subject to similar illness almost every morning. He again saw the prisoner on the 28th ult., soon after the adjournment of the inquest, at which a communication had been made to the coroner which induced him to give orders for the exhumation of the body of her father-in-law, who was also sus pected to have met his death by unfair means, when the prisoner asked him, with manifest anxiety, whether it was true that they were about to take up the old man's body, as she had heard people say so ; and they might do so if they pleased, poor old soul, for he was as good as a father to her. On the Tnursday following he called to present her with an order for the interment of her husband's corpse, when she told him that she and one of her children had eaten the remainder of the gruel which had been left by her husband, and at the same time appealed to the vtoman Gillett, who was present, ,as to whether she had not seen them do so; but the latter instantly contradicted her assertion, and disclaimed all know ledge of the circumstance. The depositions of Dr. Letheby, Professor of Che mistry at the London Hospital, proving the discovery upon analysis, of eight grains and a half of mineral arsenic in the contents of the deceased's stomach, of ➢lr. Francis Toulmin, who performed the post mortem eiamination, and of Mr. Frederick Grounds, the son of a chemist in Church-street, Hackney, at whose shop the prisoner had purchased two packets of arse nic a few days before her husband's death, for the al leged purpose of destroying mice, were then•read over, and attested by several witnesses, and the pri soner, who displayed the same degree of coolness and self-possession which she had manifested since the commencement of the proceedings, was remanded for the production of other necessary evidence to com plete the case against her. 1111EGUILDHALL, JANUARY 23, 1850. , ~90MMITTEE for LET YIN G the CITY'S of will MEET at GUILDHALL on WEDNESDAY, the 13th Lz,February Re y L at One o'clock precisely, to receive TENDER!, ,teZt 1 , 1140 ' oil LEASES, for twenty-one years from Lady day _clro ri:LusetNo. 14, on the north side of Broad-strcet-buildings ; 0: os. 28 and 29, on the south side of Broad-street 41to , th.b*"--7. (leas receive ree " m ea . dTaE y NDERS for LETTING on LEASES, for 17 Place. City-roads) from Ladyday ne:it, a house, No. 9, Ar -011t4'8104 LOTS, Se ven Houses, Nos. 53, 55, 56, 58, 59, 60, and 61 , 10448, PLOTS, side of Banner-square Finsbury' ; Two Houses, Nos. 47 . //4 nner..:. 11 - th e s outh side, and a douse, No. 27, on the north side of i..orkluce‘r,et._Finsbury ; Nine Houses, NO3. I to 9 inclu4ivc, in Y e , on th e '' u ner-,treet ; and Eighteen Houses, Nos. 7 to 24 inclu 4r4rteher nor par kli t e r war si ele a o n f d Co l leman-street, Ilairaer-street aCore.said. d, at t e rirr. 4-80 e of W p or a k n s s ma-y dl be ll se", , Gull ia . and forms of tende r THCOIAS SAUNDERS, Comptroller. Mr. Knowles and Mr. John Henderson appeared for the plaintiff, and Mr. O'Malley for the defendant. Mr. KNOWLES stated that this was an action for a breach of promise of marriage, in which the plaintiff had to complain of a violation of very long standing engagements. The parties had been attached to each other for full fifteen years. There was no just cause for the defendant's conduct, for that of the plaintiff had always been most hind and affectionate. The defendant was a farmer, and the plaintiff' was the daughter of a small farmer, hut she had gone out to service. Their situations in life were not dissimilar, and she was pru dent and had saved a little money, which in the course of his courtship he had borrowed and repaid. The defendant's letters would be read, and in them would be found various promises, numberless protes ' tations of affection, and some of those expressions which never appeared except in the letters of those who considered themselves engaged to each other. The defendant had, however, thought fit to break off his engagement with the plaintiff, and to marry a widow with some property, which was, perhaps, the only intelligible, though not the justifiable occasion of the breach of promise of which the plaintiff. com plained. Witnesses were called who proved the visits of the defendant to the plaintiff; and the terms on which he was received. The letters of the defendant were put in and read. They extended over a considerable perieid of time.. They were full- of phrases "My love," and " My dear love ;" and in one of them, in which the defendant spoke of his own and the plain- In a few days, DDI S O N'S ALPHABETICAL ARMY LIST, showing, at a shigle glance, to the Civilian as well as to the Mditary Man. the Name, Grade, Regiment, Standing in the Army, and Quarters of every Officer (includ ng the Civil Staff) in her Majesty's Service, corrected up to the Ist of,Jan., 1850. nice 2s. Gd. London IV. S. Orr and Co., Paternoster-row. The Right Hon. J. Stuart Wortley—l am the uncle of the defendant, and the guardian of the defendant in this action, though not his guardian. My brother was married in February, 1831. It was at my father's house that the defendant. was born. I was present at the defendint's christening at my father's house in Yorkshire. The defendant was born in 1832. This defence is made by me, and on my responsibility. My brother was dead and L a d y E m il y was t rave lli ng abroad when this action was brought. I have offered the plaintiff to pay such money as urns actually re ceived by the defendant. Mr. MARTIN, in reply, ad m itt e d th a t h e had no answer to the defence of infancy, but he must say that his client had been very ill-treated. Here was an officer in the Guards, having all the appearance of a man nearer twenty-five than under twenty, and being allowed to go about as if he was entirely his own master and responsible for his own acts, and on his credit, and on his credit alone was the money ad vanced, and now the claim for repayment was met by the plea of infancy. He did not impugn the honour able character of his Learneil Friend Mr. James Stuart Wortley, but he must say that the plaintiff had been exceedingly ill-treated by the defendant, who had not a shadow of excuse for his conduct. Now ready, at all the Libraries, in 3 vols. post Bvo., E V All NE; or, an Empire in its Fall. By C IJARLE9 P.O WCROF T. Author of " Tales of the Colonies ; or, the Adventures of an Emi grant," "Fanny, the Little ; or, the Rich and the Poor," " We leave to our readers the pleasant task of making acquaintance for themselves with the personages, the plot, the scenery, and the incidents of a story which, in consistent and sustained vigour and comprehensive interest, is altogether one of the most remarkable hooks which the season has yet produced."—Morning Post. The facts of the case have appeared in the police reports within the last few days. The jury acquitted Lovell, and convicted the other throe, who were well-known characters. They were each sentenced to ten years' transpor tation. nADL E --- i, - ---... y g n - "' 3 E, near B ar n e t, El eve n Miles from London, on the Ir.llo b e i . Line of the Great Northern Railway. a., 1 1101 1 1441 2, Unfurnished, for a term of years,. ' ,rge 21.1; t, be atitifillintne dl ate possession, this most desireable RESIDENCE, gm P l easure-grounds and ornamental pigsce of water, tabl* e d gar den, two vineries, and green-house, orchard, capital ,„ 84 131n , st roll horses two coach-houses, gardener's and groom's . ,D erio. Artm enta convenient ' farm-yard, ice., and twelve aces of T he ~,,L . ,s . NI hou s e,...A`oo, surrounding the garden and pleasure grounds. I sPack m ..Rains a noble stone-paved entrance-hall, handsome 6 tit ") b ' ' lin ing and drawing-rooms (each 32 feet by 18 feet gels,' reakfitat-room, librarysix best bed-rooms and four dress ' en Well-arranged water , •closets; nurseries and seryants' os"'- a Pproached by a second staircase, the principal staircase e-Louone, broad and light f b ll olls t a "ti e Offices are very complete : they comprise servants'- , .17-440.-‘eoPer's-room b ' antry china and store-closets, an . -e r, _ kitchen, smiler , u . er force e_ um , 4,0 taintallaandr y.with drying frame, p, larder, very convenient 11,77 ; :wi ne ana coal-cellars, d7kn eo -fra p me, bakehouse, well fitted-up .._.rAtt, en v arritil o gd 14 , e,r t , kMPaI rooms are e l a ft r" d . well-proportioned, the premises and there is an abundant supply of , t 7a, kt The a ltuation is delightful I and very healthy, in the midst of 14 0: 1 ,, t ile: 3e 1 1 : t Yt and within five minutes' altogether of ay Church, It4pratle — r e a sid pew attaehed to the house,forming a NI Peru, vi,,,, floe for a family of the highest respectability. ' Otkr."ll,llZ ;,ardasnY day (except Sunday) between the hours of Ten °IIIY, to be obtained, with all further particulars, /...i . j!,., o, land agent, &c., St. Albans, Herts. oft titA OR s 'Is(:) „ 11 S, BUILDERS, BRICKLAYERS, and OTHERS.. s 4. B4 .lr 4 s t : usz E , several Thousand Loads of beautiful dt t4h ett, mu D. screened at Is. 3d. per , loa c d, n n a o l lying in Lin 101 41, 1 1y e et P y l . 0:4 111e0 ,7 t h re d e - h ro e ad id , G n r e e a u r nd th in e a ß y eg ue ent w w l here several had s on a Building Leases t° ,Dry dS ns Frederick-place, '6le-end-road. t—'3' r ubLlsh s m a a n y be shot on the premises. A Sit E , I lta T WElir y . IN - COUNTIES RAILWAY. Not ' 1 SEVENTH HALF-YEARLY GENERAL MEET -1104. th 4 la i le , ,oraD a „ -6 lifilit b Y given that in nursuance of the Act of Incorpora ,ol4,/lahaeltrly General Meeting of the Shareholders of the o'clo c i" , on 1 1 , ~Ye held at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street, t ktor l4. eeful,'"?-sDAy the 27th day of February, 1850, at One klie r i s nf th e — l , for the ' purpose of receiving a Report from the Di , Th e ", 4 lpe Bs P r ogress of the undertaking, and for the transaction of th„ .4 4 r l ns fe . r.b , 6tll F el ? r o ti , a s ry of atnhde OPENEDwClmnpeatnynew until THURSDAY, PARLoult LIBR AR Y. On Monday next, The ROBBER. By G. P. R. JAMES, Esq. Also, just published in this Series, TALES of the WOODS and FIELDS. Complete. ONE IN A 'THOUSAND. Complete. • The GIPSY. Complete. Price Is. each boards, or Is. 6d. cloth. London : Simms and M'lntyre, 13, Paternoster-row, London ; and sold at every Town and Railway Station. POLICE INTELLIGENCE. MANSION-HOUSE. Thomas Whitechurch, the conductor of a Hackney omnibus, was summoned by Mr. J. H. Lloyd, of No. 5, Bloomsbury-square, solicitor. Mr. Lloyd said—On the Ist of February, about six o'clock in the evening, I was in Bishopsgate-street, and wanted to go to the Kingsland-road, and I saw on the omnibus of which the defendant is conductor the word " Kingsland." I was about to enter the omnibus when the defendant placed his hand upon the handle and asked me where I was going ? I re plied to the Kingsland-road He said he was full inside, but I could see that such was not the case, and told him so, and he then said he must keep places for his regular customers. He afterwards let one or two persons into the omnibus, but he persisted in refusing admission to me. I asked him for his .num ber, but he said he had no number: I saw no badge upon him. Alderman HUMPHERY—You wanted to go the short journey and the night was rainy, I dare say ? Mr. Lloyd—The night was wet, and I told him I wished to go to Kingsland. ,Alderman Humranar —Here are two distinct offences charged. Mr. LEWIS appeared for the defendant, and con tended that the words of the summons were, that the conductor refused to take his lawful fare. Now, no fare had been offered to him at all, and a conductor was justified in refusing admission to his omnibus until the lawful fare was paid. Besides, if the de fendant had, as was undetstood to be the fact, cus tomers who paid him weekly for all the inside places, it never could have been intended to compel him to yield the accommodation so bargained for to stran gers. With respect to the non-appearance of the badge, that was justified by the fact that the office of conductor was not commenced until the journey was commenced. Alderman HUMPHERY said he had already decided in a former case upon the merits of the first portion of the complaint, and, ingenious as the defence set up by Mr. Lewis was, his opinion re mained wholly unchanged. If the omnibus was engaged the conductor had no right whatever to go to the plying place, where it appeared he ad mitted•one or two persons after he had refused the application of Mr. Lloyd; but it was his duty to go straight on to his destination. It was quite evident the conductor was waiting for sixpenny fares, and the mention of Kingsland showed that the complainant was not one of them. As for the charge of not wear ing the badge, the excuse that the office of conductor only commenced with the journey would not be availing. What chance would females have of ac commodation or of immunity from insult, if con ductors were not obliged to exhibit their badges from the moment their vehicles moved from the places in which they were kept ? Not the slightest. The con ductors would be possessed of an uncontrollable power, which would utterly destroy the accommoda tion to the public. "I fine the conductor," said Alderman Humphrey, five shillings for not wearing his badge; and I should like to know whether it is Mr. Lloyd's wish that I should fine him for refusing admission when there was room in the omnibus ?" Mr. Lloyd said he did not wish that any fine should be inflicted, as his object was to get the former judg ment of Alderman Humphery confirmed by a second KINESIPATHY; or, the Cure of Diseases by Movements. By A. GEORGII. London : Balliere, 219, Regent-street ; Renshaw, 356. Qtrand. DR. CULVERWELL'S NEW WORKS To be had of Sherwood, 23, Paternoster-row ;Carvalho, 147, Fleet-street ;: Mann, 39, Cornhill; or direct from the author price One Shilling each ; by post, Is. 6d. ENJCW.DIENT OF LIFE. "Health, Recreation, and rational Use of Time." CONTENTS :—Early Rising—Spring and Summer Mornings—Ex cursions about the Environs et London—The Parks, Lanes, Hills, Forests, Fields, High-roads, and other pleasant places—Country Trips and Rambles—The Sea—London at Night—Evenings at Home —Music—The Drama—On Eating, Drinking, Sleeping, Bathing, Air, Rest, Ease, Occupation, &c., &c. tiff's "never dying souls," he assured her that in his estimation " one soul was worth 10,000 bodies ;" and concluded by saying, " now I have one thing to ask, whether you can let me have a few pOunds more money ?" In another letter, in which he repeated his wish to have some more money, he remarked on the plaintiff's absence in London, spoke of soon seeing her again, and finished by saying, " if I am not to see you more on earth, I hope I shall in heaven." In a letter dated in March, 1848, he said, " You will want to know whether I kept the money. Yes, I did, and I send you my word that I mean to behave honourably to you." In June, 1848, a letter written by him concluded with the words, " My intentions are honourable to you, and I mean to make you my wife." The witness who proved these letters to be in the handwriting of the defendant was closely cross examined on that point, but her answers were posi tive, and so the letters were admitted. Mr. O'MALLEY, in addressing the jury for the de fendant, relied much on the very small knowledge of the defendant's handwriting possessed by the witness who had proved the letters, one of which was, he said, without any signature, although there was a piece of paper appended to it, which was said to be its signa ture. He also remarked that the attachment could not have been of the long standing suggested on the other side, for the defendant was a married man till The jury at once retured a verdict for the defendan on the plea of infancy. FRA4MENTS FROM THE MOUNTAINS. Two Pols. Vol I. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Feb. 8. (Before Mr. Commissioner HOLROYD.) IN RE W. JERDAN. LONDON AND COUNTY JOINT STOCK BANKING COMPANY. On Thursday the half-yearly meeting of the pro prietors was held at the offices in Lombard -street ; Mr. John Sadleir, M.P., in the chair. The SECRETARY read the report, which stated that the net profit of the bank for the half-year ending Dec. 31, 1849, amounted to 8,735/. The directors recommended a dividend of 6 per cent. per annum (free from income-tax) for the half-year ending Dec. 31,1849, which, if approved of, would leave 2,736/. to be carried to the guarantee fund, thus increasing that fund to 31,1181. The directors had taken over the banking business of Messrs. Trapp, lialfhead, and Co., at Bedford, and, at the instance of influential parties in the neighbourhood of Knightsbridge, had opened a branch in that important district, where a bank was much needed. A sub-branch had also been established at Epsom, in connexion with the Croydon branch, in compliance with a numerously signed re quisition from that place. _The CHAIRMAN, in moving the adoption of the re port, expressed his unabated confidence in the solidity of the undertakincr, and observed that th e p re di c ti ons of the direct o r s h ad a ' been amply verified on that oc casion. They had been successful in retrieving past errors and in re-instating the stability of the concern. Notwithstanding the recent ravages of cholera and long continued commercial depression, the business of the bank had gone on progressively improving, and during the past year a great increase had taken place in the number of their accounts. The directors had resolved on issuing 5,000 new shares, which would at first be offered to the present shareholders in the proportion of one new share for two old, and the calls would he spread over a period of two years. • Mr. FRITH seconded the adoption of the report, which was put and carried unanimously. A dividend at the rate of six per cent. per annum, payable on the 18th instant, was then agreed to. Mr. COLQIIIIOUN, after some observations eulogistic of the management of the undertaking, moved a vote of thanks to the directors. Mr. KNOCKER seconded this, and observed that one great recommendatory feature in the management of their bank was the system of audit, which was en tirely placed in the hands of the proprietors. The CHAIRMAN acknowledged the vote on behalf of himself and colleagues, intimating that they had appointed Messrs. Keating and Rose as inspecting officers of their bank and branches, to see that they were properly conducted. Thanks were also voted to Mr. Luard (the ma-. nager) and Mr. Nichol (the secretary), and the for mer in responding stated, amid applause, that during the past year their accounts had increased 45 per cent. A VISIT TO THE LAKES; SKETCH OF EDINBURGH, &c. Vol. II THE LAKES OF KILLARNEY; REMINISCENCES OF DUBLIN, &c. 111. WHAT TO EAT, DRINK, AND AVOID. " That three score years and ten our course may run." The bankrupt, who was described as of Milton, near Gravesend, bookseller, &c., and who was pro prietor of the Literary Gazette, came up to pass his last examination, supported by Mr. Sturgeon. The bankrupt passed. (Before Mr. Commissioner PANE.) IN RE PRITCHARD AND DALE. A popular review of almost every form (cause and cure) of ner vously-debilitated health and enfeebled constitution, that harasses the yonne, besets the man of pleasure, business, or study, and em bitters old age, with tables and rules for the diet and physical regu lations of every-day life. Iv. THE PASSIONS. " What passions hurt the body—what improve, Truths as refined as Athens ever heard." These bankrupts were shareholders at Liverpool, and to-day Pritchard came up to pass his adjourned last examination. The case has been frequently before the Court, and as frequently reported in our journal. The accounts are extremely voluminous awl intricate, so much so that it was several times observed that it was purely matter to be investigated by the accountant for the creditor, the bankrupt and the official assignee, in the office of the latter. After a long investigation, the 22d inst., was fixed for fur ther investigation. SUBJECT :-Ll,iTe'spilgrimage,from infancy to old age. The advent of the passions. Chastity and its infringements. The casualties of licentiousness and dissipation, with illustrations, graphic, narrative, and reniedlative. Advocacy of early marriages. T.NE MARRIAGE STATE. " To be or not to be, that is the question." PROGRAMME : —Laws and obligations of nature, society, and re ligion regarding marriage, to be observed by either sex. Time and choice, on both sides, as to age, temperament, complexion, and figura, to secure healthy offspring, with the art of rearing them. Physical defectiveness and its removal. Sterility and its conversion. Cases, &c. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT. OLD COURT. (Before Mr. Commissioner BULLOCK.) Thomas Lambrolte, 34, smith ; Henry Needham, 18, bricklayer ; and William Williams, 22, labourer, were indicted for feloniously casting and throwing upon May Anne White a quantity of corrosive fluid called nitrous acid. By R. J CULVERWELL, M.D. (1841), M.R.C.S. (1827), L.S.A. 1824). Twenty-five years Medical and Forensic Referee in these flatters. Reception hours daily till five. Evenings, seven till nine. 10, Argyll place, Regent-street. 'THE COUNTRY MARKETb. 1840, and, consequently, the supposition of an en gagement to marry fifteen years ago, when he was a married man, was preposterous. The letters in which the defendant spoke of acting honourably re ferred to money, not to marriage, and that promise he bad honourably fulfilled, for all the money he had borrowed had been punctually repaid. The jury must say if it was possible to hold that a promise to marry could be made out from these letters, or if they did not all bear exclusive reference to something else— namely, to the money which the defendant had bor rowed and returned. WAKEFIELD, FEB. B.—We have good supplies of most articles. The rade in wheat assumes a firmer tone to-day, and though the business is only limited, very full prices are ob tained. Barley may be noted is per quarter cheaper, and common sorts neglected. Oats and shelling are without alteration in value. Beans Is per quarter lower. New. Old. WHEAT, per qr. 601bs per bushel:— s. s. a. Suffolk, Essex, and Kent, red ... 39 to 41 Ditto, white 44 46 Norfolk and Hunts., red ... 36 —39 Ditto, white ... ... 40 41 Lincolnshire and Cambridge, red. ... 36 38 Ditto, white ... 39 43 Yorkshire, red .., 34 37 Ditto, white .. 38 42 Dantzic and Konigsburg, white .. 42 45 Lower Baltic and Hamburgh, red... 37 39 Mediterranean, red 30 34 BARLEY, per quarter of 8 bushels:— Norfolk and Suffolk... ... 21 27 Lincolnshire and Yorkshire .. 23 26 ... 23 --25 Scotch Grinding per 30 stone ... ... 20 —22 Foreign ... ..• ... 21 —24 BEANS, per quarter of 8 bushels 631 b Mr. W. Cooper conducted the prosecution. It appeared from the evidence of the prosecutrix, that on the afternoon of the 29th January she was going across a field in the neighbourhood of Barnett, accompanied by another young female, when the three prisoners came up to them and attempted to enter into conversation with them ; and they at the same time noticed a peculiar smell, as of some strong acid, but they did not discover that they had sus tained any damage until they got home, when they ascertained that their ;cloaks and dresses had been burnt in a number of places. It was proved that, a day or two before the transaction, the prisoner Lam brotte had purchased some vitriol ; but there was nothing to show that the other prisoners were aware that he had such an article in his possession at the time they accosted the prosecutrix and her companion. The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict of guilty of assault against Lambrotte, and acquitted the other prisoners. Lambrotte was sentenced to bo kept to hard labour for four months. .--- to .-- Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN thought that one at least of these letters contained a distinct promise of mar riage, if the jury believed that that letter was really in the handwriting of the defendant. If so, the ver dict must be for the plaintiff, with such temperate damages as the nature of the case seemed to require. The jury, after a short consultation, returned a verdict tor the plaintiff—Damages 1001. printed notices were iound still attached to the bal loons when they fell on the ground. PLYMOUTH, FEB. 7.—The Lords of the Admiralty have given their decision in the recent inquiry at the Royal Naval Hospital, and we understand they con sider that Dr. Rae is not entitled to the slightest blame with regard to his reports. As respects the memo randum complained of by the doctor, and issued by Captain Nicolas, they have ordered it to be expunged from the records of the hospital. We have also been informed that the inquiry was demanded in the first lIARGREAVE V. ARCHIBALD HENRY PLANTAGENET WORTLEY. Mr. LUSH opened the pleadings. This was an ac tion on a bill of exchange for 3001., of which the de fendant was the drawer. The defendant had pleaded that he did not make the bill, that he had no notice of the dishonour, that he did not promise, and that he was an infant. ... 27 - 28 28 - 30 ... 25 - 27 28 - 29 ... 24 -- 26 26 - 29 instance by Dr. Rae, upon an order which had been carried, as he deemed improperly, by the captain superintendent ; and that then the captain•superin tendent preferred the charge of certain reports having been altered after the returns had been made to him. (Before Mr. JUSTICE WILLIAMS.) THE FORGERY ON THE BANK OF RUSSIA. EDWARD LADD BETTS, Chairman. • ctr5...,.....4 e station, order, GLYNN, Deputy-Chairman. thi i • • , ,,Z.g C. P. RONEY, Secretary. , Feb. 4, 1850. A.RJ) 11 l AN FIRE AND LIFE ASSUR , Lo - wItILA ...,., ANC E COMPANY. 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Nt,:i I Treatment, with important Practical Oh , 4 t ,,, t a0 „ 201 Abuse of Instruments in the Treatnaent ",,'rinary Canal ; showing how it is that Stric t\'.'e 444 -;hgh ,'" ) ilte,i .°t ' nnly resist, but are aggravated by the by , or their cure and at length become seriously Dtop .` ciOnsequences of stricture." he \4,, t tte i i i " ',.!'tnCrous cases, which will be found to embrace 14, ealta Str icture and its consequences, together wit h 1 4‘, 113, ~ cure. yh Itrt It. COURTENAY, tt ( ?,, b) 4117,,„ t11. ,ing under long-protracted stricture, with all , 11,`Att b ,a1 , % h 'i s ted , - ` r ies, will find detailed in this work modes of b tt Ni . ‘ 4 FCl, -- " r t tp,,"tch eases, the eilcacy and superiority of •aq - .Led u ser by repeated practice; whilst throe who ettOt l'rot t l ) tc,o illt. le less severe forms of the disease may find cathth, m r Oief, and at the same time such information Vogt "N• ( it - f ront becoming the victims of unskilful and th ttte N I es main-spring of severe and complicated ob .Nti hit t4 lt f itt 4 4 -r3 ' canal. " The operation of iutrodu:ing a is 01 9 i ne t ot Ini Pertneable stricture is, without doubt, the Ortkl e e whole range of surgical operations, and de a„-,llB6oergtirmrice, science, and skill of a master. 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In tit A 4l 4 lt th e 14 ader' 3!')x.T1',1,,,-.A""*, 43.6 d, and lis. per box, a o. _ k ea s . u • , ... onzu „ :4tion , stricture, and chrordc inflamma )l4% .t4e ',.*lfk , , ae . ,,,qUited ; age e : if tiY letter, it. A minute Ntupaiy 4343 ,11. i, l e°. to be had at habits,, and Position in society. _ It le ' . saved. 2 „.____ _-0 Establishment only b., 444, ise; t aer._...__`_`° s r,! , Frorryi Surgeons, are 10 atte trur, ..to d-street, London, froM Eis hl . 011 Saingay s from & Wen to Oaa Small, fine Ticks ••• Foreign .. OATS, per stone : Mealing . 70 to 81d Od to 01 Feeding ... 7d to 81 8d to 9d Foreign ... 7d to 81 8d to 9d SHELLING, per load of 2611 b 20 21 MALT, per load of 6 imperial bushels 33 35 PEAS, per Imperial Quarter Blue and white boilers Grey and Feed ... 23 - 27 --- APAII Qrs. Wheat ... 14,723 Barley ... 6,86 Oats ... 3,627 - - Rapeseed ... ... ... Shelling ... ... 375 Linseed .. ... ••. Malt ... ... • • ... Flour ... .. • ... ... Beans... ... ... ... 2,457 Tares EXETER CORN EXCHANGE, FEB. B.—Although the mar ket has been well attended scarcely any business has been transacted up to this hour. The millers, generally, say that from the low prices of flour they cannot possibly afford more than 4s 9d per bushel for wheat, and the growers steadily refuse to sell warranted wheat at such a figure, and stand out firmly for ss. In some instances these terms have been agreed to, and the best English wheat must be quoted at 4s 9d to 5s per bushel.' As some dealers from a distance are in the market it is probable that ere the market closes a fair amount of business will be done at the latter figure. As to foreign, we can only repeat the observation we made last week, that the low price of our own produce has entirely put a stop to the sale of foreign wheat in this market, and more than that, one of the principal factors, who represents a large firm in Bridgewater, is buying English wheat instead of selling foreign, of course because he finds it a more profitable speculation. Malting barley is 3s to 3s 2d per bushel. Oats, Is 10d to 2s ditto. Fine flour, 27s to 29s per sack of 2801bs, but this latter figure must be consi dered merely nominal. BRISTOL, FEB. 7.—Great inactivity in all the branches of the corn trade continues to prevail, with supplies in excess of demand. English and foreign wheat declined is per quarter. English white wheat sold at 36s to 42s ner imperial quarter. Foreign white sold at 44s to 48s ; foreign red, extra fine, 403 to 43s ; ditto fine, 37s to 40s ; ditto, hard, 35s to 38s per 4801bs. Barley, bath English and foreign, also declined is per quarter. English malting barley sold at 24s to 28s per im perial quarter. English and foreign grinding sold at 19s to 21s per 4'Jolbs. Oats were at no quotable decline, but the trade very null. The same remark also applies to beans. Devon and Welsh oats sold at 15s to 16s per imperial quar ter ; Irish white, 17s to 18s per 3201bs ; Irish black, 15s 6d to 16s per imperial quarter. Foreign oats, none. English beans sold at 28s to 32s per imperial quarter ; foreign ditto, 25s to 28s per 4801bs. Flour is is per sack lower. English seconds sold at 27s to 29s per sack; American sweet, 23s to 24s per barrel. BRISTOL SUGAR MARKET, FEB. B.—Grocery descrip tions continue very dull of sale, but for finer qualities there has been a steady demand, and about 900 hhds have been dis posed of at rather easier rates. Foreign rather dull, and of Mauritius or Bengals there is no supply as yet at market. Refined is quoted rather lower this week.—Bristol Mercury. WETHERBY, FEB L—White wheat 15s Od to 17s Od. red ditto 13s Od to 15s Od ; barley 22s to 26s ; beans lOs to 13s ; oats 8d to 101 _ _ NORTHALLERTON, FEB. 6.—Wheat, 4s 6d to 5s Od; red 4s Od to 4s 6d ; oats Is 6d to 2s 3d ; beans 3s 6d to 4s Od ; barley 2s 9d to 3s Od per bushel. KNARESBOROUGH, FEB. 6.—Wheat 4s 3d to 5s Gd ; beans 33 9d to 4s 3d per bushel ; barley 21s . to 26s ; oats 14s 6d to Iss per qr. RIPON. FEB. 7.—White wheat 4s 9d to 5s 3d, red ditto 4s 3d to ss; beans 3s 9d to 4s 6d per bushel ; barley 22s to 265; oats 14s to 22s per qr. SCARBOROUGH, FEB. 7.—Red wheat 4s 3d to 4s 9d, white ditto 4s 9d to 5s 6d per 5 stones ; black oats 8d to sad, white ditto 7id to e d per stone ; malting barley 20s to 21s, grinding ditto les to 20s per qr. of 82 stones; superfine lour, 26s to 273, seconds ditto, 24s to 25s per sack of 20 stones. LLANzewsT, FEB. s.—There was a shocking poor fair held here to-day. What few cattle there were, were almost un saleable. Store pigs, of which there were a large number, were also in very little demand. Sucking pigs were most inqui re d after at from 8s to 103 each. T he grain market was likewise very dull, the best wheat scarcely reached 14s. All other de scriptions of corn equally low. MOLD, FEB. 6.—Very little business doing rat our market to-day, and the prices of grain still lowering. Wheat, 12s to 12s 6d ; barley, 6s 3d to 6s 6d per hobbet. RUTIIIN, FEB. 4.—The market was very slenderly attended to-day by buyers, and very little business at falling prices. Wheat, 12, to 13s; barley, 6s Gd to 7s 6d; oats, 4s 6d to 5s per hobbet ; fresh butter is per lb. liivEgriEss, FEB. s .—Wheat, per quarter, weighing 621 h per bushel, 34s t0,',38s ; new ditto, ditto, 00s to 00s ; old barley, per quarter, weighing 541 b per bushel, 19, to 00s ; new ditto, ditto, Oils to 00s ; oats, 421 b per bushel, 16s to 17s Od. Oatmeal, per imperial boll, 14s Od, second, 139 ; barleymeal, lls Od ; peasemeal, 14s to 00s ; bran, per stone, 6d; first flour, per 2801 b, 34s to 365; second, 26s to 28s ; oatmeal, best, per stone of 141 b imperial, Is 4d to 03 Od ; second, Is 2d; barleymeal, Is 2cl; peasemeal, Is 4d; first flour, 2s 4d cash, 2s 8d credit; second, 2s cash, 2s 3d credit. Pota toes, per stone, 4d to 5d ; beef, per pound, 4d to 7d; veal, 4d to 6d; mutton, 4cl to 7d; pork, 3d to sd; fowls, each, 12d to 14d; chickens, per pair, 16d to 18d ; ducks, each, Od to 00d ; eggs, pr dozen, 8d to 9d ; butter, fresh, per lb, 7d to 8d; salt, 9d to 10d; croudie (curds) Od to Od four.pound loaf, ea.ll, 5d to (3d, credit, Jed to 60; coals, per cwt, 9d; hay, per stone, 8,1 to 9d. COAL MARK ET.— YESTERDAY. Buddle's W. Hartley.. 163 Odfletton ... 193 Od Chester Main lss 6& Haswell l9s 3d El asting's Hartley l6s Odll.ambton Holywell North Percy Hartley.. 155 6d,Stewart's New Tanfield lss OdCaradoc ..... _ ......... 18s Od ranfield Moor Butes... 14s 6(l , lieugh Hall West Wylam Windsor's Pontop.... . 14s 6d:South Hartlepool Wall's End, &c. !Whitworth l4s 9d Brown's . Buraton Killingworth 175 17 s 3:3dd,Sroeue,th Durham....................... 1 1 9 7: 6 0 t1 I larton Hilda l6s 9d;West Tees ........... ... 17s Od Northumberland Eden Main lB3 Od Sidney's Hartley ... .. 16s 3d Lambton Primrose 188 WI I Braddyll :PALS. Mr. MARTIN stated the case to the jury. The plaintiff had formerly lived in Manchester, but now resided in London ; and betted largely at Tattersall's, being known there as a sporting man. The defen dant, who was Fn officer of the Guards, went there occasionally, and appeared to act for himself, and without the control or supervision of any other per son. The plaintiff and defendant became acquainted there, and the plaintiff, who did not disguise that he occasionally discounted bills, was applied to in Octo ber last,, for the purpose of discounting a bill for an other officer in thQ Guards named Fox. The plaintiff said he did not know Mr. Fox, but he did know Mr. Wortley, and it was agreed that if Wortley became a party to the bill the plaintiff would discount it. This was done, and there could be little doubt that the two young gentlemen divided the amount between them. When the bill became due it was dishonoured. It was now said that at that time the defendant was not of age. It' so, although it was very dishonourable to take the money and then plead infancy, there was end of the case. The plaintiff felt, and continued to feel, that he had been exceedingly ill-treated, and he therefore determined to put the defendant to the proof of infancy, that the case might operate as a warning both to the defendant and others like him against behaving in this dishonourable manner. Mr. Pyle, clerk to Cox and Greenwood, knew de fdnilant, who was some time ago an officer in the Guards ; he had a banking account with Cox and Greenwood. I do not believe this signature to be that of the defendant. Sir F. THESIGER said it was not written in the ordinary way, and that circumstance had misled the witness, but the bill was the defendant's. . . Cross-examined—The defendant was now in the Guards, but in the line. There was a son of Lord Wharncliffe in the Guards. The defendant was a nephew of Lord Wharncliffe. The other issues of notice of dishonour, &c., being admitted. _ _ Sir F. THESIGER (with whom was Mr. Peacock) addressed the jury for the defendant. He first ex pressed a desire to set the witness right with the jury, by explaining that the difference between the form of the signature to the bill and that of the defendant's ordinary cheques was quite sufficient to make the witness doubt the genuineness of the handwriting. But, in fact, it was written by him ; but there were circumstances which must occasion an action like this to be resisted. He could feel compassion for a trades man who had honestly supplied goods, not of an ex travagant kind, to a young man, and was then met with a plea of infancy, but he felt no compassion for one who, by pandering to a youth's extravagance and folly, obtained the means of setting up a claim against him. In cases of thiN latter description it was the family that was looked to for payment. The circumstances, as stated by his Learned Friend, Mr. Martin, were not such as would in duce any part of the defendant's family to assist the defendant in satisfying this demand. If there had been proof that any part of this bill had been re ceived by the defendant (of which there was none whatever), the family would pay to the uttermost farthing ; but all of them determined not to yield to menaces in such a case, nor to be terrified by the en deavour to make the law a means of extorting the money from them. That course bad been pursued on this occasion. On the 12th of Dece:nber, 1849, the plaintiff's attorney wrote a letter, in which he stated that he understood it was the intention of the defend ant's friends to put a plea of infancy on the record, that such a plea was not of the most honourable cha racter, and had the plaintiff been aware of the defend ant's infancy he never would have advanced one six pence on the bill ; he did not desire to press the defendant, but to make himself secure, and that if the defendant's uncles would guarantee the payment of the money, with interest, he would wait, otherwise he must proceed forthwith, and give publicity to a transaction which might probably be beneficial to other parties similarly sit ua t e d. Hi s (Si r F.Th es i ger ' s ) excellent friend Mr. James Stuart Wortley, who was the guardian of the defendant, took this course : he was ready to pay the money which his nephew had ac tually received, but he resisted any further claim, and this defence was avowedly his. The jury would see what was the motive of the proceedin g on the other side. On the 1 7th of January, 1850, the pl a i n tiff' s attorney gave a formal " notice t o produce the de fendant on the trial of this cause, that the jury may consider whether defendant is of th a t t en d er age stated in the pleadings in this cause." There was but one instance in which such a notice had been success ful in attaining its intended object, and that was in a case in which a dentist brought an action to recover the value of a set of false teeth. The charge was most exorbitant, and the patient determined to resist it. Just as the case was about to come to trial, the plain tiff gave notice to the defendant to appear, with his 1 teeth, and be examined in open court. The poor de fendant was so frightened at the idea of the exposure, to which in real truth he was not called upon to submit, for the Court would not enforce his appear- Qrs. Saul Lorio, Bernard Gordon, and Sodiah Fader men were placed at the liar to take their trial upon an indictment charging them with feloniously en graving certain plates, purporting to bear upon them portions of a note of the Bank of Russia. Mr. Clarkion and Mr. Ballantine prosecuted; Mr. Huddlestone, Mr. Parry, and Mr. Matcalfe were for the prisoners. When they were called upon tl plead, Mr. riud dlestone demurred to the indictment - , and took a number of t€ clinical objections to the form in which it was penned. Mr. Clarkson having been heard in answer to the objections, and Mr. Ballantine h av i ng al so addressed the Court at considerable length. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS said the points that had been raised were of too much importance for him to take upon himself to decide them without considera tion. Ile, therefore, suggested that he should be allowed an opportunity of consulting the Learned Judges in the Court of Criminal Appeal, and upon their decision it would depend whether the trial should proceed or not. After a short discussion this suggestion was agreed to, and the trial was postponed, an application to admit the prisoners to bail being refused. Thomas Smith, an aged man, was placed at the bar to receive judgment. The prisoner was convicted a few sessions back of sending a letter to Messrs. 'Terries and Co., bankers, demanding money with menaces. The letter was to the effect, that if a certain sum of money was placed in a spot in the park, which was indicated, the writer would give information which would save the prose cutors from great danger and mischief. A point of law was reserved in the case, which was decided against the prisoner. Mr. Justice WILLIAMS said that he was directed by the Learned Judge who tried the prisoner to pass the sentence which he considered applicable to the offence he had committed. Taking into consideration his age, and the lengthened imprisonment he had un dergone, the punishment that would be further inflicted upon him would be imprisonment and hard labour for twelve months. and Frederic k 23,, we t were Margaret indicted ll f i b br r g in robbing 22, t of a watch, a ring, and several articles of wearing apparel, his property. lar S dy mic Mr. Ballantine prosecuted. The facts of this case will be fresh in the recollec tion of the public, as they have appeared very recently in the police reports. The prosecutor, who is the son of a respectable solicitor, was returning home from his father's office on th e n i g ht o f th e 10th January, and while passing along Whitechapel High-street, he was suddenly assailed by some person whom he was unable to recognise, who placed a rag or hand kerchief steeped .in chloroform upon his face, the effect of which was to render him completely insensi ble ; and while in that state he was dragged to a house in Thrale-street, close by, where he was de spoiled of the whole of the property about his person. fie did not recover his senses until the following morning, and when he did so he found himself in dreadful pain, and in a wretched apartment, upon a dirty bed covered with rags, and with nothing on him but his stockings. In addition to the suffering which was the immediate result of the outrage, it ap peared that the prosecutor had been in a very dan gerous state ever since, and that his memory and senses were still affected by the treatment he had re • ceived, and it was doubtful whether he would ever permanently recover. The prosecutor was unable to speak in any way to the identity of the persons by whom he was assailed ; but the evidence was given to shnw that the prisoners occupied the room *here be was found, and a variety of other facts were proved, which left no doubt that they were the persons who committed the outrage. The jury returned a verdict of Guilty, and the prisoners were sentenced to be transported for 15 years. THIRD COURT. (Before Mr. BULLOCK.) Charles Thompson, alias Christopher Barber, 29, an engineer, and Sarah Thomas, alias Thompson, alias Amelia Parish, 39, spinster, were indicted for stealing in the dwelling-house of Charles Edwin Hyde, ni ne sovereigns, a bank bill for 10/., and some jewellery, valued at 81., the property of Charles Chippendall the younger. The female prisoner pleaded guilty. The male pri soner pleaded not guilty, and defended himself. Mr. Thompson prosecuted. This was the case where the male prisoner was in the habit of obtaining admission to houses under the pretence of being a suitor to the maid-servant; the female introducing herself as his landlady, to give him a character. On the second or third visit the house was plundered. The jury found Thompson Guilty. The prisoners were again indicted for stealing a gown and other articles, valued at 3001., the property of Charles John Fox, in his dwelling-house. decision. Alderman HUMPRERY—I am glad that Mr. Lloyd has made the complaint, as my former decision has been the subject of much conversation, and many gentlemen consider that I have been right, while others question the justice of the decision. I enter tain not the slightest doubt myself on the subject. If conductors desire to receive no less than 6J., let •them make it known by a placard inside. Tney can charge Is. or 2s. to Kingsland, or any other neigh bouring place, if they like, by adopting that plan ; but if they do they will certainly get but very few customers. The defendant was then merely required to pay the expenses of the investigation , and was discharged. MARYLEBONE. HORRID CRUELTY TO AN INFANT.—Yesterday, elnn Bird, a woman about 45 years old, and who re sides at No. 10, Horace-street, Eigeware-road, was charged with having barbarously ill-used Ellen Welch, a delicate-looking infant, no more than two years of age, by flogging it with a thick whip. Joanna Welch, the mother, deposed that she and the prisoner lived in the same room, and that on Tuesday last she (witness) went down to Billingsgate to purchase some herrings, leaving her infant in the prisoner's care ; upon her return, in the course of three or four hours, she saw blood streaming from her poor baby; she fainted and fell down upon the floor, and was speedily raised up by some persons who came to her assistance. Anne Sullivan, another lodger, stated that at 10 in the morning of the day alluded to, she was on the landing close to the prisoner's room, when she saw the prisoner lay the infant upon its face on the floor, and beat it shamefully with a whip; she then lifted it up, and holding it under the arms applied the whip again to it several times. Witness told her it was a cruel shame for her to use the baby so ; when the only remark she made to her observa tion was, that it had been uncleanly in her place. Witness added that she observed blood running from the infant's nose. The instrument of torture was here produced by Jesse, the officer; it was a heavy leather thong knot ted, and somewhere about three-quarters of a yard long, such as would be used in riding by a postilion. The mother, who had the infant in her arms, exhi bited the state of its person, and the sight was shock ing in the extreme. The worthy MAGISTRATE remarked that a case of more horrid barbarity had never been brought under his notice, and he should, therefore, sentence the pri soner to pay 51. • in default of her doing so she would be sent to the douse of Correction for two months. WORSHIP-STREET. THE CASE OF SUPPOSED POISONING AT HACKNEY. —Anne Merritt was placed at the bar before Mr. Arnold, for re-examination, charged with the wilful murder of her husband, James Merritt, a turncock in the employment of the East London Water works Company, by administering to him a quantity of arsenic. The case appeared to have excited an intense de. gree of interest in the district, and the court was in conveniently crowded throughout the investigation by persons anxious to witness the proceedings and obtain a sight of the prisoner. The evidence taken at the former examination was now read over, and the witness Mary Gillett, who deposed to the sudden and serious illness of the de ceased, after partaking of some gruel which his wife had prepared for him, although she had seen him in apparently his usual health in the morning, and which terminated in his death on the same night, was uow recalled, and having been again examined at considerable length, stated, in addition to her former testimony, that on the Monday previous to the fatal occurrence she had a conversation with the prisoner on the subject of some money to which a widow named Bartholomew, whose husband was a member .of the same benefit society to which the deceased be- ' .longed, was about to receive on the death of her hus band, which had just taken place, on which occasion the prisoner remarked, that if anything should happen to her (the prisoner's) husband, she would be entitled to the full benefit of 101., instead of receiving oil] . ) 71. 10s., which was all that was allotted to the woman 13artholotnew, in consequence of her husband not having been sufficiently long connected with the so ciety to be entitled to more. Alfred Andrews, summoning officer for the parish of Hackney, stated, that on the morning after the death of the deceased he proceeded to the house, where he found the last witness, who observed that she sup posed there would be a coroner's inquest, to which the prisoner replied, " I do not think there is any necessity for it, as my poor, dear husband died a natural death." On the Monday following, he accompanied two medical gentlemen to the house, who intimated that they were directed to make a post nzortent exami nation of the body, in reference to which the prisoner, who was greatly agitated, said that she had no ob jection to it herself, but that her husband had made her promise that his body should never be opened ; to which she added immediately afterwards, " Thank God I am innocent ; if there is anything wrong 1 know nothing about it." The witness added, that she had previously informed him that her husband, the first thing in the morning, had partaken of the liquor of some Irish stew, made over night, and sub- UNIVERSITY TELLIGE OXFORD, FEB. 7.—ln a Convocation holden this morn ing, it wr.s agreed to affix the University seal to certain forms of consent for the solemnization if marriages in the three district chapels recently erected in the parbh of llohn Cultrana, in the county of Cumberland. In the same Convocation, the nomination of the fol lowing gentlemen to the office of Examiners for the Hertford Scholarship for the promotion of Latin Litera ture met with the approval of the House, viz.:—The Rev. George Rawlinson, ALA., Exeter College; Ralph Robert Wheeler Liugen, M.A., fellow of Balliol College; the Rev. Richard Congreve, M.A., fellow of Wadhem College. In a Congregation holden immed;ately afterwards, the following degrees were conferred, viz.:— MASTER OF ARTS. George Harris Richards, Exeter College. Rev. Edmund Markham lie2le, Queen's College. William Prat& Blandy, ditto. Rev. Robert Parker Wilkinson, Lincoln College. James Fisher, Worcester College. Rev. Robert Cooper Black, ditto. Edward Owen, f!llow of Jesus College. • Rev. Henry Stiles Savory, Oriel Colbge. . BACHELOR OF ARTS. Henry George Rolt, Bailie' College. William Strafford Dugdale, ditto. Elward Twopenny, Oriel College. Edward Mortimer Clissold, Exeter College. Charles Augustus Hope, ditto. Archibald Peel, Trinity College. Henry Acland Fownes Luttrell, Trinity College. Frederick Pemberton Rue, Pembroke College. The Margaret Professor of Divinity (Dr. Faussett) will begin a course of lectures on 'Thursday, February the 28th, at twelve o'clock. The lectures are intended fir those who have passed their examination fJr the de gree of B.A. Gentlemen desirous of attending ate re quested to eall on Dr. Faussett on Wednesday the 27 th , between the hours of one and three. CAMBRIDGE, FEB. 7.—BELL'S SCIIOLARSHIPS.—An election of two scholars upon this foundation will take place on Friday, the 15th of March next. The members of any college (except King's College and Trinity 11311), eons or orphans of clergymqn, who were admitted be tween the commencements of 1848 and 1849, may be candidates, and are required to signify their intention of offering themselves, on or before Friday, the 22d inst., in a Latin ep'stle, to be presented to c ach of the electors, who aro the Vice-Chancellor, the Regius Pro fessor of Divinity, the Lucasian Professor (Mr. G. G. Stokes), the Public Orator (Mr. Bateson), and the Regius Professor of Laws (by his deputy, Dir. Clark, of Trinity College). The examination will commence on Monday, the 25th inst., at nine A.M, in the Senate House. Earth candidate will be expected to leave with the Vice-Chancellor (together with his epistle), a certi ficate from his college of the date of his admission, and of the terms he has kept. The emolument accruing to each scholar consists of the Bth part of the interest of 15,2001. stock in the Three per Cents., tenable fur four years. In default of sons or orphans of clergymen pre senting themselves, the sons of laytnen will be elected; and in the event of two candidates being bracketed qual as the result of the examination, choice will be made simply on the ground of pecuniary need. ANATOMY.—The Professor of Anatomy will continue his lectures on the anatomy and physiology of the hu man body, on Monday, February 11, at one o'clock, in the Anatomical Sehool. RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, FEB. 8. _ STOCK EXCHANGE.—The market still continues inani mate, and but little business has been transacted. The only alterations in prices were—Great Western, Quarters, LIVERPOOL, FEE. 8. STOCK ESCIIA.NGE.—The share market was better to-day. The transactions were as follow:—Lancashire and Yorkshire, Fifths, 7% dis.—Ditto, Fifths (West Riding Union), 61.65. 3d. dis.--London and North-Western, 115 1 ,1—Ditto, New Quar ters, 1 7 / 8 c. p.—Ditto, Fifth, 2 , 4 i p. —Midland, Halves, 23% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4), 61. Bs. 9d.—York. Newcastle, and Berwick (G. N. E Purchase), 6 per cent. till 185 U, S dis. MANCHESTER, FEB. 8. STOCK EXCIIANGE.—The market was better to-day. Tbe rausactions were as follow ;—li:ast Lancashire, lt; e. d.— Ditto, Prefem ce, Quarters (ruin. 6 per cent.) , 7 3-16 IL — Eastern Counties, 7% c.—Lancashire and Yorkshire (West Riding Union), dis.—London and North-Western, Man chester and Birmin g ham, Quarters (C), 14 p.—Manches ter, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, Eighths, 2 1 / s —Ditto (Grimsby Dock), 4 1 ,4 North British, 51. guaranteed, 5% North Statthrdshire, 10% dis.—South-Eastern and Dover (No. 4), Scrip, 6%. BIRMINGHAM, FEB. 8. STOOIC EscriANGE.—The share market was very flat to-day, and there were few persons inclined to purchase at the present prices. London and North-Western were quoted at 115 to 115 1 4—North Staffordshire, at 10 , 4, Staffordshire, at 4 dis.; and it may be said that prices a e generally ranging at last quotations. There is little inclina tion to deal in railway property. YORK, FEB. 7. STOCK EXCHANGE.—The transactions to-day were as follow :—York, Newcastle. and Berwick, 15% Sheffield, Rotherham, and Goole, 18 . 1 ,x-_—_9rrat Northern, 6/. 16s. 3d. GLASUIJW, FEB. 7. STOCK EXCIIANGS.—The transactions to-day were as follow :—Glasgow, Kilmarnock, and Ayr, Halves (No. 1), 13 Monklands, 6 per cent. guaranteed, 14% Scottish Central, lsl—fort, Newcastle, URI Berwick (G. N. E . Pardl4.4o.SX rlefOreaco), 575. Her Mjahty's steam-frigate Gladiator, Captain John Adtm , , which left this port for Madeira and the coast of Africn, on Sunday afternoon, the 3,linst., put back this morning, having received damage from the late gale. When the Gladiator sailed she had in tow her ten der, the Jackal steamer, and continued to tow her until .they reached ninety miles south-west of the Land'z-tlid, when she was cast off in consequence of heavy weather from the westward, veering to the north and south, and they both bore up fir Falmouth. The Jackal, however, drifted further to leeward than the Gladiator, and parted company with her on Tuesday. It blew so hard that no canvass could be carried, the sea ran very high and cross, and the Gladiator, being very deep, was obliged to heave to. Her paddle sponsons and bulwarks are damaged, and it is not probable that she will be ready for sea before Sunday, if by that time. She has gone up Hamoaze to coal and refit. The Jackal behaved exceedingly well ; she is low masted, singly rigged, and more buoyant than the Gladiator; in all probability she is gone into Fal mouth. Wind—N.W., squally. COLCHESTER ELECTION. COLCHE,TER, FRIDAY NIGHT.—P(IIIIIaRt to ad journment from yesterday, the proceedings of the election were resumed, and the polling booths for the several districts of the borough, were opened at eight o'clock this morning. Tne contest was con ducted on both sides in a most gentlemanly spirit, and with a purity, so to speak, unexampled, we be believe, in the annals of all previous psrty turmoils in this ancient borough. The town remained through • out the day undi,turbed by ary breach of the peace, and at the final close of the poll, at four o'clock, the numbers stood thus : For Lord John Manners For Mr. G. Wingrove Cooke Majority for Lord J. Manners —220 At a quarter-past four o'clock the mayor, attended by his municipal functionaries, appeared on the hustings, and announced that the official declaration would be made at twelve o'clock to-morrow (this day), to which time he directed the proceedings to be adjourned. Shortly afterwards the assembled spectators dispersed, and the town resumed its wonted quietude. LYCEUM THEATRE.—The following list of fashion - stiles visited this house during the past week:—His Royal Highness Prince George, the Duke of Brunswick, the Duke and Duchess of Norfolk and Lady Adeliza Fitzalan Howard, Lord Adolphus Fitzclarence, Lord and Lady Frederick Fitzclarence, Lord Tenterden, the Duke of Devonshire, Lord and Lady Guernsey, the Earl and Countess of Glengall, the Earl of Cork, Lord Ernest Bruce, Lady Caroline Barrington, Lord and Lady Barleigh, the Duke and Duchess of Montrose, the Earl of Strathmore, Sir J. Lowther, Sir G. Armi tage, Sir C. Shakerley, Lady Webster, Sir H. Webb, the Earl and Countess of Harrington, the Countess Dowager of Essex and Miss Johnson, Sir F. and Lady Thesiger, Lady Ronailly, Sir Charles and Lady Mary Wood, Hon. Mrs. Norton, Lord Cranstoun, Sir F. and Lady Pollock, Lord John Manners, Baron Platt, Baron Alderson, Lord Robert Thynne, Viscount and , Vis countess Maidstone, Lord Marcus Hill, Lady Frederick Bosucl , rk, the Marquis of Donegal!, Baron Lionel Rothschild, Captain and Lady Adele Ibbotson, the Earl of Cardigan, Sir William Herries, the Marquis and Marchioness of Kildare, the Earl and Countess Char le- A MEMBER Or PARLIAMENT IN DANGER Or fi ven A re r:n . w s ic o h t e , 1 , u C po o; BEING BURNT TO DEATII-011 Tuesday morning, H about of Sir Ralph Howard, Sir G. and Lady Grey, &e. cry r ventry, were alarmed six o'clock, from found to proce ed the room occupied inquiry, was the inmadtesbyoftbthee by Mr. George Thompson, M.P. for the Tower Hamlets, w ho bad been lecturing the previous evening upon finan cial reform at St. Mary's Ball. It appears that the Ron. Gentleman on retiring to his apartment for the n i g ht, had probably put the candle by his bedside for the purpose of reading, when he unintentionally fell asleep, and did not awake until he found himself enveloped in dames. Sir Joshua Walmsley, M.P. for Bolton, who slept in the adjoining room, hearing a disturbance, hastily rushed out on the landing, and, to his horror, discovered flames issuing from the room occupied by Mr. Thompson. We are happy to state, however, that the Hon. Gentleman escaped without injury, and also that the house and furniture are fully insured in the West of England Insurance Company. The loss is es timated at 100/.—Leicester Journal. MADAME PULSZKY'S MEMOIRS.—We understand that the wurk alluded to by Lord Dudley Stuart in the • deb ate on the Affairs of Hungary, and from which be quoted the passages descriptive of the atrocities of the Austrians, is to appear in the course of the ensuing week. It is entitled " Memoi rs of a Hungarian Lady by Therese Pulszky, with an historical introduction by Francis Pulszky, late Under-Seeretary State to the Emperor Ferdinand." EXTRAORDINARY S1100TING.....••011 the 23d ult. Mr. T. C. Swinborne, o f Coggeshall, went out in his yacht on the main off Bradwell next the sea, and with the assistance of one man to ma na g e the b oat , s u cc e ede d , in shooting during the dap fifty black geese,—Essa Standard, ( T 01 4 4 thtoa , . Off IStt, "M . .:t'4;V•f . . • • A , A,' 1.0 0 j 'cof fx , VI t , , , • t 4 INT ° . J7,803.] L®_ BON r al: l . _ p, 7 ) 1 7 2 -A k 11 A ; - ' ll FEBRUARY 9 1 %50 5 , _ ii[PRICE SD. s,