The Sun. — London, England, 1851-01-16 00:00:00

THE SUN, LONDON, THURSDAY EVENING, JANUARY 16, 1851. The three directors who go out by rotation are William Haigh, Esq., Joseph Esda.ile, Esq., and John Stewart, Eict., all of whom being eligible offer them selve4 for re-election. LONDON AND WESTMINSTER BANK, DEC. 31, 1350. Dr. £ s. d. To Proprietors for paid-up Capital... 1,000,000, 0 0 To Amount due by the Bank fur De posits, Circular Notes, 84c. To Rest or Surplus Fund - To Net Profits of the last Half-year ... 3,969,648 15 11 111,183 16 7 33,923 15 6 £5,114,756 8 0 £ s. d. Cr. By Government Stock, Exchequer Bills, and India Bonds ... ... 1,089,794 16 5 By other Securities, including Bills discounted, L Ans to Customers, &c. 3,458,922 4 7 By Cash in hand •• ••• ... 566,039 7 0 £5,114,756 8 0 PROFIT AND LOSS, 31ST DECEMBER, 1850. Dr. To Total Expenditure of the Six Establishments, including Rent, Taxes, Salaries, Stationary, &c. To Payment of the Dividend now declared, at the rate of Six per Cent. per Annum, for the last llal'-year 30,000 0 0 To Banos of Six Shillings per Share 15,000 0 0 To Balance of unappropriated Profits 100,107 12 1 a. d . 19,154 1 2 Cr. By Balance of unappropriated Profits, on the 30,h June, 1850 ... By Gross Profits of the last Halt. year, after paying thy; Income•tax and making provision for all bad and doubtful Debts... £164.261 13 3 X s. d. 111,183 16 7 53,077 16 8 X 164,261 13 3 By Balance of unappropriated Profits • brought down £100,107 12 _ The CHAIRMAN in moving the adoption of this repel% took occasion to observe that the directors hoped the details of that document would give universal satis faction. He was sure that pleasurable feeling would be increased when he told them that the bonus had been unanimously agreed on by the directors, and could be paid without in any way impairing the effi ciency of the bank, which he was happy to say was never in a more sound or prosperous condition. It was now some four years ago since the bank declared a bonus, and it would perhaps not be out of place if he took this opportunity of reviewing the events which had occurred in the interval. The year 1847 opened with every indication of coming pros perity; but before the summer passed -away the country was overtaken by a panic, which para lyzed trade, and which, even up to this very day, had left its baneful effects to be felt in the commercial world. No sooner was that struggle got over, than the French revolution fell upon Europe like a thun derbolt, and ever since the continent had remained in a state of chaos and warfare, sadly reducing the value of money in which they dealt, and entirely destroying a large portion of the British trade ; and yet, in spite of all these obstacles, the bank had been able to main tain its six per cent., while, if they turned from the past to the present, there was every reason for believing that the future was pregnant with hope and promise. The branches of the bank were successful and exten sive in their operations, and though they were shut out of the advantages attendant upon the clearance system, they were still in a position, and likely to continue so, to carry on an honourable and straight forward competition with the friends in Lombard street, who, he trusted, would ere long see the justice and expediency of changing their bearing towards this establishment. He could not resume his seat without acknowledging the energy, industry, and ability which their officers and managers devoted to their service, and to which must be attributed a con siderable portion of the bank's success, and expressing a hop* that the proprietors would join with the direc tors in thanking the executive staff for the zealous and untiring exertions which they always displayed in conducting the daily business of the bank, he should sit down fully convinced that the meeting would as freely and. heartily pas the motion he had just made. Mr. TaTE, the architect, had much pleasure in se conding the motion, and congratulated the directors upon being once more in a positicin to pay the pro prietors a lineral and acceptable bonus. At the first blush the surplus capital might appe.,r small in com parison with that of other joint-stock banks, but it should be remembered that this establishment had a large additional paid• up capital to tall - back upon in cases of need. He, however, warned the directors not to compete too severely with the private bank -1, -but in giving them that advice he must couple it with this remark, that extreme caution was as baneful as rash specula tion, and should always be avoided. They had to contend with formidable coi earns conducting their business upon the Scotch system, or allowing more extravagant interest on deposits, and in order to keep up :pith them and sustain the prosperity of the bank, they might safely extend their accommodations to the putlie. Mr. Jonesore was willing to give the directors full credit for skillful management, but he unhesi tatingly objected to the last proposal of the Honour able Proprietor who preceded him. He never wished to see the field of their operations expanded at the ex pence of their security, nor did he think it would be wise or judicious to reduce their surplus below 100,0001. It we. little enough a surplus in all consci ence for an establishment of this magnitude, and he therefor e deprecated the very idea of decreasing their busiees . s by red uc i ng t h e b a l ance of unappropriated pro fits. Web regard to the retrospect of the Hon. Chair msn, he had failed to arrive at the conclusion that gen tleman had propounded to the meeting. The policy of the directors since 1847 was not so free from h'eme or error as the Chairman would have them be lieve, for had they confined their advances to home securities, instead of extending Clem to the colonies and colonial produce, the bank would have been in a better situation now. However, the experience of the past would be of service in guiding them in the labyrinth of the future, and he was willing to forget these mistakes, and accept the present dividend and bonus with gratitude. Mr. CROUCH thought the directors were not making the most of the surplus profits in hand. If they would adopt the suggestion of Mr. The and increase their operations, or invest the money in securities yielding 1 arge interest, the dividend would be worth receiving. He looked upon the present division of profits as insignificant and unsatisfactory, and it would never be otherwise until they resorted to the Scotch system. A PROPRIETOR wished to know if the bank was still incumoered with debts, or had it sustained any losses this half year. He saw by the papers, that the bank was litigating a claim on another concern, which was likely to result in a serious loss. The CHAIRMAN said there were no losses in the last half -year worth mentioning, except the one which was now the subject of litigation, and which was likely to be recovered is the end. In fact, he might go the length of saying, that the bank would ultimately sustain no loss from that quarter. He did not think it necessary to answer Mr. Crouch's argument about the Scotch system, but he must remind the Honourable Proprietor that the nature of their business compelled them to invest the surplus in securities of easy con vertibility. Mr. LETT was quite astounded to hear any man say he was enot s wasatisnotd fie with the di v id end. Why, if seven pert. a good di v id end, he should be I was ?—(Laughter.) For glad to know what the d— his part be was quite satisfied with it, and so long as the business remained at its present height, he hoped the directors would never dream of the Scotch sys tem. His advice to them was, let well alone. Mr. MAYHEW had heard it said that the newly paid-up capital was an incumbrance on the bank. Now if that were so, why not return it? The CHAIRMAN explained that it had been felt as an incumbrance during the period of the recent com mercial depression, when money could not be lent out with safetv, but the capital was well and profit ably invested now, and he very much feared the pro prietors would experience great difficulty in disposing of their money in a better manner if it were returned to theta. A PROPRIETOR objected to the thumping style of Putting down speakers which Mr. Levy always fol lowed. In spite of his emphatic question and strong expressions, he was not afraid to avow that he for one was dissatisfied with the dividend. Other banks made 9 per cent., and why could not they ? The CHAIRMAN replied simply because they could not get is without runn i ng great - risk of losing every thing. After some further discusion the report was adopted, the dividend declared, and the retiring directors re-elected. A PROPRIETOR proposed that they should pass vote of thanks to th e o ffi cers, which was readily ceded to, arid the motion b e i ng reduced Co - writ was carried by acclamation. LONDON and WESTMINSTER BANK Mr. GILBERT, the manager, briefly, but warmly, The annual g eneral meeting of the proprietors of acknowledged the compliment. the London and Westminster Bank was held yes- The CHAIRMAN here informed them that the execu terday, at the Banking-house, in Lothbury ; Mr. tive staff during the last twelve months had under- Henry Buckle, chairman of the board of directors, gone a strict and searching revision, and the salaries in the chair. had been advanced wherever merit was found to exist The advertisement convening the meeting havi ng deserving it. This announcement was received with been read, the minutes of the preceding meeting loud cheers. were confirmed, and the annual general report of the A vote of confidence was then presented to the directors was then submitted to the proprietors, as directors, and the Ch a i rman h av i ng b een th an k e d f or follows : his courteous conduct in the chair, the meeting, which From the statements attached to this report, the was very numerously attended, broke up. shareholders will perceive that the net profits of the bank, during the last half-year, amount to 33,9231.155.6 d. Out of these profits the directors now declare a divi dend at the rate of six per cent. per annum. They also declare a bonus of six shillings per share, being equal to one and a half per cent. on the paid-up capital. After these payments are made, the surplus fund will amount to 100,1071. 12s. Id . DENMARK AND THE DUCHIES. SUBMISSION OF THE STADTHOLDERS. The question of the Duchies is decided. The Stadtholders have resolved to submit. On Saturday last the two Commissioners, General Thienen and Count Mensdorf, returned from; Kiel to llamburgb. At that time it was stated that they had effected an arrangement with the Stadtholders and Count Reventlow. Tne Holstein Diet had not, however, dissolved itself. Many of its members thought it advisable to proceed to Hamburgh on Saturday night. It was rumoured that the march of the Austrian army would be stopped, and that the Holstein troops would remain in possession of Rendsburg. This report is, however, contradicted by later in telligence, according to which the Stadtholders have published a proclamation, in which document they state that, since the German Confederacy has resolved to enforce the treaty of peace of the 2d of July, 1850, and since that Confederacy has promised to protect the rights of Holstein, as well as the vested rights and ancient connexion existing between that duchy and Schleswig, they, the Stadtholders, had thought it in cumbent on themselves to decree the cessation of hos tilities. They finally protest that they have placed the rights of the country under the protection of the Germanic Confederation. They also express their thanks to the army, the navy, and the population at large, and they rely on the maintenance of order. The Stadtbolders will resign their offices as soon as an administrative board shall have been appointed by the Germanic Confederation. The ninth battalion of the garrison of Rends burg, in Schleswig Holstein, received on the 7th orders to march ; thinking they were about to attack the Danes, they cheerfully complied, but they were taken to the fortifications, and told that they were to shoot o❑ a soldier of the battalion, who had been con demned to death by court-martial for having killed a sub-lieutenant. They uttered cries of indignation, and refused to take part in the execution, saying that the sub-lieutenant had ill-treated his men. The officers succeeded in quieting them, and eight men were drawn by lot to shoot the soldier. When the word of command was given, three men fired in the air ; the others discharged their muskets at the man, and he fell dead. The three refractory soldiers were at once seized, tried by court-martial, condemned to death, and early next morning were executed. proceeded to number the flowers that should spring from his cousin's grave, and to promise that— from year to year, Roses shall flourish, moistened by a tear. —Dickens's " Household Words." LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF CHANCERY, Jan. 15. SHORT V. MERCIER. The farther hearing of the argument in this part heard appeal from the judgment of Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce was resumed and concluded to-day. The plaintiff filed his bill for the purpose of ob taining certain information from the defendant as to transactions and sales in railway shares. The de fendant answered some of the interrogatories, but re fused to answer others, on the ground that his doing so would subject him to prosecution and penalties un der the provisions of the statute called the Stock jobbing Act. To those answers the plaintiff took exceptions, and the Master to whom the matter was referred allowed some of the exceptions, but disal lowed others. Exceptions were then taken to the Master's report before Vice-Chancellor Knight Bruce, and his Honour, upon hearing the argument, disal lowed the exceptions to the defendant's answer taken by the plaintiff, and the latter in consequence brought the present appeal. Mr. J. Russell, Mr. Roupell, and Mr. Gray (of the common law bar) appeared in support of the appeal, and Mr. Swanston and Mr. Prendergast in support of the order of the Vice •Chancellor. Mr. J. RUSSELL having concluded his reply, The LORD CHANCELLOR proceeded to give judg ment, and observed that questions of the kind now be fore the Court were always of considerable impor tance, though not always of great difficulty. The law of England very clearly established that no man was obliged to disclose matters which tended to criminate himself. The question was, whether the defendant had shown sufficient circumstances to the Court to entitle him to credit on the oaths he had made, that answering the interrogatories put to him by the plain tiff would subject him to the penalties under the Stock-jobbing Act. His Lordship having referred to the facts of the case proceeded to say that. the plaintiff did not allege in his bill that he bad applied to the defendant for an account, but only that he had applied for his shares ; and after making certain allegations, the bill went to ask questions which, if answered, would have the effect of fixing the defendant with the penalties. It, therefore, seemed to him that the object of the bill was to enable the plaintiff to take advantage of the penalties for the dealings which had occurred between the parties. It further appeared that before filing the bill, the plain tiff had told the defendant that the transactions be tween them were illegal. The defendant, therefore, refused to answer a word relating to the shares, the transactions with these shares being so entirely con nected with the stock-dealings they had bad, that he could not disclose one matter without of necessity dis closing the other. He (the Lord Chancellor) did not consider that, in order to avail himself of the rule whieh protected him from disclosure, the defendant was bound to prove precisely how such disclosures would affect him, but if he stated circumstances which made it extremely probable that such disclosures would affect him, it was sufficient to entitle the de fendant to such protection. In this case his Lordship thought that sufficient had been shown to entitle the . defendant to pr o t ec ti on fr om ma ki ng suc h di sc l osures as were asked for in the plaintiff's bill, and that, there fore, the judgment of the Vice-Chancellor was a cor rect one. The appeal was then ordered to be dis missed, and with costs. ROLLS' COURT, Jan. 15. LOGAN V. THE EARL OF COURTOWN. Lord LANGDALE gave judgment this morning in this cause. It was an application for an injunction to restrain the directors of the Dublin, Wicklow, Wexford, and Waterford Railway Company from enforcing, by actions at law, calls made upon certain subscribers to the undertaking, who were dissen tients to their proceedings, on the ground of alleged fraud, mismanagement, and a waste of the funds of the company. The hearing of the cause occupied the Court se veral days, and the particulars fully reported in this paper as they were evolved in the course of the hearing. His Lordship having reviewed the proceedings, decided to refuse the injunction. KYNASTON V. THE LANCASHIRE AND YORKSHIRE RAIL- WAY COMPANY. Mr. R. PALMER applied for an extension of time to put in the answer in this cause, in which the de murrer was overruled, which was granted. BROWN V. THE MONMOUTHSDIRE RAILWAY AND CANAL COMPANY. The further hearing of this cause was resumed and concluded. It came on upon demurrer to the plain. tiff's bill, which was filed for the purpose of obtain ing an injunction to restrain the directors of the Monmouthshire Railway and Canal Company from paying dividends out of the income of the company, until certain works authorised by a supplementary Act of Parliament were completed. Lord LANGDALE said it was a matter of importance to decide the consideration which was involved in this case, where a company was bound to complete certain works within a specified time, whether they were not bound with any limits at all, after the time for comple tion had expired ; and, on the other band, whether the payment of the dividends should be suspended from the shareholders, in consequence of such delay in the construction of the works. He should give it his best attention.—Jwitiment deferred. VICE-CHAACARY COURT, Jan. 15. (Before Sir J. KNIGHT BRUCE) HABERSHAW V. VARDEN. Nadir Baxter, the testator, by his will, dated in 1842, among other bequests, made the following:— " Farther upon truit other (1,0000 one thousand pounds out of such part of my personal estate as may by law be devoted to charitable purposes, be paid to wards the contributories that I do conscientiously believe and earnestly pray will steadily be began, under the sanction of our hitherto highly favoured Church and nation, in evidence of Christian faith to wards the political restoration of the Jews to Jeru salem and to their own land." It was contended that the bequest was void for uncertainty. Mr. ROGERS said that those who acted for the Crown held that the gift was void, and that the widow, who was residuary legatee, was entitled to the fund. Ilk HONOUR said it was his opinion that he could not decide that the sum in question could not go to any charity to be.named under the royal sign manual, or in some other mode, although the testator had failed to specify the particular charity which was the object of his bounty. It was then agreed that the question should be post poned, and put in the general paper of causes. (Before Lord CRANWORTH.) IN RE BIRMINGHAM, OXFORD, AND READING RAIL WAY.—EX PARTE SICKEL AND BEST. --SICKEL'S CASE. Lord ORAN WORTH, in giving judgment in this case, said he had taken home the papers, in order that he might compare them with the letters and documents in I pfil's case, which had been decided in the House of Lords, and although he confessed he did not un derstand the judgment in that case, yet he felt he was bound by it. Lord Brougham, who had paid great attention to it, had decided that if a man was a share holder only, he was not liable to contribute, nor was he liable to contribute if he was only a provisional committeeman, but that to fix his liability the two qualities must co-exist. In the present case Mr. Sickel, it appeared, had declined to accept of the shares unless satisfied that the plans would be ready in time, and the question was whether he was so satisfied. His Lordship said it appeared to him that he was satisfied on that point, and that he agreed to accept of fifty shares. He therefore thought that Mr. Sickel's name had been properly put on the list of "contributories," and that the motion must be re fused, with costs. Lord CAMPBELL —There was no doubt that the books wer e va l ue d i n a most disgraceful manner. The question of amount was, however, altogether one for the jury, a n d h e (L ord Campbell) was not dissatisfied with the verdict.—Rule refused. BAIL COURT, Jan. 15. (Sittings at Nisi Prius, before Mr. Justice ERLE.) Applications were made against two attorneys for rules calling upon them to show cause why they should not refund certain sums of money which they I cause was tried, and why there should not be a new trial. The facts of the case, the Learned Gentleman said, were these :—The plaintiff had for some time been in business in London, as a truss-maker, and manufacturer of other appliances for the relief of in valids, and in May, 1849, being i❑ a state of great pecuniary embarrassment, left this country and proceeded to America. He took with him seven or eight packages, containing, as his witnesses deposed at the trial, some valuable property, consisting of plate and a quantity of clothes. On his passage out to America he formed an acquaintance with a man of the name of Snowden, with whom he went to New York, and thence to Philadelptia, whence, on account of the prevalence of the cholera there on their arrival, they returned to England, arriving at the port of Liverpool in Jily, 1849, after an ab sence of two months. They came up to London by the Nort'a-Western Railway. The plaintiff, on arrival at Liverpool, deposited the packages of goods he had brought with him from America, at the goods station of the company, to lie forwarded to their goods station at Camden-town, per railway, and there to remain until called for. They remained there for about three weeks at this ,ast station, and on the 19 th of August, 1849, a persos called there and inquired about them. He was informed they were quite safe, and that if he forwarded his address to Messrs. Chap lin and Horne, they would be sent accordingly. Oo the following day a letter was received by Messrs. Chaplin and Horne, de,iring them to forward the goods to 75, Castle-street East, Oxford-street. That letter was signed " Elam." At that time the plaintiff had been arrested by one of his creditors for some arrears of rent, and was put into the Queen's prison, where he actually was at the time the goods were applied for, and delivered at 75, Castle -street East. The day before the letter dated the 20th of August was written, an elderly gentleman called at the house of Mrs. Seares, 75, Castle -street East, and informed that lady that he wished to take lodgings for a young man who was a nephew of his, and who he expected to ar rive from Liverpool. He stated that his nephew had a quantity of luggage which he wished to keep in his apartments. Mrs. bares requested a reference, upon which the elderly gentleman named a Mr. Heather as his reference, who was the proprietor of a shop in the neighbourhood, and vho, on being referred to, stated that the elderly gentleman was a most respectable man. The lodgings were consequently let to him for his nephew, whose name, he said, was "Alfred Elam." The goods, which had been left at the Cam den- town goods station, were forwarded by Messrs. Chaplin and Horne to 75, Castle-street East, where they were received by a young man who represented himself as " Alfred Elam," and who signed the de livery book in a handwriting extremely like that per son's genuine signattre. After the goods had been de livered, a cart was brought to Mrs. Seares's house, and the goods were placed therein, and conveyed away; and the young man, calling himself "Alfred Elam," then left the house, and never afterwards re turned to it. During this time the plaintiff, the real "Alfred Elam," was a prisoner in the Queen's prison, living on the charity of his friends, who lent him such small sums as half-a-crown at a time. He also re ceived the prison allowance, which was granted the prisoners who were not worth 101. in the world. Whilst in prison he had never made any application for:his packages, although, by the evidence which he offered at the trial, he had from 40/. to 601. in notes alone in his chest. In November, 1849, he agreed to pay the sum of 301. to his landlord, and to give a war rant of attorney to that person for the remainder of the debt which he owed him, and be was then released from prison. He (the Solicitor-General) would ask where did the plaintiff get the 301. from ? Here was the case of a man without the means of existence, and whose father and family were in the most indigent circumstances, suddenly finding himself i❑ a position to pay 301., and thus getting out of prison, and returning to his shop, where he again set himself up in business. He did not, when he was released front prison, apply for his goods, but waited until the 16th of December, when he went to the goods station of the defendants, and requested to hive his goods forwarded to him. The clerk to whom he made his application, not knowing that the goods had been al ready sent away, stated that they should be delivered upon a written application being made for them. The plaintiff directly wrote a letter demanding the goods ; but, on investigation, it appeared that they had already bee❑ delivered to a person calling himself " Alfred Elam:' A second demand was made for the goods, and the action was then brought against the defen dants. There was this important fact in the case, that Snowden, who went with the plaintiff to America and came back with him thence to England, stated at the trial that no one except himself and plaintiff was aware of the quantity of property that had been brought from America, or eve❑ where the goods had been deposited. Snowden also swore that he knew nothing of the goods being taken to Castle-street Eist. Whoever had obtained the goods must have been aware of their having been brought from Liverpool, and of the number of packages. He must also have been so well acquainted with the handwriting of the plaintiff that he could imitate it, and a number of witnesses who had been examined at the trial, had stated that they believed the handwriting to be that of Alfred Elam, the plaintiff in this cause. There were also the peculiar circumstances in this case, that the plaintiff had left England in a state of poverty, had returned, and been thrown into prison, had remained there for some time, and had not got out except by settling with his detaining creditor ; and further, that when he was released, he did not apply for his goods until six weeks after that event. He the (Solicitor-General) suggested that supposing there were any property in the packages, the plaintiff had himself assisted in getting possession of them. The defendants, since the trial, bad received some fresh information, which he (the Solicitor-General) was of opinion was of great importance. At the trial the sister of the plaintiff had deposed to the contents of the packages, which she had helped to pack when her brother was preparing to leave England for America. Since the trial a person named Wilkins had been discovered, who had been foreman to the plaintiff, and he states that the plaintiff never, at any time, had any property on his premises of the value of 80/., and that be left England in so much fear of arrest that the property which he took with him was put into potato•sacks, and deposited in a place of safety. The Custom-house officers at Liverpool had made affida vits contradicting the evidence of Snowden. The entry made in the Custom-house at Liverpool, op posite the names of the plaintiff and Snowden, was merely one of " wearing apparel." There were, too, letters written by the plaintiff to Wilkins, since the former left England, and these letters showed that at that time the plaintiff was in a state of poverty. There was also another fact to which he (the Soli citor• General) would direct the attention of the Court. A person named Day, a commission agent for some coal merchants in London, happened, on the 21st of August, 1849, the day upon which the goods were sent to Castle-street East, to be at the corner of that street, on - his road to a house therein, and he there met three persons, one of whom he identified to be Alfred Elam's father, and the other, a person named Stewart. Old Mr. Elam asked Mr. Day which was the way to Castle-street, and was shown it by him. Mr. Day then went to a public-house, where he had business, and which was next door to Mrs. Seares's house, and while drinking a glass of ale Mr. Elam, Stewart, and another person came into the house, and sent a letter to Wilkins. Mr. Day was a friend of Mr. Wilkins's, and he stayed in the public-house until the messenger returned with some papers. Stewart then said " This will not do; we must go to Wilkins's ourselves." Mr. Day afterwards went to Wilkins's, where he saw the father of the plaintiff. Mr. Day called afterwards on Stewart on business, and then recognized him as hav ing been the person he had seen before. The plaintiff had two brothers, whose addresses were not known to the defendants. The Learned Gentleman then proceeded to advert to other circumstances, and con cluded by hoping that the Court would grant a rule. Lord CAMPBELL—Take a rule. The SOLICITOR-GENERAL then desired to know whether the arbitration respecting the items contained in the packages should be proceeded with ? ask that s t r M u c r ie dAe M. t H h A e linE part ßs f Q. the C" arbitration it n might be permitted to go on. said that he was in- Lord CAMPBELL was of opinion that ought to go on until the rule was determined. Rule nisi granted accordingly. DANIEL V. CHALLIS AND ANOTHER. This was an action against Alderman Challis, as Sheriff of London, and another, for an illegal distress. It was tried before Lord Campbell, at Guildhall, at the sittings after last Michaelmas term, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff, damages 5,0001. Th e property seized had formerly belonged to Mr. James Bohn, a bookseller and publisher, and the complaint of the plaintiff was, that it had been sold for a sum much less than its value. Mr. Sergeant &tee now moved, on the part of the defendants, for a rule calling on the plaintiff to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside and a new trial had, on the ground that the damages were excessive, and ought not to have been more than 8001. or 900/. In support of this opinion the Learned Ser geant referred to the testimony of several witnesses at the trial, as in contradiction to that of the plaintiff's witnesses, as to the high value of the books seized and sold. He therefore hoped the Court would grant a rule. THE QUEEN V. THE conroß ITION OF BRADFORD POLICE INTELLIGENCE. G UIL D HA LL. It may be in the recollection of our readers that some few days ego a summons was issued from this court against Captain Ray, an advertising coal mer chant, requiring him to attend and explain why, in delivering four tons of coals, at 18s. per ton, to Mr. Cuthbert, of Paternoster-row, towards the latter end of December last, out of 40 sacks 26 were deficient in weight. It was then stated that 2241 b. was the ordi nary weight of a sack of coals, and in this instance some of the sacks were as much as 721 b. deficient in weight, and the majority of the 26 sacks were over 401 b. deficient. It appeared Mr. Cuthbert had not paid for the coals, and therefore was not a loser, but he collie forward to perform a public duty in pro tecting others from the fraudulent intentions of this coal advertiser. Captain Ray did not appear, although Alderman Lawrence expressed a hope to that effect. Yesterday information was received at this court that one of the parties who delivered the coals was to be found in the neighbourhood of Scotland-yard, and accordingly, as it was anticipated that he would not come willingly forward, Mr. Roe, the summoning officer of this court, went down to Scotland-yard to bring him before the magistrate. At first the boy refused to give his name or address, and Mr. Roe, in accordance with his instructions, desired him to ac • company him to the justice-room. The boy was placed in front of the table. He appeared about seventeen years of age, and was dressed in coarse cor duroy clothes. He assumed a very blank expression of countenance, a n d th roug h out t h e w h o l e o f hi s evi dence (for he was p u t un d er a very r i g id examination by Mr. Wood, the chief clerk) maintained a kind of half indifferent, and half hesitating demeanour. Alderman FAREBROTHER (to the officer).—Swear this boy. The boy having been s worn, Alderman FAREIIROTHER con tin ued—Now, remem ber, if you don't tell the truth we have a way of deal ing with yo u th a t you little anticipate. What is your name ? Witness said his name was John Willis. I live at No. 3, Denmark-street, Crown street, Soho. This is my card, Sir. lam a naturalist. Alderman FAREBROTHER —Did you not give an address some time previous of Tottenham-street, Tot tenham-court-road, and your name as James Jones ? Witness—l believe, I did. I can't rec o ll ect the name. I went with the four tons of coals to Mr. Cuthbert's in December last. Ido not know where they came from. I was met by a man in the street who engaged me. I think his name was Smith. There were three men, but I don't know where any of them live. One was called " Jim," another " John," and I don't know what they ca ll e d t h e other one.l did not hear their surnames. I have seen them all before on the wharf at Scotland-yard. I am em ployed there by a gentleman of the name of Coombes The coals that were d e li vere d to Mr. Cuthbert were taken from that wharf. I believe the waggon and horses did not belong to Mr. Coombes. I have only been with him a short ti me. About six months, should think. The wharf goes by the name of " Douglas and Taylor's Wharf." Mr. Coombes carts coals from there. lam not employed in the counting house. I am general superintendent of the wharf for Mr. Coombe& I opened the letter containing Mr. Cuthbert's or d er f or the four tons of goals. I believe it was directed to Captain Ray. Ido not know any one of the name of Captain Ray. I have not had many orders since in his name, nor do I want any more. (Addressing the alderman.) I think I hare said enough now, and I am getting thirsty. Alderman FAREBROTHER—If you do not attend to the questions that are put to you I shall send you to prison, and you will there get enough water to quench your thirst. At this moment a son of Mr. Lewis, the solicitor, who it appeared was engaged to defend the case, ap plied to the alderman to have the case adjourned. Alderman FAREBROTHER —I shall not comply with such a request. We have been at some trouble to get this witness before us, and we will not lose sight of him until we h ave o b ta i ne d a ll theinforma tion he can give us respecting this Captain Ray or his representative. Mr. Lewis, jun., then went out of court. Witness continued—l did not apply to Mr. Cuth bert for the money for the coala. The carman asked him for the money, and he refused to pay for them. I then asked him if he would pay me. The addr ess on the wagg on was " Grosvenor Basin." I have a very bad memory. I can recollect no more just now. Alderman FAREBROTHER—Very well ; then I shall keep you in prison till we want you again, or until your memory improves. Witness—The name on the waggon is that of the man who applied to Mr. Cuthbert for the money. I don't see the gentleman in court.—(Laughter,) Fie aint a respectable gentleman.--(Latighter) lAm bad received on account of their clients. The names of the parties did not transpire; the applications, how ever, were granted. respectable-looking chap, aint I, your worship ? (Great laughter.) I saw Smith the last time yes terday. I have seen him within the last three months almost every day. The last time we dined together at an eating house in Hungerford-market. Some times I dine at the same house as Mr. Coombes. Mr. Coombes lives at 20, Craven-street, Strand, and I sometimes dine:with the servants. He has a bit of an office there. I don't know his Christian name. I always call him " sir." AldertnanFeatenaoenen —You'may now stand aside while a summons is made out to ensure your future attendance at this court when called on. A warrant will be issued against you, and you will be liable to be apprehended at any time wherever you may be found. Witness—And shall I have to coma up from the country ? Alderman FAREBROTHER—CertainIy. Where are you going to ? Witness—l don't exactly know yet. Alderman FAREBROTHER—Why are you going into the country, then ? Witness—l have had an invitation from a friend. Alderman FAREBROTIIER—And don't you know where your friend lives? Witness—l believe—l am going for an excursion. Alderman FAREBILOTHER — It seems highly pro • bable to me that the whole of your gang will go for an excursion. --(Great laughter.) :I would advise you to give your right name and address, as it will prove the worse for you in the end. Witness—l have already given my right name and address. You have got my card—(Laughter)—before you. Alderman FAREBROTHER--Thi3 is your father's card. Witness—lt is all the same; my name is the same as his, and he is a naturalist the same as myself, and which you will see upon my card. Alderman FAREBROTEIER—NOW mind what I say, if you do not attend to this summons a warrant will be issued, and we will soon have you again. Witness then withdrew, apparently smiling with inward satisfaction at the impudent attempt he had made to mislead the magistrate as to his connexion with such a swindling transaction. A summons was then issued against Mr. Coombes to attend and answer the charge at first laid against Captain Ray, in order to find out whether they are both one and the same person. CL ERKEN WELL. An elderly woman, of lady-like appearance, who was described in the police-sheet as Miss Gresley In man, who refused to give her address, was placed at the bar before Mr. Tyrwhitt, charged by Mr. Hugh Tutton Chilcott, of No. 4, Margaret-street, Clerken well, with stealing 101bs. of feathers, and otherarticles, from her ready-furnished lodgings. It appeared, from the evidence of the prosecutor and his wife, that some time ago the prisoner called at their house to inquire after some ready-furnished lodgings. They agreed as to terms, and she men tioned the names of numerous highly. respectable persons ; and, judging from her appearance and man ners, they did not think it necessary to make any inquiry, but admitted her at once into the apartments. She remained in the house without paying any rent. She left in debt, and on searching the place they missed the feathers from the bed, and other property. The prosecutor gave information to the police, with a description of the p r i soner ' s person, ut nothing was heard of her until the previous evening, when witness entered a public-house in the neighbourhood, and saw the prisoner sleeping on a form before the bar, when he recognised her as his lodger. He awoke her, challenged her with the robbery, and threatened to give her into the custody of a policeman. She turned upon him with affected scorn, and asked him how he dared insult her by charged her with robbery; she said she had never seen him in all her life before ; she knew nothing of him, and if he repeated the insult she would give him into custody. Witness told her that he would have the first turn, and he called in Dearwent, 417 G, and gave her into custody. Dearwent said that, on searching the prisoner at the station-house, he found in her possession several duplicates, and a large bustle full of feathers.—(He here produced the bustle.) Mr. Mould (the clerk)—Pray keep it away. Dearwent said he also found upon her several bills for lodging and hoard, and it would appear that she had been living in a most expensive style. The prosecutor said he had ascertained that the prisoner had been in the habit of taking expensive apartments with board at hotels and private lodging houses, running up bills and leaving in debt. Mr. TYRWHITT asked the prisoner if she wished to ask the witnesses any questions ? She replied that she knew nothing of the rubbery. The constable cer tainly found a " bustle" on her person containing 101bs. of feathers. She was in the habit of wearing feathers in her bustle, and not less than 101 is. weight, as she wore very large bustles—(A laugh)—but she never took the feathers from the prosecutor's bed nor anything from his house. Her brother was chief clerk to a railway company. Her property was in the hands of trustees, and her solicitors were Messrs. Simpson, Bassets, and Co. She mentioned other names of equal respectability with whom she was ac quainted, and denied the allegation of swindling hotel-keepers, &c., saying she boasted of being a " lady." Mr. Mould examined some papers found upon her, and said, here are two bills, one for 101. and the other for 51, for board and lodging, neither of them are receipted. Prisoner—They are all right; they have been paid by stamp receipts, which can be proved by my solicitors. The prosecutor and his wife swore positively to the prisoner's person. Mr. TYRWLIITT said he should remand the prisoner, in order that proper inquiries should be made about her.—She was accordingly remanded. LAMBETH. Charles Wood, one of the two men who made a most murderous attack with " life-preservers" on Mr. Thomas Carter Wigg, tea-dealer, of No. 2, Lorimer -terrace, Walworth, on Sunday morning last, was placed before Mr. Elliott for final exami nation. • Mr. Games attended as the prisoner's solicitor. The prosecutor, who seemed to be still suffering from the effects of serious injuries inflicted upon him by the prisoner and his companion, said—On Sunday morning last, between the hours of one and two o'clock, I was going home down West-street, and heard the footsteps of two men walking fast behind me. I crossed the road at Canterbury-place, and then I found the two men close behind me. I turned round, and heard them whisper to each other, and im• mediately I received a blow at the back part of me head with a bludgeon or " life-preserver. 1 turned upon them, and instantly received another blow on the head, and that I believe was given by the other man, not the one who struck me first, because it fol lowed so rapidly. I defended myself as well es I could with my um b rella, and the men seemed anxious to close upon me. I backed from them into the middle of the road, where they followed me, and I received a third blow on the head from I think a life-preserver. I have very little doubt that the prisoner is the person who gave me that , as well as the first blow. I called out " murder," and ray little boy, who was with me, also called out, and ran away, and one of the men left me. I think the pri soner is the one who remained behind with me, and I had a scu,' e with him, during which I received several severe blows on the shoulder from him. I tried to get the men under the light that I might see their faces, but they kept in the shade as much as they could. When they left me, they ran towards the Beehive public-house, but the prisoner returned and ran past me towards Canterbury -place. li e passed a lamp-post, and the light falling on his face, I saw him by that means, and I am sure he is the man. I swear to it. lam not sure of it, but I be lieve the other one ran down Cottage-grove, which is opposite to Canterbury-place. I was smothered with blood from the wounds in my head where I had been struck by these men. A constable came up, and led me home, and a surgeon carne and dressed m y wounds. The prisoner was soon after brought to my house by the police, and I knew him immediately to be one of the men. I was very much stunned with the first blow, but recovered a little after the second. They tried to close upon me, but I managed to keep them off. He positively identified the pri soner. Mr. Fairbrother, a surgeon, said on Sunday morn ing I was sent for, and on going to the house of the prosecutor I found him suffering from the effects of the loss of blood from two severe wounds on the head, one on the right temple, and one on the upper left side of the head. There was also a severe contusion on the back part of the bead, and several severe bruises about the shoulders. The wound on the tem ple was a cut through the skin and part of the muscle, and the other was a jagged wound, cut through to the bone. These wounds had evidently been inflicted by some blunt instrument, and I believe by a " life preserver," or a " bludgeon." The wound on the left side of the head had been inflicted by a blunt instru ment, which had a rough surface, a knobbed surface. The wounds were of so dangerous a character, that I had to remain with the prosecutor until six o'clock in the morning. I had to wait until reaction took place, and had then to bleed him. It is my opinion that the wounds might have been made by the life preserver produced. The contusion behind, and the wound on the temple might certainly have been pro duced by it, and the wound on the left side might possibly have been also produced by it. Mr. ELLIOTT—You considered the prosecutor's life endangered by the injuries you have described ? Witness—Most certainly; seriously so. The prisoner, who declined offering anything in his defence, was fully committed for trial. When, he was about to be removed from the bar Mr. Games, addressing the magistrate, said—l am requested by the friends of the prisoner to apply to your Worship to liberate him on bail, and they instruct me to say that sureties to Any amount can be given for him. .I❑ this case a mandamus had been obtained by Mr. Crompton, ordering :the Mayor and Corporation of Bradford to proceed to the election of certain aldermen. Mr. HALL was heard to-day on behalf of certain burgesses, and Mr. CROMPTON on the part of some of the Corporation. The arguments in the case pre sented no features of general interest. His LORDSHIP said be should take time to consider his judgment. COURT OF EXCHEQUER, Jan. 15. (Sittings in Banco.) GRAPES V. DUNNEY. This was an action of libel, against the registered proprietor of the John Bull newspaper, for the publi cation of a libel reflecting on th© character of the plaintiff, formerly a Post-office letter-carrier. At the second trial, before the Lord Chief Baron, during the sittings in London after last term, there was a verdict for the defendant on the plea of justification. Mr. KEATING today moved for a rule to set aside the verdict and have a new trial, on the ground of misdirection. The libel charged the plaintiff with having tampered with certain witnesses, by whose evidence the guilt of Thacker, another Post-office letter-carrier, was proved; and the Lord Chief Baron directed the jury to consider whether the alle gation in the libel was made by way merely of stating what had come out in the inquiry at the Post-office, or whether it stated it with an implied conviction of its being established by the evidence. Considering the nature of the charge made in the libel, the Learned Counsel contended that the defendant should have called the witnesses with whom the plaintiff was alleged to have tampered, in order to show that they were witnesses by whose evidence Thacker's guilt was proved. Die COURT thought that there should be a rule, but recommended the defendant to consent to a stet pro cessus rather than go to a new trial, which suggestion the counsel on both sides agreed to consider. NEWINGTON PETTY SESSIONS. (Before Mr. JOHNSTON, Chairman, and a B enc h o f _ _ Magistrates.) Yesterday, Mr. G. S. Butt, assistant surveyor oi the parish of St. Mary, Newington, was summoned by Mr. T. Walker, No. 47, Bridgehouse-place, in the parish of St. George, Southwark, "fur having unlaw fully neglected to repair a certain highway, known as Newington-causeway, in the county of Surrey, con trary to the statute, to which he was liable to a pe nalty of 51." The board of highways of the parish of Newington were present, and Mr. G. Hayes the barrister, at tended on the part of th e sou th district board of St. George's, who, according to the inquest held on Mon day last before Mr. Payne, the City Coroner, were liable for the repair, as appears from the report in The Sun of Tuesday. Mr. HavEs observed that before the summons was gone into, he would wish to say a few words. He was instructed to state, on the part of the gentlemen he represented, that they were willing to enter into an arrangement for the repair of the road, pending the dispute as to the boundary of the parishes, which he trusted would be for the benefit of the public and the interest of all parties. The Bench had no juris diction while the liability was disputed. It was only when there was an admitted liability that the Bench possessed power to interfere, when they could issue an indictment against the surveyor of the parish, who would be the responsible party. There was, how ever, not only a dispute between Newington and the south district board, as to the boundary line, but the south district board and the board of highways of St. George's, differed in opinion with each other as to their respective liability to repair the road. He should propose that the three boards agree to repair the road, which was admitted to be in a most dangerous con dition, and that when the question of liability was de cided, the cost of the repairs be paid by the party de cided to be liable. If his proposition were not ac ceded to, a period of nine months might elapse before a decision, as the question might have finally to be taken into the Court of Queen's Bench. Mr. Chester, clerk to the board of highways of Newington, said he thought that the board he repre sented would agree to the proposition. In August last he suggested to the two boards of St. George's that some arrangement should be entered into, and it was only now a plan was pat forward. The summons was then heard, but it failed on the ground that the assistant surveyor, not being elected by the parish, was not the responsible party. Mr. Day, clerk to the highways board, and vestry clerk to St. George's parish, who was a witness for the complainant, 'stated that there was a hole in the road in front of his house, in Bridge-house -place, a yard and a half wide and ten inches deep. Every morning he expected to hear of an accident. He be- lieved the division of the parishes was a sewer under , the pavement on the west side, which went nearly round the parish. Forty years ago he recollected hedges growing there. The summons was then dismissed. GERMANY. Advices from Dresden of the 12th inst. state that a Congress of Sovereigns will take place at Dresden. The Emperors of Russia and Austria and the King of Prussia will meet in that city. This resolution of the three Monarchs has been offi cially notified to the Ambassadors of the other Ger man and foreign States. It was expected that this Congress would lead to the regeneration of the old Frankfort Diet, with a few slight modifications. ITALY. Accounts from Rome of the sth state that a very had feeling exists between the Pontifical and the French troops, and that several serious collisions ve occurred. 1 shock of an earthquake was felt at Massa on ,he 3i. STATE OF TRADE. (From the Manchester Guardian.) __. MANCHESTER, TUESDAY.—The tendency apparent in the accounts latterly received from the United States to enlarge the estimates of the cotton crop, has became more decided in the advices which have ' come to hand this week by the Africa. This has increased the dulness of the Liverpool market, and caused all classes of buyers here to hold more markedly aloof from business than they did before. The sales of goods have been very inconsiderable ; and in general some concession has been made from the late quotations. In yarns, the home consumers have done extremely little ; as have also the German merchants ; and both classes of buyers have been able to supply their comparatively trifling wants on rather lower terms than they could have done last week, except in the better descrip tions of fine numbers, suitable for the Bradford trade, the value of which is supported by the ex tent of contracts in the spinners' hands. There is an inquiry for twist adapted for India, which is still comparatively scarce. The brief and vague tele graphic notice of the Bombay and Calcutta markets, received by way of Trieste, appears to be favourable for cotton yarns and cloths, taking into account the continued high rates of exchange. This state of the exchanges, so favourable for our shippers to India, promises to be sustained by the demand for eastern produce, and the large supply of China bills at Cal cutta and Bombay drawn upon England. ROCHDALE, MONDAY.—Considering that it is the first market (a day which is kept as a general holiday in Rochdale), we have bad a fair business doing in pieces, with little or no change in prices. There is little change in the demand for wool, and last week's prices are fully maintsine 3. MACCLESFIELD, TUESDA r.—The improved feature noted in our last, in preparing for the coming season, continues to the present time; and if this state of things should last the weavers will soon all be put to work. Manufacturers complain of buyers not giving further advances, which must be attained ere long. Goods are evidently wanted, though buyers will bold back as long as they are able. They will find that the stock of goods on hand is very light. There is nothing new in respect to the raw and thrown silk markets, which are very firm. HUDDERSFIELD, TUESDAY.—We have had an ave rage number of buyers in town for the commence ment of the season, but not much business has been done, as the manufacturers have been standing out for an advance in prices, but which the merchants seem not very ready to comply with. There has been a good demand for wools during the week. HALIFAX, SATURDAY.—The business in our Piece Hall has not varied much from that of last week. The demand for low lastings continues; and fancy fabrics, of low quality, go off freely at a slight advance in price. We have no alteration to report either in yarn or wool, in both of which there is a steady trade, with the quotations very firm. LEEDS, TUESDAY.—Without having bad a very brisk market to-day, still a fair business has been done; prices are looking up a little, and a steady business continues to be done in the warehouses. EFFORTS IN SEARCH OF DESPAIR His cousin was drowned by the upsetting of a pleasure boat. At such a calamity it was reasonable to despair—to refuse comfort—to leave his hair un combed—to look constantly on the ground—to lose all appetite—to write flowing verse. Mr. Black brook entered upon his vocation with a full sense of its heroism. At least one hundred lines would be expected from him on so tremendous an occasion. The catas• trophe was so poetical I The sea-weed might have been represented entangled in the golden tresses of the poor girl, had the accident happened only a little nearer the Nore ; and the print of her fair form might have been faintly traced upon " the ribbed sea- sand." This was unfortunate. In reality the " melancholy occurrence" took place at Richmond. Mr. Black brook began by calling upon the willows of Richmond and its immediate vicinity to dip their tender branches in the stream in token of their grief. Mr. Black brook felicitously remembering that Pope once lived not I far from Richmond, next invoked that poet's shade, and begged the loan of his melodious rhythm. But the shade in question not answering to the summons, all that remained for the sorrowing poet to do was to take down his dictionary of rhymes, and tune his own lyre to its most mournful cadences. He set to work. He called the Thames a treacherous stream ; he christened the wherry a barque ; he declared that when the pleasure party embarked at Rich mond-bridge, Death, the lean fello w , was stand ing upon the beach with his weapon upraised. Asterisks described the death ; and some of his friends declared this passage the best in th e p oem . He then wen t on t o inform his readers that all was over ; but by this expression the reader must not infer that the dirge was brought to a conclusion. By no means. Mr. Blackbrook had made up bis mind that his state of despair required at least one hundred lines to give it adequate expression. He had devoted twenty to the death of afly—surely, then, a female cousin deserved one hundred. This logical reflexion spurred him on. He pulled down the blinds, and in a gloom that suited well with his forlorn stags of mind, he be gan a picture of his condition. With the aid of his dictionary, having asserted that the shroud enwrapped a cousin's form, he reflected that he envied the place of the winding-sheet, and was jealous of the worms. He felt th it be w a s warm i ng i nto his subject. He tried to think of the condition in which the remains of his relative would speedily be; and having carefully re ferred to an eminent medical work, as to the length of time which the human body requires to resolve itself into its original earth, (for he was precise in his state ments), he proceeded to describe, with heart-rending faithfulness, the various stages of this inevitable decay. That was true poetry. He declared that the worm would crawl upon those lips that the lover bad fondly presied, and that the band which once touched the harp so ma gically was now motionless for ever. Having brought this tragic description to a conclusion, be BEST'S CASE. His LORDSHIP, in giving judgment in this case, said he thought the motion for removing Mr. Best's name from the list of contributories must be granted, on the ground that the Master had no jurisdiction to put the name on the list. An application was then made by counsel for a re hearing of the case, in consequence of a recent decision of the Lord Chancellor. Lord CRANWORTH said he thought the other side should have notice of the application. COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH, Jan. 15. (Sittings in Banco, at Westminster, before Lord Chief Justice CAMPBELL, Mr. Justice PATTESON, Mr. Justice COLERIDGE, and Mr. Justice WIGHTMAN.) ELAM V. THE NORTH-WESTERN RAILWAY COMPANY. This was an action to recover the value of several packages of goods, temporarily consigned to the North- Western Railway Company's goods station at Camden-town, on their arrival from America, and obtained therefrom by means of a representation and demand, supposed to have been made by the plaintiff. The action was tried at Guildhall, before Lord Camp-. bell, at the sittings after last Michaelmas term, and resulted in a verdict for the plaintiff, the amount to be paid to him to be the subject of arbitration. The de claration set forth that the plaintiff delivered certain goods to the defendants, to be conveyed by them, as carriers, and that they so negligently discharged that duty that the property was lost. The defendants t h o a d d y. . been To carriagepl ea ded that was and ds then had sent t n a w a detainedy from theirunti t u l b h a ai personn tiffi in replied the that emp l t o h y e ogfoot the company. The S OLICITOR -G ENERA L now applied for a rul e stolen this bl plea a s t o h m e calling on the plaintiff to show cause why the verdict should not be set aside, on the ground that it was against e v id ence, and offresh circumstances having come to the knowledge of the defendants Eince the Mr. ELLIOTT (with ev id en t surpr i se ) give fmn an opportu n it v o f way l ay i ng an d brut th iu,ing some Cillt2 else P shalt no . t accept any bail for bin:. —What, to THE COUNTRY MARKETS LIVERPOOL, JAN. 14 —There was a limited atten d ance at to-day's market, and the trade generally rule flatter. Good qualities or wheat cannot be quoted cheaper, but all inf. ricr sorts went at froni Id to 2d un der rates of last Tuesday. Flour was slow of sale nt prices rather in favour of buyers. Oats :and oatmeal each difficult to dispose of, except at a alight reduc tion. Deans, p eas , b ar l e y, and malt in limited demand, but without chance in value. Indian corn in slow request at a reduction cf 6d per qr. NEWCASTLE CATTLE MARKET, JAN. 14.—The Ya p ; ply of b ;a:As exceeded that of l as t week by eighty h ea d; quality middling; trade very brisk at late prices; an d all sold. Mutton trade steady at former rates. A bout 700 more c h ee p on s h ow than last market day. an d good clear ance e ff ecte d . Beasts 580; sheep 4,000. Dee 5s to 6,; mutton 511 to 6d. NEWCASTLE, JAN. 14.—We had a fair supply from the neighbourhood, though small arrivals coastwise. Prices ruled about the same as on Saturday, with rather better &maul Barley, owing to immense supplies, " 5 dull of sale; still we could quwe no actual de cline. Oars if anythin g th e turn dearer; prices of flour norni nal!), urtchanged. In other articles no change. LEEDS, JAN. 14.—The arrivals cf wheat were tbinl. and is good sprinkli ng cont i nue d to b e sen t per rat! , u which w as not quote d . T he sale was stea d y , thoug not active, an d nu a l terat i on could be note d i n prices Extra fine karley, being scarce, rose in value; other sorts as before. Oats, shellitsgs, and beans, sold slowly' but were not lower. EDINBURGH MEAL MARKET, JAN. 14.—There were io the meal market to-day 16 sacks oatmeal, each weighing 28 01 1 s ' imperial, wh ereo f 15 so ld t h us :-2 at 118 s Od, 10 at I/ 5 71 and i at 11 7 s Od ; average price of the whole 11 76 7-12ths. 3 sa c k s fl our , which sold at 28s 6d. 9 sacks P°'' - barley, whereof 4 said thus:-2 at 255,_ lat 235, and l a t 210 ' EDINBURGH H AY AND STRAW MARKET, JAN. 14 ' Oat straw, from 7s Od to 8s Od per kemple of 16 stones trou t wheat ditto, 6s Od t o 7 s 6d ; b ar l ey d i tto, 5 5 Od to es 6a. Hay, from 10d to is per stone. 16 1 DALKEITH MEAL MARK ET , JAN. 13.—There were bags oatmeal, 28 of barleymeal, and 4of pot-barley, at tbul day's market ; sales ready. Oatmeal the same on the top . second quality 6d per bag down; barleymeal is per bag down, and the second price is 3d lower. Oatmeal, per sack, of 280 lbs. First imperial .. 26s Od Barleymeal, per ditto ... 17s 01 Flour Peas . .. Peasemea l —a Od "/d 25s 3d 24 s 6d Second / 16561 411 Od Od Od °d Third —s 0, —a Od 21s 6d —a Od I .""4 Pot barley COAL MARKET.—YESTXBDAY. Chester Main Davison'sWest Hartley 11435 s 0 6 d d , R Lazb ei t i o ,B n H . ; ...................... It: : 6 1 a East Adairs Main l2s Od Stewart's ............. ill - Pelton Min .... 13s OdCaradoe ....... .......•••• --3 d South Eden 159 u" Ravensworth'sW.Hart 138 6di Kelloe South Peareth 123 Od South Kelloe ............ 14s , Canfield Moor . . 143 Od' Whitworth ............. 12s 6 4 1 ........... 149 l i d Canfield Moor Butes 133 3d Cleveland Tee 5......... 1 3 s "- iq 9d Wylam ..... l4s 3d i nichardson's Tees ... •- s r l / 4 1 Wall's End, & c . Seymourees 1 Tees ........ 15 6d Brown ... 133 Od T Od Hedley Lawson 4: y Original Gibson Hetton - Haswell 1 53 9dl Ships at market, 189' SEABORNE MAILS. When made up in From what When PLACES. General Post-office port die- due. London. patched. Africa (West coast).. America (via N. York • by British packet) • .*N January 31 .. Liverpool • • -- America (via Boston by British packet) .. N January 17 America (by United 1 States packet) .. • . N January 24 Belgium •...• • N I Daily .. LLSDoveriivvueetrr Liverpool moo Liverpool Brazil • • • • .. 31;9th of the month S ou thampt. Jan •24 g 4 Buenos Ayres .. .. 31'9th of the month S ou thampt. Jan. California(viaChagres) 31 17th of month Southampt. Feb. 0 3 Cape of Good Hope N,January 14 Plymouth • • March „ Central America .. Ml2d & 17th of month Southampt. Jan. 'Au c . Channel Isles .. Mon., Wed., & Fri.'Southampt. Tu. T 14,:." Chili .. • • . M 17th of the mo n th S o uthampt. ,Jan. France M& N Twice daily .. .. Dover .. Twicedalt-v. Hamburgh N Tuesday & Friday London • . Tue , •,, S hia Holland •• 31 Wednes. & Satur. London • • 31 "•., Honduras .. . N 17th of the mouth Southampt. Jan. Ireland .. ••31 & N Twice daily .. .. Holyhead • • Iwi ce 4 aUI India (via Southamp.) 31 20 th of the month Southampt. J a n. India (via Marseilles) N 7 th& 24th of month Dover .. Jan. 23 Madeira .. Mediterranean • (via Southampton) .. 31 20th of the month Southampt. Jan. 28 Mediterranean (via Marseilles) . N 7th & 241 k ofmonth Dover Mediterranean (by French packet via Marseilles) .. Mexico .. 31 2d of the m on th.. Southan l P;iF ja e n:—.s23 Peninsular.. .. 31 7th,l7th,27thofmo'Southarnpt. 'Jan. 26. Peru .. .. • • • • 31 17th of the month Southampt. Jan. 20?0 Wm Indies .. 17th of the mouth 'SouthaMPt• J an ' West Indies (except Havanna & Nassau) 31 2d of the month ,Southampt. 7 2d of the month .. malls are sent from the morning—dlspa that the next West tnnah. * N signifies that the I by the night—and At by *.* It Is not expected any mail from the Harty ISouthampt. j the General Post•o4la ,tch. India packet will bring RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS. BRISTOL, JAN. 15. STOCK EXCHANGE. —We have little change to notice in this share market. The amount of business transacted visi very limited, the only transactions reported being Great estera Stock, 79!i—South.Eastern and Dover, 23%. _ _ 141VEI‘PO(1., JAN. 15. STOCK EXORANON.—The market has been very dull to-de'' , and prices had a downward tendency. The transactions were as follow: - Lancashire and Yorkshire, 56%—Ditto, Fifth', 7 3-16 10 1 4—Chester and Holyhead. Pre ference, guaranteed 5 p er cent., 14 %a E a st Anglia n ,: 31. 10s. Shares, guarant ee d 7 per cent., 12%—Ken d a l and Windermere, ]'reference, guaranteed 6 per cent., I 3-16-- London and North-Western, New Quarters, Fifths, 4 1 % p.—Midland,4B South-Eastern and Dover, 231 / 4 —York, Newcastle, and Berwick Extension (Nos. I and 2) , unpaid-up, 2 15.16 dis.—York and North Midland, 22%' MANCHESTER, JAN. 15. STOCK ExcalartoE.—The business done to-day was li mited, buyers being rather cautious to do business. The fol lowing were the eliising prites:—South-Eastern and Dover, 23 3.16 n.—West Riding Union, 534 n. d.—Great Northern, 376 p..--Ditto, 17 t4—London and North-Western, New Quarters, 3 g;, l3 ,:r d —East Lancashire, 12C,, n.—Leeds Stock, 56/,z Ditto Preference, 10%— , itto, New Preference, Bs. 3d. P. -- No. 1), 1 13 A—Grea t Western, 71. Shares, 13%. BIRMINGLIA . M, JAN. 15. STOCK ExmANaz.—The share market was almost at A stand-still to-day. The only transaction reported W 5 London and Brighton, 91. YORE, JAN. 14. STOCK EXCHANGL—The transactions to-day were sa follow : —North British, 8% North-Western, Preference► 121. ls. 3d. —York, - Newcastle, and Berwick, 18%. COROSEII'S INQUESTS.—CHILD MunDER.--Yester. day morning Mr. M. Wakley, the deputy coroner, bald two inquests at the Fountain public-house, King-street, Seven dials, on the bodies of two.male infante who are supposed to have been murdered. The first case was on the body of the male child of Julia Maloney,who was charged at Bow-street Police-court, on Tuesday, for concealing the birth. The body was found in the privy of Mr. Donovan's house, in Queen-street, at which place Maloney had been a servant. She denied all knowledge of the child when at the police court, and she was ordered to be examined by a midwife, and it was then found that she had recently been delivered of an infant. Mr. Bennett, surgeon at the workhouse of St. Giles's, said he was of opinion that the child had been born some eight or nine days. He had made the examination, and be lieved that the child had breathed. The viscera was in that state that if the child had been properly attended to it would have lived. He was of opinion that the child had been born alive, but he could not swear positively to that fact. The witness added that the woman had made a confession that the child belonged to her, and that it had been in the water.. closet some days. The jury, in the absence of any posit ive evidence, returned an open verdict, that the child was found in a privy, but whether born alive or not there is no evi dence. The second case was on the body of a male child found in a privy in a court in Church-lane. Mr. Bennett said a portion of the head was knocked in, and he attributed death to violence. The jury returned a similar verdict in the second case. [ A DVERTISEMENT.]—HoIIoway's Pills an admirable Remedy for Indigestion and Disordered Stomachs.—T i l! widow of an officer in the army, residing at Southampton, "" had liv e d f or severa l years in India, suffered there so dreadfully from the liver complaint and indigestion that she could scareelY ever keep any food on her stomach, and her system bear" thereby so debilitated that she was reduced to a complete skele ton, and suffered continually from sick head aches and nervou s ' ness. On her return to England she commenced taking it° loway's Pills, and in th e course of six weeks this unrivane" medicine removed all traces of those distressing complain t " and she now enjoys the bast of health.—Sold by all Drug gists, and at Professor H o ll oway ' s E sta bli s h ment, 244, S tra n ds London. The good•humour of some people is owing to 511 inexhaustible fund of self-conceit. Eliza Cook's Journal. BIRTHS. OF A SOW. On the 10th inst.. at Charlton Vicararge, Wilts, the wif e of the Rev. W. H. Sterine. On the 13th inst., at West - end-lodge, Hampstead, the ladY of F. Hale Thomson, Esq. of A DAUGHTER. On the 12th inst., at Northcburch Rectory, Herta, the wife of the Rev. Sir John Hobart C. Seymour. Bart. On the 12th inst., at Morden.lodge, Surrey, the wife of Henry James Hoare, Esq. kABRJE. On the 14th i ns t ., at the Distr D ict Church of St. John's, Cambridge-square, Walter Boyd, Esq., late Captain in the Royal Iri s h F us i liers, eldest son of Robert Boyd, Esq., of Plaistow-lodge, Bromley, Kent, to Delia, second daughter of J. R. l'ittes, Esq., of Ryde, Isle of Wight. On the 14th inst., the Rev. R. S. B att i scom b e , vicar o f Barkwa v , Herts, to Lydia Edmonstone, daughter of the la te John amnion, e sq., of Cushnie, Aberdeenshire. DIED On the 13th inst., at Cunningham-place, St. John's-7/ 06 ' Dobson H. Willoughby, Esq., aged 62. On the 13th inst., a t Rowly, near Stafford, the Iles ? ' William Keen, aged 27. On the 13th inst., at Calehill, Kent, E. Darell, Esq. On the 11th inst., Judith, the wife of D. Cullington, E s q . ' of the Terrace, Hammersmith, aged 57. On the 11th inst., W. Rackham, Esq., of Castle Meadow, Norwich. On the 1 Rh inst., at Newington-place, K enn i ng t o n, Joe , relict of the late E. Hi c k, E sq . , age d Vl. On the 10th inst., aged 74, M rs. H anna h S argen t, r elict of Mr. G. Sargent, of H ast i ngs.. On the 13 , h inst., at R usse ll- square L ou d on , Theobald Fonblanque. second son o f E. %V. Cox, Esq. 65. On the 11th inst., at Wi r k sworth, R. Hurt, Esq., age— ,l On the 12th inst., at G reat Ormond -street, John Turner, Esq., aged 89. London: Printed and Published by MURDO YOUNG, 0 ./ No. 112, Strand, Print er , at Th e Sun Of fi ce, Ico. . Strand, in the Precinct of the Savoy, in the county 0 Thursday, January 16, 1851. r )1, ' L