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B. , LNK RETURNS. (From the London Gazette of Tuesday.) Aa Amount, pursuant to the Act seventh and eighth Vi.,toria, cap. 32, of the Average Amount of Bank 11,.res of the s,veral Sinks of Issue in England and Te.iles. in Circulation durinc , the Week ending Satur day, the 6th day of D?cernber, :851: Average PRIVATE BANKS, Amount. Andover Bank, Andover—Heath and Ct.... 11.769 Ashford Bank, Ashford—Jernmitt and Pomfret 11,428 Aylsham Bank, Aylsham—R. and G Copeman 3,829 Aylesbury Old Bank, Aylesbury—Riekf ord and aunt Baidoek Bank and Baldoek and Biggleswad3 Bank, 13aldock—Wells, Hogg, and Lindsell 26,715 Barnstaple Bank, Barnstaple—Marshall and Co 9,600 Basingstoke and Odiham Bank, Basingstoke— Seymour, Lamb, and Co Bedford Bank, Bedford—T. Barnard . 30,627 Bedford and Bedfordshire Bans, Bedford—. Tmpp, Halfhead, and Co. Bewdl e y Bank, Be ffdley—Nichols, Baker, and rJrana Ricester and Oxfordshire Bank and Oxford Bark, Bicester—Tubb and Co. .. ....,... 13,734 Birmingham Bank, Birmingham—Attwoc ds, 22,335 Spooner, and Co op, 3irmingham and Warwickshire Bank, Birming ham—J. L. Meilliett, and Sons ...........• .••• 11185 , 31andford Bank, Blandford—Bastard and Oak 6,305 3oston Bank, Boston—Garfit and Co ...... . ...... 54,411 Boston Bank, Boston—Gee and Co ................ 16,336 Bridgwater Bank, Bridgwater—J. &S. Sealey 4,909 Bristol Bank, Bristol—Miles, Harford, and CN 30,669 ritch rd Broseley and Bridgnorth, and Brid g north and P Broseley Bank, Broseley—Messrs.l7,2s4 Buckingham Bank, Buckingham— Bartlett, Parrott, and Co. ..... 17,18' Bury and Suffolk Bank, Su dbury Bank, St ow , Market Bank, Bury—Oakes, Bevan, and Co Banbury Bank, Banbury--Gillett and Tawney Banbury Old Bank, Banburyessrs. Cobb Bath City Bank, Bathloger and Son Bedfordshire Leto Buzzard Bank, Leighton Buzzard—Bassett and Grant Birmingham Bank, Birmingham —Taylor and Lloyds Old ........................................... Bradford Bank, Bradford, Yorkshire—H. A. and W. M. Harris and Co Brecon Old Bank, Brecon—Wilkins and Co Brighton Union Bank, Brighton—Hall, West, and Borrer Burlington and Driffield Bank, Burlington— Harding Smith, and C 0... Bury St. Edmunds Bank, Bury St. Edmunds— Worlledcre and Co. 63,860 57,381 21,465 4,082 31,475 30,346 11,450 58,400 24,580 12,296 1,705 Cambridge Bank, Cambridge—Mortlock and Sons Cambridge and Cambridgeshire Bank, Cam bridge—Messrs. Forsters Canterbury Bank, Canterbury—Hammond and Co••••• Carmarthen Bank, Carmarthen—Morris and 16,146 37,544 27,244 16,312 2,822 Sons Chertsey Bank, Chertsey—Messrs. La Coste Colchester Bank, Colchester—Round, Green, and Co. Colchester and Essex Bank, Witham and Essex Bank, and Hadleigh Bank, Suffolk, Colchester —Mills, Bawtree, and Co Cornish Bank, Truro—Tweedy and Co. Coventry Bank, Coventry—Little and Wood cock .........• City Bank, Exeter—Milford and C 0............... Craven Bank, Settle-.-Birkbecks and C 0......... Cardiff Bank, Cardiff—Towgood and Co Chepstow Old Bank, Chepstow Bank, Mon mouth Old Bank, Monnicuth Bank, Breccia Bank, and Ross and Herefordshire Bank, Chepstow—Bromage, Snead, and Co. Derby Bank, Derby—Messrs. Evans Derby Bank, Derby —Smith and Co . Derby Ole( Bank and Scarsdale and High Peak Bank, Derby—Crompton, Newton, and Co 22,025 Devize , and Wiltshire Bauk, Devizes—Hughes Locke, a nal Co 9,285 Di si Bank, Diss—Oakes, Fincham, and Co 10,185 Doncaster Bank and Retford Bank, Doncaster — Cooke and C 0.... Darlington Bank, Durham Bank, and Stockton on-Tees Bank, Darlington—Backhouse, &Co 75,283 Devonport Bank, Devonport—Hodg,e and Nor- 15,356 27,530 35,103 6,256 17,612 69,377 4,509 8,934 man Dorchester Old Bank and Dorsetshire Bank, Dorchester—Williams and Co. East Cornwall Bank, Liskeard—Robins, Foster, and Co. East Riding Bank, Beverley—Bower, Hall, and Co. Essex Bank and Bishops Stortford Bank, Chelmsford—Sparrow. and C 0.... Exeter Bank, Exeter—Sanders and Co Fakenham Bank, Fakenham—Gurneys, Birk beck, and Co. Farringdon Bank and Bank of \Vantage, Far ringdon—Barnes and Medley Farnham Bank, Farnham—Messrs. Knight Faversham Bank, Faversham—Hilton and Co Godalming Bank, Godalming—Mellersh and Keen Guildford Bank, Guildford—Messrs. Haydon... Grantham Bank, Grantham—Hardy and C 0.... Hastings Old Bank, Hastings—Smith, Hilder, and Co. Hereford City and County Bank, Hereford— Matthews and Co. Hertford and Ware Bank, Hertford—S. Adams and Co Hull Bank and Kingston-upon-Hull Bank, Hull —Smith, Brothers, and Co. Huntingdon Town and County Bank, Hunting don—Rust and Veasey e•• •• Harwich Bank, Harwich—Cox, Cobbold, and Co. Hemel Hempstead Bank, Hemel Hempstead— Smith, and Whittingstall Hertfordshire, Hitchen Bank, Hitchen—Sharplee and Co. Hereford, Ross, sand Archenfield Bank, and Ross and Arehenfield Bank, Hereford—Morgan Hoskins, and Co 'pswich Bank, Ipswich—Bacon and Co. pswich and Needham Market Bank, Suffolk, Hadleigh Bank, Manningtree and Mistley Bank, and Woodbridge Bank, Ipswich—. Alexanders and Co. Kentish Bank, Maidstone—Mercer, Randall, and Mercer Kington and Radnorshire Bank, Kington—J. Davies and Co Knighton Bank Knighton—J. Davies and CO. Knaresborough Old Bank and Ripon Old Bank, Kna'esborough—Terry and Co Kendal Bank, Kendal—Wakefield, Crewdson, and Co. Kettering Bank, Kettering—Notch and Sons.., Lane End Staffordshire Bank, Lane End—C Harvey and Son Leeds Bank, Leeds—Beckett and Co Leeds Union Bank, Leeds—W.Williams, Brown, _ and Co. 39,391 22,232 19,092 5,465 12,886 5,161 3,483 5,476 24,954 26,291 12.582 21,642 15,167 33,476 4,569 18,485 29,358 15,665 18,201 54,370 15,347 21,196 9,040 19,283 37,052 6,702 5,29 51,80 35,645 25,859 27,610 11,306 73,995 Leicester Bank, Leicester—Pagets and Kirby... Lewes Old Bank, Lewes—Molineux and C 0.... Lichfield Bank, Lichfield—Palmer and Green... Lincoln Bank, Lincoln—Smith and Co Lampeter Bank and Llandilo Bank, Llando very—David Jones and Co. Loughborough Bank, Loughborough—Middle tons and Cradock Lymington Bank, Lymington—C. and S. St Barbe Lynn Regis and Lincolnshire Bank, Lynn Regis —Gurneys and Co. Lynn Regis and Norfolk Bank, Lynn Regis— Jarvis and. Co. • Macclesfield Bank, Macclesfield—Brooklehurst and Co Manning,tree Bank,Manningtree--Nunn and Co. Marlborough Bank, Marlborough and Wilts Old Bank, Marlborough Old Bank, Marl borough Old Bank and Hungerford Bank, and liungerford Bank, Marlborough—Tanner Pinckney 'n,Jatlorough arid North Wiltshire New Bank . I horouv,h—Ward, Merriman, and Hilli er Merionethshire Bank, Dolgelly—Jones and Williams .•.. 6,056 iners' Bank,rf " . illyams and Co , 11 803 Monmouthshire ri.en tural and Commercial c. Bank, Abergav' nxV—Bail e y s and Co Monmouth Old Bank, Mo nmouth ( Bank, Bre con Bank, Ch e p s t o w B an k , satnow, Monmouth Old Bank, and Ross and IferefordshireßaPk —Bronaage and Snead...., Monmouthshire Newport Old .. . ........... 10,202 —W. Williams and Sons ... Bank, Newport Newark Bank, Newark—Godfrey . . ....... Sleaford ilon d 26,140 Newark and Sleaford Bank , and Newark Bank, Sleaford—Handley, p e , teoc n k, and Co .............................................. • 45.100 Newbury B an k, Newbury —Bunny and Slococla. 20,796 Newmarket Bank, Newmarket—Eaton, Ham mond, and Son Norwich Crown Bank, Norwich—Harveys and Hudsons ............... ............................. 45,703 Norwich and Norfolk Bank, Norwich—Gur• 57,539 net's and Birkbeck Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Bank, Not __ tingham—H ar t, F e ll ows, and Co Nuneaton Bank, Nuneaton—Craddock and 2, Naval 63S c0.. 8 auk, Plymouth—Harris, M u d ge , an d New .................................................. co ............. Bank, Sarum Everett, and ............. . 9,916 Nlttin g h ani B ank, No ....... ham—Smith .. and Co. Oswestry 8ank24,210 anaand Co o estry Old Bank, Os westry—Crozun Ox an fo d rd c O o l . d ... B . y . u . l . E . 11,145 ...... — Robinson, Parsons, Old Bank Tonbridge, .... ...... .... ..................... . 32,840 and Tonbridge Wells Old Bsaenvice,noTaoknibrridggea and Tonbridge Bank, Tonbridge— Wells led Beeching and Sons... ..... Oxfordshire Witney Bank, .. and Co Pease's Old Bank, Hull, the Rull Old Bank and . Beverley Bank, Hull — Pease and C o .. 37,745 Penzance Bank, Penzance — Batten and . Peterborough Bank and Oundle Bank. Peter -11,084 borough—Molars. Yorke ........................ 6,052 Penanrokeshire Bank, Haverfordwest—J. and W. Walters Reading Bank, Reading—Simonds and Co 23,119 Reading Bank, Reading—Stephens,Blandy, and Co. Richmond Bank, Richmond—faxwell and Co 4,720 Rochdale Bank, Rochdale—Clement, Royds acid Co 4,293 afroyston Rank Roys orciham and Sons.. 10,516 20,14 6,385 3,51 32,675 10,065 14,230 3,763 1,595 8,411 22,599 8,536 TfIE Average Amount Rochester, Chatham, end Strood Bank Roches ter —Day and Nicholson. 7,121 Rugby Bank, Rugby—Butlin and Son 10,942 Rye bank, Rye—Pomfret and Co. Ross (Ad Bank, Herefordshire, Ross—Pritchard and Allaw ay 3,787 Saffron Walden and North Essex Bank, Saffron Walden—Messrs. Gibson Salop Bank, Shrewsbury—Burton, Lloyd, and C o Scarborough Old Bank, Scarborough—Woodall 12,390 and Co.. . ............................................. and Shrewsbury and Shrewsbury—Roek e , Eytons, Shrewsbury L udlLudlow Bank,Old Ban'',she 24,090 and Co ...... ...•• Sittingb our ne and Milton B an k, Sit t i ng b ourne —Valiance and Son Southampton Town and County Bank, South ampton—Maddison and Pearce Sot Bank, Southwell—Wylde and Co Southampton and Hampshire Bank, Southamp ton—Atherly and Fall Stone Bank, Stone—W. Moore Stafford Old Bank, Stafford—Stevenson and Co Stamford and Rutland Bank, Stamford—Eaton, Cayley, and Co. Stourbridge Old Bank, Stourbridge—Bate and Robins Shrewsbury and Welshpool Bank, Shrewsbury —Beck, Downward, and Co. Taunton Bank, Taunton—Messrs. Badcock Tavistock Bank, Tavistock—Gill, Rundle, and Co Thornbury Bank, Thornbury—Rolph, Yates, and Parslow Tiverton and Devonshire Bank, Tiverton—Duns- ford and Barne Thrapston and Kettering Bank, Northampton shire, Thrapston—Yorke and Eland Trinp; Bank and Chesham Bank, Tring—But- cher and Son Towcester Old Bank, Towcester—J. and S Percival Town and County of Poole Bank, and Ring wood and Poole Bank Ledgard and Sons' Union Bank, Cornwall, Helston—Vivian and Co. Uxbridge Old Bank, Uxbridge—Hull, Smith, and Co. Wallingford Bank, Wallingford—Hedges & Co. Warwick and Warwickshire Bank, Warwick— Greenway awl Co. Wellington Somerset Bank, Wellington—Fox. Brothers West Riding Bank, Wakefield, and Pontefract Bank, Wakefield—Leatham, Tew, and Co Whitby Old Bank, Whitby—Simpson, Chap man, and Co Winchester, Alresford, and Alton Bank, Win chester—Bulpett and Co. Winchester and Hampshire Bank, Winchester —Wickham and Co Weymouth Old Bank and Dorchester Bank, Weymouth—Elliott and Pearse Wirkesworth and Ashbourne Derbyshire Bank, Wirkesworth—Arkwright and Co. Wisbech and Lincolnshire Bank, Wisbech— Gurney and Co. Wiveliscombe Bank, Wiveliscombe--P. and W Hancock ... Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton—Good ricke and Holyoake. Worcester Bank, Worcester—Farley, Lavender and Co. Worcester Old Bank and Tewkesbury Old Bank, Worcester—Berwick, Lechmere, and Co Worcestershire Bank, Kidderminster—Farley and Turner Walsall Old Bank, Walsall—Charles Foster and Sons Warminster and Wiltshire Bank, Warminster— Everett and Co. Wolverhampton Bank, Wolverhampton— Messrs. Fryer Yarmouth and Suffolk Bank, and Halesworth and Suffolk Bank, Yarmouth—Gurney, Birkbeck, and Co. Yarmouth, Norfolk, and Suffolk Bank, Great Yarmouth—Sir E. K. Lacon, Bart., and Co York Bank. York—Swann, Clough, and Co 11,679 36,892 11,603 38,907 JOINT-STOCK BANKS. Bank of Westmoreland, Kendal Barnsley Banking Company, Barnsley Bradford Banking Company, Bradford Bilston District Banking Company, Wolver hampton Bank of Whitehaven, Whitehaven Bradford Commercial Banking Company, Brad ford Burton, Uttoxeter, and Staffordshire Union Banking Company, Burton-upon-Trent Chesterfield and North Derbyshire Banking Company, Chesterfield Cumberland Union Banking Company, Work ington Cheltenham and Gloucestershire Banking Com pany, Cheltenham Coventry and Warwickshire Banking Company Coventry Coventry Union Banking Company, Coventry 11,947 County of Gloucester Banking Company, Chel tenham Carlisle and Cumberland Banking Company Carlisle Carlisle City and District Bank, Carlisle 17,991 Dudley and West Bromwich Banking Company, Dudley Derby and Derbyshire Banking Company, Derby 19,102 Darlington District Joint-Stock Banking Com pany, Darlington 4 , 15,266 East of England Bank, Norwich Gloucestershire Banking Company, Gloucester 129,485 Halifax Joint-Stock Bank, Halifax. 17,614 Huddersfield Banking Company, Huddersfield 31,211 Hull Banking Company, Hull Halifax Commercial Banking Company, Ha lifax Halifax and Huddersfield Union Banking Com pany, Halifax Helston Banking Company, Helston 1,387 Herefordshire Banking Company, Hereford 17,202 Knaresborough and Claro Banking Company, Knaresborough 27,210 Kingsbridge Joint-Stock Bank, Kingsbridge 2,990 Lancaster Banking Company, Lancaster . 48,446 Leeds Banking Company, Leeds .................. 22,029 Leicestershire Banking Company, Leicester 63,170 Lincoln and Lindsey Banking Company, Lincoln 49,339 Leamington Priors and Warwickshire Banking Company, Leamington Priors Ludlow and Tenbury Bank, Ludlow 9,012 Moore and Robinson's Nottinghamshire Bank ing Company, Nottingham 27,870 Nottingham and Nottinghamshire Banking Company, Nottingham Newcastle, Shields, and Sunderland Union Joint- 9,959 8,804 50,264 7,880 29,095 19,29 45,142 Stock Banking Company, Newcastle 1,250 National Provincial Bank of England, Birming ham, Head-office, 112, Bishopsgate-street, London North Wilts Banking Company, Melksham ..... 40,491 Northamptonshire Union Bank, Northampton., 58,710 Northamptonshire Banking Company, North- ampton . 20,673 North and South Wales Bank, Liverpool 26,704 Pares's Leicestershire Banking Company, Lei cester .. Saddleworth Banking Company, Saddleworth 2,194 Sheffield Banking Company, Sheffield 31,032 Stamford, Spalding, and Boston Banking Com pany, Stamford. 55,505 Stuckey's Banking Company, Bristol Somerset shire Bank, and Somersetshire Bank, Lang port Shropshire Banking Company, Shiffnall ... 1 Stourbridge and Kidderminster Banking Com pany, Stourbridge Sheffield and Hallamshire Banking Company, Sheffield ....,.... Sheffield and Rotherham Joint-Stock Banking Company, Shollield Swaledale and Wensleydale Banking Company, Richmond .. .. Storey and Thomas's Banking Company Shaftesbury . 9,331 Wolverhampton aud Staffordshire Banking Com pany, Wolverhampton 31,615 Wakefield and Barnsley Union Bank, Wakefield 13,140 Whitehaven Joint-Stock Banking Company, Whitehaven - . 22,883 Warwick and Leamington Banking Company, Warwick .• . 27,714 West of Englane awl South Wales District Bank. Bristol Wilts and Dorset Banking Company, Salisbury 67,160 West Riding Union Banking Company, 'Lid _ . _ _ - - dersfield Whitchurch and Ellesmere Banking Company, Whitchurch . 1,750 Worcester City and County Banking Company, Worcester , 3,865 York Union Banking Company, York 68,086 York City and County Banking Company, York 84,047 Yorkshire Banking Company. Leeds P. DEANS, R eg i strar o f B an k Returns. Inland Revenue. Somerset House, Dec. 13, 1851. • TRADE IN P AL , 0 that during the eleven months Te s e lst instant, no less than of th d e to Liverpool Customs, it appears the entries in the n. imported from Africa of the present year ending 0 3 , roLarmerly exported their 23,130 tons of palm oil have at v least an equally vegetable products thus proving that the natives who brethren as a matter of traffic, now , 1 profitable trade in the exportation of their native soil. In addition oil already received this year, the following vessels of are also shortly expected to arrive in Liverifocivessels with the same article, viz.: —Hants, 700 tons ; Lord El l ith 400 tons ; Roe, 228 tons ; A riel, 220 tons; D f iro, 204 tons; Mediterranean, 145 tons ; Mercury, 140 tons; Huskisson, 388 tons; William Hatt, 285 tons; Golden Eagle, 99 tons; Taplin, 459 tons; Magistrate, 51* tons; Lydia, 362 tons; Juverna, 209 tons; Banshee, 145 tons; Swiftsure, 208 tons; Ides, 125 tons; British Queen, 330 tons ; Cleopatra, 50$ tons ; America, 690 tons ; Petrel, 132 tons ; St. Lawrence, 360 tons ; Cronin, 177 tons ; Mary G,llespie, 264 tons; Vesta, 262 tons; Doucie Davis ' 417 tons; Mary, 545 tons ; Scotland, 562 tons ; Severn, 362 tons ; Ellen Jenkinson, 149 tons; Sarah Horn, 199 tons; Druid, 350 tons; Belle, 499 tons; Z ephyr, 214 tons; Princess Royal, • , 612 tons ; Abeona, 1,000 tons; Celicia, 922 tons; Tipperary, 185 tons; Adnaun, 285 tons. WORCESTER HOP MARKET, DEC. 15.—Supplies are extremely limited, nearly the whole of the crop being out of the planters' hands, and prices are firm at the late advance, at 112 s. to 1205.; choice, 140 s. ; fine 1850's and 1846'5, are 2s. to 3s. dearer. Number of pockets weighed last week ; new, 100 ; old, 207. Saturday new, 68; old, 67. 31,94 3,383 10,749 12,794 3,074 556 11,890 28,893 19,79 22,13 8,790 6,025 7,19 10,84 12,523 7,865 8,99 8,640 17,421 8,089 19,943 3,876 40,972 12,432 20,005 4,862 14,008 28,656 39,426 5,662 8,438 7,138 65,698 7,802 14,22 7,429 LONDON, GERMAN Y. The German Diet has adopted the following resolu tions tor the regulation of the publication of its pro ceedings : " 1. The proceedings of each sitting of the Diet, as far as no objection exists to their immediate publica tion, shall, in their essential purport, be printed as speedily as possible, in the daily journals chosen for that purpose. " 2. The publication of the protocol of a sitting, with the exclusion of all matter that is to be kept secret, is permitted within a fixed period, hereafter to be defined, but at longest one year from the date of the protocol. The Diet reserves to itself the measures necessary to take to insure the verbal accuracy of the reports of the protocols.: " 3. A Committee of five members of the Diet, chosen for a year, will be elected, who will be charged with the following duties :—A. To put in execution the resolution No. 1, and as far as neces sary to make to the Diet the necessary proposals for doing so. B. To superintend the drawings of the resumes of the sittings for the journals appointed, with the omission of all not calculated for immediate publication, and to see that it is inserted as soon as possible. C. To prepare for the successive publication of the protocols, by fixing the dates of their appearance, when they are permitted. Every envoy of the Diet is allowed to address any representations to the Committee in reference to the publication of matters that directly affect his Go vernment, or to make any proposals to the Diet itself respecting them. In case of difference of opinion in the Committee, the question is to be referred for decision to the Diet. " Finally, this Committee is authorised, at a proper time, to report to the Diet how these resolutions have worked in practice, and what modifications in them may be desirable." This Committee has been chosen ; the foregoing resolutions are the first of the series, being the autho rity on which all the others are to follow. The official journal is the Ober-post-amts Zeitung. Letters from Vienna state that the sisters of Kos suth have arrived in that city as prisoners. RAILWAY INTELLIGENCE. LYONS AND AVIGNON. A meeting of the shareholders interested in obtain ing a return of the caution money was held on Wednes day at the London Tavern, to consider and determine on the immediate steps to be taken; Mr. Alderman Salomons in the chair. The CHAIRMAN said he bad called the meeting with a view of obtaining their opinion under the circum stances in which the holders of shares in the old Lyons and Avignan Company are now placed. The meeting would recollect that in 1846 there was a company formed, consisting of English and French shareholders, for the purpose of constructing a line from Lyons to Avignon. The capital,was subscribed, and the concession completed; but there were reasons to appre hend at that time that the various details on which the assumed capital was based were erroneous. A period of famine and commercial difficulty followed. The French Government, at the time M. Guizot was in power, agreed with the directors of the company that there was reason to believe the estimated cost of con struction was fallacious, and that the concession to the company required modification, in order to enable the company to carry out the undertaking. The French Government at that time brought a Bill into the Chamber of Deputies, embodying cer tain modifications of the concession for the line. The democratic part of the Legislature deemed the modification so proper that they agreed to the Bill as introduced, but when it came before the Chamber of Peers a question was raised as to the probability of a scarcity of money, which was borne out by the great financial difficulties evi denced in the failures of 1847. The Chamber of Peers thought it would be more favourable to the French national interests that such enterprises should be got rid of rather than to encourage railways, and the Bill was thrown out. The Lyons and Avignon Company had no other alternative than to dissolve the company, and to divide the funds in hand ; the caution money being left in the hands of the Government. From that date to the pre sent time various applications had been made for the return of the caution money. He had had several interviews on the subject of the caution money with Louis Napoleon since he be came President of the French Republic, and he had received from the President assurances that as far as lay in his power he would do all he could to place the claim of the shareholders in the best possible position. He had no doubt, if the question rested with the President, that they would obtain what they required. On the Ist of December the late Assembly —about its last act—gave its approbation to the framework of a concession for a line from Lyons to Avignon. Having looked closely through the condi tions of the lease, which was for ninety-nine years, they were most ample and favourable, and on the 19th day of the present month the line is to be conceded to some company. As far as he was aware, there was only one company in treaty for the line, and, conse quently, if no second company appeared, it would be given to the company who had been a consider able time in negotiation for the line. He was not aware that any of the English parties in treaty fur the line had represented the interests of the old com pany in that concession. The present proprietors were called together to determine what step should be taken on the 19th instant, or whether they ought to protest against its being given to any other company ten dering for the line, or whether it was their interest to tender for the line, themselves. Every Minister of Public Works in succession had been ap plied to on the subject, and they had offered on behalf of the company that if the Government were willing to grant the concession, the shareholders would subscribe to make the line. The conditions of the new concession specified that the capital should be 120,000,000 f. (4,800,0001.), the Government to subscribe one-half that sum; but under the old condi tions they did not offer to subscribe anything towards the undertaking; and with a view to enable the new parties to raise money, they would be authorised to raise one-half of their moiety of the capital on bonds at 5 per cent. interest. He had but little hope of suc cess in obtaining the new concession, as it appeared the whole matter had been arranged in the Minister's office, and he believed that three or four English con - tractors and capitalists were the parties who would obtain the concession. The memorial to the President of the French Re public was then read. It states that the committee nominated to represent the claimants consists of the following gentlemen, viz.:—Mr. Alderman Salomons, M.P., the Hon. W. Ashley, Mr. J. Bagshaw, M. 1., Mr. F. B. Barlow, Mr. J. Field, Mr. J. A. Frank land, Captain Kelly, Mr. J. P. Kennard, Mr. F. Mowatt, M.P., and the Hon. C. P. Villiers. M.P. The CHAIRMAN, on moving the adoption of the memorial, stated that the material part of it was, that they were ready and willing to take the con cession upon the condition of the caution-money being brought into account. He believed the object of the English contractors was to deal with the in terest of the old company in the caution money, and to give them ss. or Gs. Bd. in the pound. After some observations from Mr. OLITERA and Mr. Baesnaw, M.P., on the propriety of the Lyons and Avignon and Bordeaux and Cette shareholders acting together, with a view to obtain a return of the caution money, Mr. Mow Arr, M.P., explained the grounds upon which they claimed a return of the caution-money. The estimates of the French engineers, upon which the original concession was granted by the Govern ment, and accepted by the company, amounted to 76,000,000 f. (3,040,0001.), for the construction of the line from Lyons to Avignon and the branch to Grenoble. On the company's engineers making a fresh estimate of the cost, it was found that it would be 130,000,000 f. (5,200,0000, or 4,800,0001. without the branch to Grenoble. These estimates were veri fied by the French engineers, and it was admitted by the French Government that the company were enti tled to a modification of the concession, and as more money would be required for the construction of the line than they were authorised to raise, they could not proceed with the undertaking. It had been ad mitted by the French authorities that the failure in carrying out the enterprise was not the fault of the company, but it arose from circumstances over which they had no control. Resolutions were passed adopting the memorial, adding the Honourable C. P. Villiers, M.P., Mr. F. B. Barlow, and Mr. F. Mowatt, M.., to the com mittee appointed on the 15th of May, 1851, autho rising the committee to declare the readiness of their constituents to tender for the concession of the railway from Lyons to Avignon, as authorised by the law of the late National Assembly, or to adopt such other measures as may be found expedient for se curing the recovery of the caution-money now in abeyance, expressing a hope that no English capitalists will interfere to weaken or prejudice the indisputable claims of the company, and that they will feel under great obligations to any member of the committee who will undertake to proceed to Paris as a deputa tion to represent their claims to the French Govern ment, and to enforce the same in every suitable manner. The proceedings concluded with a vote of thanks to the c.hairman. -.-.„-- - au. r. —At Bolog na , a plan has been started to erect a Pantheon, for commemorating all the great men born in that city. The execution of the statues and busts is to be en trusted to M. Bollsami, professor of sculpture at the Bolog aft Academy of Fine krts, in whose atelier two statues, Psyche and Eve, in white marble, are now much admired. At Florence, the exhibition of the Academy has been curie led by a bronze group of Cain and Abel, made by the profess or of sulpture. The mediaeval buildings of Siena, Pisa, and Lucca, are being actively restored, and the domes (cathedrals) of Prato andmOanrvyieintojuhdiacvioeuusnrdesetrogroataiotrns ocoutthe ere MN reizered.—Build er . t r i e m pa e ir ef oy ‘ h rt e .. n ( i e c c o a nd e o n i n u t I yir, VRIDA . Y IPA-ENING, DECEMBER io, Mt. UNIVERSITY INTELLIGENCE. OXFORD, DEC. 17.—1 n a Convocation holden this day, the Rev. J ohu Bury Harrison, M.A , of nigcla len° College, Cambridge, was admitted ad euwlem. The Rev. Robinson Thornton, M.A., Fellow of St. John's, was nominated by the Junior Proctor one of the masters of the schools. I❑ a Congregation holden at the same time the following degrees were conferred : DOCTOR IN CIVIL LAw.—The Rev. Thos. Francis Cross, Exeter College. MASTERS or ARTS.—Rev. Randolph Payne, Mag dalen Hall ; Rev. Charles John Newdigate, Christ church ; James Empson Alcock, Lincoln. . BACHELORS or ARTS.—Alfred Newdigate, Christ church ; Herbert Harman Mayo, Scholar of Pem broke; Charles James Wynne, Jesus; John Young Sargent, Postmaster of Merton. On Monday last Mr. Frederick Elliot Blackstone, Scholar of New College, was admitted an actual Fellow on the Law line of that society. CAMBRIDGE, DEC. 17.—At a Congregation holden on Monday, graces passed the Senate 1. To appoint Mr. Johnson, of King's College, an Examiner of the Moral Sciences Tripos for the en suing year. 2. To appoint Dr. Paget, of Caius College, an Examiner of the Natural Sciences Tripos of the en suing year. 3. To appoint Mr. Thring, of King's Cc:lege, and Mr. Westcott, of Trinity College, Examiners for the Maitland Prize. Mr. E. T. W. Polehamptom, M,A., of Pembroke College, Oxford, was admitted ad eundent. At a Congregation on Tuesday (being the last day of term) the said term was dissolved in the usual form. CROSSE SCHOLAR. The vacancy in this scholarship has been filled up by the election of Mr. George Martyn Gorham, BA., of Trinity College. NATURAL SCIENCES TRIPOS, 18.52. The examination for the Natural Sciences Tripos will begin on Monday, March 8, at nine o'clock, A.M., in the Senate-house. The order of the examination will be as follows : Monday—Comparative anatomy and geology. Tuesday—Physiology and botany. Wednesday—Chemistry and mineralogy. Thursday—Mixed questions. All persons who shall have passed the examination required for the degree of B.A. after February, 1851, may be candidates for honours in the commencing Bachelors' Natural Sciences Tripos. All persons who have pasted the examination re quired for the degree of B.A. between February, 1850, and February, 1851, may be candidates for honours in the Middle Bachelors' Natural Sciences Tripos. All persons who have passed the examinations and kept the exercises for the degree of LL.B. or M. 8., may be candidates for honours in the Commencing Bachelors' Tripos on this occasion, if the term be the fourth Lent Term after their first term of residence; and in the Middle Bachelors' Tripos, if the term be the fifth Lent term after their first term of residence. (Grace, May, 1851.) All persons desirous of being candidates in this ex amination must send their names, with notice of the requisite examination which they have passed, to the Professor of Anatomy, on or before Friday, March 5, 1852. :the Lectures of the Professor of Moral P hilosophy will commence on Tuesday, Feb. 10, 1852, at one o'clock P.M. in the Lecture Room in Trinity College. Tnese lectures will be continued every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, during the greater part of the Lent Term. The Professor will examine candidates for the Professor's certificate on Monday, March 22, at ten o'clock. The subjects of this examination will be Dr. Whewell's "Elements of _Morality," books 1 and 2, and Plato's " Republic," book 1 (in the English translation). HEALTHOF LONDON LURING THE WEEK, (From the Registrar-General's Report.) Though the rate of mortality in London is still high, the present returns bear witness to a considera ble improvement. The deaths, which after a period of continuous increase, ultimately rose to 1,316, de clined under the influence of milder temperature, and in the week ending last Saturday the number was 1,194. The weekly mean temperature which during the earlier part of November fell to 40 degrees, or 12 degrees lower than it had been during the previous month, and afterwards suffered a further reduction to 3.5 degrees (which is about 8 degrees less than the average of the period), again rose in the week ending 6th December to 38.8 degrees, and last week to 44.8 degrees, or about 3 degrees above the average. Taking for comparison the corresponding weeks of 1841-50, with the exception of that part of the series which belongs to 1&47, when influenza swelled the mortality of the week to 2,416, it appears that the average number of deaths was 1,031, or with a cor rection for increase of population, 1,134. The return of last week shows an increase of 60 on the corrected average. Diseases of the respiratory organs, which rose to 333 in the previous week, have fallen to 284, and phthisis, which in the table forms part of the tubercular class, has declined from 180 to 142. The number of fatal cases ascribed to bronchitis last week was 136, and to pneumonia or inflammation of the lungs 105, of which 83 were among children. The increase of bronchitis above the average is worthy of remark. The mortality from zymotic or epidemic diseases amounted last week to 243, and is in the aggregate heavy, though no particular malady in this class prevails to a formidable extent. The table shows that 37 persons were carried off by small-pox, 16 by 24 by hooping cough, 5 by .or fe v n e a. r n , nr 6 n 2 ta one by dysentery, 2by cholera, 6 by influenza, one by purpura, 3 by re mittent fever, 2 by infantile fever, 10 by fever after croup, measles, 2 3 1 4 b b y y .d la. scarlatina, r rb a childbirth (besides 3 other cases of puerperal disease), fever, &c., 11 by erysipelas, 5 children by syphilis, by typhus, continued a o n n d e b 2 y n r y heu n m nm at a ie oris. The mortality from fever is consider . able, and does not yet evince a disposition to fall to its ordinary amount. dayrdp was drops i o g f h rt aiovercast n clouds. fel TUESDAY.—The sk n o STATE OF THE W EA THER DUXING THE PAST WEEK SUNDAY.—The sV was overcast till evening • cirrostratus and light clouds. Li g ht rain fell at noon 'Electricity— sorsthio°nwil during the fi rs t f our d ays of the wee k . of the m orn i ng, and generally clear until t N h o em t h eoa i w n r l g w r a ppi eA y. — Th e 2 ky was o ne -h alf covered with cloud during throughout the day; cirrostratus. during the evening. WEDNISDAY.—Ths sky was overcast unt i l noon, and t h ree -f our th s coveted during th e remainder of the day ; c i rros t r atus, fleecy clouds, and sc u d. evening; ei rros A tra fet TuunspAir.—Light clouds an d h aze prevailed during the aft erno on, at other times the sky w as c l ear. El ectr i c i ty — Positive, and very a ctive a fter noon. : s FEIDAY.—Dense fog prevailed throughout the day. Elec tricity—Positive, and very active throughout the day; sparks were shown. SATURDAY.—Tbe sky was overcast throughout the day ; cirrostratus Electricity—Positive, and tension strong throughout the day. The mean reading of a thermometer placed on the main mast, and read each day at 9h. A.M. was 45.2° ; and the mean reading at 9h. F. 31. was 44•8 Q ; the mean readings at the Royal Observatory for the same times were 43.5 Q and 43.7° respectively. The reading of the barometer decreased from 30.13 in. at the beginning of the week to 29.84 in. by 3h. AM. on the Bth; increased to 30'09 in. by 9h. A.M. on the 9th; de creased to 29 . 89 in. by 9h. P.m. on the 10th ; increased quickly to 30.29 in. by 9h. A.m. on the 11th; and still further to 30.42 in. by 9h. P.M on the same day, at which reading it remained for several hours, and then decreased slowly to 30.29 is. by 311. P.M. on the 13th, after which it turned to increase; and was 30.31 in. at the end of the week. MORTALITY in the METROPOLIS. NUMBER OF DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES REGISTERED IN THE WEEK ENDING SATURDAY, DEC. 13, 1851. Epidemic, Endemic, and Contagious Diseases ... * 24 3 Diseases of Uncertain Seat ... 36 Tubercular Diseases „. 190 Diseases of the Brain, Nerves, and Senses... ... 125 Diseases of the Heart and Blood-vessels ... 41 Diseases of the Lungs, and other Organs of Respiration ... . 284 Diseases of the Stomach, Liver, and other Organs of Digestion... 66 Diseases of the Kidneys, & c , 15 Childbirth, Diseases of the Uterus, &c. 8 Diseases of the Joints, Bones, and Muscles ... 8 Diseases of the Skin, & o , Malformations... Premature Birth Atrophy Old Age Sudden ... 7 Violence, Privation, Cold, and Intemperance ... 51 Causes not specified ~, ... • 1.• DEATHS FROM ALL CAUSES ... ... 1,194 Population Deaths in corre- Deaths Enumerated, sponding week in the 1851. of 1850. Week. West Districts... 376,332 .. 177 ... 157 North Districts.. 490,441 .. 215 ... 263 Central I)istricts 392,986 ... 166 ... 202 East Districts ... 485,336 ... 233 ... 270 South Districts.. 616,545 ... 299 ... 302 Totals.... 2,361,640 ... 1,090 Males ... ... ... ... Femalos ... ••• -- ..• ... 1,194 ... 589 ... 605 THE EIVGLISH PRESS AND THE FRENCH P S T-0 Fl C The great number of English families resident in France, and the vast sums of mu:ley Goy: into circulation by them in various departmente of French territory, forbid the supposition that the French authorities can imagine they have any intorest to serve in driving Eng lish visitors from France, or in rendering that country a less agreeable place of residence than it has heretofore been. If the exclusion of certain English newspapers could be shown to be necessary for the preservation of public tranquillity, allowance might be made for such an interference with the rights of Englishmen at home and abroad. But the fact is, that the vast msjority of the subscribers to the English newspapers in France are Englishmen, who, from the British Ambassador down wards, have maintained throughout the late unhappy events the most religious neutrality-, and whose exem plary abstinence from any participation in the internal affairs of France has deserved a more generous acknowledgment from the authorities of that country. With regard to the small proportion of English newspapers which find their way into French families, we thought it was universally conceded that the class of persons whose tastes and whose leisure load them to cultivate a knowledge of the politics and literature of a foreign country are not these who make barricades and descend with their muskets into the streets. The matter becomes worse when we remember how heartily Louis Napoleon admired in his better days the wholesome, manly, and practical tenden cies of the English press, and its unswerving support of law and order at home. The latest instance of an English newspaper stopped in the French Post-office is that of our excellent contemporary the Illustrated London News, whose spirited pencil sketches can hardly have given umbrage to tho President, but whose views of the breach of the 68th article of the Constitution possibly approximate much more nearly to those of the High Court of Justice than to the fashionable belief at the Elysee. Our contemporary will, no doubt, feel compli mented by the exclusion, but his English readers in France will have some cause to complain of this latest piece of interference on the part of the French officials with the liberty of the press.— Times. lord coming in, the prisoner was removed fr,m the dece' sffd. At this tim,i it was not di! , covercd that the deceased heel su4tained any injury, having only the appearance of stupid unconsciousness, which was es cribed to drunkenness ; and tbe landlord, a:siqted by the waiter, removed him to the passage, and then the waiter took him to the doer to turn him out of the house, and while the waiter was raising him up to put him out, he got over-balanced and fell forward out of the doorway upon the flags with great violence, and as soon as he fell blood gushed out of his mouth and ears. Several persons who were passing in the street accused the waiter of throwing the deceased down, and a policeman being sent for, the waiter was taken into custody, but was subsequently released when the police had made inquiries concerning all the transaction. The unfortunate deceased was taken back into the house, but never returned to conscious ness, and died the next morning at eight o'clock, of concussion of the brain. The surgeon who made the past mortem examination stated that, in his opinion, death had not been occasioned by the falls which the witnesses had described, but by " the jowling" of the head against the floor. It, however, appeared that there were no bruises at the back of the head, which part came in contact with the floor, but there was an appearance of a violent blow on the left side of the forehead, which must have been occasioned by the defendant falling out of the waiter's arms on to the flags. At the conclusion of the medical evidence the jury, without hearing Mr. Price on behalf of the prisoner, returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Thomas Sutcliffe, aged 24, was charged with the manslaughter of Robert Lord, at Todmorden, in the West Riding, on the 16th of August last. Mr. Eastwood appeared for the prosecution; Mr. Overend defended the prisoner. It appeared that on the 16th of August last, as the deceased was returning home from the Philharmonic Society, about half-past eleven o'clock, he met with a young woman and entered into conversation with her. They proceeded a short distance in company, and stood together for a moment on the footpath, when the prisoner and some others came out of the York Tavern, in Todmorden, and the prisoner pro ceeded down the footpath, near to where the deceased and the woman were standing. When the prisoner got up to them he pushed the deceased from the foot path and threw him down upon the road. Imme diately after the deceased had risen up, same kicking seems to have taken place between them over the legs, in the midst of which the prisoner was seen to kick the deceased with his foot at the bottom of his belly. Some little further struggle took place, and the prisoner then ran away, when the deceased appeared quite exhausted, and lay down on the footpath moaning and vomiting. He was then assisted home, and continued to vomit through the night, complaining of violent pain at the bottom of his belly, caused, as he said, by a kick from the foot of a man whom he did not know. Early on the following morning a surgeon was sent for, but, notwithstanding his assistance, the deceased expired about five o'clock in the afternoon. A post mortem examination took place on the day after, when it was found the colon, or large bowel, was ruptured about a couple of inches, which was the cause of aeath. It appeared that the deceased did not know who the person was who struck him, nor was he aware that any reason existed why the pri soner should have done so, Witnesses were called on behalf of the prisoner to speak to his general peaceable character. At the clone of the case for the prosecution the pri soner's counsel said he could not resist the case so as to reduce the charge to anything less than man slaughter. . . gig LORDSHIP having summed up, The jury returned a verdict of manslaughter, ac companied with a recommendation to mercy.—Sen tence deferred. CENTRAL CRIMINAL COURT: OLD COURT. MANSLAUGHTER. William Murphy, aged 26, a cooper, and Mary Ann Murphy, aged 26, his wife, were indicted for feloniously killing and slaying Bridget Murphy. On the 19th of November last the prisoner took a lodging near to the Commercial•road, and a few days afterwards the female prisoner came home in a state of intoxication. Mrs. Walsh, the landlady of the house, followed her into the room, and was horror struck at finding one child lying dead on a table, and another child lying insensible on a bed, with its head hanging over the bedside. A few minutes afterwards the male prisoner also came home intoxicated, and Mrs. Walsh remonstrated with them upon the brutality of their conduct, when they acknowledged that both the children were their own. The living child was in a wretched state of filth, and famishing for the want of food. Mrs. Walsh took it down stairs and gave it some bread, which it devoured with greedy eagerness. This was the deceased Bridget. The prisoners, instead of attending to the wants of the poor child, went out again and remained out all night, and the next morning, when they returned home again, Mrs. Walsh told them it would be a charity to send Bridget to the workhouse, for she had been starved, and was a mere bundle of ►kin and bones, but the female pri soner took no heed of the observation, except to say that she wished the child was dead, as then she could leave her husband. Two dad s afterwards Bridget died, and then a medical ma❑ was called in, who pronounced it as his opinion, that the child had died from want of food ; and as it appeared that the female had some money in her possession when she came home drunk, while her husband was in a situation by:which he could earn 245. a week, if he pleased, the two prisoners were given into custody on the present charge. The prisoners denied that they had starved the child. She died, they said, from the effects of the hooping cough, and the medical witness admitted that the child must have had the cough, and its ravages upon the child's windpipe were as much the cause of death as the want of food. The Learned JUDGE summed up, and the jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. The prisoners were accordingly liberated. THIRD COURT,. (Before the COMMON SERGEANT.) Elizabeth Thomas, 24, married, was indicted for obtaining by false pretences, the sum o f 5/. f rom Henry Philip Davies, with intent to defraud him. Mr. Bodkin and Mr. Poland prosecuted, the pro ceedings being instigated by the Mendicity Society ; Mr. Charnock defended. The prosecutor stated that he is a coal merchant, keeping the Palace-wharf, Lambeth, and first knew the prisoner some time in J u l y l ast , w h en s h e came to him, being a p er f ec t stranger, and introduced herself to him, saying that she wanted to ask his ad vice relative to some property she had down at Bath, which she wished to sell. Witness told her the best thing she could do was to see some solicitor on the matter. She then asked witness to write a letter for her to Mr. Wood, a solicitor, :13, Royal-crescent, Bath. She then produced what purported to be the extract from a will, by which she was entitled to a sum of between 8001. and 9001. He in consequence wrote a letter, and an answer was returned signed by a Mr. Wood, and posted from Bath, stating that 901. had been offered for the land. The prisoner asked him what he thought she had better do with the money, as she thought of putting it into the bank. The prosecutor told her he thought she wouli do better by letting it remain, and she said she coincided with his views, and asked him to write to her solicitor again and tell him the determination she had come to. He did so, and again received an answer purporting to come from the same party, acknowledging his letter, and stating that her wishes should be complied with. Some short time after he saw the prisoner again, and she then showed him a letter which alluded to her aunt, and stated that she was then at Carlisle at the point of death. She did not ask the witness for any money, but made a statement about having to wait until she could get the money, some Post-office orders having failed to reach her, upon which the prosecutor kindly offered to lend her 51. to take her down there, and he himself went and saw her off by the railway. Subsequently finding that he had been defrauded, he made commu nication to the M e ndi c ity S oc i et y, w hi c h res ulted in her apprehension in November last. The other evidence went to prove that no such a person as Mr. Wood lived at Royal-crescent, Bath, but that the letters so sent down had been got posses sion of by some of the gang down there, acting in concert with the prisoner. When taken in custody she was searched by the female searcher, who, whilst she was performing the task, observed her . try to swallow something, upon which she called in the officers, and they forced from her mouth a l e tt er o f a similar character to that by which she had defrauded the prosecutor in this instance. Mr. CHARNOCK, at some length, contended that the prosecutor had most foolishly given the m one y o f hi s own free will, and was not instigated by any false pretence of the prisoner. The jury found her Guilty. There was another indictment for obtaining 141. 6a. Gd. from another person, on the ground of her pro perty in Bath. Horsford, the Mendicity officer, said the prisoner was an old offender, and had for years been connected with a gang of begging-letter impostors and swind lers. In November, 1849, she was taken up with a gang at Bath. There were five in number charged with obtaining money under false pretences. She was an associate of the man Bew, transported in the New Court yesterday. Norris, another officer, said that she had lived with a man now under committal at H an l ey, i n Stafford shire, and awaiting his trial for similar frauds. Also on the prisoner was found a savings bank book belonging to a woman named Farmer, another of the gang now under conviction, a circumstance which showed the system and extent to which the gang carried on their operations.—The. prisoner was sentenced to twelve months' imprisonment and hard labour. BIRTHS IN THE WEEK. Males Females ... 802 ... 735 Total ... ... ... ... ...1,537 *ln this number are included 34 by Scarlatina, 62 by Typhus Fever. 21 by Diarrhcea, and 2 by Cholera. YANKEE WlT.—Dan Russell, the Union candidate for Auditor of Public Accounts in Mississippi, is an original genius, besides being gifted with a ready and happy wit. On Friday night last, at Jackson, he was suddenly called upon for a speech by enthusiastic shouts from the audience. Rising upon the speaker's stand, Dan thus commenced : "Fellow.citrzens, you have called on me for a few remarks. I have none to make. I have no prepared speech. Indeed, lam no speaker. I do not desire to be a speaker ; I only want to be an auditor." We need hardly say that the well timed pun brought down the honee.-.lYatchez Courier. CHANGE IN COLOUR OF THE HAIR. The changes which are produced by disturbances of the heart upon the cutaneous capillaries are illus trated in a remarkable manner in persons where the hair of the head has suddenly become white from a disturbance in the heart caused by violent mental ex citement. A lady who was deeply grieved on re ceiving the intelligence of a great change in her worldly condition, and who had a very remarkable quantity of dark hair, found on the following morning the whole of the hair had become of a silver white. Some striking instances of this kind are narrated by historians. " I was struck," says Madame Campan, " with the astonishing change misfortune had wrought upon Maria Antoinette's features; her whole head of hair bad turned almost white during her transit from Varennes to Paris." The Duchess of Luxem bourg, when caught making her escape during the terrors of the French Revolution, and put in prison, the next morning it was observed that her hair had become white. A Spanish officer, distinguished for his bravery, was in the Duke of Alva's camp, and an experiment was made by one of the authorities to test his courage. At midnight the provost-marshal, ac companied by his guard and a confessor, awoke him from his sleep, informing him that, by order of the viceroy, he was to be immediately executed, and had only a quarter of an hour left to make his peace with Heaven. After he had confessed, he said that he was prepared for death, but declared his innocence. The provost-marshal at this moment burst into a fit of laughter, and told him that they merely wanted to try his courage. Placing his hand upon his heart, and, with a ghastly paleness, he ordered the provost out of his tent, observing that he had " done him an evil office ;" and the next morning, to the wonder of the whole army, the hair of his head, from having been of a deep black colour, had become perfectly white.—Dr. Wardrop on Diseases of the Heart. LAW INTELLIGENCE. COURT OF BANKRUPTCY, Dec. 18. (Before Mr. Commissioner EvANs.) IN RE E. CHURTON. The bankrupt was a bookseller in Holles-street, Cavendish-square. This was a last examination meet ing. The bankrupt's accounts extended from July 1, 1849, to November, 1851. They contri❑ the follow ing figures :—Dr.: Capital, 300/. ; creditors, 9,534/. ; liabilities, 5,7301.; profits, 4,6211. Cr.: Gocd debtors, 1,2861. ; property, 6,7561.; cash given up, 72/. ; losses, 1,195/. ; bad and doubtful debtors, 6891.; trade expenses, 4,060/. ; domestic expenses, 973/. ; liabilities per contra, 5,7301. Mr. LINKLATER, for the assignees, said the bank. rupt had prepared his own accounts. They were very voluminous, and the assignees had no complaint to make. A short adjournment was, however, desired, in order that the bankrupt might make out his debtors' accounts. Mr. Churton concurred. If there were an adjourn ment he should be better able, at the next meeting, to furnish information respecting some books that had not been returned to his library by the parties to whom they had been lent.—Adjournment ordered ac cordingly. ASSIZE IN'T'ELLIGENCE. NORTHERN CIRCUIT.—York, Dec. 16. CROWN COUR T.—(l3L4re Mr. Justice MAULE ) William Graham, aged 29, was charged with night poaching on certain lands in the occupation of Wm. It. C. Stanfield, Eiq , at Esholt. It appeared that on the night of the 9th of Nov. last Mr. Stanfield's gamekeeper, accompanied by three watchers, were in a preserve at Esholt, and whilst there, hearing the report of guns and men con versing, they went towards them, and came upon twenty men, who asked if they wanted to fight, to which Holmes, the keeper, r e plied that if they wanted to fight they should come out into the field, and fight like men. A man then got over the wall, whom the keeper stated he believed to be the prisoner, and presented his gun at him, upon which he said, " Don't shoot. There is no occasion to shoot." The men in the preserve then cried out, "D—n him ; shoot his dog ;" and then the prisoner shot at the dog. The keeper and watchers then ran away, and the prisoner and ten other men, with two lurcher dogs, followed them. The keeper and his watchers escaped. The prisoner was subsequently appre headed, together with seven other men on suspicion, and one of the watchers spoke positively to the pri soner as being one of the poachers out or the night in question. In his defence the prisoner stated positively that, so far from being out on the night mentioned, he was at home in bed, laid up with a sprained foot. The jury returned a verdict of Not Guilty. Emmanuel Hunt, 38, and William Johnsen, 24, were indicted for having, on the night of the 22d of Sep tember last, committed a burglary in the dwelling hbuse of Mr. John Mason, a farmer, at Dishforth. It appeared that on the night in question the dairy window of Mr. Mason's house was broken open, and the burglars having entered, took away a ham, a hare, a brace of partridges, and a quantity of eggs, which had been tied up in some stockings, in order that they might be hung up, first by one end of the stockings and then by the other, so that they might be turned and kept fresh. The next day some men were thatching some corn stacks belonging to a Mr. Gil ling, and at the foot of one of them they found four stockings filled with eggs, which they took to Mr. Gilling, who informed the police, and by their direc tions the eggs were taken back to the ricks, and two officers placed to watch, and at about eight o'clock at night the two prisoners came and took away the eggs, upon which they were taken into custody ; the stockings in which the eggs were were identified as those taken from the prosecutor's house, and, upon the police going to the prisoners' house they found there a red and white dog, similar to the one which bad been seen at Mr. Mason's house on the evening of the robbery. In their defence the prisoners said, that they went to the stacks to lie down, as one of them way lame from bis shoes hurting him, and that on io doing they found the eggs. His LORDSHIP having summed up, the jury re turned a verdict of Guilty. Sentence—one year's imprisonment, with hard labour. York, Dec. 17. NISI PRIUS COURT.—(Before Mr. Baron PLATT.) Thonuss Linley, 27, was charged with having, at Sheffield, in the West Riding, on the Ist of August last killed and slain one William Raistrick. Mr. Boothby and Mr. Philippa appeared for the prosecution ; and Mr. Price defended the prisoner. It appeared that on the night of the 28th July the deceased, who was a labourer on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire Railway, had be en drink ing at several public-houses, and being intoxicated, in proceeding on his road home, he went into the Green Dragon, in Fargate, between eight and nine o'clock, and sat down in the tap-room. On the opposite side of the room sat three persons, namely, William Lee George Holland, and the prisoner. After the deceased had been there a few minutes he commenced inter fering in the conversation with the other men in a noisy manner, and something having passed between the prisoner and the deceased, the former got up and pulled the latter by the brim of his hat, and he sud denly jerking his head back, hit his head against the wall. Upon this he immediately got up and seized the prisoner by the collar of his coat, and a scufil-3 ensued, in the course of which they both fell down, the prisoner being undermost. After a little time the prisoner got on the top of the deceased, who was on his back. The prisoner then got astride of the deceased, whom he lifted up several feet from the ground by the coat collar, and then struck him seven or eight times on the bead against the floor, which was denominated "jowling," in doing which the de ceased got hold of the prisoner's neckerchief, which he convulsively grasped, and caused the prisoner to cry out that he was strangled. One of the men then untied the prisoner's neckkercbief, and the land- CE. POLICE INTELLIGE, before Mr. T CL Ei?lii: A' IVL L. Henry Mart' r - a t the b, lll ' in , qanaghan was place d d sorb hay. yrwoitt for examination, c harge. line a 11. 3Ang.' by false and fraudulent means, ' _ , s. 63. from Mrs. Ann White. . The prisoner, it will be recollected, Ivo apprebenci!iicit Dy . Fisher, 127 G., by the instructions of Mr. ergies'is Adams, the A. , ,sistant. Judge of the V icid e Edward thehde wpbaurrirsdroin; White i t e was ta sw Se 27l i r on l s V . akre.wlinasg,rethmeansdoeldic,itor, attended to c . ° , d o lic al l the prosecution, and, in opening the case, sa la t f o r the at h i s ov a reque j, ?. r e, purpose of procuring the attendance ofMr. s'riVd sions for felony, was convicted, and SentellCe oor triedou l would a a p t p t e h a e r 1 that49t a Man D so, woman, transportation. At the prior sessionsMbisidscivileisetelsw::: r attended at the Sessions house, Clerken.;ed a g green, and in the presence of the prisoner Orono and that he was clerk to Mr. Horry, said wish to have the trial postponed, when tbe P"%ter, the 1) 1 0 1 0 v, undertook to engage that gentleman °° the a .lnce of 1/. 33. GI The poor wotnan p so ' 3 t b s t Mr. things ri in order to raise that sum. The resultw,%iog, r , 1 . lorry was never instructed, and the trialo.l bet ns()me means or other, been postponed, i_otber anxiety,_s and trouble she was obliged to raise eu, p , 1/. 3. 6d. to secure the profe,sional aid d cif t , the O'Brien,Bi the barrister, who exposed the fra u o pei Court, and the assistant-judge orders the lois eelley apprehension. He had Mrs. White and Mrs•Sw..der to prove that the money was paid to the pril e r ` ry , the h representation that he was clerk to gr. P ° barrister. Mrs. Ann White was called, and having oorso beep Ge , m she confirmed the statement of the Le ar t ned fl rrY in She added that she did not see Nr . ° the court, Mr our ri t z and she engaged Mr. O'Brien. ~, red YRWIIITT—Is Mr. Horry present rsrosed Waker at the 1"F-11 is not, and the case Was P ° j g of • prisoner's request in order to secure to Pr d tha t • Prisoner—l wish to question Mrs. o,i te no a ri rt. all the witnesses may be ordered out of tv e ' to g ° Mr. Wakeling—Do you wish Mr. 1-1011.111 out l‘ i o r f th ll e ra c k o e u i r i t n ? Prisoner—Cer tainly 11° in° °s t° g—l shall apply for 0 s uin col A nf r e ' l l the attendance of Mr. Hor r y' 4 ou ble t ° fetch . Mr Y . Rri o n r i r T y T— he l r iave you takenoanfo:tricorof e ? Prisoner fa della' I can prove fearlessly by a witness, ei g e i n ' f a ttbi e g e m re on s e a y y . s, o pmerty, that I am innocent ; I never bAu °. lode , e as w rha a k n s ' p s All that I want ti 1,,,1100 stealsand, ~ H e w h o steals T a r 4 slet 84e,, trash, but he who robs me of rni g oo r b ad ' I swear solemnly to God that I ne,te,oelig, h w a . i t f i llenny from her. It is very well for gr . " to so' d wellall his talents and legal acquirernev.flis' of ° I there i against me, but lam innocent. ." b il ec irw A from take m f iny life as my integrity, and to .. teri , so' was edu y cat a e m d il t y ; capable of what is profession my t het the l have two brotheaerif,lorss 0 0' attributed to me. , I d o 0 0 . ° A lf Mr. T any TRWHITT--I can only say that A ..,‘ o f ..-i opinion The or remark as to the absenorequelte Horry. prisoner has not 0 him to Attend Prisoner—l wis h. lan the case to go OP. 0 , an alibi. o w f H t I h T e T p said i s o t° t be n ` William FM r . TYRE isher, 127 G, gave evidence as prehensi . pert A be P rlj° and t. suggested that, under the circrastao°. ge ar! ° ,3 lie ion gOrlifel!, if bta should be made to Mr. serving P wasnot a summons to compel his attendan dance'. nheer.would'rePrnearlin:ts' es, 60 o p i willing toattend, - sum gig then a su f tb a served upon him. o 1 Mr. W • ken te. akeling said that the notice taken °peril 0 1 case b . as a sufficient ypress he thought ought to 11$11 ge be d ) summons for his attendance' ogee, Wak 1 . e mg , however, urs9 would adopt the n° ro , by the worthy magistrate. be bar 1' The prisoner . was then taken fora t testing his innocence. ____---r_-- ---. ---- - t r f S . it, i t I A ; THE COUNTRY Mit big i bli rnt ber ,1, LOUGHBOROUGH, DEC. 1 B.—Whe at - 11 0 !pc fti 0 Tl tto in good demand; a firm market. B ar ' - ' For eat no advance. Oats and beans the sniff', 17!" - : pel 3- ,di EDINBURGH GRAIN MARKET, D r- Wiles" 9 bi; l `,";, season we had a fair supply of gai n * ~,o t sti° l? ,dito!/, readily, but not quick, and last weE . Olidi co ere o°ot maintained. Barley was dull, end 1 3 ' e anti /le tOP sil Oats were quick, and rose in price. 1,, tb e re ge a d, and dull. As compared with last ° e t c h , Av e r de %, wheat was the same as last week, an d ' be ti fe- ed li jj nd t t down. Barley on the top is down , n - ,, ve rag e a ge - „0 Oats on the top 4d, and th e r i - tbe 01- : 3 ' Beans on the top same as last week , 0 0 " 3 bold' down. Unsold, 62 qra wheat, 381 qr- • 0 oats, and 42 qrs beans. 64 lb' 0;0 0 Top of Wheat ..• ilb• ••• -• 57 ' ,12 1 Oa ~ Barley ••• ••• " 431 15 ' 30 stiO ef , ~ Oats ,,,. „.. ... 66 ilb. /10 P o lo , „ Beans ... ... ri ." , 1/..",•ce,, e ,„0 5 , 1 EDINBURGH CATTLE • MARMET, l' E '",: Top P," ' ,. ;,41 0 ' of cattle was 531, or 88 more than last wee'', ip ferl ° ' o 't, epe - 1 00 7s ; current, Us to 6s Cd ; secor.tiarY a°„"„ Wad ° „„oieg t toP , to tis Od per Dutch stone. A clearan"hi, di: r e i iii , The number of shee at market this coc lue " a t ° - 2,554, being 65 less than last week. 9e ° - esce 6 4 , 9 a top price, Sid per lb ; current, 5d to Ou tor le A l to I ti A clearance was not effected. „„ $6O; 10.• UPPINGHAM, DEC. 17. Wheat 348 ,- ~„tter gtO 25s Od ; oats 17s to 275; beans 28s to 359 " P' . f ebb 1 0 ' Ofit tO pereggs !6 for Is. , . BOSTON, Dsc. 17.—Whe a t, red 328 •°.3J6 19 ; I° o stir to 425, extra 44 s t o 00 s ; b ar l e y 199 to 2 6 ' 00 beans 26s to 33s ; peas 22‘ to 2.s per qr. !Ariel to LOUTH, DEC. 17. —Wh ea t 32s to 379; red '''' Oh 0 oats 14s to 18s ; beans 29s to vs per qr. n to 449 ' 0; po i ' NEWARK, DEC. 17.—Wheat, white 4 `;' s 920 1° 50; 38s ; barley, malting 25s to •275, grial °4l 36s t ° cir , 550; 245 t., 20s to 21s. 225 t., 17s to 2c,s; bean o, 3 ,,, per od t o 05; 24s to 28s; malt, 50s to 51s ; tares, 3t t l, 9 33 17 6 ta rp I lj MELTON MowBRAY, Disc. 16.--",,`" Devr„ - , 4 1 1 ' barley, 23s to 275; oats, old 235 to 11 ' s ' Out"' beans, old 33s to 365, new 27s to 30a per g r. per lb ; eggs 12 for Is. , i ,,oo 6l ;tc‘ i CORK, DEC. 15 ' t'71% ,1° ,10 Barrel.. ON o t i.- 4° 47 White wheat 18s 9d to 211 Od 000 81 Red wheat l7s 6d to 189 9 d, 32 Ditto ........18s 9d to 193 6 ,..„" 1 6 ‘ a 0 Ditto .003 Od to 00s tt, s ( OeV . 36 Barley 10 5 6d t o 115 1 1N u,,",} 0 09 58 Ditto l l6 10d to 125 0 Ditto oos Od to 00s Od oo Od 4 do 0 Bere 530 Oats 9s Od to 105 O d ,} 00 4 10 173 Ditto lOs Od to 103 2 ", a f ~: 129 Ditto ... lOs 2d to lOs 9° 278 " .7 01' - 460 Pigs 22s Od to 29s Od ~r i ee„( s ; ' Quantity sold at the Highes t L 0 v`" „,/ a 25 barrels white wheat ; 4 red ;58 bo wl ' oseVs°' 20 pigs. pi g solr l t t° l. 4l' Quantity of Grain and Number of - - .- °, 7 O.' Wheat, 1,490. Barley, 2,045. Oa ts, e l c, •' 000 PRICES OF BUTT-a c os,„FO C l','„,', gl CANT. l ag ''' o'' ~. 9 First quality ... 77s First 4° a iity '' „. , s,„ k, Second quality ~,,„ 4 L Third quality Fourth quality Fifth quality Sixth quality dirio ; 150 50 Return of Cattle sold for week CD Wilt i rs is t 0 Pigs, 1,412. Sheep, 195 n 6d; 8 ,11. % 1 ,„1 , 00 ~.p t CORY.—Eour—First lls6d to 1;% 1 Od; !so"' 00 r I°. 0 4 19 rie seconds, 10s 0d to Ils 6d; households 89 0 .16 . 6 61 l e g o per cwt. Oatmeal 10a Gd to Ils; Indian In e ,,'", o o od t f, 5 1 '; torts' o e; meal, Ps to 9s 6d per cwt. Indian cosi v" ro , 2,oo" as e-,' 0 ,A; ton. Bran 85s to 87s 6d per ton. Hai—F ir : t on. S nA t i " to . "; 4 0 no 2.40, ; dealers 34s to 40s Od; average 36 0 P e ' - 331 `"" be 9 13s Od to 225 Od ; aver a g e 183; dealeritob losi to r, co , average 00s Od per ton. Bread—W" s fresh dy ed. , O slisi t! household loaf 4id to 5d per 41b. , ban i wo; ~ 1,1 10d per lb. Eggs -5s 6d to 61 Od n o re : 0 , P'' Dt 0 Newport 16 " Od ; Lydney 171_; L m srl to i llon. 4J 0, 13s Od per ton. Tallow OUs ,' - o isl, ' yeti, per „gl" Whisky, 25 o. p., 5,9 d per itr eia;., Bl P, pro, —Beef 4d to 6id ; mutton 5d „'" A 0 0 "6d t°' fr ejl s. 6d ; pork 4d to Od ; bacon 6d to 1 ', 3 ' 8 .2/ 17 ' to Oli 40 1.15 0/ Hops 818 s to 9/ Os perßangor e n nis 151 00 9 / oil r At ton. Bark—Barbary 700 s to 8/05; .„:11.45t0,, t o( i ll 610 s ; Spanish 0/ per ton. Fleece " — we 0 , tc oil" Hemp 29/ to 34/ per ton. Fish—Scotch head, 10/ 31 0 ;O i l, ditto, 24s to 00s per barrel ; Newfoundlloiner , 00 , _ a u 0,, ton. Timber—Memel, 70s per ton; r e , 'net ' niiii ° "eo ditto, 2/ 15s per ton; deals, Market 214 to 301; salted 22s to 3° 7 ,1` to „ ni l ' I 31 ibi to 18: per cort i l ; P o , 9 1 3d to 3 id per lb. Potatoes, whi t " lebit' ' 00d to 00d. Guano—Peruvian, 11010 -. Ab er „ r oil. i t i, or per ton. Tar—Arehanf_ ce_ ..._ .1 1 2 ... 9 . ,........--- - '''' . ' 2 l: l °" -- ----- , Vetil r efs iflort 19).":„blic P THE THEATRE OF WAR \ - -E A tlie t"" 1., notice, all free admissions refused, itn' pended.— Punch. rar Ito •IP ,- 818 TB'S. ,405. 0 ggyi o r A SOS' he 000•;i for On the 29th ult., at Grand Cairo , t , Geie r the wife of 11. B. M. Agent an d Consul' getP ,tien. safely, of an heir. LOW 11 / On the 10th ult., at Florence , the ~, AO , OF A DAUGHTEN. „ to .. _, pro, y ow pi On the 6th ult., at Bombay, Lad)? no r LY On the 11th inst., at Colway-villa, sorP er ' wife of W. Heathcote, Esq. On the 15th inst., at Market D r ayton 1;1/* ---- 100 ' WO" 'CI S 1 , At Streatham, on the 16th inst. , bra y, ° g oer Esq., R.N., eldest son of Captain of George Hospital, to Eliza Aen, daughter 0, MARRIED. Geor ge 1 - li o : oe e i v ej 3 : 04,300 , , of Trieste. etch , sill :°' of ~-,: tr ict Ci l 1 14 09 s X 4 On the 16th inst., at Trinity vis-, - ( „b iloY 3 , i . r t., , ham, Jotn Walroad Clarke, Esq. , clay, '''' ,-/ Mary, second daughter of Sir Thomas bee l Falwell-lodge, Twickenham. ~,,, goli c a elel DLEP. , Arricvcre i l, s uo At his residence, Park-place, Higuebrrief but 88 . 0 eer t Z t li Sc: ter, on Sunday, the lath in 4., after a 4i year s, o of Poe' Edward Bennett, Esq., solicitor , ~, 14_,,e d t he ple 3su m r e lii °4 .1 deservedly lamented by all who DW the g/0 - IP' quaintance, and who could appreciate vatj t.oo of heart and excellent disposition. ~, t i e ute i c e 0 agetOnt El°' ' woo/ On the Ilth inst. at Peterborougdo63. , b , of Hardy, late of the Bengal Army' Oa the 12th inst., at SoutbanW, it, esiliers, t . s rb el*, ~, Major Henry Stiles, of the Bomb d S:', P sicbgri ll s On the 13th inst., at Hampstead, Ilge of the late R. Blakewell, Esq• ilaclis e l' t hrcV On the 16th inst., at London-fields, . of blunt, Esq., aged 76. fielOdn, ntehaerlß3itrhniiinnsgth.,aaing,ed 74, George Bragg : q v : . .____, _l3B 4 li ,,' . :; , on to, ---,,sv, Un the 15th inst ,... !_tje Firt.E.,l., ~, --- - 6 ---- yo l4 v o , lt h London : Printed and Publishedp7 so Ofil ha 0 9 No. 112, Strand, Printer, ate i g,, v oi, in '''' Strand, in the Precinct of th . 4 ;, i , Middlesex, Friday, December 19, . I °' 4 CC The tha noti ce wth, Dc b i b et 144 ~, tl, 1.. 7 , 1, `tb